hxh is mad overrated. the show fails when either hisoka/koropika/phantom troupe aren't there. it takes 35 episodes for this anime to start getting good. could've honestly skipped the first 40 episodes and started at the York New City Arc. This arc is so great, every episode is suspenseful and full of action.
Greed Island garbage arc, wish I never watched it. Dodgeball game was dope. Main villain, 'Bomber'... Worst main villain in anime EVER. Worse than General Blue from Dragon Ball. Note: Hisoka was at the Dodgeball game, of course something Hisoka-related would be the only good thing in this garbage arc.
Chimera Ant Arc:
Too long. Too many episodes showing the same sh over and over again. I don't need to see the same scene 5 times from 5 diff char's points-of-views, just move on with the story.
Mereum built up to be super strong King only for him to be humanized and only show off one move-set... flinging his tail to behead people. The last fight is literally him standing there and Neturo throwing all his combos at him. This gotta be the laziest effort at a villain ever. Ok we see his personality and his attitude and how he went from monster to monster-human but we're only shown ONE ATTACK!?!? His tail!?! THAT'S IT!!??? F that
Another BS thing:
Killua's needle in his head. Throughout the show we see this guy never backing down, yes he thinks things through, but he was never scared like they made him out to be in this dumb arc. They said that he should back down if he knows the enemies are stronger... that's weird because he knew the Phantom Troupe were way stronger than him and Gon (they even got captured once) and he still wanted to face them and was hyping Gon up to go against them...
And now here he is backing down and running away from this ugly Chimera Ant who is way weaker than those Phantom Troupe members... Illumi planted a needle in his head to scare him..... BS.
Other than that, it's pretty good. But out of like 150 episodes or whatever? I'd appreciate it way more if it got cut down to 70 episodes. It's unacceptable for an anime to get good 25-40 episodes in. There are whole animes that end in 25 episodes. Hisoka & Koropika + Phantom Troupe really carry the show for me. York New City one of my fav Arcs in any anime ever. Im never rewatching anything else other than that arc from HxH.
There's some crazy philosophical stuff sprinkled around in the show too. Parallels to Devil Man Crybaby and Attack On Titan.. Regarding life/death/monsters/humans/the right to live.
Killua's "sister" being his personal set of dragon balls to revive Gon was lowkey wack to me but it's w/e, I don't care enough for that to hold it against the show.
I read the manga after that, had to quit because it became a novel. PANELLLLLLLLS of just walls of texts with no drawings. Cant do that.
However, you get to see Ging in action, more Hisoka action, more Chrollo action, more Koropika action, and the mob king kids n their powers n etc.. all that is pretty cool. MUST-READ: a fight between two names I mentioned in this paragraph. Crazy fight. Cant wait to see it animated in 25 years.