Ponzu

Ponzu is one of the minor characters in the Hunter X Hunter series and the 24 examinees in the 287th Hunter Exam, who entered the fourth phase of the exam. Despite her chances and potential, she never got the chance to successfully become a Hunter due to failing the exam twice and being killed by a Chimera Ant during her expedition to the NGL.
In English, she is voiced by Leda Davies (1999) and Reba Buhr (2011). In Japanese, its Umi Tenjin (1999) and Haruka Kudō (2011).
==Biography==
Ponzu makes her first appearance in the Hunter Exam arc. She enters the 287th exam of the Hunter organization and completed its three phases. She meets Leorio during the fourth phase when they all have to collect the number badges from their opponents. They meet each other inside a cave that they are trap in and surrounded by snakes that are conjured by one of its contestants, Bourbon. She explains that she put sleeping gas into the cave so she can take his badge but found out that not only the gas did not reached him as he released his snakes before it reached them and her bees accidentally killing him. With Bourbon dead, he won't be able to call off his snakes, which leaves her trapped inside.
Ponzu and Leorio are finally rescued by Gon Freecss and his friends but Ponzu fell unconscious when the sleeping gas has been used again to escape. Gon takes her badge and gives it to Leorio. Afterwards, Ponzu fails the current Hunter Exam and enters the next one during the Greed Island arc but lost again but this time to Killua.
She makes her return during the Chimera Ant arc, where she, Pokkle, Balda, and Pekuba investigate the NGL to look into the Chimera Ant situation. When entering the self-governed country, they discovered several Chimera ants killing and capturing human remains to feed to their queen. The group gets into a fight with them but all of them perish with Pokkle knocked out. Ponzu escape and sends her bees to carry a message to the Hunter Organization and many Hunters as they can, so they can be aware of the situation at large. Her life sadly ends when she was shot by a Chimera Ant, who was killing many humans he encounters with a single pistol. After her death, The gun-tooting ant consumes her body leaving nothing left. But Ponzu's sacrifice was not left in vain as her bees successfully warned the Hunter organization about the Chimera Ant problem, which led Netreo to lead a team of selected hunters to exterminate the ants.
==Gallery==
File:Ponzu HE Portrait.webp
File:Ponzu CA Portrait.webp
File:Ponzu 2011 Design.webp|Ponzu (2011) design sheet.
File:Ponzu 2011.PNG.webp
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File:Ponzu % 26 Pokkle Eyecatch - Episode 80.webp
File:Ponzu HXH 1999.webp|Ponzu in the 1999 anime adaptation.
File:Ponzu Manga.webp|Ponzu's apperance in the manga.
==External Links==
*Ponzu on the Hunterpedia Wiki
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