Hunter x Hunter Nen x Impact Fighting Game Teases More Season Pass Characters in Video

Bushiroad streamed a new video on Saturday for Bushiroad Games and Eighting's Hunter x Hunter Nen x Impact 2D 3v3 fighting game based on Yoshihiro Togashi's Hunter X Hunter manga, which teases more charactesr in the game's Season Pass 1. The video seemingly teases the characers Phinks Magcub, Shizuku Murasaki, and Zeno Zoldyck based on the silhouettes. The game's Season Pass 1 will include Nephelpito this fall, with three other characters arriving in winter 2025, spring 2026, and summer 2026.The game released for PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, and PC via Steam worldwide on July 17. Arc System Works is publishing the game outside of Japan. Rollback netcode is only available on the PlayStation 5 and Steam versions of the game. Cross-platform play is not available.The game has language support in Japanese, English, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese. Future patches will add German, Italian, French, Spanish, and Korean.Togashi launched the manga in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in 1998. The manga inspired two television anime series, two anime films, several original video anime titles, and several stage plays. Shueisha published the manga's 37th compiled book volume, the manga's first volume after four years, in November 2022. Viz Media shipped the 37th volume in English in October 2023. Shueisha published the manga's 38th compiled book volume on September 4.The manga went on hiatus in January 2023, citing health issues for the author. Shueisha stated at the time that it consulted with Togashi, and decided that the manga should not follow a weekly serialized format going forward. The manga resumed with a new chapter on October 7.Bushiroad launched its Bushiroad Games label in January 2023.Source: Arc System Works' YouTube channel