Category Archives: HunterXHunter

WARNING: MINOR MANGA SPOILERS After watching the latest episode of HunterXHunter, I was overcome with the urge to have my very own homicidal critter as a pet, as I’m sure you all were too. In fact, I was so excited, I spent the entire weekend in the Numere Wetlands, hunting down every single adorably aggressive [...]

Four.

That’s the number of times I cringed during this episode. Compared to the near-constant cringing I was doing before, this is a vast improvement. Maybe it’s just because my expectations for this show hit rock bottom after the first three episodes, but my first impression of Episode 4 was: “Wow. This is actually halfway decent.”

(By the way, since it looks like everybody who’s watching this show has at least watched the first anime and/or read the manga, I’ll have minor spoilers all over the place without marking them. If you’re opposed to that, raise your hand! …or something. Don’t want to spoil juicy bits for newcomers, eh?)

Hey there anime/manga fans! Guess what? We’re going to take one of the grittiest, most cerebral shonen fighting manga out there, and remake it despite it already having a perfectly serviceable anime adaptation! Better yet, we’re bringing in 4Kids to produce, direct, and animate this show! Aren’t you excited?! No, seriously. If 4Kids was an [...]