Liked Avengers: Endgame? Watch Hunter x Hunter!

• Episodes: 148
• Aired: October 2011 – September 2014

Major Similarities Between Avengers: Endgame and Hunter x Hunter

1. A Gathering of Heroes

The central attraction to Avengers: Endgame is that we get to see heroes from across 22 movies team-up to try and take on a singular enemy. This actually happens multiple times in Hunter x Hunter where characters from previous arcs, sometimes even villains and antiheroes, will return to aid our titular character in their latest test. In one of the last arcs, we see some of the most powerful but ambiguous characters come together to take on one of the world’s strongest beings.

2. A Suicidal Mission

Avengers: Endgame centers around a challenging quest to go back in time in order to gain the power to reverse the mass murder of half the universe’s population. It’s a mission that will be challenging to return from and is likely to have casualties. Hunter x Hunter’s last mission focuses on infiltrating a castle containing four beings stronger than any known human. We know that these characters won’t escape without great loss.

3. Layered Villain

Thanos had an entire movie’s worth of build up with the preceding Avengers: Infinity War, so going into Endgame we were aware of the villain’s motivations. Thanos is a man with a God complex, believing he alone knows what needs to be done to better the universe. Meruem, an ultra-powerful being, also gains certain ideals about how the world should be run. Alas, both Thanos and Meruem’s ideals, while aspirational, sought to limit the liberty humans embrace.

Liked Avengers: Endgame? Watch Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu (Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-)!

• Episodes: 25
• Aired: April 2016 – September 2016

Major Similarities Between Avengers: Endgame and Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu (Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-)

1. Time Traveling

Having failed to stop Thanos from wiping out half the universe, the heroes of Avengers: Endgame have to go back at various points in time to steal the stones necessary to undo his actions. Re:ZERO centers around a different sort of time traveling: Natsuki has to go back to a restart point every time he dies to find a way to live on while keeping the people he cares about alive as well. Like Avengers: Endgame, this can often result in unforeseen consequences.

2. A Troubled Protagonist

Avengers: Endgame’s heroes have undergone many changes after having suffered a defeat at the hands of Thanos. These changes can make it easy to dislike these characters if we fail to be sympathetic. Natsuki deals with a ton of stress and has to find new ways to cope with the losses he faces when he dies, this has serious effects on his personality. Avengers: Endgame and Re:Zero both don’t let off their protagonist without forcing them to adjust to their trauma.