Hunter x Hunter 2011

[DarthEnderX]

I honestly wouldn't mind if HxH stopped here. More good stuff is welcome of course, but with Gon's main quest done, the point of this series has been achieved.

I don't know why people keep saying this.

Gon didn't become a Hunter to meet his dad. He became a Hunter because it sounded like the most amazing thing, and catching his dad was just a way for him to prove he'd reached a certain level of skill at Hunting.

Now that he's no longer chasing his dad, he's free to hunt what HE wants.

It's also a shounen series. Shounen series don't end until their main characters are the most powerful characters in the series. And even though Gon met his dad, he's clearly not stronger than him. I mean, shit, even Ging is only a 2-star Hunter, and there are apparently 3-stars. Gon doesn't have any stars yet. And the series just introduced an entire new dimension of potentially stronger characters out there.

[Kraco]

It's also a shounen series. Shounen series don't end until their main characters are the most powerful characters in the series. And even though Gon met his dad, he's clearly not stronger than him. I mean, shit, even Ging is only a 2-star Hunter, and there are apparently 3-stars. Gon doesn't have any stars yet.

That doesn't mean anything. Does Ging look like a man who would care about the number of stars printed on his card? Would he care to update it or go through whatever examination to have it done? In the first place we don't even know if it directly tells about power. It could refer to the person's position, years in Hunters, or years directly serving the organization like belonging to the Zodiac or working as a trainer/Hunter exam organizer, or just sticking to and developing the Hunter ideology. There also isn't any way to measure a person's level of power since it would vary dozens of percents based on who's the opponent.

As we saw in this last arc, there were truly lousy people working as pro-Hunters when Hisoka and Illumi wiped the floor with scores of them. Even one of the top 10 candidates in the election was one shot killed by Hisoka like a sheep. Gon is worlds above those. For all we know, he might qualify for a single star due to his contribution to the ant incident, but I reckon there are other factors that would prevent it, like being a kid and only having a year of membership under his belt.

[DarthEnderX]

In the first place we don't even know if it directly tells about power. It could refer to the person's position, years in Hunters, or years directly serving the organization like belonging to the Zodiac or working as a trainer/Hunter exam organizer, or just sticking to and developing the Hunter ideology.

True enough.

There also isn't any way to measure a person's level of power since it would vary dozens of percents based on who's the opponent.

That we know of.

Just because they haven't shown us scouters or someone with a power like Fukuro from One Piece, doesn't mean they don't exist in the HxH world.