#especially the greed with the chimeras sketch

[mrluvian]

Hunter X Hunter Review

So I just finished reading the Succession Arc in HXH last night after few years ignoring the series because I was too occupied reading One Piece.

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DISCLAIMER: THIS IS JUST A PERSONAL OPINION AND TASTE AND IT WILL BE DIFFERENT FROM PERSON TO PERSON. It can be wrong, or right, it doesn't have to be any.

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Let's start.

In my opinion, all previous arc is good and my favorite is the Chimera Ant Arc, for me it's the best, the story, the final boss, the creature, and the ending. But sorry to say I hate and despise the Succession Arc.

Honestly that ARC for me PERSONALLY Is the worst.

I came expected to read some action, not some novel detective with walls of text. If I want that, I'd be reading other manga like Detective Conan or Death Note or maybe SHERLOCK HOLMES. I skipped tons of reading in this arc.

Don't get me wrong, I love HXH but there are so many inconsistencies in the whole manga.

First what made me turned down the manga initially was because of Nen. Nen was introduced later in-story it felt like a surprise method for me (it's just like Nen was never introduced and suddenly before a big match it's introduced, it felt kinda rushed), and I disliked the idea that it is similar to Haki in One Piece, an energy that resides within one's body. But then I read that Nen can be applied everywhere and is very flexible, compared to Haki. So I pressed on. Besides, the real term Haki was coined, introduced and made official much later in One Piece compared to HXH, so if I can love one, why hate another?

Then, from what I read and saw, the author loves simplicity (main image+no backgroudn), then a few chapters and archs ahead (especially after Gon beat Greed Island) it felt like a half finished sketch, LOOK the image below. I mean what the hecj is going on? Look at the hand !

then after few archs, he changed his style into full blown detailed picture, AND suddenly wall of texts like detectives,

that -- added with Chimera that suddenly with no direct mentor (compared to Gon and Killua had 2 experienced mentors) able to keep up with years of training of Hunters with many years of experience, then suddenly an animal type Nen that somehow I missed it being mentioned before the arc? That added with very engaging and creative fighting-- then suddenly a detective style thing.

What pissess me off is that the author put tons of wall of texts arcs before the very important thing -- the Dark Continent, then decided to go onto Hiatus (should've just went for Dark Continent instead). The author made the build-up of Dark Continent background story a very interesting thing (big monsters, killer diseases, etc) like image below,

And it's like the major hot topic before going abroad, but suddenly they filled it with detective story, and a damn long one!? Very anticlimatic. Why don't they skip the shipboat case thingy and just get on with Dark Continent?

Gon and Killua is nowhere to be mentioned, especially after his aura missing.

I can pardon the previous inconsistencies because it got better, but this Succession Arc really puts me down..

I wish the best for the author, maybe hire someone else to draw it if it's too hard for him to do so.