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Title: Hunter x Hunter
Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Shounen
Author: Yoshihiro Togashi
Artist: Yoshihiro Togashi
Publication: Shonen Jump
Start Date: 1998
End Date: On-going but on a hiatus, again
Number of chapters at review: 261
Number of chapters read by reviewer: 261
General Overview: Gon wants to be a hunter so that he may follow in his fathers footsteps, and decides to set out on a quest to become a hunter and to eventually find his father. His quest will take him around the world meeting new people and stuff, and he ends up fighting a lot, and i really start to hate his character later.
Category Ratings: (1-10 scale)
Theres going to be two ratings, 1st arc & 2nd, then everything after first arc.
Art: 8 , 3
Wow i really liked this manga when i started reading it, i got into for the reason that my younger brother was watching the anime so i was well that's cool. The art starts off very detailed with good attention to detail nothing bad at all, very well executed. A little later on some white backgrounds less detail but nothing to worsen the characters.
2nd arc looks great too, starts to falter a bit here and there with empty backgrounds, more of a here's the situation now lets plug in the people, but for some reason, every once in awhile it gets better so it was all bad considering 2nd arc was my favorite, 3rd arc and later, suck donkey balls, it isn't even art then, its just sketches characters start to lose defining features, backgrounds die off, layers? what's that?
Plot: 8 , 5
Yay i like this plot, its pretty cool in fact it reminds me of the game 'Arc the lad' if anyone knows about it. It progresses in a nice fashion too. Not any big plot twists though nothing to make u go holy smokes, but something u could see coming even if u didn't know how the author did it, you would be a bit more like wtf, that's a horrible reason to explain how that happened... It further adds new challenges for the characters in the series by making them learn new things so they can be on par with other hunters.
The current arc that their in and the one before that suck. You can tell the author has run out of things to do, because nothing is making much sense any more, at this stage, in the mind of the reader is acceptable to say that gon and his friend are top tier hunters and the series should end but its not going to... The arc before this one though i must admit had a cool thing going on by using a "card system" but then it got old.
Characters: 6 , 6
Its the same thing it never changes for both versions, characters are great and memorable, nicely drawn and very different from each other. Different skill sets and all, they even have their own backgrounds to further flesh them out. Then that's where the problem is, you just spent 3 chapters reading about someone, u never see them again.... They are so important to the story, but they never come back, or they die really fast, I don't know what its but characters come and go faster than anything I've seen in any manga. The author makes a point to try to make every person encountered a memorable character that is going to be significant only to be never seen from again... i don't like it at all
Themes: 9 , 9
Same shounen themes as is replicated in every other one friendship, trying hard, putting your mind to work, its what you would expect nothing new but then again thankfully he doesn't screw this up at all he executes it in a good fashion
Originality: 9 , 5
The main idea behind the first two arcs were great, the fashion in which they were performed was run-of-the-mill to be exact but it was nice and enjoyable.
the latter was a bit more on the side of, are u serious? This bites donkey balls, because for its drawn out, and very long, longer than it should be, 3rd arc was pretty original actually but i know its been done before and in a better fashion, current is just the end of the series kind of thing, more like lets milk this sucker.
Overall: 8, 2
To be honest for your own good, just imagine the manga ends after the second arc, its not worth read afterwards, it starts to become really pointless and exaggerated.
I'm going to re-do this
Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Shounen
Author: Yoshihiro Togashi
Artist: Yoshihiro Togashi
Publication: Shonen Jump
Start Date: 1998
End Date: On-going but on a hiatus, again
Number of chapters at review: 261
Number of chapters read by reviewer: 261
General Overview: Gon wants to be a hunter so that he may follow in his fathers footsteps, and decides to set out on a quest to become a hunter and to eventually find his father. His quest will take him around the world meeting new people and stuff, and he ends up fighting a lot, and i really start to hate his character later.
Category Ratings: (1-10 scale)
Theres going to be two ratings, 1st arc & 2nd, then everything after first arc.
Art: 8 , 3
Wow i really liked this manga when i started reading it, i got into for the reason that my younger brother was watching the anime so i was well that's cool. The art starts off very detailed with good attention to detail nothing bad at all, very well executed. A little later on some white backgrounds less detail but nothing to worsen the characters.
2nd arc looks great too, starts to falter a bit here and there with empty backgrounds, more of a here's the situation now lets plug in the people, but for some reason, every once in awhile it gets better so it was all bad considering 2nd arc was my favorite, 3rd arc and later, suck donkey balls, it isn't even art then, its just sketches characters start to lose defining features, backgrounds die off, layers? what's that?
Plot: 8 , 5
Yay i like this plot, its pretty cool in fact it reminds me of the game 'Arc the lad' if anyone knows about it. It progresses in a nice fashion too. Not any big plot twists though nothing to make u go holy smokes, but something u could see coming even if u didn't know how the author did it, you would be a bit more like wtf, that's a horrible reason to explain how that happened... It further adds new challenges for the characters in the series by making them learn new things so they can be on par with other hunters.
The current arc that their in and the one before that suck. You can tell the author has run out of things to do, because nothing is making much sense any more, at this stage, in the mind of the reader is acceptable to say that gon and his friend are top tier hunters and the series should end but its not going to... The arc before this one though i must admit had a cool thing going on by using a "card system" but then it got old.
Characters: 6 , 6
Its the same thing it never changes for both versions, characters are great and memorable, nicely drawn and very different from each other. Different skill sets and all, they even have their own backgrounds to further flesh them out. Then that's where the problem is, you just spent 3 chapters reading about someone, u never see them again.... They are so important to the story, but they never come back, or they die really fast, I don't know what its but characters come and go faster than anything I've seen in any manga. The author makes a point to try to make every person encountered a memorable character that is going to be significant only to be never seen from again... i don't like it at all
Themes: 9 , 9
Same shounen themes as is replicated in every other one friendship, trying hard, putting your mind to work, its what you would expect nothing new but then again thankfully he doesn't screw this up at all he executes it in a good fashion
Originality: 9 , 5
The main idea behind the first two arcs were great, the fashion in which they were performed was run-of-the-mill to be exact but it was nice and enjoyable.
the latter was a bit more on the side of, are u serious? This bites donkey balls, because for its drawn out, and very long, longer than it should be, 3rd arc was pretty original actually but i know its been done before and in a better fashion, current is just the end of the series kind of thing, more like lets milk this sucker.
Overall: 8, 2
To be honest for your own good, just imagine the manga ends after the second arc, its not worth read afterwards, it starts to become really pointless and exaggerated.
I'm going to re-do this
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