4.25 AVERAGE

adventurous funny fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Everytime hisoka or Killua shows up I get excited

4 of 5 stars

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I've watched the 2011 version of this anime and not the original. I don't know how it was done the first time, but the recent version of the anime was slightly different from the manga, especially the second phase of the exam handled by the gourmet hunters. I loved the sushi part of the exam because it was funny, which was unfortunately not included in the 2011 version, but I loved the boiled egg exam in the anime more because of how it was done. In this volume, we get to see the beginning of how Tonpa the rookie crusher worked to sabotage the rookie applicants (thus our four main characters) and it was still entertaining to see how they tried to get past that tiny hurdle in the form of Tonpa. The sly old man Netero was also introduced in this volume and I always enjoyed his little ball game with Gon and Killua. In the anime version, this was the episode where I started to think how cool Killua is (though it was inappropriate to call the part where he killed two men with his bare hand and extended nails cool). He was still a brat here and obviously didn't really care about other people but we can see that there's something deeper about him than being just a kid. Seeing this old Killua, I'm excited to see how his character developed in this manga.

5/5
adventurous funny lighthearted fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
adventurous fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
adventurous funny lighthearted relaxing medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
adventurous medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
adventurous medium-paced
adventurous fast-paced