Hunter x Hunter: The Last Mission

It just follows every boring shounen cliché in the book, like: "Friendship and random powerups save the day!!11!!" If you like Hunter x Hunter don't watch this, because it goes against everything that makes the series/manga great.

This movie is just so bad. I can't say anything good about it. The dialogue, the storyline, it's all terrible. Don't waste your time.

It's worth watching just for the reason to see Gon and his friends one more time even though it's couldn't reach the high Standarts the show set.

I feel like a lot less effort was spent on the storyline for this movie compared to the show, but nevertheless this was fun to watch. The quality isn't great and some characters were drawn better (main characters) while some were drawn worse (background characters).

Hopefully this won't be the last hunter x hunter film since it left a sour taste in my mouth especially after watching their great first feature film Phantom Rouge (which i also reviewed).

The good is mostly the cast. The foursome is back as well has their past masters with Wing and Zushi from the heaven's arena arc and Biscuit from greed island. Hisoka is also here but in a mostly forgettable fashion once again. The action is still great and there is a lot of it. Unlike Phantom rouge this film has the tone of the early series so more of a focus on combat minutia and abilities and less on emotion.

Now the flaws which are many. The biggest of which is the complete misdirection of the plot. Early on it seems like it's gonna be Battle Olympia which was my most anticipated thing in the series that actually never came to fruition. And right when your at you're at peak excitement for this tournament it instead goes into another boring villain with boring revenge scheme.

The worst part of that is who the revenge is for. It's for Netero so chronologically speaking this film happens before the Chimera Ant arc. Which removes all of the stakes. The villains are a little fleshed out but not anywhere close to where it needed to be. The film's focus was on their combat prowess and reasons for revenge so falling at both these goals is pretty sad given what we could've had instead.

Score is still favorable since it's use of music is much improved from their last film and the action is as fluid as ever. Plus for every frustrating moment like Leorio mostly getting the shaft there was a great moment in classic hunter x hunter fashion.

So i would watch this first and then Phantom Rouge unless you like the tone of the earlier arcs instead of the more deep and emotional later arcs.

This was a green review