Viz Media announced at its industry panel at New York Comic Con on Friday that it has licensed the 2011 Hunter × Hunter anime. The company plans to release the series on Blu-ray and DVD, and will dub the series into English.

The second television anime adaptation of Yoshihiro Togashi 's Hunter × Hunter manga premiered in Japan in 2011 and ran for 148 episodes.

Crunchyroll streamed the series as it aired. The series retold the story of Togashi's original manga from the beginning. The story follows Gon Freecs as he strives to become a Hunter in order to find his father and to find the reason why his father abandoned him as a baby to become a Hunter.