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Slight spoilers ahead on the themes in the anime.

What started out as a seemingly regressed, but peaceful, society, turned out to be so much more than that. Every episode presented a dark twist into what happened in their history or what they've been doing behind the scenes to keep a seemingly peaceful society. Methods such like population control, genetic manipulation, brainwashing, selective breeding, and other things to keep everyone as docile sheep.

Definitely very thought provoking and kept me interested from beginning to end.

At first glance Hunter x Hunter seems like the typical shouen anime. Boy with untapped potential, goes on a journey, getting stronger in battles, etc, etc.

What sets this apart from most shouen battle anime is the amount of strategizing they do in these fights. It's not the typical fight between two alpha males relying on the next power up to win the fight. In fact, almost none of the fights in the series were between two evenly matched foes. Almost every time, they head into a fight where they're heavily outmatched and it's only through strategies and ... traps do they complete their objectives.

And the story, the arcs are quite varied. Some more entertaining than others. But some of them are very emotional. Some will make you question which side is really the right side. This is not the bright shiny shouen as it seems at first, and present some dark heavy themes in it as it goes along.

Anyways, overall this was a wonderful experience!