I watched this until the end of the yorkshin arc and this is basically what I got:
>slowest pacing I ever saw >almost no action(expecting to see action in a battle shounen is not a unrealistic expectation, so fuck you who says it's all about the story) >the few fights are all about someone curb stomping a enemy way weaker than him >too much infodumping dialogue >gay innuendo everywhere
So, I basically failed to see what this series have that makes it the magnum opus of the battle shounen genre, even if it becomes a masterpiece later, there's no excuse for the series be this fucking boring in the 60ยบ episode mark. The feeling I have is that all the hiatuses are the reason that people don't get tired of the manga, unlike most of the other long-running series.
Henry Perry
>gay innuendo everywhere I mean not really. In the little post-episode Hunterpedia things the animators did see fit to go full fujo, but throughout the rest of the show it isn't very gay. Hell the Chimera Ant arc is the gayest and you didn't even get there.
Ryder Turner
>watching the anime There's your problem.
Christian Scott
The manga is better even with the shitty art?
Charles Rogers
Based on what you have said, I think you would have better luck watching shows like Naruto or Bleach. Those probably have more of what you are looking for in your anime watching.
Gavin Peterson
Neferpitou best boy
Caleb Green
I don't think that HxH is terrible, just that I don't understand why everyone thinks that is the best thing ever made. Fairy Tail, KHR and Black Clover will be the unholy trinity of shitty battle shounen for me.
Ryder Morales
How much of the manga do you think is like that? What does the art have to do with any of OP's problems?
Angel Fisher
t. ADHDfag
Justin Allen
The standards for shounenshit are so low that anything even remotely competent looks like a masterpiece by comparison. HxH isn't "bad" by any means, it's just inconsistent and suffers from an irregular release schedule.
Caleb Sullivan
Don't know, but Sup Forums loves to nitpick
Gabriel Reed
>you don't like my favourite mango? I bet you like shit stuff like naruto and bleach
Never change, Sup Forums
Jacob Hill
girls make for terrible boys. She can't be best boy anyway when Shoot exists.
Nicholas Cook
Nobody gives a flying fuck about your opinion you mongrel. You are wasting your time posting blog shit on an anonymous board in the internet. Fucking nigger.
Justin Morales
The sooner you realize that HxH isn't about fighting the more you will enjoy it.
Aiden Jackson
>Nobody gives a flying fuck about your opinion you mongrel. Why did you respond, then?
Luke Phillips
HxH is not about fighting you fucking retard
Is not the typical shonen like bleach, naruto, dbz, one piece or others.
Jacob Jenkins
Honestly, just wanted to write something insulting.
Benjamin Walker
The anime is actually better since the manga won't be finished at this point.
Wyatt Perry
>Not enough fighting Go back to Naruto
Luke Price
>look at me! i don't like to see action in my chinese cartoons! i'm so patrician!
Ayden Myers
Who are you quoting?
Aiden Stewart
Togashi is going to come back eventually, right?
Brody Kelly
>didn't even get to the chimera ant arc >judges hxh
you can proceed to kys
Xavier Watson
Did he really make that face? That's the craziest thing he could ever do.
Jack Davis
It's all about Gon and Killua being gay. That's literally the whole point of the anime/manga. They put some fights every now and then so closet fags could also enjoy the anime without feeling shame. The french clown is also a top tier character.
Colton Torres
Killua is cute!
Wyatt Anderson
Then that means all of training bullshit and exposition on powers is pointless. Thanks for shitting on your own series hunterfags.
Noah Stewart
Seriously
Besides his best work was Yuyu Hakusho.
Cameron Ramirez
Gon is cuter!
Dominic Watson
Please do not sexualize the hunters
Alexander Rivera
>He thinks people should watch 70 episodes of HxH before they could form an opinion Why are fanboys so damn retarded?
Gabriel Moore
>character development is a bad thing
no one is forcing you to watch it if you don't like it faggot. go watch naruto
>Why are fanboys so damn retarded? >implying
i literally finished hxh 3 days ago.
Anthony Torres
Why do people always bring up watching naruto like it's gonna hurt them? It's either not true and won't faze anyone here, or they do and probably won't give a shit if someone calls them out on it.
Jonathan Wilson
he seems frustrated by hxh and i'm suggesting something that he will enjoy more most likely
Camden Ortiz
>implying he missed my heart
Nathaniel Hill
POST THE TURKEY DINNER
Connor Fisher
Well almost all of his complaints apply to Naruto as well.
Guess you're butthurt that the two are more similar than you thought.
Thomas Roberts
Hunter x Hunter has a really fast pace they squash like 350 chapters into 150 episodes
Josiah Parker
Even without filler HxH is more slow-paced than DBZ for me
Josiah Gonzalez
>Guess you're butthurt that the two are more similar than you thought
well if you, an anonymous person on a taiwanese knitting board says so, it must be true
Easton Lee
you're a pleb
Matthew Bailey
>slow-paced How is this a bad thing anyway?
Juan Green
>implying the characters were stagnant for the 70 episodes lending up to the CA arc >believes that "go watch naturo" is an insult >literal newfag to this series Fucking kek
Connor Cruz
Everyone shits on DBZ because of the slow pace, but with HxH everyone is ok with it
Andrew Martin
Dragon Ball isn't slow paced, go read the manga or watch Kai you ill informed idiot
Kevin Rogers
I thought HxH was decently paced until the Chimera cancer arc
Isaiah Fisher
Well it would explain why you mention Naruto and nothing else. You really want to put the shows in separate containers.
Carson Morris
No, it doesn't, you moronic fucking retard. Nen doesn't apply exclusively to fighting.
Lucas Lee
Okay then all of the exposition on combat powers (i.e. most of the powers) is pointless. Thanks for ignoring the training bullshit too.
Grayson Davis
If you are going to watch Hunter x Hunter, start with the 2011 series at episode 76. That is the start of the Chimera Ant arc and it is amazing.
Jacob Sanders
>There will never be a doujin about a pedophile girl nen user with the ability to make any shota she wants to become horny has fuck and then have sex with them Why even live
Matthew Cook
They were meant for it. Look at him. He's asking for it.
No he's not!
>implying you have a heart.
Bentley Walker
HxH Chimera Ant Arc is the opposite of slow, there is a new insane revelation every episode
Luis Taylor
>straight hxh doujins you're asking for a lot mate
Brandon Price
>Killua will never string you up, slit your belly open, have a good feel of your gizzards and shit, then stand masturbating in front of it. Just fucking abduct you and replace your eyes with buttons or split your asshole with his tiny white cock I live in the worst timeline
Jackson Nelson
I was so worried about your opinion in this show man, thank you. will subscribe and donate. there is an anime called naruto you should watch it and make more stupid reviews like this.
Brayden Powell
I really enjoy how the manga try to be realistic and with foot on ground. The MC don't just beat through shit with power of friendship or asspulls...that until the chimera ant arc and everything after it.
Never felt so disappointed before.
Bentley Powell
I think the manga is much worse.
Joshua Allen
Yu Yu Hakusho is better
Zachary Scott
So, everyone who don't think that HxH is a masterpiece is a narutard? Is this a new meme?
Angel Jones
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Adrian Peterson
Should I be concerned for you?
Alexander Parker
Why did they make the boys so cute?!
Logan Gonzalez
I watched up to a few episodes into the Greed Island arc. I don't mind most of those things, but the feeling that I get is that every arc they introduce some goal that involves a medium-to-long-term effort in doing some crazy scheme or a list of steps that would make a beurocrat wet and then they sort of abandon it and move on to something else.
Hey, let's do the hunter exam! Oh, no, Killua didn't make it! Let's drop everything and go look for him at his house! To get to his house, you have to go through the giant door and then fight each of the servants and then make it to the servant house and then- oh. There's Killua! No need to do all that, then! Let's go to the battle tower! It has like a million floors and on the top floors, there's these Nen masters and if you beat them all you go to this tournament where- wait! Where are you going? You're not even close to the top! Oh, Kurapika is doing some cool things! He's got to beat all of the members of the Edgelord Troupe! You got one, Kurapika! That's awesome! Time to get the others! Oh, you kidnapped the leader. And now you're letting him go with an admittedly strong magical slap on the wrist. Cool. But, hey! There's the auction! It's cool because first you use Nen to find stuff to sell and then you sell it and raise money and then you study your potential rivals and you're not going to do it, are you? Of course not. Well, getting into the game was the important thing, I guess. So this guy is explaining the steps in his well-crafted plan to try to beat the game as a team. You're leaving. That's fine. Oh, it's time to train now. Yeah, dig that tunnel. That's much better than all the things you abandoned to get here.
You can say that I have ADHD and I won't argue. But don't fucking tell me that the author of this mess doesn't have ADHD himself. This is ADHD in manga form.
Camden Fisher
I was going to pinpoint all your errors but then you admitted that you have ADHD so, well, I can't blame you for being retarded. Anyway, I'll say that you missed the whole point of HxH. World building has nothing to do with Gon's adventure. Hints: Friendship Hisoka's badge Ging's box
Landon Gomez
One of HxH's great strengths is that Togashi never takes things too far. Any other shonen, the Zoldyck arc would have been a series of fights against each member of Killua's family. HxH rightly avoids this, because it doesn't make any sense to have a twelve year old beating up some of the strongest in-universe characters. It's good storytelling because it avoids what makes shonenshit shonenshit. Gon and Killua aren't some fated heroes who can do no wrong. They're not heroes at all. They're just some talented kids. They can't and don't do everything. Conflicts aren't always resolved by powerlevels, they can be resolved by talking it out (Zoldyck arc) or clever planning (Chimera Ant).
basically.
Lucas Martin
I share the same opinion of the series up until around ep 100. After that, it had great pacing, great visuals, great choreography for fights, interesting characters, thought provoking messages, good twists.
Kurapika still worst character design ever.
Josiah Williams
BUNGEE GUM! IT HAS THE PROPERTIES OF BOTH GUM AND RUBBER! It extends and contracts at the whim of Hisoka, only he can control it. Even if you find out how it works it won't matter because of how malleable it is. an ability perfectly suited for hisoka.
Jonathan Cox
>an ability perfectly suited for hisoka. Then why the fuck did that nigga job so hard even Vegeta would laugh
Wyatt Jackson
Having a character go to a place, getting a long, detailed explanation of everything that is done in that place, and then having the character leave after barely doing anything there isn't good world-building. That would definitely qualify as a pointless lore dump. Good world building isn't a fucking long explanation of something that isn't going to matter. It's when details about the world and culture are revealed in conversation or events. It's not that I expected Gon and Killua to be Goku and P2 Goku. But like this, they're essentially apathetic tourists.
Parker Clark
What I like in HxH is when the shit hits the fan, you can never really know what will happen next, say like oh they beat this bad guy and on to the next, that don't happen here. The main characters are not the big power in the story, they are always in the middle of the conflict but not the deciding factor in the end. I liked how Gon just fucking obliterated Neferpitou, he just killed here with intent to do that which you would not expect a shonen main character do
Noah Watson
This, Gon should have had an epic showdown against the butlers where he says "I NEED TO SAVE KILLUA" and punches them in the face. Heck Gon and Killua should have risen to the top of the Heavens Arena and had a final battle between each other it would be so epic. This series is so shit compare to DBZ which does world building correctly.
Wyatt Diaz
Or maybe they could have not made a big fucking deal about things that were not actually going to be a big fucking deal. Maybe there was no need to dump all the information about how fucking great the mansion and its butlers were if they were not actually going to do anything about it. Maybe they could have revealed that information at a more natural pace during interactions between Gon and Killua instead of dumping it all at the same time and then having them leave after Gon gets smacked around by one butler and they get escorted to the servant quarters even though they didn't even earn the right to go there.
Lucas Hill
Actually an old meme since a lot of Naruto fans came in when the 2011 anime was airing. I think it started when Naruto fans claimed that Togashi got the idea for the "water deviation test" from the "chakra paper test" and they didn't realize that HxH was a much older series than they thought.
Adrian Wood
>Maybe there was no need to dump all the information about how fucking great the mansion and its butlers were if they were not actually going to do anything about it. It comes up later. While it's okay to have an opinion of a show before you criticize it, this is why it can be a problem is well. You haven't seen where some of the earlier world building actually leads but you're talking like you know what's what.
Cooper King
You may need to change your story perspective. Gon and Killua are often small players in the world and stories they're apart of. Since they don't have such an overwhelming effect on the world and events, the setting feels more like a place that's lived-in, instead of just being a backdrop for interesting things to happen. It feels like the side characters all have lives outside of the interactions with the main characters since the main characters aren't treated any differently from the side characters.
Thomas Jackson
Shit. I meant before you finish it.
Jaxon Nguyen
Manga or anime?
Evan Brown
I'm not pretending to know where these things lead. I'm saying that, up to the point where I got to, which I'd say was pretty far, they didn't lead anywhere. They were introduced in detail and then they didn't become part of the story. I'm all up for setting up things beforehand. But when you do it this much, it just gets ridiculous and it feels like you're just abandoning unfinished arcs left and right. What was the point of knowing everything about Killua's mansion at that point in the story if they were going to just peek in and then leave immediately? What was the point of the entire explanation of the battle tower if they didn't even intend on getting to the top? Couldn't they give a vague explanation of how it's fucking nuts in there and maybe revealed the rest of it gradually as the story got closer to the point where it would actually matter? Why establish an arc and then not do it?
I understand that. My point isn't that they're not important enough or that I want them to go in and defeat every enemy with a gigantic asspull. I just don't like how there's huge, elaborate lore dumps detailing huge, elaborate trials ahead and then Gon and Killua just leave after barely starting those trials because those trials actually have nothing to do with them. It does give the feeling that they're small-time and that they have a long way to go. But it also gives the feeling that there's never a conclusion to anything they do.
Jaxon Howard
>What was the point of knowing everything about Killua's mansion at that point in the story if they were going to just peek in and then leave immediately? Build tension. You can be an autist about it or think "hmm, that's a nice turn of the screw". >What was the point of the entire explanation of the battle tower if they didn't even intend on getting to the top? What the fuck, how can you be so dense? The point is that those places are portrayed as actual places and not scenarios for your Z warriors to stomp and yell how much they're going to fight the villains. >Couldn't they give a vague explanation of how it's fucking nuts in there and maybe revealed the rest of it gradually as the story got closer to the point where it would actually matter? Why would you want vague explanations? >it also gives the feeling that there's never a conclusion to anything they do. Big shocker: The world doesn't revolve around the MCs. But that's bad because you want chosen one logic.
Robert Jackson
>Build tension. For what? When this comes back 400 chapters later?
>The point is that those places are portrayed as actual places and not scenarios for your Z warriors to stomp and yell how much they're going to fight the villains. They weren't actual places. We never even got to see them. We just saw our Z Warriors beating every opponent effortlessly with a single shove/hit up until they got to the floors where the fighters might pose an actual challenge and then leave after doing Z Warrior style power leap and using it twice.
>Why would you want vague explanations? To build tension without just dumping lore.
>But that's bad because you want chosen one logic. Don't even pretend these MCs are not chosen ones. Don't even fucking try to prentend that. Everyone they come across raves about how they're geniuses with potential like they've never seen before.
Just fuck you, man. Your only argument to defend the bad pacing is that I'm autistic. Here's an internet point for you for using the #1 Sup Forums insult as an argument.
Jacob Bennett
>The world doesn't revolve around the MCs Nor do they have much character development/arcs Nor do they have any strong motivations Nor do they have much affect on anything
Gavin Nguyen
Well atleast you can express your feelings user
Jackson Wright
>Nor do they have much character development/arcs >Nor do they have any strong motivations >Nor do they have much affect on anything All of these points are addressed in the chimera Ant arc.
Ethan Stewart
u fookin wot?
Killua and gon have been nothing but character development since the beginning. They constantly have to battle through their character flaws, often growing from them
Austin Wilson
leave it to prof.autism to miss character development that isn't spoon feed