The following is a list of episodes from the anime Hunter × Hunter.
Episodes
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| 1 | "Boy Going on a Journey x Leaving a Sound of the Wind" | 1999-10-16 | ||||
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Gon has a run in with a Fox Bear in the forest. A mysterious stranger saves Gon, and kills the beast. Gon prevents him from killing a Fox Bear cub, and the man tells him about the Hunter Exam. | ||||||
| 2 | "Encounter x Intimidation x Depature" | TBA | ||||
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Gon's aunt Mito gives him the go ahead to take the Hunter Exam, and Gon goes to town to catch a ship to the exam. In town, Gon befriends Leorio, who is also intent on taking the exam, and they take down a cruel animal show. In the end, they board the ship. | ||||||
| 3 | "Pride x Stormy Ocean x Duel" | TBA | ||||
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On the ship to the exam, Gon and Leorio meet Kurapika. The captain asks each for their reason to be a hunter. Gon wants to find his father, Leorio wants to be rich, and Kurapika wants to be a force for justice. | ||||||
| 4 | "Decision x Shortcut x Long Way" | TBA | ||||
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The ship's captain recommends they go towards a tree on the top of a mountain instead of directly at their goal. Leorio takes the bus and the rest head towards the tree. The bus is a trap, and Leorio catches up with them. Mashu, an examinee they meet travels with them and then betrays them. They successfully answer a riddle with silence, asked by an examiner, and move on to the next test. | ||||||
| 5 | "Lie x Truth? x Kiriko" | TBA | ||||
| 6 | "Steak x Marathon x Exam Begins" | TBA | ||||
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Gon, Kurapika and Leorio reach the first stage of the exam, a seemingly endless forced run through a tunnel. They are befriended by Tompa, a man taking the exam for the 35th time, and meet Killua, another entrant. In the end Tompa betrays Leorio, as Gon and Kurapika go looking for them. | ||||||
| 7 | "Trauma x Limit x Sweet Trap" | TBA | ||||
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Tompa has placed Leorio near hallucinogenic sap. In a dream state, he explains that he wants to be a hunter to get money so he can become a doctor who doesn't charge for his services. Gon and Killua bond. At the end of the first test, a man appears and accuses the examiner of being a fake. | ||||||
| 8 | "Magician x Smile x Wild Animal Warning" | TBA | ||||
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Hisoka determines the real examiner by flinging deadly playing cards at each man, reasoning the true hunter will live, and it's the original examiner. Later, Hiroku plays at being an examiner and kills many of the test takers. Although Hiroku is able to kill them, he recognizes that Gon and Leorio are special and lets them live. | ||||||
| 9 | "Menchi x Seriously Pissed x Second Exam?" | TBA | ||||
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The group starts the second phase of the test, satisfy Buhara and Menchi with their cooking. Everyone satisfies Buhara's taste for BBQ pork, but they all fail to make sushi good enough for Menchi. She then fails every test taker. | ||||||
| 10 | "Failing Score x Panic x Voice From Heaven" | TBA | ||||
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While Todo criticizes Menchi and all epicure hunters, the head examiner arrives and makes Menchi give everyone another chance. The test takers collect spider eagle eggs, and Todo learns to respect epicure hunters, vowing to return and be one. | ||||||
| 11 | "Explore x Sports Spirit x Stowaway" | TBA | ||||
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The protagonists and others have passed the first exam, and they fly towards the next exam on a blimp. Anita, a girl who failed the earlier test sneaks aboard to get revenge on Killua for the death of her father. The hunters capture her, and the master examiner Netero offers to free her if Gon and Killua can take a ball from him. | ||||||
| 12 | "Good Boy? x Bad Boy? x Killua" | TBA | ||||
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Killua stops trying to take the ball from Netero because his killer instincts are surfacing. Anita escapes her handlers and attacks Killua, who comes close to killing Anita, but lets her live because that's what Gon would want. Gon is never able to get the ball, but makes Netero go all out, and is satisfied. | ||||||
| 13 | "Agreement x Disagreement x Trap" | TBA | ||||
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The third exam is to get down from a tower alive. The group is forced to team up with Tompa, and their test is to win 3 out of 5 mathces against tower prisoners. Tompa takes the first match, and promptly gives up. He explains that he doesn't want to be a hunter, he just like watching examinees fail and be killed. | ||||||
| 14 | "Candles x Principle x Internal Feud" | TBA | ||||
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Gon faces the next prisoner, in a match to see who's candle can burn the longest. Gon is given a candle that burns extra quickly, but because of this it isn't succeptible to the wind, and Gon goes and blows out his opponents candle. Kurapika engages in a death match with the next opponent, but refuses to kill him after seeing red and knocking the criminal unconscious. | ||||||
| 15 | "Transient x Life x Majitani" | TBA | ||||
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Kurapika's opponent feigns unconsciousness in an attempt to run out the clock. Leorio and the leader of the prisoners bet on whether he's faking. Leorio holds the man above a long drop, and the man wakes up. He concedes the match to Kurapika, but the group loses a large chunk of their time because of the bet. | ||||||
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Leorio goes next. His oppenent is Lelute, an attractive woman. He loses ten hours in bet to her so that he can grope her. He then loses the rest of their betting hours to her in a game of rock, paper scissors. Killua then faces Jones the Dismantler, a man responsible for the murder of 146 people with his bare hands. Killua rips out his heart. | ||||||
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