Madican wrote:
Hey Great Handsome Oppressor can you give an example of how it tightens up the story? Like, does it shorten the Greed Island or Insect arcs?
Well, it's not exactly shorter, just paced better in my opinion, save for the Hunter Exam arc (this one was strangely slow and dragged on compared to the manga).
But for instance, they put the whole "Gon meeting Kite" thing on hold and only talk about it at the very beginning of the Chimera Ants arc (which is ongoing). Another thing, Ponzu and Pokkle (the bee user and the guy with the nen bow and arrows) actually go to NGL together to hunt the Chimera Ants instead of meeting there, which lets them discuss the backstory together instead of having the narrator do it. Yet another thing, they added the (official, from the HxH character guidebook) backstory for Canary in the anime.
So, it's still quite slow, but after the Tower of Heaven arc, each episode is satisfying in the pace they use to treat the original material. However, they couldn't make some things work in the anime, such as Uvogin vs Shadow Beasts (because of all the in-fight blahblah that only works in manga) and Bonolenov's powers. These are the two things that stand out as unsatisfying to me, along with the censoring.
I'd say overall Tower of Heaven was the part I enjoyed the least (even though dat climax), and the York Shin City Auction was the part I enjoyed the most. The Chimera Ants arc is also shaping out to be great.