I've read so many reviews on this show and everyone has so many different opinions like "animation is great, story is not.." or "animation SUCKS but the story is good.." and I get why this is. The animation is okay in my opinion, but the lack of consistency in story is my major issue. The arcs in this anime do not flow well one after another. Some parts of the show are a 10 and some parts are 1's. It's just how the show is. You'll be hooked for 20 episodes straight and then all of a sudden the story will change and you'll be using HxH as a way to put yourself to sleep. I think overall the anime is a solid 6 and it's because of so many parts of the show that as a viewer you're excited to finally see and they literally never show you. Im going to list below all the things that were left out completely which really frustrated me at the end. I couldn't believe some things were just left open ended. Gon's dad SUCKS so I couldn't care less if he ever found him...I would be more satisfied as a viewer if these plot holes were filled instead. Here's my list:
1. What is a hunter? This is never really explained and I still have no clue what their exact objective is. It can't be that they are good fighters cuz look at their exam!!! Seriously tho...what is the point of being a hunter!!??
2. Hisoka. Very cool character and he makes you eager to find the rest of his story played out...especially finding and fighting chrollo...but nope! And anything else about his ending is just left blank. Waste of character development. (This is a common theme for good characters)
3. And speaking of.... Chrollo never returns. Did he get his nen back from that exorcist? We'll never know.
4. Kurapika is a main who turned into a ghost. Not even in the last several arcs!!!! WTH?!
5. The phantom troupe was a cool villain to watch and then they're just NOTHING. And who is their new leader???
6. Leorio wasn't given nearly enough screen time.
7. What was the point of Gon playing greed island? Why did his dad even leave him the ring/memory card?
8. WHAT THE HECK IS THE POINT OF THE ELECTION AT THE END????? I WAS WAITING FOR A CRAZY COOL TWIST FROM THE RAT ZODIAC AND IT WAS POINTLESS.
9. What power does meruem have that is soooo powerful? Although I really loved his character, I was getting sucked into the build of him and it turned to nothing. No cool fighting. Just doesn't get hurt. You're telling me that someone like him can go through a crazy beating then a bomb of that magnitude and live...but then die from poison??
10. My last one. This isn't a plot hole exactly but just an issue I had in the ant arc: What is Gon's obsession with kite? He barely knew him. Killua almost died from blood loss in that cave area and after he told Gon he was hospitalized for 2 days, Gon DIDNT GIVE A RIP. And yet with kite whom he just met, he hadn't even known he was "dead" yet and started to lose it in front of pitou and was filled with rage/blood lust. I thought this was absurd.
***this show left me empty and dissatisfied. I disliked the last arc and the ending very much. A couple seconds of others' endings coming together during the ending theme song was not enough. And Gon's father really annoyed me. Leorio and Kurapika were great and viewers/fans deserve more of them and less of the hours and hours of screen time of all the other annoying side characters. Just ridiculous in my opinion but that's just me. Thanks for reading :)
1. What is a hunter? This is never really explained and I still have no clue what their exact objective is. It can't be that they are good fighters cuz look at their exam!!! Seriously tho...what is the point of being a hunter!!??
2. Hisoka. Very cool character and he makes you eager to find the rest of his story played out...especially finding and fighting chrollo...but nope! And anything else about his ending is just left blank. Waste of character development. (This is a common theme for good characters)
3. And speaking of.... Chrollo never returns. Did he get his nen back from that exorcist? We'll never know.
4. Kurapika is a main who turned into a ghost. Not even in the last several arcs!!!! WTH?!
5. The phantom troupe was a cool villain to watch and then they're just NOTHING. And who is their new leader???
6. Leorio wasn't given nearly enough screen time.
7. What was the point of Gon playing greed island? Why did his dad even leave him the ring/memory card?
8. WHAT THE HECK IS THE POINT OF THE ELECTION AT THE END????? I WAS WAITING FOR A CRAZY COOL TWIST FROM THE RAT ZODIAC AND IT WAS POINTLESS.
9. What power does meruem have that is soooo powerful? Although I really loved his character, I was getting sucked into the build of him and it turned to nothing. No cool fighting. Just doesn't get hurt. You're telling me that someone like him can go through a crazy beating then a bomb of that magnitude and live...but then die from poison??
10. My last one. This isn't a plot hole exactly but just an issue I had in the ant arc: What is Gon's obsession with kite? He barely knew him. Killua almost died from blood loss in that cave area and after he told Gon he was hospitalized for 2 days, Gon DIDNT GIVE A RIP. And yet with kite whom he just met, he hadn't even known he was "dead" yet and started to lose it in front of pitou and was filled with rage/blood lust. I thought this was absurd.
***this show left me empty and dissatisfied. I disliked the last arc and the ending very much. A couple seconds of others' endings coming together during the ending theme song was not enough. And Gon's father really annoyed me. Leorio and Kurapika were great and viewers/fans deserve more of them and less of the hours and hours of screen time of all the other annoying side characters. Just ridiculous in my opinion but that's just me. Thanks for reading :)