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This review contains spoilers.


Words cannot describe my disbelief and confusion about the high ratings for this show. I don't even know where to start. Almost everything is flawed in some way or another. Characters have no real development. The pacing is incredibly fast throughout the series, but for some reason grinds to a halt in the last season. Many of the actions taken by the characters have no consequences. The show doesn't know what it wants to be, constantly changing every arc. The ki/chakura/magic/"nen" system is perplexing and always bends to the writer's will.and the plot armour is just atrocious. I'm not sure how much ... detail I can get into without having the review removed.
For some reason, with all these problems, people will pull the Rick and Morty reddit tier defenses of it being too deep.


Now that the text is under the "read more", we can talk about spoilers freely.
For starters, gon is an incredibly annoying MC. He has no charm or any redeemable qualities besides being 12. His plot armour is absurd. From the very start, you see him capture a fish 10 times his size without any of that physical power being explained in anyway. Then he manages to lose a million times with none of those losses mattering or having any impact on him because of... reasons. In a span of months, he and Killua managed to become two of the strongest in the whole world by doing something everyone was doing. But they're better because they're a "one in a billion case." Yea, how convenient. Compare and contrast the powering up of Gon to an MC like Luffy and Goku. One of them spent 10 years in the jungles before going on his adventure and the other constantly had to train and fight harder and harder opponents to get where he is. Gon and Killua on the other hand just hit the genetic lottery by having the strongest hunters be their parents.

The second thing I want to talk about is the ki/magic system. at first glance it looks very deep and thoughtful untill you look a bit into it and realize its literally just "think of something and put your focus into it and boom it will happen!" its the same as every other battle shonen. Pretending that its a revolutionary power system is just sheepish. More importantly, what even is the point of having a "good magic system" when the fights suck? Its like bragging about having boxing gloves while not having hands. Like yea cool gloves bro! Hope you can actually use them after your 100th hiatus!!!

Thirdly, there are a lot of inconsistencies and plotholes that simply don't make sense. How did the eggs of chimera ants get there before the nen users were devoured? How did ants gain such nen in short time despite it said that the ants have qualities of humans they originated from including the nen? Why was there such a diversity in ants despite it shown that the queen only ate humans for nearly second half of her existence? Why was gon let to live after breaking the deal that would destroy him and his nen? And bla blah blah.

Lastly, chimera ant arc as a whole. Why is it considered such a masterpiece or the "greatest arc in all of anime" when it's actually the worst in the show itself? The narration sucked and none of it mattered in any way, shape or form since the plot proceeds forward even when something big happens because the plot said so. Are Gon and Killua failing the training? Nah, let them go fight the ants anyway. Kite is shown for less than 2 eps, but we should understand that we will sacrifice everything for him. Yep, Totally understandable. Meruem being alive for less then 3 weeks yet we should actually give one that he changed his mind from "I want to kill all humans" to "i want to kill humans but keep some"? Amazing character development. kite at the end being alive and in the process making gons "sacrifice" pointless? Great! Can't have anything but a Happy ending. "But he's iconic" yea so is the jar man yet you don't see anyone saying the jar man had great character development and was one of the best e celebs. Not to mention the way he went out lmfao. Because of a nuclear bomb that was in the heart of some boomer LMAO.
This is taking too long so Lastly what might be the worst part of the whole show is how the main goal of gon was meeting his dad but that was thrown out of 20th floor window after the dude just came out of no where and was like "yo" like why even do all of that if the meeting will just be like that? "But you don't get it you have to wait 100 other years for a new chapter because story gets better!!" Im thankful this terrible show is in a hiatus. Hope this hiatus never ends. Its an insult to anime to place this at anything beyond a 5/10. And insult to all shonens