Honest Trailers Anime - Hunter x Hunter is the 6th episode of Screen Junkies spinoff series Honest Trailers Anime. It was narrated by Jon Bailey as Epic Voice Guy. It parodies the Japanese anime series Hunter x Hunter, which aired from 2011 to 2014. It was first published on June 10, 2017. It was originally exclusive to the paid subscription service Screen Junkies Plus. However, due to Screen Junkies Plus being discontinued and the video not being reuploaded to another platform, the Hunter x Hunter Honest Trailer is no longer officially available and is considered a "lost episode". However, you can watch a short (20 second) snippet of it here.
"A series that redefines every tired anime trope... by not giving a single f*ck about rules or logic." ~ Honest Trailers Anime - Hunter x Hunter
Script[]
From the creator of YuYu Hakusho (Yoshihiro Togashi), who gave us anime's best ginger (Kazuma Kuwabara), comes a series that redefines every tired anime trope... by not giving a single f*ck about rules or logic.
Hunter x Hunter
Witness the beloved manga come to life... while the manga itself dies from multiple hiatuses, in a series that starts like Karate Kid, then ends Battle Royale levels of messed up, as it begins with the same shōnen tropes, like crazy characters, out-of-this-world powers, and implied anime erections, and finishes with that sh*t getting kicked up to 11, where every hopeful coming-of-age story ends up being a fight... to the death.
Enter the world of... -- Huh; they never really give it a name. -- populated by assassins, spiritualists, gangsters, and the prestigious Hunters, superpowered adventurers with a license to do whatever the f*ck they want to do, except escape from union bureaucracy, as the Hunters who collect artifacts, preserve nature, and hunt for treasure are ignored... for superpowered battles against each other. But seriously, who didn't see that coming? I mean, right...?
Follow the adventures of Gon Freecss -- Freecees... Fricacas... Frecess...? Whatever. -- a young aspiring Hunter from Whale Island, that makes child abandonment look cool, on a quest to find his deadbeat dad (Ging Freecss), along with the friends that he meets along the way, such as... Kurapika, the self-serious tribesman who's literally looking for the eyeballs of his dead homies; Leorio, the weakling comic relief, with the power of... pity; Killua, the best friend and not-so-subtle assassin; Biscuit, their teacher and jewel maniac, with the ability to turn into John Cena; and Hisoka, the antagonist who is as powerful as he is a pedophile.
Immerse yourself in the ridiculous story arcs of Hunter, as they go through incident after incident while never actually hunting anything, in a place where "no chill" is a law of nature, and follow Gon and friends as they... brave a den of snakes to pass an exam, threaten a man with death, are held hostage, play a video game in real life against a serial killer, fight against superpowered chimera ant-men that are insanely strong for some reason, and the most ludicrous of all: a presidential election. The election in this world seems pretty tame compared to 2016 (shows footage of a debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton), and they have f*cking dog people! (Cheadle Yorkshire)
Explore the crazy powers known as "Nen", that can turn imagination into reality -- basically Green Lantern if it didn't suck -- with the ability of taking any child's game, and turning it into a murder machine, such as... dodgeball, hide-and-go-seek, rock paper scissors, yo-yos, darts, tops, household appliances, stickers, coin collections, and fishies!
So take out your Hunter License and get ready to rock, in a high-action series where adventure and danger are one and the same, proving that sometimes all the substance you need is some good animation and a little storytelling... even if the rest is arbitrarily picking things from a Macy catalog.
Starring: Frecess? Frecks? Fracases? (Megumi Han/Erica Mendez as Gon Freecss); Killua Matata (Mariya Ise/Cristina Valenzuela as Killua Zoldyck); Red-Eyes White Person (Miyuki Sawashiro/Erika Harlacher as Kurapika Kurta); Leorio DiCaprio (Keiji Fujiwara/Matthew Mercer as Leorio Paradinight); Chyna (Chisa Yokoyama/Tara Sands as Biscuit Krueger); Juggalo Gigolo (Daisuke Namikawa/Keith Silverstein as Hisoka Morow); Marilyn Manson (Mamoru Miyano/Robbie Daymond as Chrollo Lucilfer); Kimbley (sic) (Hiroyuki Yishino/Todd Haberkorn as Genthru); Perfect Cell (Kōki Uchiyama/Max Mittelman as Meruem); and Gonna Go Out for Cigarettes (Rikiya Koyama/Marc Diraison as Ging Freecss).
Random x Crap
The honest title for Hunter x Hunter was 'Random x Crap'.
Green shorts, a tank top, and a three-story full-erect wig; never doubt human ingenuity! (shows several cosplayers attempting to dress up as "Adult Gon")
Trivia[]
- This video used to be exclusive to the paid subscription service Screen Junkies Plus. When that service was discontinued, this video was lost. It has not been officially re-uploaded to any platform. However, an unofficial, low-res version exists, if you know where to look... There is this short 20 second snippet posted to Screen Junkies' Twitter page.
- Screen Junkies also produced episodes of Honest Trailers Anime for Naruto, Tokyo Ghoul, Fairy Tail, One Piece, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Bleach, Sword Art Online, Attack on Titan and One-Punch Man.