Dark Continent Explained (Expedition Arc)
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- Опубліковано 28 сер 2024
- Tried to explain just about everything there is to know about the Dark Continent in a different way than I've seen before. As usual there's bits and pieces that I left out but take it as encouragement to read the manga yourself, and you really should it's incredibly good.
Love how togashi draws from vedic and ancient eastern cosmology, a geocentric earth/plane made up of concentric realms of the earth that stretch almost endlessly. It's refreshing to see these ideas being explored by so masterful a writer as togashi, but good luck finishing the series...
Im glad to see this comment becuase I literally never seen anyone talk about this comparison and I dont know how it started but I've been on a vedic cosmology binge lately and one of the first connections I've made is how the vedics view of the universe is eeirly similar to the dark continent, even down to the portrayal of earth being "surrounded" by a much larger land mass.
Also, I'm sure Togashi has taken many liberties with his power system of nen, but I do believe that Togashi utilized certain real concepts of nen or rather spiritual energy (at least concepts understood by the vedas) and maybe, to a certian extent, it could be neccessary to "cross over" to the dark continent. What do you think?
@@mrwillard95 Yes, I agree, the nen stuff and the specialties are a part of it. The fact that he made 'classes' and 'types' of nen as shows that he's immersed in Vedic or generally eastern spirituality because this stuff is not easy to procure by glancing at a few web articles, (he has proper literature) the concept of Manas and Kama which are the main concepts behind nen in HXH (and other things that 20th european psychologists borrowed from the east are all rooted here), like the unconscious, which togashi uses as the basis for nen training, the whole idea of nen training is to 'bring out' this inner thing, and make the unconscious conscious.
It's really funny because you can see Togashi is so immersed in research and so eclectic, can't wait to see more
@@ashraf6435 what is vedic? I'm interested in combining as many mystic traditions as possible
No in Vedic culture it is mentioned that earth resolves around the sun. So it's Helio centric
@@lavellelee5734 the Vedas, upnishads in Hinduism. You should read about vedanta philosophy or tao
I love watching videos about the dark continent. It makes me really want to see it all get animated.
If we're even still alive when it gets animated
Girl we might never get that as long as Togashi is alive sadly. He won’t let anyone else touch it as long as he can draw very slowly.
@@jesterchester8428 True, but I can wait for that masterpiece. Better than ruining it for just rushing it
@@jesterchester8428 Togashi always can handle the art, or just the complex art (I mean only do rough sketches and layout himself) to the team of editors, and focus just on the story.
Tell me about it 😢
I love that the world of Hunter X Hunter is just our world map flipped.
You'll need to explain that considering the map is of a tiny island surrounded by lake and land
HxH world is some kind like flat earth too
The DC is low key Australia
@@poopghost9845 humans live on the great lakes, the us and canada is lake mobius, the ocean is the dc
@@poopghost9845 in the first 40-45 seconds or so you can see maps and they show our continents in different places, and a few are upside down.
It's not like he just flipped the globe like the original comment said, but they are in wonky positions compared to our planet.
I always thought the ants having a threat level assigned to them (B) along with all the other dark continent calamities was a sort of soft confirmation that they’re indeed from the dark continent. Guess I gotta go read the chapters again.
I’m guessing the quarrel with Ai was them asking for requests and when they couldn’t fulfil them they got obliterated to nothingness 💀
Nanika was menacing enough, imagine multiple naninkas with individual personalities on the dark continent, I wonder who will encounter them.
Omg it’s so exciting
Damn, considering all the dangerous beings there it's crazy Beyond spent 50 years planning to go there, Beyond is crazy lol
I think the plan is:
To have someone be the conduit for teleporting people to and from the Island base (before the guardian boarder) to the Dark Continent without ever needing to deal with the gatekeepers after the first time they do with Morel.
Since those survivors from past expiditions who had to go through the gatekeepers were forced to bring back a curse or calamity with them, having a Nen user with teleportation abilities that can transfer a group of people is absolutely vital for circumventing that. Even if they don't go through the Gatekeepers to come back to the human world, it could all be chopped up to an unfortunate death, which wouldn't arouse suspicion and I think is a regular occurance for travelers.
So Tokurine being in charge of "travel" from Dark Continent to base is a well thought out plan for whatever her nen ability is.
Well, according to the recent info, Togashi already finished 10 chapters. Let's wait to see. Great video.
Im scared that after this bombing of chapters he will just fade away for a long time again :/. I hope not because even without the chapters its being talked all around the world
@@Herogamers45 10 chapters more are in the way, so we got 20 chapters officially announced, considering current hype i doubt he will gone to hiatuses again.
@@AdekMaulana lol i guess u daydreaming if u think that togashi is not gonna full break another year afther the 20 chapters
@@pandanikos he hired two more professionals to help him with the creation.
@@torresmoblade I hope so to but I don’t trust trollgashi
The dark continent has so many parallels with Toriko's Gourmet World. i wonder if either of these were influenced by the other.
the problem with toriko manga about gourmet world, the author makes us believe that toriko are strong enough to face anything, so as a reader we don't have high expectation about what's to come in gourmet world
but this manga is different. even beyond or chrollo or gon. we as a reader don't have any confidence that they can handle dark continent. which is exciting to look forward too
@@DGrazeI think the author had the hindsight for this in the manga. When Toriko first entered the gourmet world, he got smoked and had to go back to the human world for training.
As for the dark continent, we know humans have been there and back, even if its an abysmally small amount. im curious to see the full power of the threats brought back, though.
my favorite part or at least one of them is meeting beyond's team. I love the idea of crazy strong and talented characters just being introduced especially how unique and eccentric they are.
i think the dark continent is what happens when nen is not bound by rules and society, like meruim the continent is just raw strength
Tru
Some myth that’s going around the community is ging’s nen ability
In short-he’s a collaborative emission type who needs ten people to make it work as greed island is the perfect example of his ability as there are 10 masters that run it as well as when he tells gon he’s reason for doing it all (while they sit on the tree) which is that he and 10 others enjoyed exploring
Edit: and in pariston and beyond’s group ten people are in ging’s sights as potential allies
Ohhh that’s good stuff thank you
Arent greed island founders 5 people?
@@efanferdiantowibowo9610 in typical togashi fashion he constantly changes the story and thus while yes we did see 5 there are canonically ten
@@efanferdiantowibowo9610 there was 5 main people that helped make greed island, I think the comment is referring to some ruins that ging wanted to find and keep protected those were 10 people involved that ging found from diferent walks of life that weren't rich but helped with funds and finding/protecting the ruins and that his ultimate satisfaction wasn't finding them but the journey he had with those people and finding it together and till now still help with those important ruins it was a story showing gings ambition as a hunter of ancient information/civilizations but I think all those ten people were still involved with greed island but named it after the 5 people that actively work with the island. It's been so long since I read that Info so it's a little hazy but that's it summed up
Greed island works because razor and the other active masters musta made a binding vow that they're powers only work on greed island that's why razor has the nen to support the island I think they mentioned his nen powers the cards or anything special on the island. But probably the island masters made vows that they had to stay on the island or only usable in greed island to get the powerful enough nen to make it work almost like kurapika making his chains strong enough with the vow that he can only hurt or use them on the phantom troupe. But two of the game masters left the island to be at the chairman election tho. So I kinda doubt that is a possibility for ging otherwise he would also only be able to use that ridiculous power on greed island and have to be there all the time which ging wouldn't be able to do with how he is always having to explore and keep moving.
If he was a joint nen user he would need people around him at all times like the kakin prince that also got a joint nen type. Powerful nen normally has very strict rules and wouldn't allow a joint type to be so far away from the people giving him power if possible it be very weak then at those distances. And the people most likely would have to agree and make the pact which not all of beyonds group would be ok with considering pariston is around and not all of them like ging. For the prince the people around him have to be loyal for the joint nen to work and be near him.
I really really love your style of videos because without so much speculation you go over the many many facts people skip over to try and make cool clickbait videos
Thank you very much I do what I can :)
you just wonder how vast togashi's imagination is. its incredible how he juggles/flips with these characters interacting with one another.
What if…When Netero, Zigg and Linne went, Zigg brought back the Ai that is trapped in Alluka
Does anyone think it's possible that beyond netero is based on gilgamesh? The design of his character looks very similar to typical depictions of gilgamesh but also gilgamesh is believed to be the sumerian equivalent of nimrod, and nimrod I believe was king of babylon during the towers babel's construction and was able to convince his followers to build the tower of babel using something called the words of power in the writings of abraham which is similar to beyond's personality and ability to be very persuasive, and not only this but the tower of babel story is about hubris and mankind not knowing when it's best to just stay in your lane, which mirrors beyond's philosophy and reasons for wanting to go to the dark continent.
You my friend could have a Chanel of your own I love all your ideas. You even got me wanting to look more into all the stuff you’re talking about. You got some seriously good thoughts.
@@apeesteranime2956 it's possible that beyond's character may also be inspired by genghis khan when you consider how similar beyonds character design is to typical depictions of genghis khan and also the fact that beyonds armour looks very similar to mongolian armour, but also the fact that beyonds philosophy about constantly reaching beyond your limits and humanity needing to constantly the increase the scale of their scale of their ambition and goals feels very similar genghis kahns conqueror mentality and him wanting to unify all of Asia.
@@gentlesavage2068 I hadn’t thought about that either.
@@apeesteranime2956 the v6 agreement may be based on the antarctic treaty.....
5:28 from what I can see, two were Ai's victim. From Killua's flashback it could be seen the victims were either squash from top and bottom to the middle or become something like a squeeze shirt. The doll like humanoid was pup's plaything, the middle one is Brion (the bioweapon, don't know if the spelling is correct) and the fourth one I don't know for sure but might be a vessel of Ai.
Hellbells' victim turns them into a homicidal killer while zobie(?) disease has a 99% mortality rate and make the fortunate one's to survive it immortal.
at around 12 mins it was my idea that the V5 wanted to leave kakin on the "fake continent" and tell them it was the dark continent then secretly go to the real one
I just feel like that with Don freecs being the writer of the books, Gon and Killua, or at least Gon will appear as stowaways later on the story. At least that's my hopeful thinking.
The only way I see any of the main characters surviving the dark continent is by either teaming up or with or taming some of the creatures in the dark continent or by awakening their own nen beast.
love the content!! definitely the most informative hxh channel. would love to see an in depth video about Pariston/Beyond and their motives~
I gotchu I’ll probably do both in one video or maybe each will get their own we shall see but it’s in the works.
I'm guessing the Trinity Elixir being the mother solution for a bunch of different things means it's the base ingredient for various interesting thing. Something like the philosophers stone which could be used to make an elixir of life, used in a process to turn lead into gold, and several other fantastic creations/processes.
this video looks like a banger I can’t wait to watch it while I take a dab😍 I am your subscriber and keep up the great HXH videos please do a video on Beyond Netero
Great way to watch I like your style. I can make a Beyond video. Can’t say when it’ll be done but it’ll get done for sure.
Hype and togashi Revealed on Twitter A few days ago that has a bunch of storyboards completed
the dark contienet introduction is a togashi masterpiece he really outdid himself in terms of world building characters building and connecting everything with political world and themes of hxh ..i m not going to get too political with the v6 but iwill say that steiner represents the good side of v6 the snientific research and human progress side not the greed and lust for resources and control and the race to arms and may have a very important role.. as for beyond just like his name suggests he is set out to be the epitome of hunters and human ambition he seems to have all the qualities .. strength knowledge patience confidence ambition connectins and resources .he seems to have predicted the v6 tying to arrest him and has allies there and in the hunter association and kakin royal familyplus a private army as far as his personality goes i dont think he is playing a character he is selfish but i think he enjoys sharing his exploits and ambition with others and respects people who are similar then there is the connection with past with his relashionship with his father.. beyond is just being introduced and he is already one of the most intresting charatcers before even getting to the dak contient and what he is looking for which may o may not be related to gings hunt..now the trip to the dark contient is just starting but there are questions of why the kakin king wanted this trip and why he took people with him then we ask why netero wasnt intrested in the contient maybe because the struggle was against nature and survival and calamities felt to him like a fight against animals and not against a person maybe this is why he was surprised the meruem had a human personality.. and how is that connected to pariston.ect like i said this dark acontient mere prologue is togashi taking hxh to new level the bad news is he did it when he had health problems so we are never seeing the est of the story
I loved this youtube channel keep it up bro i hope you got more content from the Dark continent 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
My thoughts on the dark continent are pretty much may seem crazy but despite all the horrors that lurk on the dark continent i think it is wrong and immoral to ban people permanently from attempting to go to the dark continent because no matter how horrible the said place is there will always be the drive to discover, explore, document experience and investigate its human nature and even though there are horrors fear will not last forever and nothing will stop the will of exploration not monsters, diseases, terrifying creatures, the unknown or fear of dark knowledge. The reason why i am so sure about this is because humanity hates limits.
Also if the author is still sailing and writing the book, then it’s also possible that the author dies before finishing the book and could even already be dead for all anyone knows. Ging’s belief that he would still be alive after all this time and after everything we know of the DC is incredibly optimistic
It’s based off factors known such as nitro rice
It’s why Ging offered three possibilities for what happened to him
Wasn’t nanika the calamity that was brought back with Isaac neteros voyage?
Yeh with maha or zeno zoldyck
@@cornflakes3071 not zeno it was most likely zzig
@@knightzilver4696 yeah you're right
I like what you're doing, keep it up
This is amazing, great work.
So with all the information we have so far, this continent is perhaps the most dangerous and deadly place we know of (But there is also the question how strong or crazy must be all the hunters who are on board so that they have a minimal chance of survival at all).
Togashi sensei may you have the strength of a 1000 men and continue HxH
imagine hisoka on this meeting. dude probably climaxing continously thinking about going against the 5 calamities
I wonder if we’ll see stuff like zombies in the dark continent. 9:17 Why do I have a feeling Hisoka will die like this because of what the beast offers
Honestly, I think it's best they end the series when he does die. Looking at the dark continent, I like it more as a mysterious and terrifying place. Explaining and showing it off will just ruin the mystery and uniqueness around it. Personally, I feel like Togashi should find a way to wrap the story up properly through the Succession War.
I wanted to let you know that you missed something, it’s implied that Netro and his crew brought back AI since it was alluka that is AI (this is confirmed by togashi)
I'd love to see the story returning to Gon and his adventures with Killua cause he may be a connection to the books' author, in awhile of course. Also with new power systems like nen beasts we might see him return with new tricks up his sleeve.
I'm wondering now that I've heard all this I wanna ask. Are the island humans dwarfs? Gin mentioned in the dark continent there's a giant tree with a city at its bottom with that and this point stuff out that ive missed Ive come up with some theories.
1. Humans are smaller due to island dwarfism because of how small the islands and their inhabitants literally compare to literally everything that is the dark continent
2. Nen is vestigial we've seen that the islands are dangerous but compared to the hellscape that is the dark continent they wouldn't need to fight quite as hard for life as humans on the mainland do. That's why nen needs to be unlocked, is compartmentalized, has conditions, and why not only can only some people use it but specialists are rare. Nen is on its way out of the gene pool.
My final thoughts on this are what are the mainland humans like? And how different is their society? Personally I'm thinking 10 ft tall gojo's(JJK) flying about with the craziest lifespan you can think of.
I like that one about nen vanishing away from the “modern world’s” people genetics since the environment is not quite chaotic enough to require its usage all the time. Ai(nanika) could be an exemple of that. She healed Gon’s wounds instantly without any form of exchange. Yet it highly implied that it was nen. Some crazy overpowered nen much stronger than any application of nen we had seen before (it was stated that some nen exorcists failed to even comprehend what had happened to Gon). And Kurapika’s Holy chain was seen as extremely OP up to that point in terms of healing. And Ai seems to be able to do pretty much anything it wants using nen. Makes you wonder what nen really is and also about the different species in that crazy world.
@@diadiecisse3089ye I think the nen on the dark is levels above anything we ever seen and I think those human that live there won't be very friendly ngl
Great content as always!!!!!
The more and more the video explains about the Dark Continent the more I think that Pokémon Scarlet & Violet took inspiration from this. Here’s why:
HXH
5 Calamities that come from the Dark Continent
SV
The 4 Legendary Quartet of Ruin that brought calamity to a kingdom. Each dark type
HXH
Ging explains that there is a herb that heals everything
SV
Different Herba Mystica cures a part of the body. Arven obtains all 5 in order to bring his Mabostiff from irreversible damage that even the Pokémon Center or potions can heal
HXH
Very little information of the Dark Continent is known it is also Taboo to go there
SV
Very little is known about the Paldean Crater and it is restricted from the public. When the player gets there they are met with astounding landscapes, weird & terrifyingly strong Pokémon, and the unimaginable is possible
Where can we read these
I hope beyond is really powerful and also not a villain him succeeding netero would be awsome
So morel and knov are also on the black whale one?
From what I can remember I think they’re taking a different boat. All I can remember right now for sure is that they’re meeting everyone on the fake dark continent.
Is there a new chapter of HXH now?
The mother solution can probably produce the liquid. Mother solution of most liquids can probably produce most known liquids.
Your math is way off a pebble of unmanned rock can power 14,600 homes with the amount of power it produces in a day
nice
hope togashi finishes the story
He’s coming out with at least 20 chapters soon
Can you do a video on Gyro next? I feel like his character is unique.
I’ll put it on the list
@@apeesteranime2956 Thanks.
@@wyckr3367 😂😂😂 he is a funny character and yet so mysterious
I find it EXTREMELY hard to believe Post Rose Bomb Meruem was only a B level threat. I'm taking 1 Meruem over 20 hell bell snakes & 100 paps at the same time 😂
Imagine this. You will be taking 20 and 100 who has the same power as nanika, cause it's been confirm that nanika is from dark Continent shes known as Ai one of the 5 calamity. Goodluck with that. Meruem can be defeated by cheap made human weapon. Human don't have any weapon to fight the calamities. That's why government are afraid to go back to dark Continent.
what, post rose bomb merurm is still or not even equivalent to 1 hell bell snake when it comes grade of threat to humanity. The levels doesn’t indicate strength but their existential threat to humankind.
@@Gorekinkz perfectly worded
Dude chimaera ants were lvl B threat like their queen but meruem confirmed was lvl A threat because his powerful nen & his intelligence + physical the other 5 calamity could be A - S threat because if human against them the choice are between die / survive you can't beat nor kill them let see when DC is completed finish CMIIW
@@nasteay7497 Bro Meruem is literally the pinnacle of strength in HxH. I hate when people downplay him because he succumbs to the roses poison. That rose bomb would kill ANYTHING it exploded in the face of dude; a fuckin hellbell snake, ai, brion etc. Im saying 1v1 , Meruem wins against ANYONE (except Don Freeccs maybe). Yeah the Journey to the East classifies regular Chimera Ants as only B level, the Queen was already the result of crazy mutation. Plus she feasted on THOUSANDS of humans & nens users to strengthen Meruem to be able to conquer the world, including the Dark Continent. He is absolutely A rank danger to humanity. People forget that the Hunters who went to the Dark Continent prior went directly into the nest of the calamities and had to fight hundres of paps, ai, hellbells, brions, etc. Now imagine fighting 100 Meruems at the same time.... exactly. Literally everyone who could feel the king's presence knew instantly it was impossible to defeat him. Post Rose Meruem is the 🐜🐐
You just earned a sub from me. Great content
There are no rocket ships on HxH world or satellites? Because they could survey their world from above.
One small pebble can power a house for two years with only one day of production*
All right I don't know what to say about it but I don't know what to tell you about it.
After they get past dark continent, they will find a new ocean and new continent with civilizations and a new dark world to explore Gon will do it and find his mom along the way.
Just my thoughts.
Great video. Just what I was looking for. But fuck you for not going over gin n paristons convo lol
Love your videos
you should read "GANTZ"
16:02 The Calamities remind me of High Level SCPs
Why am I thinking gon gonna be in the dark continent even though he barely knows about it
Sorry but can i ask where you read manga?
Now I’d never personally do this but I hear if you just look up read Hunter x Hunter manga and chose the least sketchy site you can usually read it for free.
Thank youuu
@@nightslasher206 mangasee
Nice try, Shueisba
Nice try, Shueisha
Thank you for this !
Please talk about the zodiacs and beyond netero
Beyond video on the way, working on a few other things then I’ll get back to the zodiacs.
Great video
W explanation
Damn wtf, its like the 5 calamities were designed specifically to shit on humans
Will we see it before our deaths. That the question.
I JUST WANT ADVENTURES on the dark continent 😭😭😭😭 giiive meee I feel like a child just thinking about all the unexplored things 🤣
Any chance we go over Gyro in future videos ?
Mhm mhm
We are so close!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great vid
Don freecs just happen to have gin and and gon’s last name? Really? This is togashi we’re talking about
Good job!
beyond will meet Don Freecss on the West side Dark Continent
It my 5th video watching dark continent explained!!!! Let's Gooooooooooooo
This is some one piece level world building, maybe would have been greater than that. Sad that togashi was unhealthy to continue back then.......
kakin is east not west lol
I think Don freecss is gon Grandpa
Pap sounds like such a nice name oof 😂
Not going to lie, I watched HxH and wasn’t all that impressed. It was decent but it was pretty boring in my opinion. This has peaked my interest though. Maybe I’ll start reading the manga.
Beyond netero: woah this place is crazy let explore it!
It will be such a shame if if don't get to experience the dark content. The world building is next level 💯
Stop calling mizaistom nana it’s throwing me off lol
human continent are togashi mirroring place of North Sentinel Island.
why human from human continent view those disease from dark continent are super dangerous ?
because they still don't have any antidote and natural immune from them.
and why human from dark continent didn't attack human continent. because it's illegal. and they see them as cute civilization who use cute power, while their power are BEYOND just nen ability, like comparing north island spear to our nuclear power.
I feel like HxH author togashi had gotten in trouble in the past with this Dark Continent Arc due to it exposing the truth of our world...the so called "flat earth" theory.
Bah he won’t get in trouble for that
Hundreds of millions in sales (assuming) and can’t get a back surgery or two. Smh
Come on, man, it's Brion, not Burion.
When you dropping review 398
Had a busy work week but it’ll be up later today and 399 will come on Sunday morning
@@apeesteranime2956 Ooowweeee kant wait
Hiiii
Slay
Im the first
Lmao wow, ging is actually Don. That's crazy
dark continent cant wait for hisoka to kill every spiders except zoldycks and won the rematch against chrollo . the zodiacs probably gonna die one by one to the dark continent beast while looking for the treasure in dark continent. for kurapika he will die maybe after getting all the eyes of kurta clan before realising the last 2 eyes is himself and then will like be idiot rip off his eyes to complete the kurta clan eyes
Horse-derv lol
Every arc after gon lost his powers has been meh. Talk no jutsu prince succession arc was the worst thing ive had the displeasure of having to read to get to the real plot
... so the plot ... isnt plot for u? dafuq?
bruh just read something else if u want people fighting
@@Deadpool-px2nm so the trash writing with nothing happening isnt for me? yes, correct. Theres more to HXH except fighting, as seen by the earlier arcs mate. Succession ark was just bad in every regard
@@HanLocke "universally praise" The hubris of believing that anecdotes are equivalent to data is baffling, but not everyone can distinguish between the two. Also, I would love to see that raw data rather than just take a strangers word for it
The dark continent scares me