Wednesday, 5 September 2007

Hunter x hunter

I'm making this post for a reason. Stumbled upon this website which read ' Marriage prospect: Shalnark' Erm, well, with darling shalnark being my laogong, how could i not take a look?

HORROR HORROR He already has 2 brides! X_X Only one more slot left so i'm determined to get it. And i've got to make a post (not just the title; but a sypnosis, a review, a fic, an art... in short: a sign of "devotion" -- what would the marriage be for anyway?)
I shall have to leave out the art part or everyone will be seeing disfigured stick figures.



Sypnosis: Hunter X Hunter starts off with Gon Freecss taking part in the hunter exam on a quest to find his father Ging, a legendary hunter. In the process, Gon meets Killua, kurapica and leorio, 3 other very different guys with the same aim; to become a hunter.

The second arc follows Gon and Killua as they learn the usage of nen at the celestial tower. (I almost died during this part while reading the manga, so many words! X_X) Gon also visits Zaoldyeck Family and successfully 'rescues' killua and the two of them continue on their journey.
An informative section of the anime where the concept of nen is introduced eg the different general abilities and such

We move on to the Genei Ryodan story arc, where Shalnark is finally introduced, along with the remaining members of the genei ryodan XD. Kurapica's revenge on the spiders was not an easy one, though he managed to kill off Ubogin and Pakunoda T_T This part of the story focuses on Kurapica's brilliant schemings to destroy the spiders to revenge his clan which was slaughtered by the spiders many years ago. Kuroro (leader of the genei ryodan) was captured by kurapica and had his nen ability sealed, thinking that without a leader, the spiders would surely perish.
Definitely the most exciting part of the anime. It had me gobbling up manga after manga.

Greed island story arc, also the OVA. Gon and killua learn of a seemingly-magical video game that sucks its player's physical bodies into its own world. Gon later realised that his father, Ging is one of the creators of the game, making him even more determined to join it. They meet the Bomber, who kills off players by placing a bomb on their body.

The Chimera ants story arc is incomplete. Gon and Killua, along with Kaito and a group of hunters investigate an insect leg which was washed up shore. This leads them to the island of Neo green life (NGL) where they suspect a giant queen chimera ant and her group of man-eating insects are killing off most of the human population. Kaito was killed T_T but brought back to life, joining the chimera ants. The chimera ants, very unfortunately, also developed the nen ability after eating some hunters.

Will gon and killua be able to destroy the chimera ants and save kaito? No one knows cos Mr Yoshihiro Togashi went on a hiatus.

In short, Hunter X Hunter is a beautiful series with touching friendship, action and humour packed into 60+ episodes. Fantastic music too, definitely worth watching.

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