Anime fans have had great video game releases this year. Following the excellent Dragon Ball FighterZ is the wild Weekly Shonen Jump fighting game Jump Force. The latest trailer showed off its newest characters, and Hunter x Hunter fans are hooked.
The latest batch of confirmed characters for the title included Hunter x Hunter's Gon and Hisoka and fans are loving seeing new representations of their favorites.
After seeing the newest trailer for the game in which Gon and Hisoka fought the likes of Vegeta, Blackbeard, Sanji, among many other Shonen Jump icons, fans want to play the game now more than ever before.
Yoshihiro Togashi's Hunter x Hunter is currently on hiatus, and has been on break for a while, so this is the first brand-new material featuring the series' characters in a while. The series itself doesn't often get much representation outside of its cult following because of its extended hiatuses, so the fact that it's part of the newest crossover game (with Gon and Hisoka being confirmed before many of Shonen Jump's other series) is a big deal.
Hunter x Hunter doesn't often get video game representation, so fans are eating this up. Reactions range everywhere from pure hype, worrying about how Gon's design is being translated into the game's realistic style, and most fans are wondering if Gon's best friend Killua could be coming along soon too.
Read on to see what fans are saying about Hunter x Hunter's inclusion into Jump Force, and let us know your thoughts in the comments!
Jump Force will release some time next year for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. Hunter x Hunter was originally created by Yoshihiro Togashi for Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in 1998. 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.
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