Applicants from all around the world take the Hunter Exam to become Professional Hunters during this arc. The manga’s first 38 chapters, the 1999 anime adaptation’s first 31 episodes, and the 2011 anime adaptation’s first 21 episodes comprise the arc. The Hunter Exam arc is the series’s first plot arc. He discovers that his father, Ging, is a legendary “Hunter,” a person who has distinguished themselves as a member of humanity’s elite.Įven though Ging abandoned his kid to pursue his own goals, Gon becomes motivated to follow in his father’s footsteps, pass the arduous “Hunter Examination,” and eventually track down his father to become a Hunter in his own right and desire to see him one day. The story begins with a little kid named Gon Freecss discovering that his presumed-dead father is actually alive and well.
The Hunter x Hunter films were converted into manga series in 2013.