Nippon Television first aired this adaptation on Sunday mornings, from 2 October 2011, then moved it to 1:29 am on Tuesday nights from 8 October 2013 onwards. It ran for 148 episodes and finished in September 2014. Nothing carries over from the 1999 anime: this version starts again at the first page of the manga, with an entirely new voice cast.
Madhouse animated it, Hiroshi Kōjina directed, Takahiro Yoshimatsu designed the characters and Yoshihisa Hirano wrote the score. Series composition changed hands during the run: Atsushi Maekawa is credited through episode 58, Tsutomu Kamishiro from episode 39 onwards, so the two names overlap for twenty episodes. The opening theme, sung by Masatoshi Ono, alternates between two versions of the same song.
Gon Freecss is twelve years old. His father left him as a baby to become a Hunter, a licensed elite allowed to go almost anywhere and do almost anything, and Gon sits the Hunter Examination to follow the same path. He meets three other candidates there: Kurapika, Leorio and Killua.
Yoshihiro Togashi's manga supplies six arcs, from Hunter Exam through Heavens Arena, Phantom Troupe, Greed Island and Chimera Ant to Election, where the series stops. The manga itself is not finished: its author has interrupted it several times for health reasons, the longest break running from November 2018 to October 2022.
Common Sense Media puts it at fourteen and up and lists it as TV-14: fantasy violence, candidates who die during the exam without their deaths being shown, heavy innuendo about one character's body, audible cursing, some drinking. Viz Media released it in North America with an English dub, France gets the series through Anime Digital Network, Netflix and Kana Home Video, and ProSieben Maxx ran the German premiere of a dub recorded in Kaarst between 2017 and 2019. Castilian Spanish came last, fourteen years after the Japanese broadcast, on Selecta Visión's AnimeBox: whichever language you pick, this is a long stay rather than a weekend.
Nippon Television first aired this adaptation on Sunday mornings, from 2 October 2011, then moved it to 1:29 am on Tuesday nights from 8 October 2013 onwards. It ran for 148 episodes and finished in September 2014. Nothing carries over from the 1999 anime: this version starts again at the first page of the manga, with an entirely new voice cast.
Madhouse animated it, Hiroshi Kōjina directed, Takahiro Yoshimatsu designed the characters and Yoshihisa Hirano wrote the score. Series composition changed hands during the run: Atsushi Maekawa is credited through episode 58, Tsutomu Kamishiro from episode 39 onwards, so the two names overlap for twenty episodes. The opening theme, sung by Masatoshi Ono, alternates between two versions of the same song.
Gon Freecss is twelve years old. His father left him as a baby to become a Hunter, a licensed elite allowed to go almost anywhere and do almost anything, and Gon sits the Hunter Examination to follow the same path. He meets three other candidates there: Kurapika, Leorio and Killua.
Yoshihiro Togashi's manga supplies six arcs, from Hunter Exam through Heavens Arena, Phantom Troupe, Greed Island and Chimera Ant to Election, where the series stops. The manga itself is not finished: its author has interrupted it several times for health reasons, the longest break running from November 2018 to October 2022.
Common Sense Media puts it at fourteen and up and lists it as TV-14: fantasy violence, candidates who die during the exam without their deaths being shown, heavy innuendo about one character's body, audible cursing, some drinking. Viz Media released it in North America with an English dub, France gets the series through Anime Digital Network, Netflix and Kana Home Video, and ProSieben Maxx ran the German premiere of a dub recorded in Kaarst between 2017 and 2019. Castilian Spanish came last, fourteen years after the Japanese broadcast, on Selecta Visión's AnimeBox: whichever language you pick, this is a long stay rather than a weekend.
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