Bought at a library book sale

I'll be keeping this one.

This is the text from the back cover:

Gon might be a country boy, but he has high aspirations. Despite his Aunt Mito's protests, Gon decides to follow in his father's footsteps and become a legendary Hunter. The Hunter hopefuls begin their journey by storm-tossed ship, where Gon meets Leorio and Krapika, the only other applicants who art devastated by bouts of seasickness.

Having survived the terrors of the high seas, Gon and his companions now have to prove their worth in a variety of tests in order to find the elusive Exam Hall. And once they get there, will they ever leave alive..?

Read night before last.

I wasn't sure if I'd like this series. Yoshihiro Togashi is also the creator of Yu Yu Hakusho, which I tried to read a long time ago (crikey, I think it may have been over ten years ago at this point) and didn't much care for. But it's hard to turn down a good old-fashioned adventure quest, and Gon's simple country boy purity is hard to resist. So far, I'm curious about this Hunter's exam, which has the ruthless brutality of all the best fairy tale challenges.