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hmm am i the only one that likes the new one better? ive seen both and there are some things i like about the older one that the newer one lacks, but overall i like the newer one better

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Honestly the new version follows the manga better.
Plus a lot of fight scenes in the new version had more of an impact on me. The fight between the Zoldycks and Chrollo is so badass in the 2011 version, and it did a GREAT job with the chimera ant arc.

The new version isn't as dark as the old one, but it hardly censors anything in the chimera ant arc, so it's getting there.

But I will it Yorknew arc was better in the old version. Greed Island is boring in both.

Voice acting qualms mostly have to do with the nostalgia factor lol

The art style is sunnier in the 2011 version which suites the hunter exam arc.

and this is coming from someone who watched the old version a million times as a kid.

I am a fan of the manga -9/10- first and foremost and i like the old one a bit better.
Fillers be damned! It didn´t skip much (just some violence), had time to breath and the color pallet made the world look appropriately messed up. A bit like a dying dream.
The new one though had some weird censorship at first bit then turned on gore the later (it´s still very censored). The changes to Hisoka and especially Kite made no sense and the pacing was way too fast at first. It now look just like the manga and the animation quality is high but the grit the manga s sometimes have is missing. I blame the shiny Colors.
The new Chimera Ant arc was mostly well handled but i miss some of the darker scenes. The arc´s pacing was also ironicaly too slow. For a perfect run i would recomend to watch the old one till the end (minus the filler) and then go full Chimera. Skip the pointless movies. The 2nd one was ok but first was a mess.
I think the same of FMA Brotherhood too and the source is as nearly always king. I will lastly recommend the mostly unknown original OVA from the Jump Fest 98. http://hunterxhunter.wikia.com/wiki/Hunter_x_Hunter_Pilot_OVA

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I prefer the original. The voice actors and music are perfect. I loved the hunter exam ark and when they fight their way up the tower. I started watching 2011 because I found it was following the manga more and it was going to go on longer then the original. The original will always be my favourite, I'm watching the new one solely because its more hunter x hunter in anime form and I love to see these characters come to life 😀 I'd recommend watching the original first then watching the second one. Reason being you can go from dark to light and its kinda okay but from happy to dark it may not be as easy. I love the show so yay!

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The new one is superior.
I tried getting into Hunter X Hunter 2 years before the new anime, but I just didn't find it interesting. The old anime just wasn't my cup of tea. But when the 2011 version came along, it peaked my interest (mostly due to the overwhelming hype on the internet). A long story short, I was hooked.

Then I went back to watch the old Hunter X Hunter anime, and I found it interesting due to the fact that it gave more closure on Gon's mother.

the old one is alot better becouse it ended where the manga should have ended

I like the ant arc
but
it went on for WAY TOO LONG

and becouse the anime wanted to milk out every last drop they could
they had like 60 episodes dedicated to the ant arc
20-25 had been more than enough
the beginning 10-15 episodes before Kaito gets offed are mostly pointless
and then all the episodes with the 2 pointless and silly royal guards

then the next chairman arc is just soooooooo much text/explaining about boring things and meetings that skimming it when reading manga is the only way coz it is sooooo damn boring

New anime does a better job at animating manga pages in a 1:1 ratio but it's not a better adaptation, on the contrary. As I've said dozen times already, directors of Hunter x Hunter suck. They can only copy and paste and when once in a while they try to show their "ingenuity" it turns out to be a disaster, like adding killing apples (the boars being KO-ed by a falling apples), getting rid of Kaito for no good reason, cutting some stuff out or rushing things up or even ending an episode in a worse moment than it was in old anime. A perfect example of not 1:1 ratio is when Hisoka commented on Gon not making it through the tower which you called generic (lol). That's exactly the comment you would expect from someone who regarded Gon as someone who might be a worthy opponent in the future. And if Gon couldn't even do in 72 h what he did in 6 hours (without rush) then it would mean he was really bad at judging people (and as it was stated in HxH manga, the better you are the easier you can judge someone's strength).

So yeah, additions like these show that directors of the old anime understood the source material very well and did their job. Another example is the use of a narrator in the new anime, contrary to comments made by characters to show the viewers what's going on. The first method is artificial and in anime (or television overall) is intended for retards or kids who can't think for themselves and draw a conclusion themselves. In books all-knowing narrator is necessary because some things you can't show in any other way. In manga it depends but basically it's always possible to not use them, although that could require a massive amount of work (for example to actually show something via drawing that could be said in a few sentences) and space and mangaka have a limited amount of space/pages and time. However, when overused it only shows laziness of a mangaka. That's one of the reasons I despise chimera ant arc where there were dozens of pages with nothing but text from an all-knowing entity which could be done in a different manner.

Anyway, my point is, where the new anime uses a narrator who hand-holds everyone, old anime used more subtle ways to explain some things. Either just by showing something explicitly or by using secondary characters as medium. In the Gon vs. Hanzo fight it was done particularly well and judges have shown to be exactly as I would expect them to. I mean, it's normal that a judge would comment on a fight and analyse it and hunters only staring (especially Menchi who is not the calm type) when a fight like the one we've seen was in progress would be unnatural. Thankfully, in the new anime Menchi commented on one thing at least but overall it was done much worse than in the old one.

Also in old anime creators were taking into such details as Gon stretching his hands which must have been numb due to being tightened around the fishing rod for such a long time or Gon being affected by Garreta's poison (in the new anime Gon was shown to be as resilient to poison as Killua).