Hunter x Hunter

*Spoiler free review from someone who has no knowledge of the old series or manga*

A lot of people when they watch the first episode will probably think this show is sort of silly, kiddish and be put off from watching it right from the start. I know I was..

Had it not been for the people giving it 5 stars I would have never considered pressing on. By episode 5 you should have at least seen enough to be able to make a semi-clear decision on whether this anime is good or not for you. But in my opinion that wouldn't be doing justice for what this show deserves.

As of now I am on episode 41 and had just watched episode 1 five days ago. The episodes get super intense and are often always very entertaining. It's been too good for me to take a break from watching. It would be a shame for anyone to pass this up especially if you only watched the first episode. Keep watching and I'm sure most of you who denied it will be easily won over

This is my all time favorite series. What makes this show is the well defined and very different characters. The great relationship between Gon and Killua is sort of heart warming. It is also great how Gon is so excited about his adventures, often times characters in this type of show are either unenthusiastic or down right unhappy.

On the negative side, this adaptation STILL messes things up from the manga. Important characters aren't introduced when they should be (or at all thus far), some things are changed and/or shortened to make the show catch faster or maybe for no reason at all. Even though we still have a lot of material to cover from the manga I'm afraid the frequent hiatuses will mean we catch up before the manga has a real ending.

This anime has it ALL!
Animation, characters, humor, action and most of all a good story line.
I've heard a lot of bad feed backs on the manga and wasn't impressed by the original Hunter Hunter anime, but this version is to die for. It might seem that the anime is rushed compared to the original, but it follows through the manga perfectly.
Each character have their own personality and background which allows the viewers to have a poll on their favorite. The animation is simply gorgeous in high definition, I can't thank Crunchy any more

Think of everyone Lvling up and getting more experienced with their skills, (I refer to it that way because I play MMO's) this anime is completely immersive for someone like me.
I was pulled in from the start surprisingly... I'm quite picky and the Title I'm still not a fan of and veered me away but I could not be more happy that i gave this anime a chance, its in my top 10 at the least and the characters are AMAZING..story-AMAZING, action, detail, bonds with characters, AMAZING. Grade A 10+

I have heard of this series but never before have seen the original anime nor have read the manga. I wasn't too excited at first but I am very happy I stuck with it! The characters are ones you soon start to know and the story is so fascinating and seems like it could go on forever. Because of all of this I decided to start purchasing the manga! This is definitively one of the better shows that I've seen!

HunterxHunter was always one of my favorite Manga. The anime, circa 1999, not so much. It suffered from cheap animation and lackluster voice acting. The new series fixes these problems. The animation is fluid and crisp. The fighting scenes are fun, if a little repetitive at times. The story is handled in a much better manner, less important scenes are cut in favor of some of the integral ones that were left out in the original. This was an instant fave for me, and I'm still loving it after 9 months.

This was my favourite anime when growing up, on par with Dragonball. It is one of those animes that you know helped spawnother action, fighting, fantasy and 'powers' in Anime.

Nen, was a great instrument to the series and the different variations of it, we can already see this as 'Reiatsu in Bleach', 'Chakra in Naruto' etc. Remember that Hunter X Hunter was before these! The manga was great, but the original did have many fillers in it and some variations were changed that were not in the manga; but this remake is following the original story line which excites me for a few reasons which I will list below.

As some of us know, the author suffered from some ailments and stopped the manga near the end of the 'Ant Arc' and the quality was diminishing. The anime also stopped at the end of 'Greed Island' where Gon and Killua were showing that they may have what it takes to rival that of the spiders and other top hunters. I am very happy that this series was picked up, by the original author and the manga was continued in a good quality to a good extent.

Also, because the new anime is far behind the manga, there is no need to have long filler arcs which can irritate some people (we all know how Naruto had WHOLE SERIES of fillers which was irritating at times) and it is sticking to the original manga, to the point where the moves, specific frames and even words are being re-used.

A great example of this could be seen in the 'Gon Vs Hisoka fight in Celestial Tower', where the new anime follows the manga 'word for word' and 'move for move', where the origianal anime did not, I could use the 'schwing and speech' before they fight as an example of this.

Overall this is very promising and with the 'Ant Arc' finished in the Manga, and from the looks of it with another hiauts, another arc is still to come which is could see this new Anime last at least another 4 seasons if not more. This also gives the Author time to let the new Anime catch up to the Manga and not let the new Manga slip in quality.

In a world where people shelve television shows on "cliff-hangers-never-to-be-seen-again" (which is a huge dissapointment) we can rest assured that this terrific anime has not fallen into this trend and that the author truly wants to finish this in fine form and give his fans the quality that this story has to offer.

I highly recommend any anime fan to watch and support this series, if you loved the manga (which was one of Japans best sellers for many, many years) then you will love this anime; no questions asked!