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Hunter × Hunter is a manga by Yoshihiro Togashi about a 12-year-old boy named Gon Freaks, and his quest to find his father, Gin Freaks. Gin is a Hunter, which in the setting of Hunter × Hunter means that he is a member of society's elite, with pretty much total license to go anywhere or do anything.
Spoiler warning: Plot or ending details follow.
In the first major story arc, Gon takes a series of bizarre tests to become a Hunter himself, which include such things as navigating a deadly jungle, hunting other applicants, killing a wild boar, and making sushi. During the Hunter Test, Gon meets and befriends three of the other applicants, who become the supporting characters:
Another of the applicants in the Hunter Test is Hisoka, a complex villain as he like to kill others who are stronger than him who uses playing cards as weapons, some says that he views Gon as an "unripe fruit" that he will take great pleasure in killing once he's grown up enough to present a challenge but the truth is that he likes the courage that is in Gon when he rushed to save leori.
The second story arc involves Gon, Kurapika, and Leorio springing Killua from his parents' mansion. At the end of the second story arc, Leorio leaves for medical school and Kurapika leaves to find work as a bodyguard, taking both characters out of the story. In the third story arc, Gon and Killua go to the Celestial Tower, a 251-floor building where people can compete in fighting tournaments around the clock for cash and prizes. It is here they meet Wing, who teaches them about rean, a chi-like energy that can be used to manifest superhuman powers.
The fourth story arc reunites the four main characters for the world's largest auction in a sprawling metropolis called York Shin. While Gon, Killua, and Leorio try different methods to make enough money to buy Greed Island, a "Joystation" video game that could help Gon find his father, Kurapika takes center-stage. This story arc introduces the Genei Ryodan ("shadow brigade"), a group of assassins who, among many many other crimes, slaughtered all the other members of Kurapika's clan. Kurapika crosses paths with them while working as a bodyguard for a clairvoyant teenage girl named Neon, and spends the rest of the story balancing his/her bodyguard duties with hunting down the Genei Ryodan. The Genei Ryodan 's 13 members are:
Gon, Killua, and Leorio return to help Kurapika at the end of the third story arc, after which Leorio and Kurapika leave again, returning the focus to Gon and Killua. The fifth story arc concerns Gon and Killua's adventures on Greed Island, the magical video game that sucks its players physical bodies into its own world. The Greed Island story arc is very video-game-like, and involves a magical trading card game, but unlike other manga/anime like Pokemon or Yu-Gi-Oh!, the game in Greed Island is purely fantasy, and thus cards can do things like make you pregnant regardless of gender, or grant wishes, or make a magical TV that will show you a documentary on whatever you want to learn about, or "warp" you to specific towns -- things which would be impossible and pointless in a real-life trading card game. On Greed Island Gon and Killua are joined by Biscuit, a 100+ year-old woman who looks like a 12-year-old girl, is a master of nen, and trains Gon and Killua to nearly Dragon Ball-like levels of physical and spiritual strength.
During this story arc, Killua's little sister, Karuto, joins the Genei Ryodan.
After leaving Greed Island, Gon and Killua meet up with Kaito, the Hunter who told Gon about Gin and Hunters in the very first chapter. They are all hired to investigate a strange insect leg that washed up on a beach. Genetic testing determines that the leg belongs to an abnormally large queen Chimera Ant, an insect that eats other insects and animals, and then gives birth to children that are combinations of all the different insects and animals it's eaten. The queen Chimera Ant itself just happens to wash up on the shore of an island inhabited by a luddite culture, and proceeds to wipe most of them out and spawn hundreds of offspring before Gon, Killua, and Kaito arrive.
The manga is still a work in progress, and is currently about halfway through the Chimera Ant story arc.
The manga is currently published in Weekly Shonen Jump, and past episodes have been compiled into a set of 20 tankobon and growing.
An anime of Hunter × Hunter was broadcast on Fuji Television from mid October 1999 to March 2001, and ran for 62 episodes. The anime series removed the vast quantities of gore and severed limbs that filled the manga, added new scenes like the "Battleship Island" test in the Hunter Test, and fleshed out both the main characters and a few minor characters. The televised anime ended just before the end of the Genei Ryodan story arc. Two subsequent OVAs have carried the story through the end of the Genei Ryodan story arc (8 episodes), and the first half of the Greed Island story arc (8 episodes, released from February through April 2003). A third OVA for the rest of the Greed Island story arc is currently in production (March through August 2004).
Oddly, there also appears to have been a Takarazuka stage musical made of Hunter × Hunter, about which there is precious little information available.
As with every other anime series, Hunter × Hunter has spawned numerous video games (most of which take place on Greed Island) and a trading card game (which is not based on the cards used on Greed Island).
None of these media are officially available with English translations, with the exception of the first few episodes of the anime.
The "×" in the title is silent, and the name of the series is supposed to be spoken as just "Hunter Hunter". Yoshihiro Togashi got the idea for the title from a Japanese cop show in which the hero's sidekick always says everything twice.
Yoshihiro Togashi himself makes two cameo appearances in the anime as a man wearing a dog mask with square-rimmed glasses. In the first appearance, he gives the audience some very tangential exposition about Hisoka's childhood, and in the second appearance he gives the audience a brief, public-service-announcement-style warning about the perils of online auctions. Both appearances are completely superfluous to the plot, and the main characters are oblivious to his presence.
Kurapika's gender is a major point of contention among fans of the series. Although Kurapika speaks "male Japanese", his/her features, clothes, and mannerisms are all very feminine, (s)he is voiced by a woman in the anime, and (s)he does numerous things (like refusing to undress in front of anyone else, becoming incredibly embarrassed when Leorio strips down to his underwear at one point in the anime, and showing complete sexual disinterest in either women or men) clearly designed to keep his/her gender ambiguous. In a scene that some fans feel resolves the issue, Kurapika dons a long-haired pink wig and even more feminine clothing as a disguise to capture someone. When his/her captive says "I didn't realize [the person who was hunting me] was a girl", Kurapika removes the wig and replies "you shouldn't make assumptions" which is, of course, probably the most ambiguous answer possible.
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