Twelve-year-old Gon Freecss one day discovers that the father he had always been told was dead was alive. His Father Ging is a Hunter — a member of society's elite with a license to go anywhere or do almost anything. Gon determined to follow in his father's footsteps decides to take the Hunter Examination and eventually find his father to prove himself as a Hunter in his own right. But on the way he learns that there is more to becoming a Hunter than previously thought and the challenges that he must face are considered the toughest in the world.