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If Gon is a calamity then Killua is the real MC because the kid has 2 Calamities that really love him. 😂😂😂😂

Let’s all have a moment of silence for the passing of Akira Toriyama 😢😔

The dark continent mystery is just so damn intriguing I just wish we actually get to see it someday

Something I didn’t realize initially is that Don Freecss is only exploring the SHORELINE of Lake Mobius. It’s crazy trying to imagine how big the whole planet actually is.

I know what will make Gon a legendary hunter without getting his nen back. He will live on the dark continent without any nen. The calamities come when humans try to disturb the ecosystem. Gon was taught to live harmoniously with nature, thus he will be safe.

In Yu Yu Hakusho, we find out later in the series that Yusuke is actually half demon and that's part of why he's so strong. Gon is the spiritual successor to Yusuke so having that idea crossover wouldn't be crazy. Gon as a calamity opens a path for him to re-enter the story as a combatant without nen through his Calamitous abilities, allowing us to see Gon vs Hisoka and Gon vs Gyro in a real fight.

Could you imagine witnessing and surviving almost 1,000 other people getting killed by a calamity. Somehow manage to escape it. Only for it to get sent back with you. As a party gift from the dark continent

it could be! if we think about it, Zzig Zoldyck already has travel before to the dark continent with Netero, and with that, alongside the extra page in vol 33, is implied that Nanika is the calamity that the guardians of the dark continent forced Zzig to take. But stead of him take one, the guardians did the calamity posseses one relatively of Zzig, that was Alluka. throughout the series several times we have people calling Gon "a monster", or the most obvious one that Gon literally has "something" inside him, is when Meleoron said that he felt a beast inside Gon, and that he felt that Gon's power is bottomless or infinity. When Gon transformers into his adult form, he is shown as a dark shadow form, that clearly indicates something more monstrous than a mere human. When Biscuit transformers, at least in the Manga, Togashi do not draw her like some dark shadow beast, but simply like she was just getting bigger. When Kurapika is talking to Mizaistom in chapter 344 about monsters that in human skin, Togashi in the same page shows Gon. At that moment Kurapika was talking about Tserriednich, but Togashi was clearly implying that Gon is the same: a monster in human skin. In chapter 345, is the chapter that we last saw Gon, and is the chapter that Tserriednich is introduced. I'm not overthinking, that this is another hint from Togashi, trying to show some similarities or parallel between Gon and Tserriednich, because both are monsters, of course, not for the same reason. Tserriednich is just an evil person, and Gon is a monster because he is a calamity from the dark continent (or at least, he is possessed by one). another parallel between Gon and Tserriednich, that classic panel of Gon looking at his left hand after he turn into adult, like feeling he achieve the power to do what he wants, is the same way that Tserriednich look at his left hand in the last page of chapter 387 after he realizes that if he master his power to see the future, he can dominate the world. I think that Togashi already have give a lot of hints, that Gon is similar to Alluka, possessed by a creature from the dark continent, because of things that some relatively family of his did in the past, trying to explore the New world.

The real calamity is Togashi's dead silence this year

ive thought for a while now that Gon isn't actually Ging's son, i think he might be the reincarnated Don Freecs and its going to be a big rug pull when we realize the most deadbeat dad in manga/anime isn't actually a dad.

I always thought that Gon's transformation just showed how strong he would eventually become. That makes it a fairy simple exchange. He loses all of the power he will ever have, in exchange for briefly having all the power he would have had at one point in his life.

Maybe Gon is the first human-made Calamity? Humans have been growing in power, maybe Gon is the first of his race to hit that level? Like you said, Ai and the others are part of their own races, not just individual monsters. Maybe Gon is the first sign of humanity evolving to the same power as the rest of the world.

Gon's hair was also super long going straigh up looking like a PAP's tether when he was in his Nen form. PAP would also explain Gon's happy attitude at all time. I like this theory.

Also I believe it was confirmed Gon’s nen is back he just can’t feel it due to essentially being a beginner again. Nanika *Healed* him folks. That’s not a normal level of healing. I always felt like he would come back as a specialist…

I've always thought Gon was from a bloodline directly from the Dark Continent. Too many details to ignore. Gon's ability to heal fast, his sense of smell, his ability to see in the dark, etc. Ging's control of Nen: from simple aura control to copying others abilities, which isn'teven his ability. His insane intellect like reading people; understanding the essence of nen; or even understanding a long list of languages (theinguistics expert couldn't stay up with him). The fact that Don FREECS is possibly still on the shores of Lake Mobius still completing the second book. Tbh. I think Don is probably OP af. He's already released one book about Lake Mobius. Tbh. I personally believe he's on bad term with the Guide which is why they keeo sending calamities. 149 voyages on record with only 5 coming back after failing the mission. I guarantee there are more calamities than we know. Humans themselves may have been a calamity. Humans are a dangerous species. Though Netero died, he suceeded in killing of the royals. Yeah, Meruem survived but they were all poisoned anyways. Lastly. I've always been dumbfounded by Gon's transformation. No human would ever be able to pull that much nen. The last hit produced a similar amount of nen as Ai. I think Pap finds interesting humans and keeps them. The Zoldyck family are all likely pets of Pap. Hisoka, Chrollo, the Netero father & son. Anyone who tends to pull of the impossible. Kurapika and his Emporer time is another; but, I personally the Kurta came directly from the dark continent. Kurapika only knew nen for 6 months and killed a Spider. It wasn't just nen, he also had battle experience that tops a large portion of Hunters. His nen contract boosts his power to an unbelievably powerful level. And top it with the chain. Even with contracts, no regular human could ever supply life force strong enough to unlock his powers. There's a lot of details that are hidden in between and Ylgashi is notoriously known for leaving easter eggs.

7:46 Yoo. Spongebob "Chocolate" Grandma Gon has me rollinggggggg. Nice job editors and artists! **clap clap clap**

I think don freecs is the guide, and his punishment is to decide which calamity goes back with each voyage, hes forced to by some entity or by the dark continent itself as humantity gets some horrible calamity to go with some miraculous thing that would immediatly drassticly improve the world of humans. Don freecs only wanted knowledge and not things but to explore and learn everything about the dark continent so his punishment or calamity is too have to stay there forever continually learning and exploring and maybe also to live until he has learned everythinf, which to a freecs is as much a dream as it is a curse, but part of that curse is also to have to pick which doom best and most equally great horrible yes but also great calamity goes with them for the great gift they take from the continent. He passed his book off to other voyagers not to entice them but both warn and inform them that the rewards maybe be great beyond understanding but so also will be the horrors. This is my headcanon anyway till we get some more concrete explanation (tbo idk if we ever will) . My basis for this is that "the guide" seems to be a being whoever lands on tne continent deals with and not only they refer to them as tho its the same being everytime not multiple or consecutive or something

Gon connected to Pap with his hair when he transitioned

From how I understand HxH: Nen Exorcism is always kind of a gamble. You always have to assume that any nen curse might be very permanent if the caster does not take it back. Even the Phantom Troupe explicitly acted under that assumption. This does not need a dark continent involvement. Basically rule 1 is: It's there until the conditions for removal are met. Don't expect anyone to be able to remove it. Even the rare nen exorcists often outright refused to take on regular ones. Like on Greed island for example.

I was today years old when I found out that the same man on the internet that talks about fictional pirates also talks about fictional hunters who hunt for things to hunt.

Perhaps Gon's Mother was a Calamity.

I think that also nen could be a Dark Continent curse, if not, I'm pretty sure that nen originated from the Dark Continent in some ways, if the Kurta Clan really was a sort of only humanoid form on the Dark Continent for example, they could have know how to use nen to survive and using it at 100% on any category or something like that.

Maybe Hisoka is a Pap. He has no backstory, is obsessed with power/pleasure, loves to find people he can turn into his pets, uses bungie gum that can attach to people like a tentacle, and definitely has category A level aggression.

you're welcome, I remember posting this theory and people shutting me down. Gon's hair looks like Pap's cord that he attaches to humans, and the way Gon looks like in the hospital bed looks exactly like he has been sucked dry.

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It could also be that Ging knew of the curse on the Freecss bloodline and that was why he created Gon with the Greed Island cards, as a way to try to bypass the curse. Or maybe that his creation in that way is what allowed the curse to embed itself into Gon. A lot of wild stuff to speculate over. I wonder if anything more is actually planned with Gon, or if Togashi is done developing anything around him.

You breath so much life into this series for me I always love your videos and they always make me look at this show I've already seen multiple times in ways I've never considered!

great video man! i really enjoyed the theories you explained, and great visual representation 💯

I'm confused... Previous NWR videos have rated Gon and his powers, even unlocked, as not that wildly high.... But here he says '...he briefly became the most powerful human to have existed.'

What if the "tentacle things" arent really tentacles, but more like really long hair? Just like a certain human has, while getting their pleasure?

Personally my theory is that Gon is Don. He overdosed on nitro rice.

Let's put these theories together. Ging inherited Pap because the curse has been passed along any member of Freecs family who dared to be a hunter since Don and the Dark Continent. Ging, not wanting to be taken over by Pap, used the Greed Island tech to create a child to past the curse onto. And Gon was born with the desire only to get back to Ging, becoming the Hunter x Hunter.

You keep referring to the families being cursed, but it seems more as if humanity as a whole is being cursed through the families as far as I can remember the families themselves are doing fine thriving even, great video, it had never even occurred to me that Gon might have a calamity inside him similar to Aluka your videos really open up the world of Hunter Hunter

IF you buy into the theory you could go further into how the story sets things up. We met a nen purger on greed Island where Gon could have possibly been born through the pregnancy card idea. Another nen user capable of removing nen was a chimera ant.. who did it through appearing pregnant. Outside of hisoka all nen abilities are really similar so its possible ging purged the calamity and it was born as Gon and the reason he abandoned him was so he could experience a normal life before he is drawn back to Ging where he is told of the dark continent. Had he been with Ging he would've known far sooner and tried to go back before experiencing things like friends. If the theory is true it would paint ging in a better light.

Introduce Dark Continent: Everything now has dark continent origins: Kurapika, Zoydycks, Gon and... even that Leorio guy.

Random theory: Ging knew Gon was a calamity and basically left him with Mito to buy him time to plan out Gon’s training so that he had the best possible chance of surviving the eventual surfacing of the calamity’s “ferocity”. He knew because of Don Freecs somehow etc etc.

Maybe Pregnancy stone was used on Gin and therefore Gon has no mother

Gons dad was said to be among the top 5 men users in the world, Gons condition/vow to never use nen again to access all the power he will ever have makes sense. What we saw was Gons peak of power all that he will ever have unleashed against pitou. It was explained pretty thoroughly and after seeing kurapika have their power spike against the photon troupe it wouldn’t be out of the world to have gone have such a massive jump when he’s giving up everything in return

it does somehow make sense if Aluka is also called "exorcist". Nanika did not actually heal Gon. She exorcised him if that's the case.

Gon might have/be a Pap, but consider: Netero looked shriveled when he used up his Nen also. What if Nen is bestowed by Pap? Maybe Nen is just our explanation through experimentation of the abilities Pap grants us?

Whenever i watch these kind of videos it makes me even more sad and depressed that such a great story with unlimited potential lays down there in Togashi mind and we will not be able to witness fully develop of it ...

the ging created gon on greed island theory makes the most sense to me. theres still 5 unknown members that helped create it, one could have been the mother/surrogate. or purely gings creation due to them looking nearly identical.

I do think the theory overall is very plausible, but I don't necessarily think Pap is the calamity responsible. I think it's much more likely that Gon is a different calamity than the 5 we currently know about.

He Liam, just wanted to say that I’ve been watching you for years ever since the days of Covid in early 2020 where I would be driving my paper routes baked out of my mind. It always helped me better contextualize HxH, and overall just have a greater appreciation for it. Thanks for sharing what you love.

Theory, journey to the east is a calamity created by the guide. It has the effect that those who read it will have the uncontrollable urge and drive to go to the dark continent thus giving the guide the needed (nen?) requirement to send more calamities.

Thankyou for always posting videos and keeping my favorite anime alive

Hi NWR thanks for the new video 🙏🏻

so pap connected with gon, through his hair

Hell of a video Liam, keep doing them for us hunters craving content

Ocam's razor is this mans enemy

I wonder, given that Killua has no-consequence wishes access, could he theoretically wish for all calamities currently plaguing humanity to die and/or go back to the DC? Well, all except Nanika, ofc.

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Great video. But I'm still on board the simpler explanation, that Gon made a nen vow/pact to have all the maximum power he could ever attain (for a couple of minutes) in exchange for giving up the rest of his life.

even reading the comments is enough to know that HxH fandom are one of the smartest fanbases there is. Keep the theories going guys

Gon isn't a calamity; he is a victim. Going further with your theory, then Pap is responsible for humanity learning nen at all. Which makes sense to me... There are other power systems in the world, but nen is the only one that would full ensure humanities own destruction if everyone knew it, feeding off people's emotions to give them raw power. Why else would there be a reason to keep its existence hidden from the masses?

rip Akira Toriyama

The animations and illustrations look especially nice this video! Also - this theory makes a lot of sense but I’m always going to favour the weird-card-game-baby theory lol

The biggest curse is not having this serie keep going.

i think both are plausible. i like the idea that Gon came from the DC more than Ging making him in Greed Island. but the fact could be that its both somehow. that Greed Island is also connected to the DC in some way. From Ging's journey there. The best hint we still have is Gon not listening to the Tape Ging left about Gon's Mother. Ging sounded like he was about to explain to Gon in a way that he did NOT have a mother. but obviously Gon ruined that info for us

Actually the calamity could be Gyro, when the... I mean if the voyage ship reach the Dark Continent, Gyro will be the calamity with his birth as human as the only connection of him to humans has been ripped away with his Chimera Ant reincarnation... There could be a battle involving the remaining Chimera Ants to choose their new king/queen because we may not know Gyro could have gotten the Kite treatment with reborn as a female... And Kite is a Meruem twin it may involve Kite group serving as a thread to bring Gon into the series again... Edit: Rest in Peace the one and only legendary Akira Toriyama - sensei

What better way of ensuring that a calamity persists than to curse the people capable of surviving the dark continent and having it tied to their bloodlines.

This was always a theory of mine, or that it had something to do with Gon’s mom, so I’m grateful you covered this!!!

i allways understood gons nen pact to kill pitou as "give me all the nen i will ever have". Not "make me as strong as i will be in my prime" but rather every last drop of nen, that he would ever have flow through his body over his whole lifetime. so the integral of nen output over his lifetime condensed into one fight.

I accidentally clicked here, im glad i did.

Is the iceberg series done? You mentioned in the last video of it that there was another power system in HxH besides nen. I was really curious about that.

I stand on the grounds. That is you go to the dark continent for reasons of greed, you get calamities. But you're going for knowledge, no negative effects. So Gon's family may carry the opposite of a calamity in their bloodline.

I like how I have been watching your Grandline Review videos for a while now, and now just discovered you have a whole other page on HxH. Got my sub immediately!

RIP Akira! Dragon Ball is one of my favourite shows of all time and Piccolo(mainly because his relationship to Gohan), Cell(specifically in his first form) and Future Trunks are some of my favourites! Zarbon’s first fight with Vegeta is in my top 5 favourite moments of any show ever, not just Anime! What a great man!

I have nothing to say about the theory, but Pitou jumping on a Minecraft bed was exactly what I needed to see today.

What if Ging was the one originally cursed, or he had it passed to him by a parent, and so he made Greed Island with the specific goal of getting pregnant, which normally wouldn't be possible for him, all so he could rid himself of the curse by passing it on to his child?

The next calamity is named "Hiatus."

Gon being such a sweet but destructive boy at times plus having dark continent ties like some kind of hidden deadly ability would be wicked sick

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i really like this theory. I always used to say, it took one calamity to break gon (I consider the chimera ants as a calamity) and another to revive him.

Also ging when talking to gon makes it out that going to the dark continent is this impossible feat which he has spent so long trying to do but hasnt even gotten like halfway so far even though theres been so many voyages so maybe ging is aware gon is from the dark continent/inhabited by a dark continent curse and doesnt want him to go back there

The Freecs family are human calamities, what if the Freec's are humans who came from a powerful calamity from the dark continent, or even one of the guardians. A previous voyage encountering the creature and getting wiped out, with the creature taking one as a host, exploring the world now with a body to allow it to move. And Ging, Gon, are both the descendants of it.

This might be nothing, but the stalks coming out of the victims of Pap looks similiar to Gon's levitating hair during his transformation

Great HxH video out of nowhere with the elbow drop on a hard day

Liam, my brother!!! Lol I knew your swag was special, I thought it might've just been the accent 😂

I like this idea a lot. Spot on about when Gon skips ahead to his final form. For me the tone of that scene said a lot.. Great insight on similarity between Gon and Pap. When I think of how Ging was like, "He won't die." 🥶

Keep up the awesome work and videos Liam love the video

Bro said Nanika used “it’s” abilities😂! I felt that! Great video!!

we just need a dark continent anime and fleshed out story....its one of the best fantasy concepts I can think of

Your editor on both channels is very good

7:59 on the topic of that head tentacle. Gon’s very long, flowing hair in that powered upstate kind of resembles it

Great video but dont let this distract you from the fact that bungee gum possesses the properties of both gum and rubber

I had a theory at one point that Pap might be Nen, or the source of Nen usage in humans. Tradeoff between life and pleasure sounds quite a bit like a Nen vow. Giving something up for something you desire is the whole idea behind nen usage. Even reinforced by the idea of Post-Mortem Nen. Giving up your actual life strengthening your "pleasure" or power left behind. That would even explain why overuse of Nen like with Netero and possibly Gon starts to resemble the victims of Pap.

This is a really good video bro

The Ai that Zigg Zoldyck captured was reincarnated to Nanika and when Zigg died he was reincarnated to Killua, That is why Killua got an special relationship to Nanika.. Zigg captured the Ai with love and attention which ultimately got tamed, Nanika always says "ai" since in japanese it means "LOVE"...and the weakness of the beast is love...which among the Zoldyck family only Killua has the genuine emotion to love nanika..Killua & Nanika's relationship is Togashi's continuation to Zigg & the Ai special connection...And no wonder Killua got Zigg's Thunderbolt ability, got his looks, ability to make friends with netero and linnet, like killua to gon, leorio and kurapika...That is why milluki when was asked by Zeno about killua he said that killua was special and was chosen to lead the Zoldyck family surpassing his older brothers, Zeno knew that killua's Zigg alike ability is enough for him to go to the Dark Continent like his Father Zigg Zoldyck...

"Calamity gon" sounds vicious af

Gon's hair does kinda look like a tentacle reaching up into the abyss

Very interesting theory. Love the content!

the tenticle that pap uses on it's victims actually can be seen with gon, with his immensely and unnaturally long hair, which even shares the same color

I love Hunter X Hunter and I actually got a Holzkern watch not too long ago because they are from my country. I had no idea they were doing sponsorships. But they have some beautiful pieces so I think this is the first sponsorship ever I can actually endorse. Loving the fictional Hunter content as always, you come up with some amazing stuff!

You ain't have to disrespect Gon like that making him look like a dried up blunt 😂

Shame in the translation they didnt just go with nanika saying 'aye' since thats an agreement and sounds the same... tho perhaps they dont want scottish nanika

It makes sense the magical beast are from the Dark Continent. humans didn't bring them back...they migrated to the Lake because it was safe, or at least, that could be the theory. They'd be the weakest creatures from the Dark Continent, unable to survive there. Also, i love this video, but i am fairly certain Gon clearly states that he wants to trade his use of nen for all of the nen he would have ever been able to use in his lifetime, so that pretty much nixes any real way to use his nen, or abilities at large, to justify this theory, although it is a fun one. I really enjoy the Mommy Ging theory myself, and it does make the most sense, but, in favor of this theory, there is a point or two where people mention whats inside Gon isn't human, it's a monster, so...

Could be gons hair inexplicably extends like some sort of conduit after he makes the pact. And that creature seems to connect from the head. So I guess it could be like a parasite that just hangs with you tell you take it up on its offer.

It would be interesting if Gon is from the Dark Continent but I would say that him being Pat is pretty weak, it would be more likely that he is something else maybe not quite a calamity but on the same level as the Chimera Ants. We also don't know who his mother is or if he has one but she could of been from the dark continent and maybe Gon isn't even Gins son but the writer of 'The Books'. Gin could of been given Gon by his ancestor or something along those lines then Gon was given to Mito the kindest person Gin knows to help teach Gon to be 'human' and tame his nature. This could of been done to give humanity a weapon against the creatures of the dark continent as there is at least 2 that we know of that have already made it to the human world and no human could realistically deal with them.