User blog:AssassinsTears/Episode 17: Surprising Hunts (Review)

Hi again! I'm back with my episode 17 review. This episode, as you probably know, covered Kil's hunt and the beginning of Leorio's. So, I'll start there.

I was really looking forward to Kil's hunt, and I can't say it disappointed me. I also can't say that Imori's voice didn't get on my nerves really, really quickly. All his internal dialogue before the fight even began irritated me, and seemed to go super slow. The pacing for the first half had similar issues; they tried to space it out with some extra dramatic shots and extra thoughts from the three brothers, probably so that they could stop at a specific point. Also, Kil didn't go all kitty-cat with his "gimme!" which is a little tiny thing... but I still noticed...

Despite that, I really liked the sequence over all; Killua always makes me happy. :D And oh. my. cake. The touch with Hanzo made up for any other shortcomings!! It MADE. MY. NIGHT. Not that it wasn't funny to see Hanzo screw up of his own accord, but having Killua see all was just ''priceless. ''

From there on in, things were pretty copasetic until the discovery of Ponzu's hideout. Some nice shots of team-building time, a couple of neat visuals. The timing got a little bit fuzzy, and they switched around the order of things, like the fact that Leorio's first conversation with Ponzu is never actually shown, and how Ponzu has yet to explaining how Leorio managed to get himself bitten. I'll be anxious to see that they include the aforementioned explanation (she already would have in the manga). Poor Leorio.

At first, I thought that they might be trying to avoid showing a decapitated snake, and it irritated me. But then they did. We haven't run into any more issues with the censorship, hmm?

... Leorio's shirt magically healed. Lol. Or they gave him a new one. But that was my first thought, haha.

My mom has a phobia of snakes. She hit me for not warning her. *laughs nervously* Other than that, she was actually asking me for spoilers. Which never happens. Which I didn't give, of course. :P

Yeah for the final phase in the next episode! I expect that they'll cover the end of phase four, the interview, and maybe the explanation of the final phase in 18, and then in episode 20 they'll finish off book four! Right on schedule. ^^

In any case, hope you enjoyed reading my opinions. I'll do it again next week!!

Peace out Hunters. = ^.^ =