Hunter × Hunter (1999 TV series)

Nippon Animation's first anime of the manga: 62 episodes on Fuji TV, 1999 to 2001.

Hunter × Hunter (1999 TV series) is the first anime adaptation of Yoshihiro Togashi's manga. Nippon Animation made it, Kazuhiro Furuhashi directed it, and Fuji Television aired its 62 episodes between October 16, 1999 and March 31, 2001.

Like the manga, it follows Gon Freecss, a boy who learns that the father he believed dead is alive and is a famous Hunter. Gon sets out to pass the Hunter Exam and track Ging down, making friends with Kurapika, Leorio and Killua on the way.

Quick Facts

Based on

Hunter × Hunter, Yoshihiro Togashi

Director

Kazuhiro Furuhashi

Executive producers

Koichi Motohashi
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本橋浩一

Producer

Shunichi Kosao
Keiichi Matsuda
Daisuke Kawakami

Developer

Nobuaki Kishima

Music

Toshihiko Sahashi

Company

Fuji Television, Nippon Animation

Network

FNS (Fuji TV)

Facts from the source article.

Background

By 2001 the anime had covered most of its source material, and Nippon Animation chose to end it rather than continue with filler. Fans were unhappy with that ending, so Nippon Animation followed it with three OVA series that picked up during the Yorknew City arc and went on through the Greed Island arc.

Toshihiko Sahashi wrote the background music for the series and for all three OVAs. In North America, Viz Media put the anime out on four DVD box sets between December 2008 and December 2009, and it started airing on the Funimation Channel in the spring of 2009.

Its popularity was more modest than the manga's, but critical reception was generally favorable. It placed 16th in the Anime Grand Prix for 2000 and climbed to fourth the following year.