So, with the Hunter x Hunter game coming out, this is the first time I was exposed to opinions about Hunter x Hunter-the-show. And I was surprised to learn that the Chimera Ant arc seems to be pretty well-regarded?
(Unmarked spoilers below, title says it all. If you don’t feel like reading a bunch of whinging you can probably also skip it lmao)
Which is a huge surprise to me, because I thought it was actual dogshit lmao. It really felt like my guy just wanted to get a lifetime of shock scenes out of his system, but at the same time the true weekly shonen series pacing sets in.
It just didn’t work for me at all. And Freeza wannabe Meruem ultimately just wanting to play videogames with his prisoner of war/girlfriend is… not endearing, or nearly enough to address the entire rest of it. Yeah I get it, he got “defeated” by capital-H Humanity or whatever. I don’t care lol.
And there’s next to no progress of the main plot. The only major plot point is Gon continuing his trend of being a selfish Combat Autist™, which could’ve been addressed in a much more interesting fashion, especially after taking advantage of Killua’s trust/codependence so much during Greed Island.
But hey, it’s very shocking that that guy whose name I don’t remember died. That’s such a big motivating factor, totally. Gon saw him like three times in his life, so obviously there’s major emotional attachment.