Quote Originally Posted by Assassin
the first 1 or 2 episodes are kinda queer, with gon and that fishing thing, and the tree hugging animal love aspect. But soon as he reaches that island and meets up with leorio and kraupica (was that his name?), it gets awesome.
Indeed, it seems that those first couple of episodes seem to put-off more people from watching the series than actually getting people to watch the series. I really wonder about the amount of people that would've liked the series but stopped because of them.