I am saying this as someone who adores Hunter x Hunter, who wrote a 35,000-word fanfic for it, who cosplayed her favorite character, who bought a clock with the main characters on it. Making it that far into Hunter x Hunter requires a high tolerance for totally out-there plot elements, but Chimera Ant really tests that limit. Twice now, I’ve watched people try to explain this arc to someone who barely watches anime, and both times, I wanted to evaporate on the spot out of embarrassment for how completely unhinged the story sounded.
And it’s exactly as batshit as promised - perhaps even more, if that’s possible. It makes up almost half the series, clocking in at 61 episodes.
Others despise it with a burning passion. Some people love it and say it’s the greatest thing to happen to anime.
#HUNTER X HUNTER GAME SEASON SERIES#
Hunter x Hunter’s Chimera Ant arc is the most infamous storyline in all six seasons of the show, to the point where even anime fans who’ve never watched the series may have heard of it, because it’s so divisive. And that’s just scratching the barest surface. There’s this absolute brick house of a man, whose power is basically vaping. A mutant ant harnesses the power to whisk his opponents to a pocket dimension, and he uses it to force them to play tag with him. (You really have to see it to believe it.) The protagonists meet a leader who apparently spent, like, two years standing in one place and punching the air ten thousand times a day. A nuclear blast culminates in a resurrection scene that doesn’t feel like someone coming back from the dead, so much as it resembles a cannibalistic orgy. A woman whose power involves wrapping her very long hair around herself fights a kid in a dictator’s mansion. An octopus named Ikalgo decides he’s the BFF of one of the main characters.
Here are some very out-of-context things that happen in the Chimera Ant arc of the 2011 anime Hunter x Hunter, which is now streaming on Netflix.
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