The Hunterpedia Frog was snagged by one of the Phantom Troupe and hasn't shown up since and this is unforgivable. How Dare they
Anyway, episodes 51-54 of the Animated program from Japan titled Hunter x Hunter
It's wild where a set of episodes that had so much going on felt like it was all just leading up to something happening. I realize some of this is how the episodes were split up for the show. A binge watch or a weekly cadence would break up the pacing differently.
But really it just leads to my biggest complaint with this series as a whole, the pacing just isn't quite right.
Still very much enjoyed these episodes, especially the first one. Love seeing Mr. Lucilfer doing his thing. And this episode did one of my favorite things a show could ever do: set classical music to action scenes. And I'll always love that.
I also loved the twist where by this point we're so used to seeing the Troupe kill hordes of the mafia community, but they're big final trick is to commit petty forgery. Looping back into what Gon and Killua were learning! God this show can be great sometimes!
My other favorite moment was yet another forgery, when Anime Joker slightly edited his fortune. Setting up for a really fun episode next time!
(which, again, this obviously setting up the next made for a strange pacing. I think we shoulda stopped when Kurapika thought the spider's were killed)
So that we could start with that amazingly and beautifully rendered and animated scene of Gon and Killua speed eating. Haven't seen eating that lovingly done in a while! And it was great seeing the crew back together again =3
I'm not sure where it happened, maybe it was in an episode we already watched, but I like how the intro changed to feature the Troupe, with a glowy and smiling Uvo during the You Can Smile line
Oh yeah, and I will say during the Chrollo fight episode, they had an amazing payoff setting up so many musical themes in the past 40 episodes. They all came to roost when we got the Phantom Theme, Kurapika's Theme, and the Zoldyck themes all back to back. Great stuff!