'Hunter x Hunter' Debuts Meruem's English Dub Voice

Hunter x Hunter's manga may currently be in a hiatus, and the original run of the anime series may be over in Japan, but the English dub of the series has been running strong on Toonami.

So strong in fact, that the English dub is set to finally reveal the English dub voice for Meruem, a character fans have been waiting for a long time. Meruem's first line debuted during a promo running during Adult Swim's Toonami block:

It’s good to be the King! 😜 https://t.co/OFDlwD34Og

— Max Mittelman (@MaxMittelman) April 8, 2018

Max Mittelman will provide the English dub voice for Meruem, and anime dub fans should recognize his name as the actor has portrayed many huge characters like One Punch Man's Saitama, The Seven Deadly Sins' King, Mob Psycho 100's Ritsu Kageyama, and Konohamaru in Boruto: Naruto the Movie. Mittelman is as excited for fans to hear his Meruem as they are to listen, as he caps off the reveal with a hilarious Tweet caption, "It's good to be the King!"

To this day, Meruem is one of the most popular characters in the series as the overpowered character has a dramatic, and tragic character arc throughout his run in the latter half of the Chimera Ant arc.

Hunter x Hunter is launching an official collaboration with ANimate cafe in Japan from April 17 to May 13. You can check out more information on the official website (which you can check out here), and fans who vist the shop can purchase small charms featuring the series' characters like Gon, Killua, Kurapika, Leorio, and even the deadly members of the Phantom Troupe in adorable service maid uniforms.

If you want to celebrate your love of Hunter x Hunter in a different way, Premium Bandai is also currently selling a replica set of its Greed Island card game. It runs 8,800 yen (about $78 USD) and Premium Bandai will be taking orders with shipment beginning in April. If this seems like it would be too cumbersome but you still want to show off your love of Hunter x Hunter, you can do so with Premium Bandai's other replica offering, the Beatle 07.

For those unfamiliar with Hunter x Hunter, the series was originally created by Yoshihiro Togashi. The story follows a young boy named Gon Freecss, who discovers that his previously thought to be dead father is in fact alive. Not only is he alive, he is a famous Hunter, a professional traveler who specializes in finding rare treasures, exploring unidentified lands, and hunting down dangerous individuals. Gon then decides that in order to meet his father he has to become a licensed Hunter, but in that journey gets wrapped up in way more strangeness than he ever could have anticipated.

The series first ran in Shuiesha's Weekly Shonen Jump in March 1998. Unfortunately, the series has gone on a number of hiatuses ever since 2006 which were most likely incurred by bouts of illness Togashi experienced when publishing his last work, Yu Yu Hakusho. The series has run for 360 chapters, and been collected into 47 volumes as of 2017. It's one of Shueisha's most successful selling series with over 66 million copies sold in Japan.