Aug. 2, 2025 (Current Version)
Menchi
メンチ、멘치
Simplified Name: 门淇
Gender: Female
Age: 21
Gender: Female
Age: 21
Menchi is a famous female Gourmet Hunter known for her incredible sense of taste and her short temper. At only 21 years old, she holds the One-Star Hunter title because of her big role in food culture. She is best remembered for being a strict examiner in the second part of the Hunter Exam, where her pride and anger changed everything for the examinees.
Menchi is a Gourmet Hunter and one of the Second Phase examiners in the Hunter × Hunter series, known for her extreme pride in cuisine and her sharp, uncompromising judging style.
### Appearance
Menchi is a young woman with bright, colorful hair. In the first anime, her hair is pink, but in the second, it is emerald green.
## Basic Profile
### Personality
Menchi is proud, especially about food. She has a short temper and becomes very stubborn when she gets mad. She takes great care in judging food and does not like it when people make fun of cooking.
**Name:** Menchi
**Gender:** Female
**Occupation:** Gourmet Hunter, Second Phase Hunter Exam Examiner
**Hunter Rank:** One-Star Hunter (for contributions to food culture)
**Age:** 21
### Background
Menchi became a One-Star Hunter at 21 because she made important contributions to food culture. She has a special ability—she never forgets how anything tastes after eating it once.
## Appearance
### Abilities
Menchi is a great cook and has a sharp sense of taste. She can remember any flavor after just one bite. Her Nen type is not known in the main story, but in "Greed Island," she is shown as having Emission abilities.
Menchi is depicted with different hair colors in the two anime adaptations.
In the first adaptation her hair is pink, while in the second adaptation it is emerald green.
### Plot
Her design emphasizes a youthful but intense expression that matches her fiery personality.
#### Second Exam as a Hunter Examiner
Menchi was chosen as an examiner for the second stage of the Hunter Exam along with Buhara. She set the test for the second half, challenging applicants to make sushi. The point of her test was to see if the test-takers could watch and pay attention through cooking.
## Personality
#### The Sushi Test Incident
Things went wrong when Hanzo revealed how to make sushi, and then joked that making sushi was too easy. Menchi was furious at these comments and took the exam even more seriously as a gourmet judge. Because of her anger, nobody passed the test.
Menchi is fiercely proud of her craft as a Gourmet Hunter.
She has a quick temper, especially when she feels food—particularly traditional dishes—is being disrespected.
#### Recognizing Her Own Mistake
Menchi was acting strict and stubborn, but Netero, the head of the exam, stepped in to help. He talked to Menchi and convinced her to be fair. Menchi admitted she made a mistake with the sushi test. She decided to offer a different challenge: cooking the boiled egg of the Spider Eagle.
Once she becomes angry, she becomes extremely inflexible and refuses to compromise.
Her passion for food culture leads her to push examinees very hard, expecting seriousness, respect, and genuine effort.
#### Changes in the Anime
In the second anime, some scenes changed. Menchi and Buhara worked together on a cooking challenge using pork. The part with the sushi test was not shown. Because of this, Menchi's role in the story was smaller.
One of her standout traits is her flawless taste memory.
Once Menchi has tasted something, she never forgets its flavor.
### Trivia
- Menchi is a young One-Star Hunter.
- Her hair color changes in different anime versions.
- She deeply cares about food and has a sharp memory for taste.
- Her strictness once resulted in no one passing her exam.
## Abilities and Skills
Menchi is recognized as a One-Star Hunter because of her outstanding contributions to food culture.
Her professional specialty is seeking, evaluating, and preparing rare and high-quality ingredients.
She possesses an exceptional culinary sense and the ability to remember any flavor she has experienced.
This makes her an extremely strict but capable food critic and examiner.
Her exact Nen type is not specified in the main story.
However, in the game “Phantom Greed Island,” she appears as an Enhancer with an Emission-type ability, indicating she may use emission-based Nen techniques in that continuity.
## Role in the Hunter Exam
### Second Phase Examiner
Menchi is one of the two examiners in the Second Phase of the Hunter Exam, alongside Buhara.
While Buhara focuses on quantity and basic cooking, Menchi centers her test on culinary skill, observation, and respect for food.
### The Sushi Test
In the original version of the story, the second half of the Second Phase exam under Menchi is a sushi challenge.
Her stated purpose is to test the candidates’ observation and attentiveness through cooking.
However, the situation spirals when Hanzo casually reveals how to make sushi.
He then makes dismissive comments that seem to treat sushi as trivial, which enrages Menchi.
Angered by both the lack of respect and the perceived shortcut, Menchi’s test shifts from a balanced evaluation to something more like a high-level gourmet judging.
As a result, she fails every single candidate, leading to the unprecedented situation of having zero passes in her phase.
### Intervention and Retest
Menchi’s attitude during the exam is initially arrogant and unyielding.
She insists on her standards and refuses to accept that the fault might lie in how she set the task.
Chairman Netero intervenes and mediates between Menchi and the examinees.
Through this, Menchi comes to recognize her own shortcomings as an examiner, acknowledging that her personal pride interfered with fair testing.
A retest is then held with a new assignment selected by Menchi.
This new task is to prepare “boiled Kumo Eagle eggs,” a dangerous but more straightforward culinary challenge, which better balances difficulty, risk, and fairness.
## Differences in the Second Anime Adaptation
In the second anime adaptation of Hunter × Hunter, Menchi’s role in the exam is significantly altered.
The sushi portion of the Second Phase test is removed entirely.
Instead, Menchi and Buhara jointly oversee a single assignment based on cooking a pig dish.
Because the entire sushi test sequence is cut, Menchi’s overall screen time and narrative presence are greatly reduced in this version.
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Sept. 2, 2024
Menchi
メンチ
Simplified Name: 门淇
Gender: Female
Age: 21
Gender: Female
Age: 21
Menchi is a famous female Gourmet Hunter known for her incredible sense of taste and her short temper. At only 21 years old, she holds the One-Star Hunter title because of her big role in food culture. She is best remembered for being a strict examiner in the second part of the Hunter Exam, where her pride and anger changed everything for the examinees.
### Appearance
Menchi is a young woman with bright, colorful hair. In the first anime, her hair is pink, but in the second, it is emerald green.
### Personality
Menchi is proud, especially about food. She has a short temper and becomes very stubborn when she gets mad. She takes great care in judging food and does not like it when people make fun of cooking.
### Background
Menchi became a One-Star Hunter at 21 because she made important contributions to food culture. She has a special ability—she never forgets how anything tastes after eating it once.
### Abilities
Menchi is a great cook and has a sharp sense of taste. She can remember any flavor after just one bite. Her Nen type is not known in the main story, but in "Greed Island," she is shown as having Emission abilities.
### Plot
#### Second Exam as a Hunter Examiner
Menchi was chosen as an examiner for the second stage of the Hunter Exam along with Buhara. She set the test for the second half, challenging applicants to make sushi. The point of her test was to see if the test-takers could watch and pay attention through cooking.
#### The Sushi Test Incident
Things went wrong when Hanzo revealed how to make sushi, and then joked that making sushi was too easy. Menchi was furious at these comments and took the exam even more seriously as a gourmet judge. Because of her anger, nobody passed the test.
#### Recognizing Her Own Mistake
Menchi was acting strict and stubborn, but Netero, the head of the exam, stepped in to help. He talked to Menchi and convinced her to be fair. Menchi admitted she made a mistake with the sushi test. She decided to offer a different challenge: cooking the boiled egg of the Spider Eagle.
#### Changes in the Anime
In the second anime, some scenes changed. Menchi and Buhara worked together on a cooking challenge using pork. The part with the sushi test was not shown. Because of this, Menchi's role in the story was smaller.
### Trivia
- Menchi is a young One-Star Hunter.
- Her hair color changes in different anime versions.
- She deeply cares about food and has a sharp memory for taste.
- Her strictness once resulted in no one passing her exam.
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