Bushiroad Games and Eighting have revealed the first six playable characters in the upcoming Hunter X Hunter Nen X Impact fighting game. Last December, Hunter X Hunter fans received a surprise announcement at the Jump Festa 2024 event: publisher Bushiroad Games and developer Eighting would be collaborating on making a fighting game based on the popular anime property. This would be the first fighting game that only featured the cast of Hunter X Hunter, as previous licensed games based on the property are RPGs or mobile games. The only time Hunter X Hunter tackled the fighting game genre would be in the likes of Jump Ultimate Stars or Jump Force, which were anime crossover fighting games.

Hunter X Hunter Nen Impact's developer Eighting has an extensive history within the genre, with the developer specializing in creating licensed fighting games. Previous fighting games the company has developed include the likes of Naruto: Clash of Ninja, co-developing Marvel vs. Capcom 3, and 2022's DNF Duel in collaboration with Arc System Works and Neople. Hunter X Hunter fans were excited to hear that the fighting game developer would be working on Nen X Impact as well, with this excitement bolstered following the first look at the game.

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Bushiroad Games released a quick teaser trailer for Hunter X Hunter Nen X Impact, which showed off the game's slick cel-shaded anime art style, along with its six playable characters, who are all iconic and recognizable members of the cast. Hunter X Hunter protagonist Gon Freecs and his friend Killua Zoldyck were confirmed at the start of the trailer, before being followed by four other iconic characters: Kurapika, Leo Paradinight, Hisoka Morow, and Issac Netero.

Currently Confirmed Characters for Hunter X Hunter Nen X Impact

• Gon Freecs
• Killua Zoldyck
• Kurapika
• Leorio Paradinight
• Hisoka Morow
• Isaac Netero

Shortly after these six characters were revealed, the trailer cuts to briefly show how the game will be structured. Based on this early footage, Hunter X Hunter Nen X Impact is a team-based fighting game, where players battle it out in groups of three. This video demonstrates this by having Gon, Leo, and Netero on one team, while Killua, Kurapika, and Hisoka are on the other. The trailer doesn't show much of the fighting gameplay itself, so it's unclear if it will be a 2D 3v3 team fighting game similar to Dragon Ball FighterZ or Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, or it will be a 3v3 anime arena fighter like Jump Force.

Many are hoping that Nen X Impact will go in the former direction rather than the latter, as there are already so many 3D anime arena fighting games. Targeted platforms and a release window were not shown in this first trailer, but fans are still excited to see what Eighting and Bushiroad will deliver with Nen X Impact.

Hunter x Hunter (2016)

Release Date

October 2, 2011

Creator

Yoshihiro Togashi

Studio

Madhouse

Number of Episodes

148