Hunter x Hunter sucks.

[Char Aznable]

People kept saying that this is the best anime out there, and after looking into it I saw was made by the same guy who made Yu Yu Hakusho, which is actually one of my favorites. I also heard the anime was made by the same people who did One Punch Man. So I figured this has to be good, and tried to watch it. I gotta say though, it seems very boring, generic, and juvenile.

No, I'm not going to watch X amount of episodes waiting for it to "get good." If they can't hook me in the first few episodes then really they failed to accomplish what an anime is supposed to do. The characters are just so bland and shallow. After watching two episodes and glancing at the wiki anyone could summarize them perfectly.

Leorio is the stereotypical anti-hero motivated by greed.

Kurapika is the "my clan got murdered so I want revenge" guy. In other words, blonde Sasuke.

Killua is a Gary-Stu assassin. Started training at 3, entered a tournament at 6. Come on. Putting kill in his name makes it even worse. Reminds me of anime like "Kill la Kill" that try to be all dark and edgy but mostly only appeal to dorky 14 year old girls.

As for Gon, he should just become a meteorologist. The only interesting thing about him in the first couple of episodes is that he predicts the weather. Big deal, I can do that with my arthritis. Then for some reason when Leorio and Kurapika are about to get into a fight, which in this anime I guess just means glare angrily at each other and spout angry remarks, Gon talks down to the old sea captain trying to act all wise and stuff. It would have been a lot more believable to have the old sea captain use that line, it felt forced and out of place to have a 10 year old kid spouting words of wisdom to someone much older and more experienced than him.

Hunter x Hunter is a battle shounen with very few battles, and the few it does have are terrible. Fans excuse this as focusing on story and dialogue, only those consist entirely of tropes and stereotypes which are common in other anime, and often done better.

Protagonist seeking father? Fuu from Samurai Champloo does this better.

Protagonist seeking money? Cowboy Bebop.

Protagonist seeking revenge? Sasuke.

Protagonist who is an assassin with a dark past? Kiritsugu from Fate Zero does this without being a Gary Stu.

I mean they might as well throw in Liam Neeson and let him rescue his kidnapped daughter again since they're going with the theme of overused tropes. I hate to say it, but this show is probably objectively worse than Bleach, which is sad considering how much I loved Yu Yu Hakusho. How people can rip on shows like Sword Art Online, Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash, or One Punch Man, then praise garbage like Hunter x Hunter and Fairy Tail is beyond me. I guess weebs just have bad taste.

[Johari]

I thought this was going to be about half life R34.

[Char Aznable]

Originally posted by Dragovich:

I thought this was going to be about half life R34.

Sorry for the confusion.

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you have to wade though a ton of rubbish to find decent anime currently watching Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress just to see if it's any good...so far nothing beats the violence of 90's Manga

[Char Aznable]

Originally posted by Evil Doctor Porkchop:

you have to wade though a ton of rubbish to find decent anime currently watching Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress just to see if it's any good...so far nothing beats the violence of 90's Manga

Violence doesn't necessarily make a good anime, in fact I think it sort of cheapens it if you have buckets of blood spraying every time someone gets a paper cut. Toriko has no blood at all, even when the main character gets his arm chopped off, but I still found it watchable. No amount of blood would do that for Hunter x Hunter though, the characters are just so lame that even watching them bleed out would be boring.

[bermuda]

acientmithraidragon uses controversy


IT'S SUPER EFFECTIVE.

[waki]

Fully understand really, I can't get into Naruto because it couldn't reel me in early on either. Usually happens when someone over hypes something :p

[Orbital Føroysk 🪐]

Oh, this is about anime?

I see. Thought it was game related.

[tekbar11]

Agreed. All the today's animes feel like Naruto remakes.

[Danksama]

Originally posted by Cold_Blue:

Agreed. All the today's animes feel like Naruto remakes.

Depends on the genre

[Ice Cream]

Originally posted by ancientmithraldragon:

I have bad taste in anime so I bash on the rare good ones out there now.

[tekbar11]

Originally posted by Danksama:

Originally posted by Cold_Blue:

Agreed. All the today's animes feel like Naruto remakes.

Depends on the genre

You mean hentai ? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[Danksama]

Originally posted by Cold_Blue:

Originally posted by Danksama:

Depends on the genre

You mean hentai ? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Sure thing bby whatever u want

[Char Aznable]

Originally posted by P-Town Hero:

Originally posted by ancientmithraldragon:

I have bad taste in anime so I bash on the rare good ones out there now.

Nothing is good about Hunter x Hunter. I dare you to try and name something good about it so I can tear you a new blowhole you freaking dung eater.

[Orbital Føroysk 🪐]

Only anime I've seen is Sengoku BASARA. It was pretty good, but the games are better.

3rd season was crap though. The film was alright.

[Char Aznable]

Originally posted by Cold_Blue:

Agreed. All the today's animes feel like Naruto remakes.

I hate Naruto but even the characters I hate most in Naruto are better than any of the characters in Hunter x Hunter. Take Sasuke for instance, he's a whiny, Gary-Stu, emo bish, but I like him better than any character in Hunter x Hunter. That's pretty bad.