HUNTER X HUNTER (Hanta Hanta), by Yoshihiro Togashi. First published in 1998 and first published in North America in 2005.
PLOT:
Gon wants nothing more in the world than to become a Hunter. To be a Hunter means to seek the wildest, most exotic, most profitable, and most magical things in the entire world, and the Hunters who discover them can gain fame and wealth beyond their dreams. Gon, meanwhile, simply wants the chance to follow in his father's footsteps.
Simply getting to the first Hunter examination site is an adventure onto itself, but Gon manages that with ease thanks to the help of his new friends Kurapika and Leorio. The next step for them is to survive the Hunter tests, and sometimes the applicants are more dangerous than the tests themselves.
