Hunter x Hunter Characters

Kurapika

Last of the Kurta clan · Conjurer / Specialist

Kurapika's clan was wiped out by the Phantom Troupe for their Scarlet Eyes, which turn red with emotion and are sold as collector's items. He becomes a Hunter for two reasons: to kill the Troupe and to recover every pair of his people's eyes. His strongest chain is bound by a vow: it only works on members of the Troupe, and using it on anyone else would kill him. He's calm, formal and quietly self-destructive, and his story keeps asking how much of himself revenge will cost.

Age

17 at the start

Japanese voice (2011)

Miyuki Sawashiro

Leorio Paradinight

Aspiring doctor · Emitter

Leorio opens the series claiming he wants a Hunter licence for the money. The truth is that a friend died of an illness that could have been cured, and he wants to be a doctor who treats the poor for free. He's loud, quick to anger and the most ordinary of the four, which makes him their emotional anchor. In the Election arc he punches Ging in front of the assembled Hunters, the clip spreads, and he suddenly finds himself a serious candidate for chairman.

Age

19 at the start

Japanese voice (2011)

Keiji Fujiwara

Isaac Netero

Chairman of the Hunter Association · Enhancer

Netero is an elderly martial artist who spent his youth throwing tens of thousands of prayer punches until his speed outran sound. He runs the Hunter Association with a prankster's sense of humour, and he toys with Gon and Killua during the exam. When the Chimera Ants arrive he goes to face the King personally, which leads to one of the series' defining fights.

Ging Freecss

Gon's father · Ruins Hunter

Ging is a ruins Hunter, one of the best Nen users alive, and a terrible father. He left Gon with relatives to keep doing the work he loved, and he helped build the Greed Island game partly as a test for his son. When the two finally meet in the Election arc, the scene is deliberately anticlimactic and honest about who Ging is.

Kite

Ging's student · Conjurer

Kite is the young Hunter who once saved Gon in the forest and points him toward his father. His Crazy Slot ability conjures a random weapon he can't choose. Kite leads the first expedition against the Chimera Ants, and what happens to him becomes the reason for Gon's most dangerous decisions.

Biscuit Krueger

Double-star Stone Hunter · Transmuter

Bisky looks like a sweet little girl and is in fact a fifty-something veteran with a hulking true form. She trains Gon and Killua through the Greed Island arc, and her lessons on aura control give them the foundations they rely on for the rest of the series. She's vain, blunt and an excellent teacher.

Wing

Nen teacher · Enhancer

Wing is the scruffy, kind instructor who first teaches Gon and Killua Nen at Heavens Arena. He also trains Zushi. His insistence on doing things properly, and his shock at how fast the boys learn, establishes how unusual they are.

Knuckle Bine

Hunter · Morel's student

Knuckle is a hot-tempered, soft-hearted fighter who joins Morel and Shoot against the Ants. His ability puts a debt on the enemy's aura that grows over time. He's one of the clearest examples of the series' habit of turning an apparent thug into someone decent.

Senritsu

Musician · Kurapika's ally

Senritsu is a gentle flute player who can hear people's heartbeats and moods. She works alongside Kurapika in the Nostrade family's guard and becomes one of the few people he lets close. She's a small character with a big effect on how we read him.

Tonpa

The rookie crusher

Tonpa has taken the Hunter Exam over thirty times with no intention of passing. He just enjoys sabotaging newcomers. He's a small, petty villain, and he sets the exam's tone perfectly.

Pariston Hill

Vice-chairman · Zodiac

Pariston is a smiling, impossibly polite vice-chairman who loves being disliked. He treats the election to replace Netero as a game, mostly for the pleasure of annoying everyone, and he plays it better than anyone else.

Uvogin

Enhancer

Uvogin is the Troupe's strongest brawler, a giant who shrugs off rocket launchers. His fight with Kurapika is the first real test of Kurapika's chains and the moment the arc turns serious. His death hits the Troupe hard.

Nobunaga Hazama

Swordsman · Enhancer

Nobunaga is a samurai-style swordsman and Uvogin's closest friend. He takes a liking to Gon after capturing him, and offers him a place in the Troupe. His grief for Uvogin is one of the clearest signs that the Spiders are more than a gang.

Feitan Portor

Interrogator · Transmuter

Feitan is small, fast and cruel. He handles the Troupe's torture and his ability turns the damage he takes into a burst of heat. He's one of the most dangerous members in a straight fight.

Machi Komacine

Transmuter

Machi uses Nen threads to stitch wounds and severed limbs back together, and to tie up enemies. She's blunt, intuitive and one of the founding members. Hisoka's attention unnerves her more than any enemy.

Phinks Magcub

Enhancer

Phinks is a hot-headed fighter whose punches get stronger the more times he winds up his arm. He becomes more central in the Chimera Ant and Succession War arcs, often paired with Feitan.

Shalnark

Manipulator

Shalnark is the Troupe's friendly-faced tech and information specialist. He controls people with antennas plugged into their bodies through his phone. He's also one of the members Hisoka hunts after his fight with Chrollo.

Franklin Bordeau

Emitter

Franklin fires Nen bullets from his fingertips like machine guns. He's the giant, patient voice of reason who often calms the others down, and he takes part in the Troupe's massacre at the Yorknew auction.

Shizuku Murasaki

Conjurer

Shizuku conjures a vacuum cleaner called Blinky that can suck up anything that isn't alive. She's spacy and forgets things she considers unimportant, including people.

Pakunoda

Specialist

Pakunoda reads memories by touch, and she can fire them into others with a Nen gun. Caught between Kurapika's conditions and her loyalty to her friends, she makes the arc's most selfless choice.

Illumi Zoldyck

Eldest son · Manipulator

Illumi controls people with Nen needles and, it turns out, has controlled Killua for years with one buried in his head. He's flat, polite and convinced that he loves his brother. He's the closest thing the early series has to a horror villain, and his partnership with Hisoka later on is deeply uncomfortable.

Silva Zoldyck

Head of the family

Silva is Killua's father, a huge silver-haired assassin who, unlike his wife, accepts that Killua must find his own path. He fights Chrollo alongside his father Zeno, and their fight is a showcase of professional killers at work.

Zeno Zoldyck

Grandfather · Transmuter

Zeno is a calm old professional whose aura takes the shape of dragons. He fights Chrollo for money, then carries Netero to the Chimera Ant King. He's one of the few characters who treats killing as plain work.

Kikyo Zoldyck

Mother

Kikyo wears a visor and a ballgown and screeches with pride when Killua stabs his brother. She's the family at its most grotesque and most comic.

Alluka Zoldyck

Killua's younger sibling

Alluka is kept locked away because of the being called Nanika, who can grant almost any wish once certain requests are met. Killua's love for Alluka, and his fight to treat Nanika as family rather than a weapon, is the emotional core of the Election arc.

Komugi

Gungi world champion

Komugi is a frail, clumsy girl from a poor family whose only gift is a board game, and she's a genius at it. She treats the King with simple decency, and their games change him more than any fight.

Neferpitou

Royal Guard · Specialist

Pitou is cat-like and curious, with an aura so vast that its range is felt far away. It can heal, and it can puppet the dead. Its encounter with Kite changes Gon's path, and its last confrontation with Gon is one of the series' most shocking scenes.

Shaiapouf

Royal Guard

Pouf is a butterfly-winged aesthete who worships the King as a perfect being. He becomes jealous and frightened as he watches Komugi change Meruem, and he plots to stop it.

Menthuthuyoupi

Royal Guard · Transmuter

Youpi is a mass of muscle and rage who can reshape his body into weapons. He's the most direct of the guards, and over his fight with Morel and Knuckle he grows strangely thoughtful.

Ikalgo

Squad leader turned ally

Ikalgo is an octopus Ant who remembers enough of his human self to choose friendship with Killua. He's a small, warm character in a very grim arc.

Meleoron

Squad leader turned ally

Meleoron is a chameleon Ant who can turn invisible while he holds his breath. He was never loyal to the King, and he defects to the Hunters, where his invisibility becomes essential to the palace invasion.

Colt

Squad leader

Colt is a bird Ant who stays devoted to the dying Queen and begs the Hunters to save her. His loyalty is the first sign that Ants can love.