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I’ll preface this by saying comedy is subjective and you can like whatever you like. Maybe I’m just a low iq idiot who can’t understand the deep themes in pop team epic. Who knows?

This show was fun for about 1 episode, 2 at max. In the beggining it was kind of like ”haha this is funny because it’s shitposting and that’s not common for anime. Anime of the year amirite LUL.” But then you realize you’re a fucking retard.
In my mind, this show is built upon three things. Cool gamer references, random=funny humour and 4th wall breaking. The easiest thing to throw shit at ... is the random=funny aspect so I’ll start with that. Unless you’re still in the 4th grade you won’t find this funny. That’s just how it is. After you’ve experienced it one time it’s purely annoying.
And the cool gamer references are just that. Gamer references. They don’t do anything with it they just put popuko and pipimi in a videogame. Ansolutely hysterical.
I’ll admit though, I did enjoy some of the references but that’s mostly because they were unexpected. And in general, I really like references to other things in media. Just not when it is used in the same way over and over again while also not doing much with it.
And the fourth wall breaking (apart from hellshake yano) wasn’t good at all either. It was pretty much also just ”random=funny”. I found the reoccuring french thing especially annoying as every single one of those segments were deadass boring.
Art for the show was alright and I did like the bob epic team segments quite a bit cause I’m a fan of wonky artstyles.
Sound was also pretty alright I guess. There are 2 different dubs which give of different vibes so maybe some people will like that. And if you don’t like it you can just skip one.
And I would be negative towards how the episodes are so short or whatever but it is a 4 panel manga and it really doesn’t need to be longer.

Overall, this show sucks, don’t watch it unless you’re, as I said, in the 4th grade or lower. Or if you want to hurt yourself idk.

I am very very far from being some sort of anime reviewer or veteran, and you can tell by my list, but I just wanted to write something about this show since I think it's very great. Mostly writing for myself so keep that in mind.

For me, this show touched me on a deeply personal level and emotionally. There's barely any filler (2 recaps) but the show still manages to go 148 episodes strong with just the story. And let me tell you, the story is awesome, but I will not write too much about what the story is here since you have the mal ... synopsis close at hand. Rather I will write about what I liked and what I disliked (pretty much nothing).

The arcs the story goes through are all really fleshed out and bring a very big cast of completely new characters, which all get a whole lot of development, and also some of the old characters that are there for one reason or another. All of the arcs felt very well paced and most of all extremely interesting. There was not one arc I didn't enjoy massively, they were all freaking amazing.
The story also isn't just about Gon pursuing his dad the whole way through, It's more about friendship and the connections the characters make with each other. They go a long way to help each other out.

As I said before, the characters are all very fleshed out, but most of all they're all unique and creative. No character is even remotely the same as another. How one author could come up with such an ultra wide assortment of super creative characters with different personalities and different goals I can not understand. He's an absolute genius in my mind, since if you've ever tried writing a decently long story yourself, or just read/watch a lot of pretty long going stories, you'll know how important variety is.

The two main characters that consistently appear throughout the story are the real nails that holds it all together though. Their friendship, their goals and their reasons never seized to entertain me and the whole way through there was always something new to learn about them that they also learnt about each other. Their backstories, up growing and family are pretty much polar opposites, which also makes it all very interesting.

As of writing this, I've ordered the first 5 volumes of the manga, and will definitely read it all and keep up with it (even though it's always on hiatus from what I've heard), but since the manga is not finished the anime had to have an anime original ending. Now, again, I'm no sort of anime veteran CLEARLY, but from what I've read, watched and heard anime original endings aren't the most beloved thing, and for good reason. The anime original endings aren't what the manga author intended and sometimes the anime original endings just suck ass. My strongest experience with this is fullmetal alchemist since I watched brotherhood and read the manga before watching the 2003 anime. When the 2003 anime aired the manga wasn't done and they made an anime original ending that those of you who have seen all know how that turned out. Pretty terrible depending on who you ask.
Luckily however, the anime original ending for hunter x hunter 2011 is very very good. It didn't feel unnatural or bad at all, the story made for it right there in the end was very satisfying to me. Now since I haven't read the manga, I have no idea how the are that is the end of the anime works there, maybe the manga doesn't even have the 13th chairman election, I have no idea. All I know is that the end to the anime fits right in perfectly.

For me this anime ties as my all time favorite with fullmetal alchemist brotherhood. I reaaaaally like these kinds of long shouldn't adventures that I can just get sucked into. And that also can keep the quality up. Hunter x hunter is 148 episodes and if you haven't watched it, trust me you won't regret it. It's all a blessing.

Only thing I think could've been better or is "bad" is that I wish it was longer. 148 is a lot of episodes, but this story definitely isn't completed yet. There are some plot points that I didn't feel were quite tied together yet (includes a certain hisoka) but I'm pretty sure they already happened in the manga or are about to. It's also extremely bad that the author of the manga is sick and can't write as much as both we and he would've liked. That's what puts the manga on hiatus and of course it just sucks that he's sick in general. My best wishes go out to him, hope he gets better.

But if we somehow ever get more of the hunter x hunter anime I will be the happiest boy alive.


I give it 10/10, go watch it, it's awesome!