Hunter × Hunter
The "Hunter × Hunter" manga has received much praise for its plot and characters. In his 2007 book "", Jason Thompson described its storyline as "an almost random collection of psych-outs, battles, puzzles, and trickery" that works on both a chapter-by-chapter basis and a larger scale. Thompson elaborated that with all the goals and subplots of each of the main characters, the story could seemingly go on forever and is unpredictable enough to hold reader interest. In a different review for Anime News Network in 2012, Thompson wrote that it was hard to summarize the story because it is every "shōnen" manga in one, with training sequences, tournament battles, a crime-mystery story arc, and a virtual-reality, RPG-style story arc. But unlike most "shōnen" manga, he called "Hunter × Hunter" "incredibly dense." Examples being its fictional nen ability, which is explained "so thoroughly that you almost think it could exist," and the little challenges and games the characters face; "Over and over Togashi invents some little closed system or rules just so the heroes can break them; if he ever wants to change careers, I'd suggest game designer." Thompson praised the character art as great, pointing out how instead of alternating between realistic and chibi like other artists, Togashi has cartoony and realistic characters interacting in the same panels. Thompson did note how the artwork during its magazine run is often "sketchy" and missing backgrounds, but that Togashi goes back and fixes it for its collected "tankōbon" release. Mentioning Togashi's love of gore he stated "the whole manga is about the mixture of childish adventure and creepy, adult themes" and noted how some panels later in the manga are apparently censored for gore by being covered with screentone.
List of O-Parts Hunter characters
is one of the Big Four of the Zenom Syndicate and the twin brother of Kirin. In charge of the Reverse Kabbalah project at the South Pole, he is searching for the Demons and is Wise Yury and Shuri's superior. Baku says that Kujaku wants to brush aside the other members of the Big Four and become leader of Zenom. He goes to Rock Bird to capture Lucifuge and kill Shuri, who failed at the task. Kujaku is Demon No. 8i, , with the greatest disintegration abilities amongst the Demons, that affect anything within range of its flashes of light. It also has the ability to reconstruct and can move through physical matter. Kujaku is an O.P.T. but is never seen using an O-part, as he usually relies on his Demon powers instead. He and his brother were trained to be swordsmen by their father, but Kujaku could never win against Kirin due to his brother having the Cyclopian third eye while he does not, leading to intense jealously. One day he found an orb containing Adramelech and the Demon took over his right arm, giving him raw power. Although he was now able to beat Kirin, their father scolds Kujaku for his new disregard of technique, leading to Kujaku killing his father.