List of Hunter × Hunter (1999) episodes
Hunter × Hunter is an anime television series that aired from 1999 to 2001 based on Yoshihiro Togashi's "Hunter × Hunter" manga. The story focuses on a young boy named Gon Freecss, who one day discovers that the father he had always been told was dead is in fact alive and well. He learns that his father, Ging, is a famous "Hunter": an individual who has proven themself an elite member of humanity. Despite the fact that Ging left his son with his relatives in order to pursue his own dreams, Gon becomes determined to follow in his father's footsteps, pass the rigorous "Hunter Examination", and eventually find his father to become a Hunter in his own right.
Seishi Kishimoto
Kishimoto's first manga was the one-shot "Trigger" published in Square Enix's "Gangan Powered" in 2001. With the story he wanted to write about "faith and parent-child relationships," but had trouble fitting it within the page limit. He began his first serialized work, "666 Satan", in "Monthly Shōnen Gangan" in 2001. The manga continued for six years and has been translated and released in several foreign countries, including in North America by Viz Media. A year after "666 Satan" ended, Kishimoto launched "Blazer Drive" in the debut issue of Kodansha's "Monthly Shōnen Rival", preceded by a prequel one-shot, "Tribal", in the final issue of "Comic BomBom"; Blazer Drive ran through 2010 and received a video game tie-in. He then created the one-shot "Jūniji no Kaneganaru", which was published in the monthly shōjo magazine "Aria" in 2011. In the January 2012 issue of "Monthly Shōnen Rival", Kishimoto debuted "Kurenai no Ōkami to Ashikase no Hitsuji", which ran until 2013.