Today 10 years ago (24-09-2014) the best Shonen anime series completed its 148 episodes

On September 24th, 2014, the 2011 Hunter x Hunter anime concluded its 148-episode run, with our protagonist finally getting on the trail of the ultimate lazy anime dad. Gon and Killua part ways after various life-or-death adventures, Hisoka is still an uber creep, Leorio fades back into the mist, and Kurapika plays mob boss. A series often beloved for its genre elements of escalating fights and crazy powers, while receiving praise for doing things differently and sticking to the beat of the lyric. If Yu Yu Hakusho was the author’s breakout hit that cemented their status, then HxH is their magnum opus, spawning not one, but two stellar adaptations.

One of the best battle shonen manga and one of the best anime adaptations outside of some tonal issues and some editorial changes or lack thereof for certain volumes that went way beyond what the original 99 series covered, including the beloved/hated Chimera Ant arc. It helped renew interest in a series that was beloved but hard to be a fan of due to the sometimes year-long gaps between chapter releases and grew on itself to do justice to some pretty challenging content and even the uncertainty that the series wouldn’t even have a proper ending or completed arc to it by the time the anime got to those events. And yet it still gave us some of the greatest scenes, characters and storylines of all time, from Meruem’s growing humanity to Kurapika’s violent quest for revenge or Gon going completely nuts with horrific results.

Of course, the manga is still going strong, but for various reasons, namely the ongoing health issues of the author, Yoshihiro Togashi, it’s been released incredibly sporadically and there’s no good place to end an anime adaptation that would cover the remaining manga sections. That said, Togashi seems to be on a productive streak that we haven’t seen in… like, a decade, with new chapters of the manga releasing in a few weeks and Togashi posting about his work on the series on a daily basis. So who knows, maybe we’ll actually get an adaptation of what happened after the series ended someday.

I could do a poll about your favorite storyline or something, but I think two of those would get the most votes, with 95%.