One of the biggest hits in the world of fighting shonen is hands down Hunter X Hunter. The work of Yoshihiro Togashi was published in the pages of Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in 1998 and in a very short time has become one of the most popular publications. The new Hunter x Hunter Volume 37 will be out soon.
The publication of the work is not yet complete. After a break for health reasons the author Yoshihiro Togashi decided to continue the story of Gon to finally bring it to an epilogue. Therefore, in anticipation of the new volumes, we decided to make a summary of the Hunter x Hunter sagas, starting with Saga of the Hunter’s Trial.
The Hunter Exam saga is the first in the series and introduces the main characters of the story to the audience. This arc spans chapters 1 through 38 of the manga and begins with the young protagonist Gon Freecss diligently fishing. In fact, he made a bet with his aunt Mito that if he caught the master of the swamp, he would be able to take partHunter exam.
Gon had wanted to be a hunter ever since he found out about his father three years ago gin He is still alive and is one of the best hunters in the world. Gon takes over the swamp master and goes to the ship to take the exam and there he makes the acquaintance Leorio and Kurapikatwo other wannabe hunters.
The three of them successfully passed the first exams, up to the exam of the very fast examiner satotsu. During his rehearsal, Gon will also make the acquaintance Killua and Hisoka. The latter, bored with the trial in the swamp, will decide to take sides against the aspiring hunters to help the judges.
Hisoka manages to exterminate most of the aspirants but leaves Gon, Leorio, Killua, and Kurapika alive. The three then advance to the next test, which focuses primarily on the kitchen: the examiner Buhara before and Menchi but then they are not satisfied by the participants who have to face a substitute test to pass.
After passing the Replacement Test with ease, Gon, Leorio, Kurapika, and Killua reach the Tower’s Test, which requires them to arrive at the base of the Trabocchetto Tower within 72 hours from the top. The four, accompanied by tompa, has to face a real maze surrounded by inmate fights. Just at the end of the time limit, the 5 aspiring hunters manage to reach the base of the tower and thus pass the test.
The next test is to get 6 points in a week in a game about stealing the nameplate of an aspiring designated hunter. Poor Gon has to take Hisoka’s name tag. Young Freecss initially succeeds in his intention and then helps Leorio and Kurapika in their hunt. The students then successfully pass the last stage of the examination: a fighting tournament where winning is enough to advance, and to win you have to make your opponent admit defeat.
Gon, Leorio, and Kurapika will pass the final exam, while the only one to fail will be Killua, who killed an examiner. Killua met her brother during the battle illumiwho convinces him to withdraw from the fight and return to his family’s residence to become an assassin.
Thus ends the saga of the Hunter Trial, the first of Hunter x Hunter, a manga taken by the author’s breaks, but which every Battle Shonen lover should read.
