Hunter X Hunter: Dark Continent Expedition Arc | NETERO HAS A SON!?

this is the eighth and final final video in my hunter hunter arc analysis series in this video i'll be covering the dark continent expedition arc it is a transitionary arc which helps the story to progress from the 13th hunter chairman election arc to the succession contest arc prior to this arc we had heard about the dark continent from jyn when he was speaking to gone on top of the world tree in this very short arc we learn a lot of information about the world of hunter hunter that is a lot of exposition and it is very dialogue heavy new characters are introduced and we learn a lot more information about existing characters that we knew little about in addition to this we get the reintroduction of characters like kuropika who has not been in the story since the york new city arc so without further ado let's get into this exposition heavy arc [Applause] [Music] the dark continent expedition arc is the first in our manga exclusive arc breakdowns the material that i'll be covering in this video has not been adapted into the 2011 anime after the first chapter of this arc was published in 2012 the series went on to hiatus until 2014 where tagashi had returned to complete the final eight chapters of this arc because of this and the way that this arc ends and seamlessly transitions into the next one it wasn't adapted into the 2011 anime the chairman election arc seemed like a fitting end to the 2011 anime especially as it wrapped up gone's story the material that i'll cover from this video spans from chapters 340 to 348. despite only being nine chapters long this arc is dialogue heavy as there is a lot of exposition and setup for the future of hunter hunter as the story evolves from being centered around gon and his quest to find his father tagashi introduces us to the true scale of the world of hunter hunter as the story starts to revolve around several different characters who are very differing motives it is a lot to juggle and sometimes difficult to understand but hopefully in this video i'll be able to explain to you all of the new concepts that are introduced and what the differing motives of each of the characters are the arc begins with the zodiacs gathering for a meeting as it is brought to their attention that the king of the kakin empire has decided to advance onto the dark continent we learned that whenever humanity had tried to go to the dark continent in the past they had brought back with them great calamities the last official attempts to go to the dark continent were over 200 years ago the kakin empire is not within the v5 so it is exempt of their laws and restrictions thus allowing them to fully partake in an expedition to the dark continent in chapter 342 we learned that the world of hunter hunter that we have known so far is just a group of islands which is in the middle of a gigantic lake of course these islands are not small due to their size they are considered to be continents of themselves but they are small in comparison to the true scale of the world the world of hunter hunter is located within a enormous lake called lake mobius this lake is located in the center of the dark continent it is said that the dark continent is a freakish display of mother nature it is inhabited with gigantic monsters and filled with various different diseases due to the known and mostly unknown dangers within the dark continent the v5 had forbidden its member groups to explore anymore of the dark continent during the history of mankind they had tried to go there 149 times but out of all of these trips only five returned with survivors there were 28 people who had stepped foot onto the dark continent and had returned one of these individuals is isaac netro himself each of these five voyages that returned brought back with them a great calamity these would eventually come to be known as the five great calamities of the dark continent of the 28 people who had returned from the dark continent there is only one survivor now and it just so happens to be isaac netero's son beyond netro we learned that the kakin empire has organized a expedition team and the individual that they have chosen to lead this team is none other than isaac netro's son this revelation comes as a surprise to the zodiac members as not many people had known that he had a son in his opening statements beyond netro states that his father had always said that when you stop challenging yourself that is when your life is truly over beyond wants to decipher all of the myths and to explore the ruins within the dark continent he wants to know where our ancient ancestors came from fitting to his name he wants to go beyond his father he wants to remove all of the obstacles that are stopping humanity from exploring the dark continent he has an open invitation to anybody who is willing to join him on this voyage beyond netero promises to the world that he will take them to the dark continent in order to explore the new world we learn that beyond has been planning to go to the dark continent for a long time if beyond had wanted to go on his expedition with the permission of the v5 then he would have been caught up in years of legal paperwork which have purposely been put in place to stop individuals from wanting to go to the dark continent but beyond doesn't want to sit around for years waiting for permission and to play by v5s rules his desire is to go where no one has gone before he wants to meet individuals that nobody has ever met he wants to explore the dark continent without any restrictions he wants to acquire resources that nobody has touched he wants to leave his own unique mark on this unexplored territory beyond is fixated on this goal he is accepting of anybody who wants to join him on his expedition but at the same time he doesn't care if anybody wants to leave also he states that the only thing that will bother him is if someone tries to interfere with his plans in chapter 340 we learned that paristan and jinn have coincidentally resigned from these zodiacs just as beyond had announced his plans for his upcoming expedition in response to beyond's announcement the v5 have ordered the zodiacs to hunt him down the kakin empire is doing as they please because they haven't signed the treaty that the v5 members have signed this treaty forbids the v5 from entering into the new world so in effect the kakin empire have skipped all of the screening processes that the v5 have set in place in chapter 341 we learned that the entrance to the dark continent is guarded by a gatekeeper very little is known about this gatekeeper but he is mentioned in passing conversations several times during this arc the dark continent is described as pandora's box it is something that should not be opened in chapter 341 we are shown the risks of exploring the dark continent through seeing examples of the five great calamities and the effects that they have had on humanity ever since they had come from the dark continent we are shown human bodies that have been twisted and contorted like wrung out towels they are preserved within glass jars to remind humanity of the risks of exploring the new world we are also introduced to a survivor of one of the great calamities it has transformed the individual into something that is no longer a human as it no longer eats food and it is self-sustaining as it has survived for over 50 years without a meal we learned that the v5 had made this treaty to not go to the new world after they realized that every time that humanity had returned from there they flee from this unexplored land bringing back with them an extinction level threat during the expedition that natural had gone on he was accompanied by a son and we learned that beyond netro had been trying to go through unexplored routes and this resulted in many casualties because of this he had ended up retaining from his expedition and introducing new threats into the world during the lifetime of isaac netro his son had tried to go to the dark continent once more but he had forbidden to at least until after his death we cut back to the zodiac members who were left with a message from netro it is said that this message should be shown to these zodiac members if someone were to appear claiming to be a son in this message netro says that he had gone to the dark continent twice when he was younger but the strength required to explore this new world is not what he was looking for he had been searching for strength through an individual that he could see as an opponent with the only outcomes being victory or defeat instead what he had found in the new world was not a strong opponent but rather a harsh battle against mother nature where there is no clearly defined victor he eventually cuts to the chase and in his message he requests that the zodiac members successfully explore the dark continent before his son beyond netro does he requests them to overcome any of the risks that are associated with the new world asking them to return with hope the difficulty of this request is of course an a-rank he tries to disguise this final wish as a request and not an order but these zodiac members are well aware that netro had not asked for anything but this so it feels like an order so they are left with no choice but to adhere to his final request and to explore the dark continent themselves in a surprising turn of events beyond netro hands himself into the hunter association at the end of chapter 341 he does so so that there are no problems between the discussions that are occurring between the v5 and the kakin empire he wants the kakin empire to meet the v5s necessary requirements in order to enter the dark continent without any issues the v5 want to include the kakin empire as a new leader country so that they change into the v6 and they also want beyond netro to be captured this is so that any expeditions or voyages to the new world can be supervised by the v5 organization they are aware that the kakin empire wants to explore the dark continent in order to colonize it so in chapter 342 we learn that the v5 wants to trick them by giving the kakin empire islands which are on the outskirts of lake mobius these islands are located in the waters just before the dark continent they want to make them believe that they have reached and conquered the dark continent by handing them over these islands but now that beyond netro has handed himself in and appearing to comply with the v5 in actual fact he has a plan of his own the v5 have no intention of allowing the kakin empire to explore the dark continent on their own they instead want to supervise their actions and now that beyond netro has handed himself in they are able to supervise and to restrict him the five great calamities are like a preview of what to expect from the dark continent these are the threats that humanity had brought back from there the first is the botanical weapon called breon it is a sphere that protects mysterious and ancient ruins found within the new world then there's the gaseous life form called ai it is described as the codependence of desire and it would appear that aluka's powers have originated from this gaseous life-form the third calamity is the twin snake called hellbell it is a monster that infects its prey with a homicidal desire the fourth is a beast that keeps people as pets called pup and lastly the fifth great calamity is called zobe the immortality disease it is described as endless despair which is disguised as hope if you recall we had seen an example of a victim who has fallen to zobe having survived 50 years without any food but the consequence of this is that the individual no longer appears to be a human the fact that the kakin empire have made the general public know by the expedition leads the v5 to come up with a strategy to properly supervise it as it will be impossible to make the kakin empire listen to them now that the news has gone public in order to calm the situation and to peacefully resolve this issue they need to invite the kekken empire into the v5 now that vyond has handed himself in the hunter association will act as his chaperones during the expedition the zodiac members rightfully assume that beyond is currently playing along just so that he can get to the dark continent while being supervised but once he arrives on the uncharted territory than he will escape and do as he pleases it is up to the hunter association to come up with a way to prevent him from escaping and to properly supervise him and to prevent any of his accomplices from breaking him out in chapter 342 we have shown how the kakkin empire plans to transport people to the dark continent they have built a giant transport ship called the black whale number one it has a capacity to carry two hundred thousand people this will be the ship that will carry the expedition team into the new world on board will be the king of the kakin empire and there's 14 princes so now that we know the premise and the context of this arc let's now look at some other characters aside from beyond netero and the zodiacs when it comes to jin's character we know that he has wanted to explore the dark continent from the previous arc he supports the efforts that the kakin empire are going through and it is for this reason that he also supports beyond netero but he does appear to have a problem with paristan who is second in command of the expedition team jin understandably believes that paristan's intentions are not clear he thinks that he wants to sabotage the expedition to the dark continent all for his own pleasure and it is for this reason that he has joined beyond netaro's team and this is why jin is so adamant in this arc to take the position of second in command of the expedition jin doesn't necessarily want to even be in control he just wants paristan to not be number two under netero whether in position or even rank this way he can prevent paristan from sabotaging their efforts in his efforts to become the second in command jin offers a lot of money to the other members of the expedition team so that they can accept him as the number two he has plenty of reasons to suspect paristan's actions especially knowing that he has five thousand khmer and soldiers on standby waiting for whatever command that he throws at them in chapter 343 the oreo becomes a member of the zodiacs because of his exceptional performance at the elections because of this he has become a very well respected member of the hunter association and it is for this reason that he has been invited to become a zodiac member knowing that there is another vacant spot within the zodiacs he recommends coulda pick off of the position after initially being apprehensive he is convinced to join the zodiacs after learning that the fourth kakin prince called saridnik owns the remainder of his clan's eyes kudipika joins the zodiacs and he immediately assists them he does so by identifying traitors within the zodiacs and even within the hunter exam he is looking for individuals who may be assisting paristan and even beyond with his escape plan we can see that kuripika's character is very different we can only assume that this has happened because he has allowed himself to become further consumed with his goal of revenge i feel like he is no longer the kuru picker that we knew prior to the york new city arc thanks to kurepika's help at the end of the dark continent expedition arc we learned that monkey is the traitor within the zodiac and in regards to retrieving the remainder of his clan's eyes he desires to speak with sride nick and to convince him to give the eyes back he knows that all of the 14 kakin princes will be on board the black whale on the expedition to the dark continent this is why he will try to infiltrate in their ranks so that he may be able to speak to sridenik another character that is briefly mentioned in this arc is gone we learn about his whereabouts and updates as to how he is progressing gon is unable to use nan which results in his father advising him to seek out what he is able to do now that he has lost his powers this results to gone returning back to his home on whale island where we see him studying and catching up with paperwork for now living what seems to be a normal life another important story beat which the next arc will be focused upon is the succession contest we know that the fourteen princes of the kakin empire will be on board this expedition the king of the kakin empire declares that the sole survivor of this voyage will be the next king so the 14 princes have a lot on the line to wage war against each other so that one of them may be declared the next king in chapter 348 we get introduced to you benjamin another one of the princes we see him wrestling with a lion we see sridenik speaking to him and discussing the succession contest we see how the two of them are both sinister and evil in their own unique way sireidnick may not have the strength of benjamin but he appears to be extremely formidable through his facial expressions alone you can see that this character is very twisted especially considering the fact that we have seen him collect body parts and kill multiple women within this arc it is evident from chapter 348 that srinik will do anything in his power to become the next king so it's definitely interesting to see how these events will unfold in the next arc the dark continent is a vast unexplored region their cures to many different illnesses will be found it is rumored that the secrets to longevity or even immortality may be found there so there is a lot of incentive for leader nations to be going to the dark continent as each country has an equal chance of being responsible for finding the next innovation which will benefit human life at the end of the dark continent expedition arc we have a lot of unanswered questions we continuously get mentions of the gatekeeper of the dark continent aside from two mentions of him in chapter 341 and 342 we don't really know much more about this individual in addition to this in chapter 344 jinn has a shocking revelation of his own as he states that there was an individual who had written a book called journey to the new world and there were two additions to this book the east and the west editions the only volume that has been found is the east version and there are no signs of the west edition which leads jin to said that the west edition is still being written this person had set out on his own expedition to the dark continent almost 300 years ago and the fact that he is still writing the second volume maybe because he has consumed some of the longevity rice or herbs that can cure ailments and illnesses jin reveals that the author of the book journey to the new world is gone and jin's ancestor called don freaks this is an incredibly huge teaser for the upcoming events in the story in addition to this we don't know who the next king of the kakin empire will be there is so much that occurs within the dark continent expedition arc so i've tried to wrap it up and summarize a lot of the events within this video if you are still confused about a lot of the internal politics of the events that occurred then i highly recommend reading the next arc of the story with the current state of hunter hunter it is difficult to say what will happen as the succession contest arc begins in chapter 349 and it is currently ongoing with 42 chapters released the latest chapter of hunter hunter chapter 390 was published on the 26th of november 2018. as of making this video hunter hunter is currently on its longest hiatus as it has missed 100 issues of jump magazine it is anybody's guess as to when takashi will be back in order to complete the succession contest arc and it is for this reason that i'm not going to be making a video on it just yet maybe in the future it may do a part 1 covering all of 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