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There are two known kinds of currencies in the Hunter × Hunter world. These are:

Jenny[]

Jenny ((ジェニー) or ジェニー, Jenī) is the most common currency used. It has not been explicitly or clearly shown in a definitive and standardized form but is mentioned often throughout the series. As a point of reference for its value, Killua buys a canned drink with about Jenny Symbol 2011150.[2]

Pail[]

Pail (ペイル, Peiru) is the currency used in the Underground Clinic in East Gorteau. The normal exchange rate is one Jenny for 500 pail.[3]

Trivia[]

Anime and Manga Differences[]

  • The Pail currency is not mentioned in the 2011 anime adaptation.[4]

Intertextuality and References[]

  • Given its apparent status as a world currency, Jenny may be based on the term penny—a coin or a unit of currency in various countries (common in English-speaking countries).
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Jenny Symbol 201110,000 G.I. card (manga ver.)

  • Jenny is most likely based on yen, the official currency of Japan. Some of the facts, elements, and similarities that reinforce this notion are:
    • When Gon, Killua, and Zushi receive their first fight prizes Jenny 152) in Heavens Arena, it comes in the form of coins,[2] which (although not completely detailed) look like 1-, 50-, and 100-yen coins from the obverse perspective;
    • The manga's version of the J10,000 (G.I card)[1] shows a real ¥10,000 (Japanese yen) banknote (Series D, 1984) obverse image;
    • When Yasuha asks Nanika to make her a millionaire, the banknotes that fall down from an airship in the sky[5] (despite the lack of some details) show on one side a mountain similar to Mount Fuji—which has been issued on many yen banknotes;
    • Their status as widespread currencies, with jenny as an apparent international monetary standard currency and yen as the third most traded currency in the foreign exchange market;
    • The "exchange rate" or close equivalence between the two currencies;[6]
      • They also share the characteristic of having numerical values much higher than several other currencies.
    • the possible relation between their names: yen (also the standard spelling and pronunciation in English) derives from the Japanese kanji 圓 (えん, en). In the 16th century, Japanese /e/ (え) had been pronounced as [je], and some regions retain this pronunciation. Then the currencies' names (yen, "jen", and jenny, jenī) are not so far apart from each other;
      • The "-" (ニー) part of Jenny's original Japanese name resembles and sounds like the Japanese numeral for 2 (二, ni), a possible suggestion that Jenny is a second [fictional] version of yen.
    • the slight similarity between the yen currency (¥) sign and the Jenny symbol (Jenny);
    • and, the origin of Hunter × Hunter and its author being Japanese.

Miscellaneous[]

  • Following the original name (an uncountable noun, characteristic of the Japanese language), its name in the Viz translation does not have plural, or it is equal to the singular form (both jenny).

Translations around the World[]

Language Name
France Flag French Jenis
Peil
Russia Flag Russian Дженни (Dzhenni)

External Links[]

References[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 Hunter × Hunter - Volume 14, Chapter 129
  2. 2.0 2.1 Hunter × Hunter - Volume 6, Chapter 45
  3. Hunter × Hunter - Volume 24, Chapter 255
  4. Hunter × Hunter - Episode 127 (2011)
  5. Hunter × Hunter - Volume 31, Chapter 322
  6. Hunter × Hunter - Volume 8, Chapter 69

Notes

  1. At least around April 4, 2000, considering the chapter release date (in tankōbon format).
  2. At least around April 4, 2000, considering the chapter release date in the Japanese volume format and the U.S. dollar–yen (JPY per USD) monthly average historical exchange rate in the same month-year—precisely 105.35 yen per dollar.
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