Did Ging Really Say “You Should Enjoy the Little Detours to the Fullest”?

Yes. Ging Freecss says it to Gon in the final episode of the 2011 Hunter × Hunter anime, and it is the line the series ends on. What people share is one English translation of it; Wikiquote's transcript has another.

The verdict

Real, but the translations differ. Wikiquote's Hunter × Hunter page records the closing line of the series, at the top of the World Tree, in this wording: "Enjoy the side trips. A lot, okay? Things that are more important than what you're hunting for could be right there by the side of the road." The familiar version, "you should enjoy the little detours to the fullest, because that's where you'll find the things more important than what you want," has a narrower footing. Rechecked on 28 September 2026, it appears as a title-cased heading on three sites, CBR, Screen Rant and TheGamer, and the three headings do not agree with each other, differing over a comma, a full stop and the word "the". Title case also destroys the capitalization and punctuation that a quote site came for. One page does print the line in a sentence: a 2021 article on TheGamer, which quotes Ging telling Gon, "You should enjoy the little detours to the fullest," and then, "Because that's where you'll find the things more important than what you want." All four pages are on Valnet sites, one publisher rather than four, and none of them says whose translation it is quoting.

Who says it

Ging, to his son, at the end of a story that has been about finding him. That is what makes it land: the father who abandoned the boy is telling him the search was the point.

Where the familiar wording comes from

How the familiar wording first reached English audiences is not documented, and this page cannot source a route for it. What is checkable is the present state. Every reproduction we found traces back to one publisher: three headings and one sentence. This is the same pattern as Itachi's speech about reality and Gojo's "nah, I'd win": one line, two English versions in circulation. For a line whose whole meaning is that detours matter more than the destination, there is something fitting about it having two routes into English.

What to quote

The transcript wording, while saying that the familiar one exists. "Little detours" is what your reader will recognize, and the one sentence we found that prints it comes from a publisher that does not say whose translation it is, which is the distinction this whole site is built on. Hunter × Hunter has a quote hub here, opened on 4 September 2026 with Kurapika, Gon, Killua and Netero; Ging's closing line is on it now, in the transcript wording.

How we checked

The verification process asks for a primary or editorial source; the primary one, Wikiquote's episode-numbered transcript, supplies the scene, the speaker and the transcript wording. The rival wording was chased back to its sources, and they turned out to be four pages on a single publisher, three of them headings. The entry in the fact-check database is real with the translation caveat.