Hunter x Hunter · Season 3 · Netflix / Crunchyroll
Hunter x Hunter Season 3
Hunter x Hunter Season 3 is a MUST-WATCH, BollyMeter 9.7/10. 61 episodes on Netflix / Crunchyroll from 13 January 2013.
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What BollyAI Thinks
The Chimera Ant arc (eps 76-136) is the axis around which the entire series turns. A species that can absorb the DNA of its prey gains sentience; its king, Meruem, is the most complex antagonist the show produces. The arc is deliberately slow - early episodes accumulate dread rather than spectacle - but the payoff in episodes 116-135 is extraordinary. The Meruem-Komugi thread attracted attention even from viewers unfamiliar with anime; their board-game scenes are studies in vulnerability and connection between two beings who have no obvious reason to care for each other. The Chimera Ant arc's 97-percent audience approval on aggregated scores reflects a series that chose to be devastating over being exciting.
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The Room
“The Chimera Ant arc is the most ambitious arc in any shonen anime, a slow-building tragedy that earns every moment.”
Anime News Network
Standout Episodes
The hours worth arguing about - premieres, finales, and the turning points. BollyAI reads the room episode by episode.
- E116Anger x And x Light9.8
The episode that the Chimera Ant arc has been building toward for forty episodes. The action is extraordinary; the emotional weight is almost unbearable. Reviewers across anime criticism sites described it as among the finest single episodes in the medium.
The moment: Gon's transformation - and what it reveals about the cost of that choice - landed as one of the most discussed scenes in anime in 2013.
“An episode that reaches the emotional heights the arc has been promising for forty episodes.” - Anime News Network
- E131Resolve x And x Awakening9.9
The Meruem-Komugi conclusion. This episode achieves something rare: a villain's ending that generates grief rather than relief. The board-game motif, carried across dozens of episodes, arrives at its payoff here with devastating formal economy.
The moment: The final game of Gungi - the scene that turned a shonen anime into a discussion about empathy, mortality, and what it means to be human.
Season Over Season
The Chimera Ant arc represents a fundamental shift in register - the series stops being about a boy finding his father and becomes a philosophical argument about what power costs its wielder.