Episode 1 (1999)



A Boy Setting Out for a Journey × Leaving Behind the Sound of the Wind (旅行く少年×風の音を残して, Tabi Iku Shōnen × Kaze no Oto wo Nokoshite) is the 1st episode of the original Hunter × Hunter anime. It aired on October 16, 1999.

Summary
Gon has a run-in with a fox-bear in the forest. A mysterious stranger named Kite saves Gon, killing the beast. Gon prevents him from killing a Foxbear cub, and the man tells him about the Hunter Exam. Gon then raises the Foxbear cub while deciding to take the Hunter Exam when he is old enough.

Characters In Order of Appearance

 * Mito
 * Gon Freecss
 * Ging Freecss (photograph)
 * Kite
 * Ging and Mito's Grandmother
 * Konta (cub)