User blog comment:OnePieceNation/Your anime History, with Hunter X Hunter highlighted./@comment-10145707-20130817141204

I started watching anime since I was small but I never realised that it was called anime. I only thought it as "cartooons". I watched anime such as Doraemon (in Chinese), Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh and Saint Seiya in French (I only watched the first season of Saint Seiya in French and afterwards with english subs on the internet because like you, I ran out of money). As for Dragonball, I only watched a few episodes randomly when my little brother was watching it with his friends.

I saw the Hunter x Hunter cover for vol 1 for the first times in a french magazine. At first, I thought that it might not be interesting because I thought that a manga with a boy sitting on a frog as cover is not very attractive. Also, why does the cover have so much green colour? But I had nothing to do so I read the synopsis and thought that it was okay and maybe I'll read it some other time and I was not really attracted to the term "Hunter".

At 10, I watched Saint Seiya along with my little brother but at some point, he stopped watching it. So, I continued watching the rest of the series by myself on the internet. Then, I started to listen to Saint Seiya ops and endings on Youtube. I really like music and I even started singing the songs even without understanding anything (just like how I sung the opening for doraemon at five). After a while, I finished Saint Seiya and had nothing to watch anymore. So, I just started watching Chinese dramas.

One day, I saw an article on the newspaper about some people organising an anime convention. I was curious and went there. There were some old manga on sale and I bought my first manga: Fruits Basket! After reading the first volume, I got hooked up and immediately went to search for the next chapters on the internet. After finishing the manga, I tried watching the first episodes but the characters were all talking together and it was hard to follow.

Then, I started watching other anime series like Gundam, Pandora Hearts, Ouran High School Host Club, Vampire Knight and many others. I also read a lot of manga without watching their anime series.

My story with HxH (I know it's a bit strange)

One day, I suddenly thought of trying to read Hunter x Hunter. I searched for it on Google and I saw Hunterpedia! Then, I searched for the characters and fell on Kurapika! I liked his character design (and he's bishonen!) and went to read the manga first, unlike most of you who watched the  anime first. I got hooked up very quickly. When I finished reading the manga, I didn't really want to watch the 2011 anime because everyone was talking about the violent fights. I felt a bit disgusted at first but after some time, I decided to watch it. And surprisingly, I really liked the fights!

After that, I tried to watch the 1999 version. I liked the fillers but I stopped at the Greed Island arc.  Maybe I must resume watching it when I have time.(I'm following at least 5 series now)

Now, Hunter x Hunter is my favourite manga and anime series^^  I also watch every new episode each week^^.

I'm not telling you the whole story or else it would be too long.

Can I ask you a question? Why do you like that pervert Jiraiya so much?