Once again I’ll confess I rather enjoyed that episode, which was quite a bit different from the three that preceded it. A few hints of the darker side of this series are starting to assert themselves, with some backstory on Kurapica and Leorio and some rather gruesome footage of carrion […] Read more
I was starting to feel pretty comfortable with dropping HxH from the blog rotation, but I have to admit this episode was quite good – easily the most entertaining of the three. Shounens are notoriously slow starters and it feels as if things are really starting to heat up now […] Read more
Shouen Jump titles just don’t get any shounen-er or jump-y than Hunter x Hunter… I certainly enjoyed the second episode just fine. This is an agreeably high-energy series, bright and loud and cheerful – though I know it gets darker as it goes along. I find Gon’s sunny optimism quite […] Read more
Disclaimer: While I know the basic premise, I’ve never read the manga or seen an episode of the original series from 1999-2000. But I know both are well-regarded, and that the anime was produced by Nippon Animation and considered to have remarkably good animation for the time. It was directed […] Read more