HUNTER X HUNTER #4 - - Watch & Learn

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HUNTER X HUNTER #4 - - Watch & Learn



Yeah… Leorio doesn’t look like a teen. If he’s actually telling the
truth, then I guess he’s the HUNTER X HUNTER equivalent of that one kid on the football team who was held back a year to get bigger and also happened to grow a mustache years ahead of everybody else.

The show redeems itself for its… orange, carbonated digressions last
episode by throwing some properly-told twists our way this time. Obviously, I’m not
talking about the surprise about Leorio. That’s not a surprise so much as a
potentially gross detail that gets pushed your way matter-of-factly. No, of
course, I’m talking about the successive fake-outs regarding the Man-Ape and
our Hunters’ suspicious instructor.

Indeed... I’ll fess up to being fooled by the
impostor.

== TEASER ==

It’s a tenuous conclusion, perhaps, but I’m starting to suspect that
Togashi must’ve been one of the unusual mangaka who really got to play sports (or,
at the least, he’s a big fan of board games
). I think about YU YU HAKUSHO,
and the extensive attention that was paid to the brackets of the “Dark Tournament” arc
and the portions of “Chapter Black” which just sort-of reveled in their
similarities to game shows and video games.

Then, I think about how the last
three episodes have shown our heroes going through tests of virtue which seem devised by the producers of THE AMAZING RACE… and it’s hard
not to notice a pattern.

Actually, since I’m noticingthat pattern, I’ll go ahead and predict that
these trials are going to continue on for a solid batch of episodes. The fun run
and the Man-Ape fake-out have gotten our pool of Hunters down to 230 or so, and
damn it
, you know we’re going to be widdling that 230 down in gradual
increments.

Watch this
episode, “Hope x and
x Ambition" here and decide for yourself, then read my comments on the previous episode here.

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