Hunter X Hunter (2011)

Hunter X Hunter 2011 is an action, adventure, fantasy, drama, comedy, shonen battle anime series. It was based on a manga written by Yoshihiro Togashi and published by Shueisha for Weekly Shonen Jump. It started on March 3, 1998, and is still ongoing today with 35 volumes in total. The anime adaptation was directed by Hiroshi Kojina, written by Atsushi Maekawa and Tsutomu Kamishiro, musically composed by Yoshihisa Hirano, and produced by Studio Madhouse. It originally aired from October 2, 2011 to September 24, 2014, with a total of 148 episodes in the end. It was the second anime adaptation of the manga, which not only increased production values, but also included two additional story arcs that weren't in the original show.

Plot
The story focuses on a young boy named Gon Freecss who discovers that his father, who left him at a young age, is actually a world-renowned Hunter, a licensed professional who specializes in fantastical pursuits such as locating rare or unidentified animal species, treasure hunting, surveying unexplored enclaves, or hunting down lawless individuals. Gon departs on a journey to become a Hunter and eventually find his father. Along the way, Gon meets various other Hunters and encounters the paranormal.

Why It's Gonna Hunt Down (In a Good Way)

 * 1) Incredible animation, especially during the fight scenes and dramatic scenes.
 * 2) Excellent soundtrack.
 * 3) Good voice acting in both sub and dub.
 * 4) It's one of the few anime that extends far beyond 100 episodes and still remains great all along the way.
 * 5) There's two recap episodes, but they did them in kind of an interesting way; instead of just recapping with a narrator, it's presented as Gon sending a letter to his Aunt explaining to her what he's already experienced up to that point.
 * 6) Phenomenal fight scenes.
 * 7) Amazing villains, for the most part.  The highlights include nearly every member of the Phantom Troupe, as well as three of the Chimera Ants, those being Meruem and the three Royal Guards.
 * 8) The Zoldyck Family are incredibly interesting.
 * 9) Incredible final fight between Meruem and Netero.
 * 10) Absolutely no filler content whatsoever aside from the two recap episodes.
 * 11) The opening theme song is incredibly enjoyable. Tones of people know about it, even if they haven't seen the show yet.  It was so good that they never changed it, and instead, once enough episodes passed, decided to use a different verse in the song with different animation accompanying it.
 * 12) Despite the anime not being completed technically because the manga is still ongoing, they did manage to end it mostly conclusively without having any major cliffhangers at the end, which is rarely done in anime that's adapted from incompleted source materials.
 * 13) The character songs are catchy and upbeat.
 * 14) Nearly every character in this show is interesting, complex, or at least just fun to watch.  From the main protagonists Killua and Kurapika, (Gon is excluded form this), to the villains including the Phantom Troupe and four of the Chimera Ants, (Meruem and his three Royal Guards), to the Zoldyck Family, to strange, uncertain characters such as Hisoka.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The Greed Island arc is incredibly boring with dull and uninteresting villains.
 * 2) While the two recap episodes are cleverly disguised, it still doesn't change the fact that they're recap episodes and thus have no value whatsoever unless a person doesn't have time to marathon the show and thus may forget important plot details.
 * 3) The opening theme, while catchy, never changes throughout the series, which can lead to some getting sick of it. It also becomes really unfitting by the time the Chimera Ant arc rolls around.
 * 4) The story can be really slow at times.
 * 5) The narrations during the Chimera Ant arc really kill the flow of the battles.
 * 6) *To be fair, the narrations sometimes explain the characters' abilities.
 * 7) The show has a bad habit of introducing interesting characters, only for them to become afterthoughts an arc later. Kurapika and Leorio get the worst of it because they get advertised as main characters.
 * 8) The manga that the anime was based on has a nasty tendency of going on hiatus (which many compare to the equally infamous hiatuses Berserk tends to go on) which means it had to end prematurely after just 148 episodes as it ran out of material to adapt.
 * 9) * Luckily, the series will likely return sometime in the future since Togashi has recovered from his condition.
 * 10) Anachronism: The series' main setting shows a fantasy world that has the style of medieval times but has modern technology such as cellphones, cars, video games, and even modern machine guns which can confuse viewers about the show's timeline.

Trivia

 * Yoshihiro Togashi has been suffering from chest pain and inconsistent sleep partners while working on Yu Yu Hakusho. His schedule at Weekly Shonen Jump was very demanding, explaining why the anime adaptation stopped and the manga couldn't release consistently.
 * Through Kurapika was mistaken for a "female protagonist", it's revealed that the main characters are all male. However, if you want to see a main female protagonist done in a right way, YouTube user Jetix Chick did a better job by making one called Hiromi Kazama.