Hunter x Hunter #01 — …Please Stop Shouting At Me

October 1st, 2011

 

This ED makes my ears cry.

Oh yeah, this show. Almost forgot it existed. Also, Phi Brain airs in about 7 hours. I’ll be asleep then. I’ll get to it whenever I wake up.

Impressions:

Man, what do you want from me? It’s a Saturday Sunday morning cartoon. Yeah, sometimes they put out stuff like ZKC and Cross Game, but it’s rare. And coming from Jump? Forgeddabout it. It was certainly better than the last couple of these I remember watching, but since those are Beelzebub and Toriko, I’m not sure that’s really saying much. I also think they jumped over quite a bit at the start, which is probably a good thing, but my memory of the original series isn’t great since I didn’t really pay it much attention back when I ‘watched’ it years ago either. Everybody’s off on their adventure to become hokage by traveling to the world of eggs, Huevo Mundo, so they can catch them all and become Hunter King, or something like that.

Anyway, fairly poor production across the board, as you’d probably expect. Unambitious art and relatively mediocre animation… but still more animated than F-Zero was even during its obligatory info dump at the start! Tsk tsk, UFOTable. Outdone by Jump. You should feel ashamed. Anyway, the point that I’m not-so-eloquently dancing around is that it was about as one would expect and did little particularly new or different from all its other Sunday morning brethren. The music’s kind of nice though, except for that horrible horrible ED. I only ripped it out to subject the same pain upon others as I have had to endure. And that’s without even commenting on Hisoka’s incredible glowing penis.  

           

Preview:

A disturbing lack of pedophile clowns.

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9 Shouts From the Peanut Gallery

  • Athos says:

    …I was afraid noone else would notice about Hisoka’s glowing genitals.

    I thought it was just my mind playing tricks on me.

  • Sophy says:

    I totally missed Hisoka’s glowing penis. Thanks for pointing it out. I can’t sleep now knowing this new fact. Why did they make it shine?!
    I agree with your statement. The ED is unbearable.

    • Gorilla13 says:

      Welcome to the screamo world, sucker!!! It’s not for everybody, ‘specially the ones who enjoy bubbly Jay-pop…

    • The Phantom says:

      The ending is the most annoying noise I have ever heard in any anime to the date.

  • Mira says:

    LOL GLOWING PENIS-KUN. Well, the glowing penis is pretty intentional if you ask me. The manga has always emphasized that. Seriously though this is one of those ‘It gets better I swear!’ shows for me but it seems you’ve seen the first series or at least parts of it so…yeah. Glowing penis-kun.

  • meganeshounen says:

    “Everybody’s off on their adventure to become hokage by traveling to the world of eggs, Huevo Mundo, so they can catch them all and become Hunter King, or something like that.”

    All Jump shows ever or ALL Jump shows ever? That’s probably the most informative one-sentence summary I’ve ever seen.

  • The Phantom says:

    “sometimes they put out stuff like ZKC and Cross Game, but it’s rare.”

    Wait a minute, are you finally admiting that cross game was a good series? as far as I remember all you did was cry that ZKC was beign replaced by Cross Game and ditched it right away.

    Cross game has to be one of the most beautiful animes I have ever seen, and I hate sports anime.

    • Aroduc says:

      No. Just that it was more mature and dissimilar to everything else in that general timeslot.

  • icymirage says:

    I was really looking forward to this, hoping for an OAV style treatment without all filler they added to the TV series.

    The result … well … it’s very colorful, especially that fish. It feels more kiddie. They cut out the Kaito bear-slaying flashback. They added a long pinky swear incantation (wtf?). The voices all felt flat, and Mito sounds like an old lady. The soundtrack was horrible – happy classical music when Gon goes over the railing?

    At least there’s no filler, which the original TV series was chock full of from episode 1.