hunter x hunter

As much as I've been loving Yoshihiro Togashi's long-running Hunter X Hunter, I'm a relatively recent fan of the book. I only got into it over the past year or so, and while I'm completely into its ridiculously shonen setup that seems to revolve entirely around children competing in fighting tournaments that also occasionally involve deathtraps, I've still got 25 more volumes of the manga to go through before I'm all caught up. For readers who have been keeping up with it all this time, though, the past few months have been pretty bittersweet. After returning in April from a hiatus that lasted two years, Hunter X Hunter is going on what Weekly Shonen Jump describes as an "indefinite hiatus."

Other than my deep and abiding affection for Sailor Moon and my more recent, in-at-the-ground-floor love of One Punch Man, quite possibly the best superhero comic on the market, I'm pretty notoriously late to the party when it comes to manga. It's something that I've been trying to fix lately, diving back into a few older series as I try to catch up with the current stuff, and while there's a ton of stuff that I love enough to shout about it to anyone who will listen, it also sometimes feels like I'm sitting down in 2016 to write a piece about this great song I just heard, "Gangnam Style." So forgive me if that's the case here, but for real, do y'all know about Yoshihiro Togashi's Hunter X Hunter? Because even though it started in 1998, I've just been getting around to it over the past month, and it's one of the most fun, ridiculous, and ludicrously violent comics I've ever read.

Hunter x Hunter is about people classified as “Hunters” that specialize in finding and hunting things. Sometimes these things are rare jewels, and sometimes they’re human corpses. Over almost 20 years, author Yoshihiro Togashi has been making the best fight comic on the stands --- and here's what makes him so great.