(CR) Hunter X Hunter Anime (2011)

[ookamigirl]

Lots and lots of flashbacks at first.
These were pretty enjoyable too.
A short summary of Gon's greatest hits!
So he's off to a new adventure.
Finally, he met his dad.
Ging opened up a bit too... finally more info about him.
He truly is an adventurist through and through.
Family is family, but heart wants what is wants... in this case adventure.
Still, some quality time with dad was nice.
Awesome final episode. Well rounded up!
Gonna miss this anime..

[Archon_Wing]

Man this last episode is awesome. I hope to write such an epic post on it... but it'll take some time; most likely somewhere before the next hxh series starts.

[AnimeFan188]

With people coming back as Chimera Ants, questions arise, such as:

Are they humans reincarnated as Chimera ants, or Chimera Ants with memories of
people who've been consumed by the queen?

Will we see other Chimera Ant victims like Pokkle or Ponzu come back as Chimera
Ants?

What's going to become of those cocooned humans that the Hunter Association
spirited away from East Gorteau?

[noktown]

Originally Posted by SHINOBI-03

-EPISODE 148 & FINAL-

Spoiler for part 1:

Manga: Second third of 338, 339

It's the final episode, guys and gals. Shall we end it?

Episode does not start with Departure. It seems to be typical nowadays to not include the opening song in the final episode to have more time for its content.

Spoiler for Whale Island:

First sequence is a little trip to Whale Island looking back at some of the first locations we saw in the series along with some previous narrative from way back.


And it all goes back to the night before the trio's trip to the World Tree.

---

Spoiler for Climbing the World Tree:

We see a glimpse on the tree climbing with Gon having some flashbacks

Everything until now was filler

Togashi dog is not in the manga, but nice to have him in the final episode.



The emergency button is on Gon's wrist instead of his neck like in the manga



Nice view



Rescue operation

---

Spoiler for At the top:

Oh my God it's Elizabeth's family!!



And Ging is here as well. Good thing he actually stayed there and not troll his son again.




Gon doesn't know the concept of "indirect kiss"... does he...?!

Top of the world

----

Spoiler for part 2:

Spoiler for The next step:

Damn! I wish my pet birds were this obedient!

The real World Tree



The world outside



The records




Elizabeth's mom

---

Spoiler for The rest, is silence:

Apart of the first two pages, chapter 339 was mostly a silent one. No dialogue was used and it was only visuals and nothing else. Too bad it wasn't completely silent otherwise it'd be perfect.

The anime, didn't keep it that way... at first the dialogue was loud and clear, but slowly it got lower till you only hear the music.



One peaceful family


After the scene with the two, we see how's everyone else is doing, along with Departure as an insert song!

First we have Mito getting her mail. The postman looks older and fatter than the one seen in the manga...!



Then we have Knov and Morel settling their old bet from episode 88, and Morel buys an expensive bottle of champagne and drink in Netero's memory



Reminder


The invasion team



Killua and Alluka



Leorio



Kurapika is still the same as he was in episode 140, although this time he got some eyes





The Zoldyck mansion where we see the butlers mourn Gotoh. But wait, he's alive?! How's that?!!



Oh, it's one of those shapeshifters we saw earlier in the series taking his place. Well at least with Killua away they have the time to teach him everything he needs to be exactly like Gotoh.



Then we go to the palace, and we see Meruem and Komugi together, even after death.



Now you've probably noticed everybody was staring at their computer and phones, right? So what were they watching? A live broadcast of migrating birds. And as you can see, Gon chose to go with Kite instead of his dad.






Four hunters. Four sides.


And we end it with this quote from Ging

----------------------------

This was an appropriate finale. Even as manga fans we knew there was no better place to end it. And Madhouse kept its charm till the last second.

9/10

As always, let's look back at this arc and see what were the best and worst episodes. Though I don't like to use "worst", but let's say "least best" episodes:


147: 9
148: 9
138: 8.5
140: 8.5
143: 8.5
137: 8
139: 8
142: 8
145: 8
146: 8
141: 7.5
144: 7

So the finale episodes were the best of the whole arc. It was short, but it still had it's fun.

------

And so, we finally reached our end point. We all saw it coming, we knew it was inevitable, but the day has come to say good bye to one of the best shonen anime ever made.

For three years, we lived through a lot. A bumpy start, censorship, low expectations from the old anime fans, wars, timeslot changes, and all kind of speculations on how the next episode will turn out to be. And no matter what you say, we were all Hunter x Hunter fans and we all love the same thing.

Special thanks to the following:

- Toto y Moi/Popo for inspiring me to take up the duty.
- majinjeb for helping me complete my manga collection.
- TM Ferguson for helping me buying the manga provided by majinjeb
- All the haters. Without them I would never have the drive to start all this and keeping it to this day
- All of you who kept reading my weekly posts, supported me and corrected me whenever I made a mistake, and over all enjoyed what I had. I thank you all.

But most importantly, Madhouse and its amazing staff for giving us such an amazing work, Viz Media for licensing it and allow me to have it in my library, and to the man, the myth, the legend: Yoshihiro Togashi. Without him, we would never be here talking about his amazing series.

Live long, and love life

Can I take my long awaited vacation now?

Thank you for these comparisons throughout the series I was looking forward to them each week as I was looking forward to HxH episodes.

[Gaulek]

Originally Posted by AnimeFan188

With people coming back as Chimera Ants, questions arise, such as:

Are they humans reincarnated as Chimera ants, or Chimera Ants with memories of
people who've been consumed by the queen?

Will we see other Chimera Ant victims like Pokkle or Ponzu come back as Chimera
Ants?

What's going to become of those cocooned humans that the Hunter Association
spirited away from East Gorteau?

About those cocooned

Spoiler for Mangas:

Pariston has them and has plans for those ants

Ponzu wasn't eat by the Queen but by an soldier ant.

[revive4563]

Originally Posted by SHINOBI-03

-EPISODE 148 & FINAL-

Spoiler for part 1:

Manga: Second third of 338, 339

It's the final episode, guys and gals. Shall we end it?

Episode does not start with Departure. It seems to be typical nowadays to not include the opening song in the final episode to have more time for its content.

Spoiler for Whale Island:

First sequence is a little trip to Whale Island looking back at some of the first locations we saw in the series along with some previous narrative from way back.


And it all goes back to the night before the trio's trip to the World Tree.

---

Spoiler for Climbing the World Tree:

We see a glimpse on the tree climbing with Gon having some flashbacks

Everything until now was filler

Togashi dog is not in the manga, but nice to have him in the final episode.



The emergency button is on Gon's wrist instead of his neck like in the manga



Nice view



Rescue operation

---

Spoiler for At the top:

Oh my God it's Elizabeth's family!!



And Ging is here as well. Good thing he actually stayed there and not troll his son again.




Gon doesn't know the concept of "indirect kiss"... does he...?!

Top of the world

----

Spoiler for part 2:

Spoiler for The next step:

Damn! I wish my pet birds were this obedient!

The real World Tree



The world outside



The records




Elizabeth's mom

---

Spoiler for The rest, is silence:

Apart of the first two pages, chapter 339 was mostly a silent one. No dialogue was used and it was only visuals and nothing else. Too bad it wasn't completely silent otherwise it'd be perfect.

The anime, didn't keep it that way... at first the dialogue was loud and clear, but slowly it got lower till you only hear the music.



One peaceful family


After the scene with the two, we see how's everyone else is doing, along with Departure as an insert song!

First we have Mito getting her mail. The postman looks older and fatter than the one seen in the manga...!



Then we have Knov and Morel settling their old bet from episode 88, and Morel buys an expensive bottle of champagne and drink in Netero's memory



Reminder


The invasion team



Killua and Alluka



Leorio



Kurapika is still the same as he was in episode 140, although this time he got some eyes





The Zoldyck mansion where we see the butlers mourn Gotoh. But wait, he's alive?! How's that?!!



Oh, it's one of those shapeshifters we saw earlier in the series taking his place. Well at least with Killua away they have the time to teach him everything he needs to be exactly like Gotoh.



Then we go to the palace, and we see Meruem and Komugi together, even after death.



Now you've probably noticed everybody was staring at their computer and phones, right? So what were they watching? A live broadcast of migrating birds. And as you can see, Gon chose to go with Kite instead of his dad.






Four hunters. Four sides.


And we end it with this quote from Ging

----------------------------

This was an appropriate finale. Even as manga fans we knew there was no better place to end it. And Madhouse kept its charm till the last second.

9/10

As always, let's look back at this arc and see what were the best and worst episodes. Though I don't like to use "worst", but let's say "least best" episodes:


147: 9
148: 9
138: 8.5
140: 8.5
143: 8.5
137: 8
139: 8
142: 8
145: 8
146: 8
141: 7.5
144: 7

So the finale episodes were the best of the whole arc. It was short, but it still had it's fun.

------

And so, we finally reached our end point. We all saw it coming, we knew it was inevitable, but the day has come to say good bye to one of the best shonen anime ever made.

For three years, we lived through a lot. A bumpy start, censorship, low expectations from the old anime fans, wars, timeslot changes, and all kind of speculations on how the next episode will turn out to be. And no matter what you say, we were all Hunter x Hunter fans and we all love the same thing.

Special thanks to the following:

- Toto y Moi/Popo for inspiring me to take up the duty.
- majinjeb for helping me complete my manga collection.
- TM Ferguson for helping me buying the manga provided by majinjeb
- All the haters. Without them I would never have the drive to start all this and keeping it to this day
- All of you who kept reading my weekly posts, supported me and corrected me whenever I made a mistake, and over all enjoyed what I had. I thank you all.

But most importantly, Madhouse and its amazing staff for giving us such an amazing work, Viz Media for licensing it and allow me to have it in my library, and to the man, the myth, the legend: Yoshihiro Togashi. Without him, we would never be here talking about his amazing series.

Live long, and love life

Can I take my long awaited vacation now?

btw this is the longest post in AnimeSuki I've ever seen.

[RoboMambo]

Those were some three years. This was great ending point. It feels like an actual ending despite the story going on.

This last arc, the half about th elections was one of my favorite parts. This arc made me realise that as much as I like Gon and Killua, I liked HxH the most when other characters take the spotlight. Pariston and Hisoka for best characters.

I feel unexpectedly apathetic now that it's over, but it's probably because the last episodes where essentially an epilogue.

Two things about this episode: Ging sounds like and ancient astronaut theorist. And parasyte plug.

[Haak]

You know, there's this long standing issue I've had with HunterxHunter in that I always felt like it lacked an overall story. It started off straightforwardly enough as Gon looking for his father, but as the series went on that aspect took on an incredibly minor role in favour of some random adventures that sometimes flowed and sometimes didn't (e.g. random monster invasion). It all seemed like it was lacking a fundamental structure in its storyline and I could never quite understand what the story was really all about. I was tempted to come to the conclusion that "random adventures" was really what it was but that seemed weird to me and lacking in real meaning.

But now this episode has alleviated that problem for me. Gings advice about enjoying the journey more than the end result made me realise that there really is meaning behind just having "random adventures" that I never appreciated until now. If you think about it, this really is the best ending possible that has accurately summed up what HunterxHunter is all about in a satisfying way.

My only (minor) complaints were that it kinda played up the "hunting Ging" plotline despite the fact that Gon never actually achieved that and the questionableness (is that word?) of hiding Gotou's death in such a manner (I suppose Togashi probably wanted to avoid the effect it would have on Killua and how it undermined his achievements).

As for Ging being a lousy father...well yeah he kinda is; there's no getting round that. But Gon never actually calls Ging "dad" or anything like that so I don't think Gon really sees him as a father anyway and I think Ging accepts the fact that he has no right to that role. They've seemed to have fallen into a student-mentor role and both appear to accept that relationship, so as long as they're both happy I guess there's nothing to complain about.

Individual arc scores:

Spoiler for scores:

Hunter Exam arc: 7.5/10
Zoldyck Family arc: 7.5/10
Heavens Arena arc: 7.9/10
Yorknew City arc: 8.0/10
Greed Island arc: 7.8/10
Chimera Ant arc: 8.5/10
Election arc: 7.7/10

Overall score: 8.7/10

[Funkatron]

Is it spoilery to ask why Gotoh was replaced by that shapeshifting fox dude from the Hunter Exam?

[Guardian Enzo]

Originally Posted by Funkatron

Is it spoilery to ask why Gotoh was replaced by that shapeshifting fox dude from the Hunter Exam?

I think the episode makes it pretty clear via Amane's thought bubble that it's to keep Killua from finding out Gotoh died and blaming himself.

[SHINOBI-03]

Here's a question proposed in another forum: what was your favorite arc in the anime?

Ignoring the Chimera Ants arc which I'm pretty sure will dominate the answers, my favorite arc believe it or not is Greed Island. As an adventure as a whole, I had more fun with it more than any other arc in the series and I liked how the anime adapted it and made me get and realize stuff I didn't before and I liked Genthru here more so than in the manga in which he didn't impress me that much.

[Student no.0]

Originally Posted by Guardian Enzo

I think the episode makes it pretty clear via Amane's thought bubble that it's to keep Killua from finding out Gotoh died and blaming himself.

Wouldn't Hisoka be really screwed over though once Killua finds out? Think about it:
Something, bring me the person that killed Gotoh. Something, kill the person that killed Gotoh.

Originally Posted by SHINOBI-03

Here's a question proposed in another forum: what was your favorite arc in the anime?

Ignoring the Chimera Ants arc which I'm pretty sure will dominate the answers, my favorite arc believe it or not is Greed Island. As an adventure as a whole, I had more fun with it more than any other arc in the series and I liked how the anime adapted it and made me get and realize stuff I didn't before and I liked Genthru here more so than in the manga in which he didn't impress me that much.

As epic as Chimera Ant was, Greed Island was my personal favorite too.

Awesome finale, wouldn't want it any other way.

Oh and btw I have an example of Transmuters affecting foreign objects not related to their own Nen. Remember when Hisoka was first introduced and some guy bumped into him? He turned both his arms into pixie dust.

[Anh_Minh]

Greed Island.

I think Chimera was my least favorite, actually.

[RoboMambo]

Mine is Yorkshin. Kurapika worked great as protagonist, it had intrigue, and the Genei Ryodan were one of my favorite antagonists, right up the with Meruem and the royal guard. And it has Hisoka.

The rest of the arcs I'd rate (best to worst): election-chimera ant-Greed Island-Heavens Arena-Hunter test

Mentioning Hisoka, it's kind of a shame that so far we still haven't had a chance to see him fighting someone on his level.

[MCAL]

Well if we really can't count Chimera, which is pretty much beating every arc in the MAL polls (I guess people like their intelligence to be insulted with Narration) then Yorkshin for sure.

[Dextro]

Originally Posted by Anh_Minh

Greed Island.

I think Chimera was my least favorite, actually.

This.

I personally found that the Chimera Ant arc overstayed its welcome and brought far too many unexplained plot devices to the table. I think that from the moment that the King enters the equation the entire arc begins to suffer. He was just far too powerful of an enemy and that brought certain undesirable qualities to the narrative in my opinion.

But, while Greed Island is my favourite arc, I'll have to add that my favourite scene is the Gon x Hisoka fight during the Heavens Arena arc. That fight was brilliant in oh so many ways.

[Guardian Enzo]

Chimera is certainly number one for me, with Heaven's Arena second.

[Maxulous]

Heaven's Arena>Hunter Exam>Yorknew City>Chimera Ant≈Chairman Election>Zoldyck Family>>>G.I

[Cloudedmind]

Yorknew City, Chimera Ant, Chairman's Election, Heaven's Arena, Greed Island, and then Hunter Exam.

[Blaat]

Yorkshin is by far my favourite arc not sure what I would put as second. Arena, Greed and Ant are definitely my bottom three arcs.