This article is about the manga series. For other uses, see Hunter × Hunter ( disambiguation ) japanese manga and anime serial

Hunter × Hunter ( pronounced “ hunter orion ” ) is a japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yoshihiro Togashi. It has been serialized in Shueisha ‘s Weekly Shōnen Jump since March 1998, although the manga has frequently gone on extended hiatuses since 2006. Its chapters have been collected in 36 tankōbon volumes as of October 2018. The narrative focuses on a young son named Gon Freecss who discovers that his father, who left him at a young age, is actually a world-renowned Hunter, a license master who specializes in fantastic pursuits such as locating rare or nameless animal species, gem hunt, surveying undiscovered enclaves, or hunting down anarchic individuals. Gon departs on a travel to become a Hunter and finally find his beget. Along the way, Gon meets respective other Hunters and encounters the paranormal.

Hunter × Hunter was adapted into a 62-episode zanzibar copal television receiver serial produced by Nippon Animation and directed by Kazuhiro Furuhashi, which ran on Fuji Television from October 1999 to March 2001. Three offprint original video animations ( OVAs ) totaling 30 episodes were subsequently produced by Nippon Animation and released in Japan from 2002 to 2004. A second anime television series by Madhouse aired on Nippon Television from October 2011 to September 2014 totaling 148 episodes, with two animate theatrical performance films released in 2013. There are besides numerous audio albums, video recording games, musicals, and early media based on Hunter × Hunter. The manga has been translated into English and released in North America by Viz Media since April 2005. Both television serial have been besides licensed by Viz Media, with the first series having aired on the Funimation Channel in 2009 and the second series broadcast on Adult Swim ‘s Toonami programming block from April 2016 to June 2019. Hunter × Hunter has been a huge critical and fiscal success and has become one of Shueisha ‘s best-selling manga series, having over 79 million copies in circulation as of November 2021 .

outline [edit ]

Setting [edit ]

Hunters ( ハンター, Hantā ) are licensed, elect members of humanity who are capable of tracking down secret treasures, rare beasts, or even early individuals. They can besides access locations that regulars can not access. [ 3 ] To obtain a license one must pass the rigorous annual Hunter Examination run by the Hunter Association, which has a achiever rate of less than one in a hundred-thousand. [ 4 ] A Hunter may be awarded up to three stars : a unmarried star for making “ remarkable achievements in a detail sphere ” ; they may then be upgraded to two stars for “ holding an official position ” and mentoring another Hunter up to unmarried star degree ; and finally upgraded to three stars for “ remarkable achievements in multiple fields. ” [ 5 ] Nen ( 念 ) is the ability to control one ‘s own life energy or aura, which is constantly emitted from them, wittingly or not. There are four basic Nen techniques : Ten ( 纏 ) maintains the aura in the torso, strengthening it for department of defense ; Zetsu ( 絕 ) shuts the aura flow off, useful for concealing one ‘s bearing and relieving tire ; Ren ( 練 ) enables a drug user to produce more Nen ; and Hatsu ( 發 ) is a person ‘s specific use of Nen. [ 6 ] Nen users are classified into six types based on their Hatsu abilities ; Enhancers ( 強化系, Kyōkakei ) strengthen and reinforce their natural forcible abilities ; Emitters ( 放出系, Hōshutsukei ) project aura out of their bodies ; Manipulators ( 操作系, Sōsakei ) control objects or surviving things ; Transmuters ( 変化系, Henkakei ) change the character or properties of their aura ; Conjurers ( 具現化系, Gugenkakei ) make objects out of their aura ; and Specialists ( 特質系, Tokushitsukei ) have alone abilities that do not fall into the previous categories. [ 7 ] A Nen drug user can enter into a Contract ( 誓約, Seiyaku ) where, by pledging to follow sealed Limitations ( 制約, Seiyaku ), their abilities are strengthened in relation to how nonindulgent they are. An exercise of this is Kurapika who, in order to have an unbreakable chain that will amply restrain members of the Phantom Troupe, offered his life, should he use it on anyone other than its members. [ 8 ]

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The report follows a young boy named Gon Freecss, who was told all his life that both his parents were dead. But when he learns from Kite, an apprentice of his don Ging Freecss, that he is hush active and has since become an carry through Hunter, Gon leaves his home on Whale Island ( くじら島, Kujira Tō ) to take the Hunter Examination ( ハンター試験, Hantā Shiken ) in order to become a Hunter like him. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] During the examination, Gon meets and befriends three of the other applicants : Kurapika, the last remain extremity of the Kurta kin who wishes to become a Hunter in orderliness to avenge his kin and recover their scarlet-glowing eyes that were plucked from their corpses by a band of thieves known as the Phantom Troupe ; Leorio, a prospective doctor who, in arrange to pay for aesculapian school, desires the fiscal benefits that Hunters receive ; and Killua Zoldyck, another twelve-year-old boy who has left his former life sentence as a member of the global ‘s most ill-famed assassin class. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ 3 ] Among many other examinees, Gon continuously encounters Hisoka, a cryptic and deadly transmuter who takes an interest in him. After many trials together, Gon and his friends end up passing the examination except for Killua, who fails after killing another applicant due to the influence of his brother, Illumi, and runs away to his family ‘s estate in shame. After Gon and the others convince Killua to rejoin their side, Leorio and Kurapika depart temporarily for their own personal reasons, while Gon and Killua fructify for the Heavens Arena ( 天空闘技場, Tenkū Tōgijō ), a skyscraper where thousands of martial artists compete day by day in fighting tournaments, seeking to improve themselves and gain monetary rewards. [ 12 ] There they meet Zushi, a colleague Heavens Arena applicant, who has a kung fu master named Wing who trains them in utilizing Nen, a Qi -like life sentence energy used by its practicers to manifest parapsychological abilities, and is besides considered to be the concluding necessity to pass the Hunter Exam. Sometime late, Gon and his friends reunite again in Yorknew City ( ヨークシンシティ, Yōkushin Shiti ) where they have a collide with the Phantom Troupe. During the occasion, two from the band of thieves are killed by Kurapika and he is forced to give up the find of hunting down the rest in order to rescue Gon and Killua from captured, but not without succeeding in sealing the powers of their leader, Chrollo Lucilfer. A few days later, Gon and Killua achieve their objective and begin playing Greed Island, an highly rare and expensive video recording game with Nen-like properties following some clues about Ging ‘s whereabouts. [ 13 ] While exploring the game, it is revealed that its scenario is actually set somewhere in the real universe, created with Nen by a team led by none other than Ging himself. Outclassed by the challenges in the game at first, they are soon join and trained by Biscuit Krueger, an experienced teacher of Nen and kung fu passkey. With Biscuit ‘s assistant, Gon and Killua train their Nen and learn to shape their abilities to their traits. Killua takes a curtly break from Greed Island to apply for the Hunter Examination again, this time passes with success. The three then complete the game together against all odds and Gon obtains the right to choose the artifacts from the game necessity to reunite with his father. Gon decides to have Killua accompany him to meet his father using the artifacts, but the duet are sent to meet Kite rather. They decide to help with Kite ‘s research of a man-sized Chimera Ant fagot, an insect that devours other creatures and then gives parturition to progeny that inherit the characteristics of the different species it has eaten. The queen washes up onto an island nation called the Neo-Green Life ( N.G.L. ) autonomous region, where she promptly develops a taste for humans and builds a colony mighty enough to overcome the population, particularly after her offspring learn the might of Nen from consuming Hunters. Upon facing the Royal Guard of the Chimera Ants, Kite sacrifices himself to allow Gon and Killua to flee and alert the Hunter Association. After weeks of planning, the Association sends a team of some of their most herculean Hunters, including Netero, the president of the Association himself to defeat the Ants and their king Meruem, whose subjects secretly overthrew the government of the nearby Republic of East Gorteau ( 東ゴルトー共和国, Higashi Gorutō Kyouwakoku ) as separate of their plan of subduing all of world. Despite losing to Meruem in fight, Netero ends up killing him with a turkey implanted in his torso that poisons him to death soon after. meanwhile, Gon has a showdown with Neferpitou, the Ant who killed Kite. After overusing Nen to exact his retaliation, he is hospitalized and in critical condition. After the Chimera Ant incident is resolved, the Hunter Association ‘s peak echelons the Zodiacs, from which Ging is a member, begin the procedure of choosing Netero ‘s replacement as Chairman, while Killua returns home to ask for his younger baby Alluka to save Gon ‘s life. His syndicate is unwilling to risk losing Alluka or having her dangerous powers used against them, but after evading his old buddy Illumi ‘s attempts to intercept him, Killua manages to bring Alluka to Gon ‘s side and have him in full restored. He then attempts to seal away Alluka ‘s change ego which grants them their power ( Nanika, likely a creature from the Dark Continent ), but at the end here and now decides to revert the process preferably than seal away Nanika Alluka ‘s merely early acquaintance. Killua then parts ways with Gon to travel the universe with Alluka, while Gon himself finally meets his founder and learns the true nature of his quest. Some time by and by, Netero ‘s son Beyond assembles an excursion to the Dark Continent ( 暗黒大陸, Ankoku Tairiku ), the prevent, huge area outside of the know populace ; he is sponsored by the Kingdom of Kakin. Fearing that the expedition may bring calamity, precisely like in all previous attempts, the worldly concern ‘s five greatest powers accept that Kakin join their ranks in change for full authority over its findings. To accompany Beyond and ensure his complaisance, the Zodiacs decide to watch over him and invite Kurapika and Leorio to join them, replacing Ging and early Vice-Chairman Pariston Hill, who assembled their own Dark Continent exploration teams by Beyond ‘s request. [ 14 ] meanwhile, Chrollo regains his powers and fulfills Hisoka ‘s wish to have a duel with him, which ends with Hisoka defeated and killed. After reviving through Nen, Hisoka starts killing off the Phantom Troupe members one by one, who have boarded Kakin ‘s embark to the Dark Continent to rob it. Aboard the embark, Nasubi, the king of Kakin, starts a battle to the death between his heirs to decide his successor. Kurapika, who besides infiltrated the transport with other Hunters, takes separate in the succession war as the bodyguard of Fourteenth Prince Wobble, Kakin ‘s youngest prince and a toddler. Kurapika ‘s personal objective, however, is to retrieve the last batch of scarlet eyes from the Kurta Clan in hands of Tserriednich, Kakin ‘s Fourth Prince .

production [edit ]

generator Yoshihiro Togashi explained that one of his hobbies was collecting objects of all sorts, so he was inspired to create a manga involving collecting titled “ ( something ) Hunter ”. [ 15 ] He came up with the final name Hunter × Hunter while watching the television diverseness show Downtown, in which the hosts frequently repeat what they say to make the audience laugh. [ 15 ] The “ × ” in the title is silent. [ 16 ] As with his previous series, Yu Yu Hakusho, Togashi used drafting ink and Kabura pens for his illustrations but began using an eMac to color them. [ 17 ] Togashi uses few or no assistants in the manga ‘s product ; [ 18 ] however, fellow manga artist and future wife Naoko Takeuchi assisted Togashi in adding screentone to single-color pages for the first volume. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] With the parturition of their first son early in its publication, Togashi felt that this personal aspect of his life would be a capital charm on his exercise, peculiarly the manga ‘s theme of a young boy searching for his founder. [ 17 ] There have been several instances in which Togashi has apologized to readers in Shueisha ‘s Weekly Shōnen Jump for low-quality artwork and promised to redraw portions of the chapters for their tankōbon ( collect volume ) releases. [ 21 ] [ 22 ] [ 23 ] In summation, the issue history of the Hunter × Hunter manga has been plagued with hiatuses, in which serialize chapters would be separated by extend periods of meter. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] [ 26 ] [ 27 ] After returning from a two-year-long foramen in June 2014, [ 28 ] and joining the English-language Weekly Shonen Jump batting order, the manga went on another merely two months late. [ 29 ] The series returned from this hiatus on April 18, 2016, [ 30 ] however, merely over two months belated, Hunter × Hunter began another foramen on June 4, 2016. [ 31 ] It came back on June 26, 2017, [ 32 ] and merely over two months late, on August 31, the series went on hiatus again, planning to return by the end of that year. [ 33 ] The series came back on January 29, 2018, [ 34 ] before going on hiatus again on April 9 of the same year. [ 35 ] After a five-month hiatus, the manga resumed publication from September 22 to November 26, 2018, before entering another foramen, presently its longest one to date. [ 36 ] [ 37 ] [ 38 ]

Media [edit ]

Manga [edit ]

Written and illustrated by Yoshihiro Togashi, the Hunter × Hunter manga began its serialization in Shueisha ‘s Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine on March 16, 1998. [ 39 ] Shueisha has compiled most of the chapters into individual tankōbon volumes. The first bulk was released on June 4, 1998. [ 40 ] As of October 4, 2018, thirty-six volumes have been released. [ 41 ] The series has besides been published in a sōshūhen version that aims to recreate the manga as it was in the first place serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump in the like size and with the color pages. eleven volumes were released between December 9, 2011 and April 18, 2014, covering up to the Election floor bow. [ 42 ] [ 43 ] In April 2005, Viz Media began publishing the manga in English in North America. [ 44 ] They grocery store the series as character of their “ Shonen Jump Advanced ” occupation for older teens and young adults. [ 45 ] Thirty-six volumes have been released in North America as of August 6, 2019. [ 46 ] Viz included the Kurapika’s Memories chapters in the December 17 and 24, 2012 issues of their digital English magazine Weekly Shonen Jump Alpha. [ 47 ] On April 22, 2014, it was announced that Hunter × Hunter would be joining the digital English magazine Weekly Shonen Jump. [ 48 ] The manga has besides been licensed and translated into multiple languages throughout Europe and early parts of Asia. For case, it was serialized between 2001 and 2005 in Banzai!, a german version of Weekly Shōnen Jump. [ 49 ] [ 50 ]
Kurapika’s Memories ( クラピカ追憶編, Kurapika Tsuioku-hen ), a bipartite manga Togashi wrote to act as a prequel to the first animate film, was published in the December 3 and 10, 2012 issues of Weekly Shōnen Jump. [ 51 ] Tokyo Ghoul writer Sui Ishida created a 69-page storyboard of a manga chapter depicting the past of Hunter × Hunter ‘s Hisoka. The storyboard was released digitally via Shōnen Jump+ on June 2, 2016. [ 52 ]

zanzibar copal [edit ]

First series ( 1999 ) [edit ]

The first Hunter × Hunter anime adaptation was produced by the company Nippon Animation and directed by Kazuhiro Furuhashi, who had previously directed the Rurouni Kenshin television receiver series. [ 53 ] A total of 62 episodes of Hunter × Hunter were broadcast on the japanese tellurian television receiver network Fuji television from October 16, 1999 to March 31, 2001 during the like Saturday even timeslot as the zanzibar copal translation of Togashi ‘s previous serial Yu Yu Hakusho. [ 3 ] [ 54 ] [ 55 ] Additionally, Hunter × Hunter has aired on the satellite television post Animax. [ 56 ] [ 57 ] Although it closely follows the manga, the violence in the zanzibar copal translation is lessened for younger audiences. [ 3 ] Marvelous Entertainment has released all episodes of the series in Japan on DVD in 13 divide volumes between September 20, 2000 and September 19, 2001. [ 58 ] Viz Media licensed the Hunter × Hunter anime for distribution in the Region 1 market, with english voice-work handled by the Ocean Group at Blue Water Studios in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. [ 11 ] [ 59 ] The series was released on four DVD boxed sets from December 9, 2008 to December 1, 2009. [ 60 ] [ 61 ] Starting with the irregular typeset, Viz partnered with Warner Home Video to distribute the DVDs. [ 62 ] Hunter × Hunter began airing in the United States on the Funimation Channel in the spring of 2009. [ 63 ]

master television animations [edit ]

When the Hunter × Hunter zanzibar copal covered most of its informant corporeal by 2001, Nippon Animation made the decision to end the adaptation rather than continue it with filler. [ 64 ] due to fans ‘ unsated reactions to the conclusion of the television series, three subsequent OVAs were produced by Nippon Animation. These carried the plat from where the broadcast left off during the Yorknew City discharge and covered the Greed Island bow. [ 65 ] [ 66 ] [ 67 ] [ 68 ] [ 69 ] The foremost OVA series was directed by Satoshi Saga and ran for eight episodes in four released volumes from January 17 to April 17, 2002. [ 70 ] The moment OVA series, Hunter × Hunter: Greed Island, was directed by Yukihiro Matsushita and ran for eight episodes in four released volumes from February 19 to May 21, 2003. [ 71 ] The third OVA serial, Hunter × Hunter: G.I. Final, was directed by Makoto Sato and ran for 14 episodes in seven released volumes from March 3 to August 18, 2004. [ 72 ] After the master anime ‘s initial run on Animax, the OVAs were aired successively. [ 56 ] [ 73 ] Viz has shown no intention of releasing english versions of the OVAs. [ 74 ]

second series ( 2011 ) [edit ]

A newfangled Hunter × Hunter zanzibar copal adaptation was announced in July 2011. rather of continuing the fib from the OVA series, it restarts the history from the beginning of the manga in an try to adapt it more accurately. The serial is directed by Hiroshi Kōjina, produced by Madhouse, scripted by Atsushi Maekawa, and character designs were created by Takahiro Yoshimatsu. The series began airing Sunday mornings on Nippon Television starting October 2, 2011. [ 75 ] It switched to airing at 1:29 am on Tuesday nights from October 8, 2013 onwards. [ 76 ] The series ended on September 23, 2014 after 148 episodes. [ 77 ] An hour after each sequence aired in Japan, American website Crunchyroll provided English subtitled simulcasts in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. [ 78 ] The series started airing on Animax Asia on April 24, 2012. [ 79 ] On October 9, 2015, Viz Media announced their license to the boot anime at their dialog box at New York Comic Con. [ 80 ] They will release the anime on DVD/Blu-ray with an english dub. On April 1, 2016, it was announced that the series would premiere on Adult Swim ‘s Toonami program block, which began airing on April 17, 2016. [ 81 ] [ 82 ] Madman Entertainment acquired the series for distribution in Australia and New Zealand, [ 83 ] and made the series available on AnimeLab. [ 84 ] Funimation began streaming the series in the United Kingdom and Ireland on July 17, 2020. [ 85 ]

Films [edit ]

Hunter × Hunter 1998 film Cover of the1998 movie Before the first zanzibar copal television serial was created, a light film adaptation of Hunter × Hunter was shown as separate of the 1998 “ Jump Super Anime Tour ” alongside similar adaptations of Seikimatsu Leader den Takeshi! and One Piece. [ 86 ] Produced by Studio Pierrot and directed by Noriyuki Abe, it depicts the early on events of the manga up to Gon ‘s ocean voyage from Whale Island. A film adaptation by the second gear television anime ‘s staff called Hunter × Hunter: Phantom Rouge, featuring an original floor, was announced in March 2012. It was released on January 12, 2013 by Toho. [ 87 ] [ 88 ] [ 89 ] It centers around Gon and his friends efforts to retrieve Kurapika ‘s eyes which were stolen by Omokage, the original person with the No. 4 spider tattoo. The film is based on an unpublished narrative manga godhead Yoshihiro Togashi wrote around 10 years ahead. [ 90 ] A second film, titled Hunter × Hunter: The Last Mission, was announced following the first gear one ‘s debut. The film has some stress on Netero, the president of the Hunter Association as Gon and his friends discover the dark secrets behind his past. The movie was released on December 27, 2013, [ 91 ] and the DVD and Blu-ray was released on July 23, 2014. [ 92 ] At the Japanese box office, Phantom Rouge grossed $ 12,595,288, [ 93 ] and The Last Mission grossed ¥850 million [ 94 ] ( $ 8.71 million ), bringing both films ‘ entire japanese box office crude to $ 21.31 million .

CDs [edit ]

The background music for the first base Hunter × Hunter anime and three OVA series was composed by Toshihiko Sahashi. A large number of audio CDs for the franchise have been released by improbable Entertainment. The three-volume soundtrack for the zanzibar copal television series contains 129 implemental and song songs. The Original Video Animation Hunter × Hunter Sound Trax for the first OVA series contains 18 songs and the Original Video Animation Hunter × Hunter: Greed Island Original Sound Tracks for the second OVA series contains 30 songs. [ 95 ] In addition, character-specific and history arc drama CDs and a 17-volume radio drama titled Hunter × Hunter R have been published throughout the zanzibar copal adaptations ‘ free period. [ 96 ] [ 97 ] [ 98 ]

Musicals and theatrical play [edit ]

There have been two musicals based on Hunter × Hunter. The first gear, Musical Hunter × Hunter ( ミュージカル ハンター×ハンター ), was primitively performed during December 2000. [ 99 ] It is an master report that appears to take target between the goal of the Yorknew City report discharge and the begin of the Greed Island bow. The second, Musical Hunter × Hunter: The Nightmare of Zoldyck ( ミュージカル ハンター×ハンター ナイトメア・オブ・ゾルディック ), was in the first place performed during August 2002. [ 99 ] It is a fictionalize of when Kurapika, Leorio, and Gon go to fetch Killua back from his class estate after the end of the Hunter Exam arch. Both musicals have received separate DVD and audio compact disk releases, deoxyadenosine monophosphate well as a double DVD publish from fantastic Entertainment. [ 95 ] [ 100 ] [ 101 ] There is besides a live-action play titled Real Stage Hunter × Hunter: “A Longing for Phalcnothdk ~ A Spider’s Memory ~” ( リアルステージ ハンター×ハンター｢A Longing for Phalcnothdk 〜蜘蛛の記憶〜｣ ), which was performed 16 times at the Theater Sun-mall in Shinjuku, Tokyo during August 2004. [ 102 ] [ 103 ] [ 104 ] The play is a recite of the Phantom Troupe finale in the Yorknew City bow. It received a DVD acquittance in Japan on December 10, 2004. [ 102 ]

Video games [edit ]

There are ten Japan-exclusive video recording games based on Hunter × Hunter, many of which are either developed or published by Konami or Bandai. They range from role-playing and strategy games to natural process and venture games. These include titles for the WonderSwan, [ 105 ] WonderSwan Color, [ 106 ] [ 107 ] [ 108 ] Game Boy Color, [ 109 ] [ 110 ] Game Boy Advance, [ 111 ] PlayStation, [ 112 ] [ 113 ] and PlayStation 2. [ 114 ] A game based on the second anime adaptation was released on the PlayStation Portable on September 20, 2012. [ 115 ] Characters from the franchise have appeared along with other Weekly Shōnen Jump properties in the active games Jump Super Stars and Jump Ultimate Stars for the Nintendo DS, J-Stars Victory VS for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita, [ 116 ] [ 117 ] and Jump Force for Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. [ 118 ]

other merchandise [edit ]

A series of three film books based on the beginning anime series and authored by Nobuaki Kishikan has been released by Shueisha from December 3, 1999 to August 24, 2001. [ 119 ] [ 120 ] [ 121 ] A guidebook to the zanzibar copal titled Hunter × Hunter Characters Book: World × Character × Blessing ( Hunter × Hunter キャラクターズブック World × Character × Blessing ) was published by Shueisha in January 2001. [ 122 ] A guidebook to the manga titled Hunter × Hunter: Hunters Association Official World and Character Guide ( Hunter × Hunter ハンター協会公式発行ハンターズ・ガイド ) was published by the company on June 4, 2004. [ 123 ] There is besides an across-the-board trade tease bet on by Bandai, [ 124 ] military action and trade figures, [ 125 ] [ 126 ] and versatile early collectables. [ 127 ] [ 128 ] [ 129 ]

reception [edit ]

Manga [edit ]

The Hunter × Hunter manga has been largely commercially successful ; having sold over 60.6 million collected volumes in Japan as of February 2012, making it Shueisha ‘s eighth best-selling manga series. [ 130 ] This number had grown to 66.3 million copies by 2014. [ 131 ] The manga had over 72 million copies in circulation in Japan as of December 2018, [ 132 ] and over 79 million copies in circulation as of November 2021. [ 133 ] several individual volumes have topped Oricon ‘s list of the best-selling manga in Japan during their release workweek ; such as volumes 30 through 36. [ 134 ] Volumes 24, 27, and 30 through 34 were some of the top-selling volumes for their respective years. [ 135 ] Hunter × Hunter was the one-eighth best-selling manga series of both 2012 and 2013, with 3.4 and 4.6 million copies sold those years respectively. [ 136 ] [ 137 ] In North America, volumes 23 through 27 have ranked within the acme 300 best-selling graphics novel list of sales estimates by Diamond Comic Distributors. [ 138 ] [ 139 ] [ 140 ] [ 141 ] [ 142 ] In November 2014, readers of Media Factory ‘s Da Vinci magazine voted Hunter × Hunter issue 11 on a list of Weekly Shōnen Jump ‘s greatest manga series of all time. [ 143 ] In 2019, the serial ranked one-seventh on Da Vinci ‘s 19th annual “ Book of the year ” number. [ 144 ] On television Asahi ‘s Manga Sōsenkyo 2021 pate, in which 150.000 people voted for their top 100 manga series, Hunter × Hunter ranked # 11. [ 145 ] The Hunter × Hunter manga has received much praise for its plot and characters. In his 2007 ledger Manga: The Complete Guide, Jason Thompson described its storyline as “ an about random collection of psych-outs, battles, puzzles, and trickery ” that works on both a chapter-by-chapter basis and a larger scale. [ 18 ] Thompson elaborated that with all the goals and subplots of each of the main characters, the floor could apparently go on constantly and is unpredictable enough to hold reader matter to. [ 18 ] In a different review for Anime News Network in 2012, Thompson wrote that it was hard to summarize the fib because “ it is every shōnen manga in one, with training sequences, tournament battles, a crime-mystery narrative arc, and a virtual-reality, RPG -style fib arc ”. But unlike most shōnen manga, he called Hunter × Hunter “ fabulously dense. ” Examples being its fictional nen ability, which is explained “ thus thoroughly that you about think it could exist, ” and the little challenges and games the characters face ; “ Over and over Togashi invents some little shut system or rules equitable so the heroes can break them ; if he always wants to change careers, I ‘d suggest game architect. ” Thompson praised the fictional character art as capital, pointing out how alternatively of alternating between naturalistic and chibi like other artists, Togashi has cartoony and realistic characters interacting in the same panels. Thompson did note how the artwork during its magazine run is much “ sketchy ” and missing backgrounds, but that Togashi goes rear and fixes it for its collected tankōbon release. Mentioning Togashi ‘s sleep together of gore he stated “ the unharmed manga is about the mixture of childish venture and creepy, adult themes ” and noted how some panels later in the manga are obviously censored for gore by being covered with screentone. [ 146 ] Reviewing the first fib arch, Chris Sims of ComicsAlliance called Hunter × Hunter one of the most “ fun, farcical, and laughably violent comics I ‘ve ever read. ” He stated that while it has every stereotyped idea about shōnen manga in coerce, what sticks out the most is the violence. Sims summed it up as “ full of apt setups and characters that, while simple to the charge of about seeming unidimensional at times, even manage to be solid and entertaining based on their chemical reaction to the increasingly strange, increasingly deadly events around them ”. [ 147 ] Charles Solomon, a writer for The New York Times and Los Angeles Times, praised the moral seriousness of Gon, a choice that gives the protagonist “ an appeal his relentlessly cheerful counterparts miss ”. [ 148 ] [ 149 ] Publishers Weekly gave a incontrovertible review to the first volume of the manga, stating that Togashi “ shows a deft touch ” with its criterion report, calling his artwork “ clear and graceful ”, and mentioning that his characters are “ endear and building complex ”. [ 150 ] While Rika Takahashi of EX.org and Claude J. Pelletier of Protoculture Addicts found the artwork style in Hunter × Hunter to be much simpler than Togashi ‘s two previous serializations, Level E and Yu Yu Hakusho, both reviewers appreciated the intricate narrative and characters. [ 10 ] [ 3 ]

anime [edit ]

1999 series [edit ]

The foremost Hunter × Hunter zanzibar copal series has enjoyed much more modest popularity than its manga source. Newtype listed it as having a japanese television receiver fink of 10.5 for the one-fourth draw of 2000. [ 151 ] The express ‘s viewership was ranked number six among the top ten anime television series in Japan for February 2001. [ 152 ] The series was voted as the 16th best anime of 2000 in the Animage Anime Grand Prix, but rose to one-fourth place the following year. [ 153 ] [ 154 ] In 2001, the staff of the magazine listed Hunter × Hunter as the 94th most important anime of all time. [ 155 ] In a 2006 web poll conducted in Japan by the network television receiver Asahi, the Hunter × Hunter television series was voted 28th best zanzibar copal of all time. [ 156 ] In 2010, Mania.com ‘s Briana Lawrence listed Hunter × Hunter at number nine of the web site ‘s “ 10 Anime Series That Need a Reboot ”. [ 157 ] critical reception for the beginning Hunter × Hunter television adaptation has been generally favorable. Miyako Matsuda of Protoculture Addicts, Carl Kimlinger of the Anime News Network ( ANN ), and Derrick L. Tucker of THEM Anime Reviews all expressed positivist views of the series ‘ narrative and characters. [ 3 ] [ 53 ] [ 158 ] Matsuda admired the adventure-filled earth of Hunter × Hunter and the virtual character qualities of friendship, attempt, and victory inserted by Togashi. [ 3 ] Beginning with the second Viz DVD volume, Kimlinger summarized, “ Togashi ‘s plot is cagey and occasionally insightful and Furuhashi ‘s visuals inventive yet attuned to the measured pace of the series. together they create a shonen action series that is both fun to watch and curiously respectful of its audience ‘s intelligence. A strange combination indeed. ” [ 53 ] Tucker admitted to being “ bewitched ” by the series chiefly due to the noteworthy and original characters, particularly the interplay between the vastly different personalities of the Phantom Troupe members. [ 158 ] Kimlinger gave particular praise to the characteristics of the complex villain Hisoka and the deep, aroused transformation of Kurapika in the latter half of the series. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] [ 53 ] Theron Martin, besides of ANN, contrastingly found the plot of the earliest episodes to be cliché, called the supporter Gon “ an obvious Son Goku derivative ”, and stated that many of the floor ‘s aspects have already been covered by other shōnen series such as Dragon Ball Z a decade earlier. Martin was besides displeased by an allege lack of character growth on the independent protagonists ‘ parts in the initial episodes. [ 11 ] The art and animation of the Hunter × Hunter zanzibar copal have besides been commended by the press. Kimlinger and Tucker were impressed by the art direction of Hunter × Hunter, the former of whom critiquing the adaptation of Togashi ‘s work by Furuhashi as having “ understate energy and dash, making the most of the earned run average ‘s ( 1999 ) mix of traditional and CG vivification to bring Gon and friends ‘ physical feats to fluid, exhilarating life. ” [ 53 ] [ 158 ] Martin faulted both the artwork and the elusive differences in fictional character invention. “ The art not only shows its age but, in fact, looks older than it actually is, ” the commentator commented, “ hearkening back to a day when digital color and CG enhancements were not omnipresent and allowances for a boisterous expect were greater. ” Opinions of the series ‘ healthy and music have been slightly mix. Martin positively noted the soundtrack as the strongest production item of Hunter × Hunter, and was satisfied with both the English translation of the script and Ocean ‘s voice overs. [ 11 ] Tucker found the music satisfactory and improved as the series progressed, but did not think it lived up to its potential. [ 158 ] Kimlinger pleasantly felt the musical score to be allow in most instances, but criticized the English dub as “ a disappointment since day one ”. [ 12 ] [ 13 ]

2011 series [edit ]

Madhouse ‘s 2011 adaptation has been met with near-universal critical acclaim. hadrian Marcano from Inverse considered Hunter x Hunter 2011 to be one of the greatest zanzibar copal serial always. He said that the zanzibar copal set itself apart with one of the greatest floor arc in zanzibar copal history in which the villain, not the bomber, takes the zanzibar copal to instant classical status. He besides said that, “ It is in the 2011 version where we see probably one of the best floor bow in zanzibar copal history : the Chimera Ant Arc. ” [ 159 ] According to Movie News Guide and Latin Post, the Madhouse ‘s 2011 interpretation received more viewers not only in Japan but besides around the worldly concern, particularly in North America. [ 160 ] [ 161 ] Digital Fox Media ‘s Michael Basile of Fox Sports Digital Media praised the animation quality of the new adaptation, “ the animation actually appears to get better and better as the series progresses. The tinge palette can shift from vibrant and inviting to grim and menacing at the drop of a hat, the character designs are unique and appealing, the CG is very minimal, and the action sequences are some of the best that the shonen music genre has always produced, on-par with the best works of Studio Bones. It ‘s about heaven-sent how systematically beautiful this anime is. ” He besides considered it to be “ one of the best zanzibar copal of all prison term. ” [ 162 ] Nick Creamer held similar sentiments, writing “ the show ‘s antic aesthetics elevate it above about everything out there – in management, in fathom design, in pace, in animation, in basically every relevant aesthetic metric unit, Hunter x Hunter wallow. That it ‘s been maintaining this level of timbre for well over a hundred episodes is nothing short circuit of astonishing. ” [ 163 ] In 2019, Polygon named the series as one of the best zanzibar copal of the 2010s, [ 164 ] and Crunchyroll listed it in their “ top 25 best anime of the 2010s ”. [ 165 ] IGN besides listed the Hunter × Hunter 2011 adaptation among the best zanzibar copal series of the 2010s. [ 166 ]

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