Anita (アニタ, Anita) is an anime-only character in Nippon Animation's version of Hunter × Hunter; she aspires to become a Blacklist Hunter.[1]
Appearance[]
Anita's 1999 anime adaptation design
Anita has black hair in twin ponytails and green eyes. She wears a maroon tunic over a navy top and matching color pants, white earrings, a brown bag worn around her right side, black bracers, and boots. She also wears her examinee badge #111 on the top left side of her chest.[1]
Personality[]
Anita is mostly serious and highly determined to avenge her father, like Kurapika. She could sometimes be snappish or rude like when she tells Gon he can't win against Chairman Netero. Anita is also observant, noticing that he hasn't used his right arm or left leg against Gon and Killua yet.[1]
Background[]
She is the daughter of a wealthy spice merchant who was assassinated by one of the Zoldycks. Anita takes the 287th Hunter Exam because she knows that Killua was taking the Hunter Exam, and she wants to kill him to avenge her father.[1]
Plot[]
Hunter Exam arc[]
Anita sitting with Gon and Killua
Anita, examinee #111, fails the Second Phase in the 287th Hunter Exam, but stowaways on Chairman Netero's airship, carrying the examinees to the Third Phase. There she meets Killua and attempts to attack him with a knife. But Netero intervenes, knowing that she failed the exam, and keeps her under watch until they arrive at the next Phase.[1]
Anita at Killua's mercy
Anita breaks free and goes after Killua again; this time, Killua enters his assassin mode. He changes his nails into claws and slices the blade off her knife. He then pins her to the ground and holds his claws to her neck, ready to slit her throat. He snaps out of his assassin mode just before he is about to do this and knocks her out cold instead.[2]
When the airship reaches the Third Phase, Anita is sent back, and Killua hands her her earring while telling her that her father was, in reality, a drug merchant. The spice from his mine was a highly addictive substance; her father made a profit off the suffering of others, and that was why he was assassinated. Anita takes this very hard as she always thought of her father as a kind and loving man and began to cry.[2]
Trivia[]
- Killua claims either his mother or one of his siblings killed Anita's father.[2]
Anime and Manga Differences[]
- In the 1999 anime adaptation, 41 people pass the Second Phase of the exam, and Anita sneaks into the blimp, now carrying a total of 42 applicants. After being captured, Killua kills/mortally wounds one examinee,[2] leaving 40 applicants. In the manga, 42 people pass the Second Phase[3] and Killua kills 2 applicants.[4]
Translations around the World[]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
 Arabic
|
أنيتا ('Anita) | |
 Korean
|
아니타 (Anita) | |