It's hard to believe how incredibly underrated is "Hunter X Hunter", especially considering how many other anime series that tried to do the same than this one, which is to recreate the same style of the action/ adventure anime series from the eighties and early nineties: There is Naruto, One Piece and Bleach, among others, but only "Hunter X Hunter" was able to capture the essence of those old-school anime shows.
Created by Yoshihiro Togashi (The same author of Yu Yu Hakusho) this series manages to combine perfectly well the comedy, the action and the seriousness without stop being funny, or without adding any of the annoying "angst" and bad melodrama than most of the animes from the post-Evangelion age have.
The first episodes are relatively innocent and almost without action, and that's why some viewers quickly dismissed this series, considering it "boring" or "childish" (I would like to remind them that some popular anime fighting series such as "Dragonball" or "Yu Yu Hakusho" didn't have that much amount of action or fighting sequences in their first episodes) Some even dared to call this show a "rip-off of Naruto" (When this appeared first) That's too bad, because this is a great series, with many interesting characters, unpredictable plot twists (I particularly like the way in which the story tends to deconstruct most of clichés from the fighting anime series, such as the tournaments and whole episodes dedicated to show the main characters training) and the best of all, is that this show have practically none of those annoying filler episodes that tend to appear in most of the action anime shows. If you liked the original "Dragonball" series, "Yu Yu Hakusho", "Dragonquest" or "Saint Seiya", then this is the anime for you. Personally I liked a lot this anime, and I think that I deserves a lot of more recognition.
Created by Yoshihiro Togashi (The same author of Yu Yu Hakusho) this series manages to combine perfectly well the comedy, the action and the seriousness without stop being funny, or without adding any of the annoying "angst" and bad melodrama than most of the animes from the post-Evangelion age have.
The first episodes are relatively innocent and almost without action, and that's why some viewers quickly dismissed this series, considering it "boring" or "childish" (I would like to remind them that some popular anime fighting series such as "Dragonball" or "Yu Yu Hakusho" didn't have that much amount of action or fighting sequences in their first episodes) Some even dared to call this show a "rip-off of Naruto" (When this appeared first) That's too bad, because this is a great series, with many interesting characters, unpredictable plot twists (I particularly like the way in which the story tends to deconstruct most of clichés from the fighting anime series, such as the tournaments and whole episodes dedicated to show the main characters training) and the best of all, is that this show have practically none of those annoying filler episodes that tend to appear in most of the action anime shows. If you liked the original "Dragonball" series, "Yu Yu Hakusho", "Dragonquest" or "Saint Seiya", then this is the anime for you. Personally I liked a lot this anime, and I think that I deserves a lot of more recognition.