Hunter x Hunter seems to have found its stride, delivering the goods with arguably it’s most “shounen-ish” episode so far. It’s a really good sign when you’re surprised when an anime episode ends, and that was the case here.  I felt as if it had lasted about 10 minutes, and […] Read more

I confess, I’ll be very interested in seeing what the fans of the first series think of this week’s Hunter x Hunter.  To me, they seem a pretty surly and hard to please lot – much the same as they’re saying about me when it comes to Last Exile… I […] Read more

After five episodes I’m beginning to see what all the buzz for this series was about. I’d initially thought to do a digest post on this series, but to be honest the last two episodes have been interesting enough to demand a full post on their own.  Given that it’s […] Read more

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