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This page contains story arcs of the anime Hunter × Hunter.
Hunter Test Story Arc
In the first major story arc, Gon takes a series of bizarre tests to become a Hunter himself, which include such things as navigating a deadly jungle, hunting other applicants, killing a wild boar, and making sushi. During the Hunter Test, Gon meets and befriends three of the other applicants, who become the supporting characters:
- Killua Zoldyck (キルア＝ゾルディック): Another 12-year old boy, raised in a family of assassins.
- Kurapika (クラピカ): The last of his clan, and whose eyes turn scarlet when he is enraged.
- Leorio (レオリオ): A medical student who, although he's the oldest of the four, is always scrambling to catch up with the others.
Another of the applicants in the Hunter Test is Hisoka, a complex villain who uses playing cards as weapons, and who views Gon as an "unripe fruit" that he will take great pleasure in killing once he's grown up enough to present a challenge.
Zoldyck Family & Celestial Tower Story Arcs
The second story arc involves Gon, Kurapika, and Leorio springing Killua from his parents' mansion. At the end of the second story arc, Leorio leaves for medical school and becomes a professional doctor while Kurapika leaves to find work as a Hostess, taking both characters out of the story. In the third story arc, Gon and Killua go to the Celestial Tower, a 251-floor building where people can compete in fighting tournaments around the clock for cash. It is here they meet the Kungfu master Wing, who teaches them about Nen, a chi-like energy that can be used to manifest superhuman powers. They fight in the tournament to gain money and experience. Hisoka defeats another powerful Nen user, Kastro, who was able to create and use a double made by his Materialization and Manipulation Nen ability. Hisoka loses both arms in the battle but Machi, a fellow Nen user, uses her Nen ability to sew them back on. Gon battles Hisoka and is able to land a few hits, but loses in the end.
Genei Ryodan Story Arc
The fourth story arc reunites the four main characters for the world's largest auction in a sprawling metropolis called Yorknew City. While Gon, Killua, and Leorio try different methods to make enough money to buy Greed Island, a "Joystation" video game that could help Gon find his father, Kurapika takes center-stage. This story arc introduces the Genei Ryodan ("Phantom Brigade"), a group of thieves who, among many other crimes, slaughtered all the other members of Kurapika's clan. Kurapika crosses paths with them while working as a bodyguard for a teenage girl named Neon, who has a clairvoyant Nen ability. He spends the rest of the arc balancing his bodyguard duties with his goal to hunt down the Genei Ryodan. The Genei Ryodan 's 13 members are:
- Kuroro Lucifer (クロロ＝ルシルフル): The leader of the Genei Ryodan; A young man with the ability to permanently steal other peoples' Nen abilities, which he stores inside a Materialized book.
- Bonorenofu: Who does absolutely nothing in the Genei Ryodan story arc. Later, in the Chimera Ant story arc, it is revealed that his body is covered in holes, and by dancing he can play music with the holes to summon the powers of various gods.
- Feitan: A short 28-year-old man who is a true sadist. Like Bonorenofu, his true Nen ability (to absorb and transform the damage an enemy inflicts on him into a powerful heat attack) is not revealed until the Chimera Ant story arc.
- Franklin: A giant whose fingertips pop off to reveal gun barrels from which he can emit Nen bullets.
- Hisoka: The card-throwing, villainous magician from the Hunter Exam, who also showed up in the Celestial Tower story arc.
- Korutopi: A cousin It-like character who can materialize a perfect duplicate of anything (even skyscrapers and human bodies). His duplicates fade after 24 hours.
- Machi: The world's deadliest seamstress, who can mold her Nen into threads. These threads can sew severed limbs back on perfectly or support immense weights.
- Nobunaga: A hot-tempered samurai.
- Shalnark: A young computer-whiz who can control people with his cell-phone after first attaching an antenna to them.
- Shizuku: A forgetful, thick-spectacled girl who can manifest a vacuum cleaner that can suck up anything non-living material (including dead bodies, of which there are a lot when the Genei Ryodan are around).
- Phinx: A master of martial arts, who alternately dresses either like a pharaoh or in a designer jogging suit. In the Chimera Ant story arc, it is revealed that he can "wind up" his punch to make it devastatingly powerful.
- Pakunoda(dead): A woman with the ability to read into the memories of others simply by touching them. She can also form memory bullets which can transfer memories into other people.
- Ubogin(dead): The obligatory musclebounder, who strives to make his punch as powerful as an atomic bomb, and isn't far off.
By the end of the Genei Ryodan story arc, Kurapika has directly killed Ubogin, indirectly killed Pakunoda (via a deadly Nen ability which killed her when she broke the conditions he had set onto her), and "sealed" Kuroro Lucifer's nen ability (via the same ability he used on Pakunoda). The latter two are accomplished via an unsteady alliance with Hisoka, who betrays the Genei Ryodan in exchange for a chance to fight Kuroro Lucifer. Once Kuroro's powers are "sealed", Hisoka completely loses interest and walks away.
Greed Island Story Arc
Gon, Killua, and Leorio return to help Kurapika at the end of the third story arc, after which Leorio and Kurapika leave again, returning the focus to Gon and Killua. The fifth story arc concerns Gon and Killua's adventures on Greed Island, the seemingly-magical video game that sucks its players physical bodies into its own world. It is later revealed that the game is actually set on an island in the real world (the physical game set is actually just a teleporting device), created and ran by a group of powerful Nen users who are led by none other than Gon's own father Ging. The Greed Island story arc is very video-game-like. The game Greed Island runs on a complex card-based gaming system. The goal of the game is to collect a number of set cards, although almost everything in the game, from food to money, can be turned into cards. There are cards capable of doing anything, from making people pregnant regardless of gender, granting wishes, and magic spell cards that can warp you to specific towns. Inside Greed Island Gon and Killua are joined by Biscuit (nicknamed "Biske"), a 57-year-old woman who looks like a 12-year-old girl, and is a master and experienced teacher of Nen. She continues the Nen training Wing gave to Gon and Killua during the Celestial Tower arc.
Also during this arc, Killua's little sister, Kalluto, joins the Genei Ryodan; replacing Hisoka as member number 4. (See Miscellany section of this article for details regarding Kalluto's gender)
Chimera Ant Story Arc
After leaving Greed Island, Gon and Killua meet up with Kaito, the Hunter who told Gon about Ging and Hunters in the very first chapter. They are all hired to investigate a strange insect leg that washed up on a beach. Genetic testing determines that the leg belongs to an abnormally large queen Chimera Ant, an insect that eats other insects and animals, and then gives birth to children that are combinations of all the different insects and animals it has eaten. The queen Chimera Ant itself just happens to wash up on the shore of an island inhabited by a luddite culture, and proceeds to wipe most of them out and spawn hundreds of offspring before Gon, Killua, and Kaito arrive. The three very powerful Royal Guards are introduced. They develop Nen abilities. One of the Royal Guards, Nefelpitou, fights Kaito and decapitates him. Kaito is later brought back, but he is zombie-like and unable to recognize Gon and Killua.
Netero, Morau, and Novu arrive as reinforcements. However, they are unable to stop the birth of the king. The queen dies because the king ripped himself out of her stomach too early. Many of the ants stop being loyal to the King, proclaiming themselves kings, and two even join the Hunters side.
As a side story to the main plotline centered around Gon and Killua, one of the children of the queen Chimera Ant, Zazan, started a colony near Ryuuseigai (City of the Shooting Stars); the place that is the origin of the Genei Ryodan. Half of the group: Phinx, Feitan, Shalnark, Shizuku, Bonorenof and Kalluto travel to the Ryuuseigai to halt the invasion. Upon reaching the colony, the team splits up, agreeing that whoever defeats Zazan will be the temporary leader of the Genei Ryodan until Kuroro Lucifer's return.
The ants move into East Goruto and begin the process of "selecting" humans that have the capability to gain Nen powers. This causes many deaths as only a small amount of humans are able to gain Nen powers.
Currently, Gon, Killua, Morau, Knuckle, Shoot, Novu, and Netero are about to attack the 3 royal guards and the King in the King's palace. However, it has been strongly suggested that something will go wrong with the plan.
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