70 Fun Facts About Hunter X Hunter

Who writes and draws Hunter x Hunter?

Togashi had already finished YuYu Hakusho and Level E before starting the series in 1998.

Hunter x Hunter has been serialized since March 1998 in which magazine?

The same Shueisha magazine that ran Dragon Ball, One Piece and Naruto.

Togashi is married to the creator of which other famous manga?

Naoko Takeuchi married him in January 1999 and helped apply screentone to the first volume of Hunter x Hunter.

Which earlier Togashi series, about a teenage spirit detective, won the Shogakukan Manga Award?

It ran in Weekly Shonen Jump from 1990 to 1994; Togashi has said the stress of that serialization is one reason he guards his health now.

How is the '×' in the title Hunter × Hunter pronounced?

Togashi came up with the doubled title while watching the variety show Downtown, whose hosts repeat phrases for comic effect.

Which of Togashi's own hobbies inspired the premise of a manga about Hunters?

The working title was literally '(something) Hunter' before the doubled name stuck.

The manga's longest hiatus ended on October 24, 2022. How long had it lasted?

Togashi revealed that back and hip problems had stopped him sitting for two years, so he drew the returning chapters lying down.

Where does Gon Freecss grow up before leaving to take the Hunter Exam?

He is raised there by Mito, technically Ging's cousin, whom he calls his aunt and considers his real mother.

Who tells young Gon that his father Ging is alive and a famous Hunter?

Kite, Ging's own student, saved Gon from a foxbear three years before the story starts while searching for Ging as his final test.

Roughly what is the success rate of the annual Hunter Exam?

Tonpa the 'Rookie Crusher' has taken it 35 times without passing, mostly because he is busy sabotaging first-timers.

Which of Gon's friends fails the Hunter Exam after killing another applicant?

He passes the following year by eliminating every other applicant in the very first trial.

Kurapika is the sole survivor of which clan, whose scarlet eyes the Phantom Troupe stole?

Togashi has said Kurapika's design was inspired by the Ohmu of Miyazaki's Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.

Why does Leorio want the money that comes with a Hunter licence?

He lost a friend to a curable illness neither of them could afford to treat.

Which basic Nen technique shuts off the flow of aura entirely, hiding your presence?

Ten keeps aura in the body, Ren produces more of it, and Hatsu is a user's personal application.

Nen users are classified into how many types based on their Hatsu?

Enhancers, Emitters, Manipulators, Transmuters, Conjurers and Specialists; a water-divination test reveals which one you are.

What is Gon's Nen type?

His signature attack, Jajanken, borrows its rock-paper-scissors framing from the Japanese name for the game.

Killua transmutes his aura into which form?

A childhood of torture-training left him tolerant of electric shocks; his Godspeed ability turns that into blinding speed.

What did Illumi secretly plant in Killua's brain to force him to flee any fight he might not win?

Killua removes it himself during the Chimera Ant arc, which is why he can finally stand and fight Rammot.

Kurapika's Nen type is Conjuration, but what does he temporarily become when his eyes turn scarlet?

In that state Emperor Time lets him use every Nen type at 100 percent, at the cost of an hour of his life for every second it is active.

What price did Kurapika pledge to make his Chain Jail unbreakable against the Phantom Troupe?

This 'Nen contract' with self-imposed restrictions is the series' explanation for why limits make an ability stronger.

Which of Kurapika's chains stabs an enemy's heart and issues a command that kills them if disobeyed?

The thumb chain heals, the ring finger dowses, the middle finger holds Chain Jail and the index finger's syringe steals abilities.

Hisoka's favorite ability gives his aura the properties of both rubber and gum. What is it called?

His other trick, Texture Surprise, can make a handkerchief look like skin, which is how he hides wounds and fakes deaths.

In the manga, how do Hisoka's sentences typically end?

The magician motif runs through everything about him, including his taste for a fight so strong it arouses him.

What number does Hisoka hold in the Phantom Troupe, a slot he took only for a shot at fighting Chrollo?

The number was previously held by Omokage, the invented villain of the film Phantom Rouge, and later passes to a Zoldyck sibling.

How many members does the Phantom Troupe's roster hold at any one time?

Each carries a numbered tattoo of a twelve-legged spider, and anyone who kills a member may take their place.

Chrollo and most of the original Troupe grew up in which lawless slum?

The gang started out as children doing live voice-over dubs of foreign TV shows, and turned violent after one of them was abducted and murdered.

Where does Chrollo Lucilfer store the Nen abilities he steals with Skill Hunter?

Despite leading the Troupe he ranks only seventh among its members in raw physical strength.

Which Troupe member, the strongest in raw physical power, is killed by Kurapika's Judgment Chain?

Bullets, sniper rounds and anti-tank rockets bounced off him; refusing to answer Kurapika's questions is what killed him.

Which Troupe member reads memories by touch and can fire them into others' heads as bullets?

She dies by deliberately breaking Kurapika's restrictions to pass Chrollo's captors' identities to the rest of the Spiders.

Shizuku conjures a Nen vacuum cleaner that sucks up almost anything. What does she call it?

It cannot suck up living things or Nen objects, a rule that matters when the Troupe cleans up bodies.

Which member of Killua's own family later joins the Phantom Troupe as Hisoka's replacement?

Illumi is separately hired into the Troupe by Hisoka himself, with the specific job of killing Hisoka.

At Heavens Arena, Gon and Killua are taught Nen by Wing, an assistant master of which kung fu style?

Wing lies to them about Nen at first and only relents when they reach the 200th floor, where the other fighters could kill them.

Kastro, the Heavens Arena fighter Hisoka kills, used an ability that ignored his own Nen type. What was he born as?

His doppelganger stayed spotless while the real Kastro got dirty, which is how Hisoka told them apart.

Who created the Nen-infused video game Greed Island?

He also captured the death-row convict Razor and placed him in the game, with orders not to hold back against his son.

In Greed Island the group has to beat Razor and his 14 'devils' at what?

The devils turn out to be Razor's own emitted Nen creatures; Hisoka joins Gon's side just to play.

Biscuit Krueger looks like a little girl. What is her true form?

She hates how it looks and hides it, but she gets a huge power boost when she transforms back. She also taught Wing.

What gem, found only inside the game, is Biscuit's goal in Greed Island?

Gon and Killua become among the first players ever to clear the game.

Kite's Nen ability, Crazy Slots, summons a weapon chosen by what?

Ging suspects one number only comes up when Kite 'really doesn't want to die', which is how he was reborn as a Chimera Ant.

The Chimera Ant Queen's offspring learned Nen and overthrew a nearby country by doing what?

The Queen was first found in the Neo-Green Life Autonomous Region, where Kite's survey team stumbled onto her.

Meruem, the Chimera Ant King, is repeatedly beaten at which board game by the blind girl Komugi?

Playing her is what humanizes him; the two die together minutes apart, beside a General piece and a Shinobi piece.

How does Chairman Netero finally bring down Meruem?

The Poor Man's Rose leaves survivors to be eaten from inside by its poison, which is what actually kills the King.

Netero's ultimate technique channels the power of which bodhisattva?

He earned it through four years of daily training in gratitude to the martial arts, and can punch faster than sound.

Knuckle Bine's Nen ability lends aura to a foe and charges interest on it. What is it called for short?

If the debt exceeds the target's remaining aura, it becomes the I.R.S. and locks them out of Nen for 30 days.

Who heals the dying Gon after the Chimera Ant arc?

Nanika grants wishes only after three of Alluka's demands are met, and refusing four in a row kills the refuser and their closest loved one.

Who wins the 13th Hunter Chairman election, then immediately hands the job to Cheadle and resigns?

Leorio finished second; Pariston claims to feel happiest when people hate him.

The Zodiacs are the Hunter Association's high council of how many top Hunters, chosen by Netero?

Ging is the Boar and Pariston the Rat, the only two who refuse to make themselves look like their animal.

Which ship carries the Kakin royals and Dark Continent expedition, guarded by Kurapika?

Leorio ends up working in the medical facility on its third deck under Cheadle.

Which studio made the first anime adaptation, a 62-episode Fuji TV series from 1999 to 2001?

Three OVA series followed between 2002 and 2004, taking the story through Greed Island.

How many episodes did Madhouse's 2011 anime run for before ending in September 2014?

It aired on Nippon TV and reached the US on Toonami in April 2016; its opening theme, 'Departure!', was used for the entire run.

In the 2013 film Phantom Rouge, former Troupe member Omokage was replaced by whom?

Its story came from an unpublished manuscript Togashi had written about ten years earlier.

The second film, The Last Mission (2013), digs into whose secret past?

Its villain Jed wields 'On', a hatred-fueled inverse of Nen, and once led the Association's black-ops squad.

Which character finished first in both of the series' first two official popularity polls?

Kurapika came second both times, Gon third, and Hisoka fourth and fifth.

By June 2026 the manga had passed how many copies in circulation?

It was Shueisha's eighth best-selling series in both 2012 and 2013 despite spending long stretches on hiatus.

Who produced the short Hunter x Hunter film screened on the 1998 Jump Super Anime Tour?

It covered the story only up to Gon leaving his home island by boat, and shared the bill with the very first One Piece anime short.

Which Zodiac code name does Kurapika inherit from the man who won the 13th chairman election?

Leorio takes the Boar seat vacated by Ging; Kurapika only accepts because Prince Tserriednich holds the last of the scarlet eyes.

Which Zoldyck wears alternating signs on his clothes reading 'A Kill a Day' or 'Never Retire'?

Killua's grandfather transmutes his aura into a dragon and is on friendly terms with Netero, who hires him for the palace assault.

What rank does Gon's father hold among Hunters?

Netero once told Biscuit that Ging is one of the top five Nen users in the world; every record about him is classified.

Hanzo, whom Gon fights in the exam's final phase, is the only applicant to recognize what dish?

He breaks Gon's arm and still cannot make him surrender, then bows out of the fight because he has come to like him.

Palm Siberia sees distant people through a small crystal ball fed with what?

After being captured and turned into a Chimera Ant hybrid, her ability moves to a crystal on her forehead.

Viz Media publishes the English manga under which imprint aimed at older teens?

The first English volume appeared in April 2005; the series joined the digital Weekly Shonen Jump in 2014.

Neon Nostrade, whose bodyguards Kurapika leads, predicts the future how?

Chrollo steals the ability, and its later disappearance from his book implies she has died.

Which of the four basic Nen techniques lets a user produce more aura?

Ten keeps aura in the body for defence, and Hatsu is each person's own specific application of Nen.

On which network did the 148-episode Madhouse anime air from 2011 to 2014?

The earlier Nippon Animation series had aired on Fuji TV, followed by three OVA series totalling 30 episodes.

What is the title of the 3-on-3 tag-team fighting game released in July 2025?

Eighting and Bushiroad delayed it from 2024 to add rollback netcode, and Arc System Works publishes it in North America.

In a 2023 handwritten letter, Togashi revealed he had planned how many possible endings?

He said he personally preferred ending C despite expecting 90% of readers to hate it, while ending A was the 'safe' choice.

Which company released the 2013 film Phantom Rouge in Japanese cinemas?

The film was based on an unpublished story Togashi had written about a decade earlier, and a Volume 0 manga went to the first million viewers.

Togashi settled on the repeated-word title while watching which Japanese TV variety show?

Its hosts often repeat phrases for comic effect; the working title had simply been '(something) Hunter'.

Which Tokyo Ghoul creator drew a 69-page storyboard depicting Hisoka's past?

It was released digitally via Shōnen Jump+, a rare case of another artist expanding Togashi's world.

Who directed the 2011 Madhouse anime adaptation?

Furuhashi had directed the 1999 series and Abe the 1998 Jump Super Anime Tour short.

Togashi's abandoned contingency 'ending D' featured a time skip with Gon's granddaughter, named what?

It was intended only in case he died before finishing the manga, and it is the only one of his four endings he has revealed.