Gon FREECSS

A lot of people dislike hunterxhunter because it is very contradictary and it definitely strays far from it's original shounen roots, but for me, that's the beauty of the series. Don't get me wrong, I love Naruto, One Piece, Bleach, Dragonball, Fairy Tail, etc..., but in shounen anime, it feels like it's just the same pattern with slight differences repeated over and over again. Hunterxhunter does something different. It constantly draws you in and then just kicks you in the ass as the exact opposite of what you were expecting to happen happens. I especially enjoy Gon's character because of how twisted his sense of morality and good vs. evil is. It's very interesting to see someone you expected to be your original shounen protagonist as something way different. Gon is very immature in a way, but this just makes the buildup darker. I loved it when Gon fought Pitou. I mean, sure all shounen anime protagonists have that one point where they just mysteriously get power from some where and kill the bad guy and then makes it out just fine afterwards, but for Gon, he was just so angry, so pissed and infuriated, you could clearly see as the way he saw the world got darker and darker, and watch as he sort of.... broke. And when he finally went super saiyan on pitou, he didn't make it out with a happy ending like the other protagonists do. He wasn't celebrated. He hadn't gotten his power out of goodwill and he wasn't the chosen one. Nor did he have anything special. He was just a normal kid with insane physical abilities and the ability to talk to animals, so when the battle against pitou was over, he had sacrificed his life force and his body basicaly shriveled. When the battle was over, Gon wasn't a reknowned celebrated hero. He was almost dead.

To summarize this stupidly large paragraph I wrote, I love Gon's character because of his lack of basic shounen protag morality, and for the same reason, I love the HunterxHunter anime in general as well.