Hunter × Hunter is such a treasury of characters whose way of bonding is bent out of shape that you want to call it a trade fair of attachment disorders. Ging, who left his son behind; Illumi, who controlled his brother with a needle; Killua, raised in a family of assassins without learning how to make a friend. These characters land because the wounds are drawn from life.
This page reads 26 Hunter × Hunter characters through three layers: MBTI as the outward personality, attachment style as the hidden side, and a Big Five type. Rather than simply assigning a type, Why this type from what they do in the story and where they came from — that is how this site works.
📊 Attachment style distribution across the Hunter × Hunter cast
The comparison baseline is the attachment split across 42,256 quiz responses: 30.1% secure, 15.5% anxious, 13.7% avoidant, 40.6% fearful-avoidant.
Almost every Zoldyck is avoidant or anxious: a family that reads like a textbook on what a home does to attachment. That the protagonist, Gon, is secure rests on the love of Mito and of Whale Island — which is also the hope that attachment can grow even when a parent is absent.
🧩 Reading the relationships in Hunter × Hunter through attachment
Hunter × Hunter is a story that gathers people whose families do not work. Killua was taught that control is love, Kurapika lost his clan, and Chrollo became the head of a group of abandoned children. Among them only Gon has a reliable secure base, in Mito. That he can make friends with anyone is not personality but a foundation that lets him trust the world. The contrast — the Troupe functioning as a substitute family while the Zoldycks, who are blood, do not — is a subject this work returns to again and again.
📖 Character list (tap to jump)
The artwork is 16 MBTI types × 4 attachment styles = 64 combinations character images. When the same picture appears twice, those two match all the way down to the 64-type level.
Gon Freaks
ENFP
Secure
Killua Zoldyck
ISTP
Fearful-avoidant
Kurapika
INFJ
Fearful-avoidant
Leorio
ESFJ
Secure
Hisoka
ENTP
Avoidant
Chloro Lucilfur
INTP
Avoidant
Gin Freaks
ENTP
Avoidant
Illumi Zoldyck
INTJ
Anxious
Palm=Siberia
ISFJ
Fearful-avoidant
Meruem
INTJ
Fearful-avoidant
Wheat
ISFJ
Anxious
Biscuit = Kruger
ESTJ
Secure
Isaac Netero
ESTP
Secure
Kite
ISTP
Secure
Morau-McCarnashi
ESTJ
Secure
Knuckle Vine
ESFP
Anxious
Shoot = McMahon
ISFP
Anxious
Machi=Komatine
ISTP
Avoidant
Shalnark Ryusei
ENTP
Secure
Shizuku = Murasaki
INTP
Avoidant
Nobunaga Hazama
ESFP
Anxious
Silva Zoldyck
ISTJ
Avoidant
Xeno Zoldyck
ISTP
Secure
Alluka Zoldyck
ISFP
Anxious
Winger
ISFJ
Secure
Schauapf
ENFJ
Anxious
🎣 Gon Freaks: MBTI ENFP, attachment Secure
Even after being left behind by his father, his straightforward curiosity and goodwill remained intact.
MBTI radar (ENFP dominant four axes + attachment stability)
Big Five radar (five factors + hidden-side axis)
Why Gon Freaks is ENFP × Secure
Gon's search for his father and readiness for friendship suggest ENFP's Ne. This quiz reads a secure tendency in his trust and engagement while retaining the anger and vulnerability he shows in loss.
⚡ Killua Zoldyck: MBTI ISTP, attachment Fearful-avoidant
Gifted education for an assassin family. A genius who grew up not knowing how to make friends.
MBTI radar (ISTP dominant four axes + attachment stability)
Big Five radar (five factors + hidden-side axis)
Why Killua Zoldyck is ISTP × Fearful-avoidant
Killua's judgment and precision suggest ISTP's Ti–Se. Family training and Illumi's control affect his response to danger, while friendship with Gon offers room to explore his own wishes.
⛓ Kurapika: MBTI INFJ, attachment Fearful-avoidant
He dedicates his life to avenging the murder of his entire family. My love for my friends is my only anchor.
MBTI radar (INFJ dominant four axes + attachment stability)
Big Five radar (five factors + hidden-side axis)
Why Kurapika is INFJ × Fearful-avoidant
Kurapika's planning suggests INFJ's Ni–Fe. The conflict between valuing friends and shouldering his mission alone offers a way to discuss closeness and withdrawal; caring for friends itself does not establish an attachment style.
💼 Leorio: MBTI ESFJ, attachment Secure
A lover who pretends to be a wealthy man. The death of a friend was the starting point for me to become a doctor.
MBTI radar (ESFJ dominant four axes + attachment stability)
Big Five radar (five factors + hidden-side axis)
Why Leorio is ESFJ × Secure
He plays the money-grubber while aiming at medicine out of the bitterness of not having been able to cure a friend — an ESFJ of extraverted feeling (Fe) who moves for other people.
🃏 Hisoka: MBTI ENTP, attachment Avoidant
Pleasure is the only standard. They are not attached to each other, and even killing each other is playful.
MBTI radar (ENTP dominant four axes + attachment stability)
Big Five radar (five factors + hidden-side axis)
Why Hisoka is ENTP × Avoidant
An improviser who drifts through the world with the pleasure of a fight as his only criterion — an ENTP of extraverted intuition × introverted thinking (Ne-Ti), faithful to his appetites. What Hisoka is thorough about is measuring people only by how ripe they are.
📕 Chloro Lucilfur: MBTI INTP, attachment Avoidant
A leader whose desires are hollow. He only touches the world by stealing.
MBTI radar (INTP dominant four axes + attachment stability)
Big Five radar (five factors + hidden-side axis)
Why Chloro Lucilfur is INTP × Avoidant
The idea of editing stolen abilities inside a book, and a mind that runs the Troupe like a work of art — an INTP of introverted thinking (Ti-Ne) who plays with concepts. What is unusual about his form of avoidance is that Chrollo genuinely has nothing he wants for himself.
🗺 Gin Freaks: MBTI ENTP, attachment Avoidant
The world's best hunter and worst father. She is more interested in mysteries than people, and is the embodiment of freedom and avoidance, even telling her son, "Come see me."
MBTI radar (ENTP dominant four axes + attachment stability)
Big Five radar (five factors + hidden-side axis)
Why Gin Freaks is ENTP × Avoidant
More excited by a riddle nobody has solved than by treasure of world-heritage rank — an ENTP of extraverted intuition × introverted thinking (Ne-Ti). What makes Ging the far point of the avoidant type is that he does not dislike his son at all; he plainly approves of him.
📍 Illumi Zoldyck: MBTI INTJ, attachment Anxious
"Love" sticks a needle into my younger brother's brain. She is the quiet, vindictive embodiment of a family that calls control and possession love.
MBTI radar (INTJ dominant four axes + attachment stability)
Big Five radar (five factors + hidden-side axis)
Why Illumi Zoldyck is INTJ × Anxious
Flawless staging of an assassination and eyes with no feeling in them — an INTJ of introverted intuition × extraverted thinking (Ni-Te), optimised for the family business. The grounds for reading him as anxious are that his fixation on Killua runs on a single point: he cannot afford to be left.
🔮 Palm=Siberia: MBTI ISFJ, attachment Fearful-avoidant
When you fall in love, you become a knife; when you are rejected, you become a ghost. After going through a rampage of fear and avoidance, he became more determined and strong than anyone else.
MBTI radar (ISFJ dominant four axes + attachment stability)
Big Five radar (five factors + hidden-side axis)
Why Palm=Siberia is ISFJ × Fearful-avoidant
A meticulous care for people, built out of divination and observation — an ISFJ of devoted introverted sensing (Si-Fe). A blade when she falls in love and a wraith when she is refused: idealisation and violent reversal, the textbook fearful-avoidant, where the craving to be loved and the terror of rejection go off at the same instant.
♟ Meruem: MBTI INTJ, attachment Fearful-avoidant
A born king became a man when a blind girl asked him his name. He was born without knowing love, and died knowing love.
MBTI radar (INTJ dominant four axes + attachment stability)
Big Five radar (five factors + hidden-side axis)
Why Meruem is INTJ × Fearful-avoidant
A learning capacity that absorbs the whole standard repertoire of gungi within days of birth, and a king's design philosophy — an INTJ of introverted intuition × extraverted thinking (Ni-Te) from the moment he existed.
🎲 Wheat: MBTI ISFJ, attachment Anxious
A girl whose only place was in the military. Although he is subservient, he does not yield to the king in front of the board. A feat that put their existence on the line became a bond.
MBTI radar (ISFJ dominant four axes + attachment stability)
Big Five radar (five factors + hidden-side axis)
Why Wheat is ISFJ × Anxious
On the gungi board she will not concede a single move, and off it she is thoroughly self-effacing — an ISFJ of introverted sensing (Si) who lives inside one art.
💎 Biscuit = Kruger: MBTI ESTJ, attachment Secure
She looks like a girl, but inside she is a battle-hardened master. He sees through his disciples' talents and laziness, trains them, and maintains a perfect distance from them without pushing them too far.
MBTI radar (ESTJ dominant four axes + attachment stability)
Big Five radar (five factors + hidden-side axis)
Why Biscuit = Kruger is ESTJ × Secure
She sees through a student's talent and their laziness, trains them, and never pushes them away too far — an ESTJ of extraverted thinking (Te) who designs a training programme perfectly. A girl on the outside and a hundred battles on the inside; the room to enjoy that gap as entertainment belongs to a secure type with a settled self.
🙏 Isaac Netero: MBTI ESTP, attachment Secure
10,000 positive punches of gratitude. The chairman who stood at the pinnacle of martial arts and laughed at even death as an extension of play.
MBTI radar (ESTP dominant four axes + attachment stability)
Big Five radar (five factors + hidden-side axis)
Why Isaac Netero is ESTP × Secure
A physical seeking that reached the summit through ten thousand thrusts of gratitude a day — an ESTP of extraverted sensing (Se) devoted to the practice of martial art. At the top he regretted his own complacency, and met even death laughing that it had been fun to play. Accepting death is freedom from clinging: the ultimate secure type.
🎣 Kite: MBTI ISTP, attachment Secure
Jin's disciple. He has a professional reticence and a blunt sense of responsibility towards the boys.
MBTI radar (ISTP dominant four axes + attachment stability)
Big Five radar (five factors + hidden-side axis)
Why Kite is ISTP × Secure
Silent competence that keeps to a professional hunter's code, and judgement in an emergency so accurate it looks heartless — an ISTP of introverted thinking × extraverted sensing (Ti-Se).
💨 Morau-McCarnashi: MBTI ESTJ, attachment Secure
A master who believes in his two disciples and sends them out onto the battlefield, as deep as smoke.
MBTI radar (ESTJ dominant four axes + attachment stability)
Big Five radar (five factors + hidden-side axis)
Why Morau-McCarnashi is ESTJ × Secure
Tactics as freely shifting as smoke, and the nerve to send two students into a battlefield — an ESTJ of practical, commanding extraverted thinking (Te).
🐶 Knuckle Vine: MBTI ESFP, attachment Anxious
Strong and tearful. A natural debt collector who is so compassionate that he gives even his enemies a reprieve.
MBTI radar (ESFP dominant four axes + attachment stability)
Big Five radar (five factors + hidden-side axis)
Why Knuckle Vine is ESFP × Anxious
Armoured in a hard face and the logic of a debt collector, and the most easily moved to tears in the whole work — an ESFP of extraverted sensing (Se-Fe), where feeling decides every output.
🕊 Shoot = McMahon: MBTI ISFP, attachment Anxious
The challenger kept blaming himself for being cowardly. I proved with my body that courage is not the absence of fear.
MBTI radar (ISFP dominant four axes + attachment stability)
Big Five radar (five factors + hidden-side axis)
Why Shoot = McMahon is ISFP × Anxious
Precise handling of a cage and floating hands, and a way of fighting that is almost too careful — an ISFP who moves by inward observation. He goes on blaming himself for hesitating over Kite's rescue, and the sentence he passed on his own cowardice became his reason to fight: an anxious type in the form of wanting recognition less from others than from the person he used to be.
🧵 Machi=Komatine: MBTI ISTP, attachment Avoidant
The calmness of the group member and the sense of distance from Hisoka that makes it impossible to read the rest. An obligation that is as thin as a thread and cannot be broken.
MBTI radar (ISTP dominant four axes + attachment stability)
Big Five radar (five factors + hidden-side axis)
Why Machi=Komatine is ISTP × Avoidant
The precise work of nen-thread stitching, and the coolest head in the Troupe — an ISTP of introverted thinking × extraverted sensing (Ti-Se) who judges with the feeling taken out.
📱 Shalnark Ryusei: MBTI ENTP, attachment Secure
Although he has the ability to manipulate people, he is a good-natured older brother in the group's daily life. Carefree belonging to the brigade.
MBTI radar (ENTP dominant four axes + attachment stability)
Big Five radar (five factors + hidden-side axis)
Why Shalnark Ryusei is ENTP × Secure
A user who controls people through a mobile phone, and in the Troupe's day-to-day an easy, good-natured older brother — an ENTP of curious, light extraverted intuition (Ne).
🌀 Shizuku = Murasaki: MBTI INTP, attachment Avoidant
Natural and merciless. He is a cleaner who is talented in his lack of attachment, letting go of the things he erased along with their memories.
MBTI radar (INTP dominant four axes + attachment stability)
Big Five radar (five factors + hidden-side axis)
Why Shizuku = Murasaki is INTP × Avoidant
Sucking anything at all into Deme-chan and letting go of what she has erased, memory and all — an INTP of introverted thinking (Ti) who lives in an interior world of her own.
🗡 Nobunaga Hazama: MBTI ESFP, attachment Anxious
The man who cried the most over Ubo's death. He is compassionate and continues to wait for his dead comrade, leaving a vacant chair for him.
MBTI radar (ESFP dominant four axes + attachment stability)
Big Five radar (five factors + hidden-side axis)
Why Nobunaga Hazama is ESFP × Anxious
The craftsman's temperament of a man devoted to the iai draw, and the tear ducts that run hottest the moment his comrades come up — an ESFP of extraverted sensing (Se-Fi) who moves on feeling.
🐺 Silva Zoldyck: MBTI ISTJ, attachment Avoidant
Assassination as a family business and clumsy respect as a father. The head of the family was able to say, "If you want to meet your friends, go see them."
MBTI radar (ISTJ dominant four axes + attachment stability)
Big Five radar (five factors + hidden-side axis)
Why Silva Zoldyck is ISTJ × Avoidant
A professional consciousness that carries out assassination as the family trade, without drama — an ISTJ of tradition and contract, introverted sensing × extraverted thinking (Si-Te).
🪁 Xeno Zoldyck: MBTI ISTP, attachment Secure
A grandfather who adheres to the professional ethics of a killer. Her love for her grandson is dry, but it's definitely genuine.
MBTI radar (ISTP dominant four axes + attachment stability)
Big Five radar (five factors + hidden-side axis)
Why Xeno Zoldyck is ISTP × Secure
"I came here to kill, not to die" — an ISTP of introverted thinking × extraverted sensing (Ti-Se) who draws his lines by profit and professional ethics.
🎎 Alluka Zoldyck: MBTI ISFP, attachment Anxious
Begging and giving back. The Zoldyck family's taboo and innocence, whose desire to be loved has become their power.
MBTI radar (ISFP dominant four axes + attachment stability)
Big Five radar (five factors + hidden-side axis)
Why Alluka Zoldyck is ISFP × Anxious
An innocent rule of asking and repaying — an ISFP of introverted feeling (Fi), whose emotions become the law of the world exactly as they are.
👓 Winger: MBTI ISFJ, attachment Secure
A master of the town's dojo who taught Zushi and Gonkilua the basics of Nen.
MBTI radar (ISFJ dominant four axes + attachment stability)
Big Five radar (five factors + hidden-side axis)
Why Winger is ISFJ × Secure
Teaching the basics of ten and ren in stages, with a useful lie mixed in where it helps — an honest design, and an ISFJ of an educator's introverted sensing × extraverted feeling (Si-Fe).
🦋 Schauapf: MBTI ENFJ, attachment Anxious
Ant King's direct escort army. A butterfly whose loyalty to the king exceeds worship and leads to madness.
MBTI radar (ENFJ dominant four axes + attachment stability)
Big Five radar (five factors + hidden-side axis)
Why Schauapf is ENFJ × Anxious
An ENFJ of extraverted feeling (Fe) who stages the ideal image of a king and designs the room around him. His loyalty is faith in what a king ought to be, and he could not accept the actual king opening his heart to Komugi — the anxious type's sickness of idealising the object of love so far that the real person can no longer be loved…
🔬 Longer essays on the relationships in Hunter × Hunter
For readers who want more than one character at a time.the relationship itself taken apart through attachment theory.
❓ Frequently asked questions
How many Hunter × Hunter characters are listed?
Hunter × Hunter currently has 26 profiles here. Each one carries an MBTI type, an attachment style and a Big Five type, together with the reasoning behind them. (Gon Freaks／Killua Zoldyck／Kurapika and others.)
Which attachment style is most common in Hunter × Hunter?
Of the 26 profiles on this page, secure is the largest group with 9 (about 35%). On MBTI, ISTP leads with 4. Even inside one series the ways of holding distance diverge, so two characters with the same MBTI do not relate to people the same way.
Is this type assignment official?
Not official. This is our editorial reading, based on actions and descriptions in the work. It is not a psychological diagnosis and not the view of the people or studios involved.
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