It was just mid to good for the majority of its runtime especially pre-Chimera arc. The first few arcs were insufferably mid, it makes JJK look like kino. It was your standard and run of the mill shounen. All of its characters are flat and the story was basic. People really gotta take their heart-shaped glasses off when talking about HxH. One thing praiseworthy is its battle system though.
Honestly the battle system is amazing but the fights aren't. Half the time, it's just walls of text explaining thought processes or the abilities instead of actual fighting. Which is annoying as hell. Like just fight bruh. Also the tendency of the fights... just suddenly becoming one sided stomps.
For example, Chrollo vs Hisoka was a fight hyped up since the end of Heaven's Arena and everyone thought it'd be a cool fight which is nearly 50/50 especially cause Chrollo was returning after like 200+ chapters... and it turns out to be a one sided low-mid diff win. Where Chrollo barely gets hurt once. And the first 2 chapters are just explanation of Chrollo's abilities.
The fights would be good if it was a novel but for a manga? The fights are painfully shit.
Anyways read this before the #TogashiApostles attack me for being smooth brained and not wanting to see walls of text every fight
