People say the art is awful, but it really isnt- it's rushed often, and sloppy, and simple, but it's not bad. it's the kind of story you find yourself never wanting to end, its so full of potential and adventure, the characters' stories feel like they have their whole lives ahead of them that you want to see. one day i decided to read the manga, i started on the first chapter even though i already knew most of the story, and read every available chapter at the time. my grades dropped, i was mildly(?) obsessed with it for like 2 entire years. 2015? i didnt expect to like it, and wasnt sure of the appeal at first, but i found myself binge watching all 148 episodes in 2 weeks. Last updated on October 30th, 2019, 4:54pm I want tonknow who finally takes down Hisoka. I want Kurapica to get his revenge, I want know Leorio's story, I want to read more about Ging's rivalry with Pariston, I want to know more about the past of Kite, I want to read more about Knuckle & Shoot, I want to know more about Hanzo, I want a detailed history of Buscuit, & I want Killua to feel that his youngest sibling is safe enough that he can leave & go find his best friend. While a lot of people are sick of the long hiatuses & just want Togashi to wrap this series up after Gon found his dad, I, who have been into still-ongoing series much older than this, want it to kerp going & wrap up everything nicely. I'd have included JJBA:VA, but Buccellati was more of a parental figure to Giorno than a true bro. HxH & JJBA IU had two of my favorite manly bromances of all time Gon & Killua / Josuke & Okuyasu. Toriko is a Fist of the North Star/Jojo parody that rides entirely on the premise of HxH's season 1 Gourmet Hunter judges. HxH has also inspired newer franchises, like GetBackers: Hisoka = Akabane. An unkillable murderer with a death wish. Genkai = Biscuit.ĭBZ: Gohan/Young Goku = Gon. Yu Yu Hakusho + Jojo's Bizarre Adventures + Dragonball Z = Hunter x Hunter. If the works are in publication at the same time, they will trade concepts with eachother, have deeply comparible physical, ability, background story, or personaslity attributes, partly model some aspect of characters after eachother, or just straight-up break the 4th wall & reference them Whole this series stand strong on it's own, I really can't help but compare it to its influences. & this isn't even the only still-ongoing Japanese franchise I've been into this long. My love for the series was rekindled when the manga came out in english, & boosted by the 2011 anime reboot.Īs 2020 approaches, I eagerly wait the next chapter in JUMP & am nearing my 10th anniversary of being into this series. Togashi likes to play in different genre spaces for a bit and it's great! a royal succession struggle! a dash of mafia! aliens!įirst saw the fansubs for the original anime back in 2001 & was hooked. overall, i'd say the art is neither a weakness nor a strength. BUT characters are distinct and can be pretty unique. the art looks like a shounen series from the 90s, or even 80s, although it does improve over time. i'm not sure there's any character development arc that truly grabs me. mangaka decisions to drive the plot in a certain direction can feel a bit clumsy/obvious and the shounen battle logic feels too strong at times. characters sometimes make decisions that are neither logical nor reflect their established characterization. there's things that make me go "oh! i remember something like this in _!" great! one benefit of having taken so long to read HxH is that i've read a lot of other manga which have probably drawn inspiration from it. then, if i revisted it now, i could see it through the same rose-tinted glasses as series like One Piece. i wish i had first read Hunter x Hunter when I was 10 or 15 or even 20. the exceptions tend to be series that are only nominally shounen (Beastars, SxF, etc.) or nostalgia-bait (the new installation of The Breaker). These days I rarely start any new shounen series.
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