Hunter X Hunter (Vol. 1 35) English Manga Graphic Novel Set NEW

Brand New English Manga Graphic Novels Set Hunter X Hunter Volume 01 - 35 Plot Twelve years prior to the start of the story, Ging Freecss left his infant son, Gon Freecss, with, Gon's aunt, Mito, on Whale Island Kujira Shima? Gon, who was told all his life that both his parents were dead, finds out from Ging's apprentice, Kite, that his father is still alive and has since become an accomplished Hunter.

[2][3][4] Gon leaves his home to become a Hunter like his father by taking the Hunter Examination Hant Shiken? , a series of brutal tests involving skill, survival, and teamwork. [2] During the exam, Gon meets and eventually befriends three of the other applicants: Kurapika, the last remaining member of the Kurta clan who wishes to become a Hunter in order to avenge his clan and recover their scarlet-glowing eyes, plucked from their corpses by a band of thieves known as the Phantom Troupe; Leorio, a prospective physician who, in order to pay for medical school, desires the financial benefits Hunters receive; and Killua Zoldyck, another twelve-year-old boy who has left his former life as a member of the world's most notorious assassin family. [3][4][5] Among many other examinees, Gon continuously encounters Hisoka, a mysterious and deadly transmuter who takes an interest in Gon. The final phase of the Hunter Exam sees Gon passing the exam in anticlimax and Killua failing after killing another applicant out of frustration.

However, it is then revealed that one more secret task is required of the applicants for them to truly pass the Exam. The trio then travels to Killua's home estate in order to retrieve the boy from his overbearing family. In September of that year. , a skyscraper where thousands of martial artists compete daily in fighting tournaments. [6] There they meet a kung fu master named Wing, who trains them in utilizing Nen, a Qi-like life energy utilized by Hunters to manifest parapsychological abilitiesalso considered to be the final requirement to pass the Hunter Exam.

In the climax of the arc, Gon refaces Hisoka in the Heavens Arena in his final challenge of the Examination. [7] Meanwhile, Kurapika starts working as a bodyguard for a mafia member's daughtera teenaged clairvoyant flesh collector who is interested in a pair of Kurta Clan eyeballs being auctioned off.

[7] A gang war between the mafia and the Phantom Troupe rocks Yorknew City in the first week of September, eventually forcing the protagonists to all get involved and eventually cross paths. Kurapika struggles with his desires for revenge and his relationships, having to decide whether or not to sacrifice his friends as pawns in order to achieve his own vengeance. The game, created with Nen, rewards one by allowing them the choice of taking three magical items from the game into the real world. Inside Greed Island, the Phantom Troupe starts to play the game for mysterious reasons, a player's alliance becomes dangerously close to completing the game, and an unknown serial bomber has been murdering players in order to clear the game first. Gon and Killua, outclassed by the difficulty of the challenges in the game, are soon joined and trained by an experienced teacher of Nen and kung fu master: Biscuit Krueger.

With her help, Gon and Killua begin to take on the challenges of Greed Island in an attempt to get closer to Gon's father, with Killua taking a short leave from Greed Island to attend the Hunter exam once more and finally earn his license. In the climax of the arc, Gon faces the serial bomber one-on-one and eventually wins Greed Island. Using two of his rewarded cards, Gon and Killua travel to the location of a player whom they believe to be Ging.

However, it ends up bringing them to Kite instead. Alongside Kite, Gon and Killua briefly work as biological researchers. As they investigate a giant insect limb found on the country's shores, the group discover it came from a man-sized Chimera Ant queen, an insect that devours other creatures and then gives birth to progeny that inherit the characteristics of the different species it has eaten.

The queen washes up onto an island nation called the Neo-Green Life N. Autonomous Region, inhabited by a neo-luddite culture.

She quickly develops a taste for humans and builds a colony in order to conceive both an army of offspring and a Chimera Ant king named Meruem. The Chimera Ants proceed to wipe most of the population out before Gon, Killua, and Kite arrive.

The queen dies during labor, and the king and his Royal Guards flee N. Secretly overthrowing the government of the nearby Republic of East Gorteau? For two months following an attack by the Chimera Ant Royal Guard Neferpitou, Gon learns that Kite is being manipulated by the ant and becomes enraged. Under the guise of the former king of the Republic, Meruem initiates the process of forcibly awakening Nen in the civilians of East Gorteau in order to select soldiers to join his own personal army to conquer the world, and convert the remaining inhabitants to foodstock.

As Ants formerly under the queen's rule rejoin the king, the Hunter Association mobilizes quickly to stop the oncoming genocide by sending in an extermination team of Hunters. Looking for a way to restore Kite to his normal state, Gon and Killua join the extermination team in order to find Neferpitou. The confrontation reaches its peak during a battle between the Chimera Ant King and Netero, the chairman of the Hunters Association, and a second meeting between Neferpitou and Gon.

Netero perished during the fight the Chimera Ant King, but his death was not in vain. After the battle with Netero, the Chimera Ant King had amnesia due to the impact of the fight.

The Chimera Ant King came back to the castle and realized that he was missing something important from his memory. Shaiapouf and Menthuthuyoupi tried to hide the existence of Komugi while trying to kill her behind the Chimera Ant King's back. However, the Chimera Ant King found Komugi and realized that the fight between the humans and ants were meaningless. The battle ended and the Chimera Ant King stayed with Komugi until his last breath. However, his family is unwilling to risk losing Alluka or having her dangerous powers used against them, but after evading his older brother Illumi's attempts to intercept him, Killua manages to bring Alluka to Gon's side and have him fully recovered, before sealing her powers completely to ensure she can have a normal life.

Some time later, Netero's son, Beyond, assembles an expedition to the Dark Continent Ankoku Tairiku? , the forbidden, vast area outside of the known world, sponsored by the Kingdom of Kakin.

To accompany Beyond and prevent him from doing something unexpected, the Zodiacs decide to watch over him, inviting Kurapika and Leorio to join them, replacing Ging and the former Vice-Chairman Pariston, who assembled their own team by Beyond's request. Kurapika doesn't show any interest in joining Zodiacs at first but shortly after he is convinced by Mizaistom one of the Zodiacs and joins. The item "Hunter X Hunter (Vol. 1 35) English Manga Graphic Novel Set NEW" is in sale since Wednesday, January 31, 2018. This item is in the category "Collectibles\Comics\Manga".

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Language: English
Genre: Action / Battle / Shonen
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