Hunter x Hunter Chapter 342 Discussion

so the whole entirety of humanity's reach is just in a giant lake when compared to the Dark continent damn that place is gigantic



also Ging just being a boss in the last panel

ichii_1 said:
I see a lot of people getting the chimera thing wrong-



Pariston scheme was to send the v5 organization or the hunter's organization into the dark continent and a lot of would die, so Ging came and said stop fooling around with people's lives and send in the 5000 chimeras to check the dark continent first instead of sacrificing people.



That's not what was said, you're only further confusing people.



The 5000 chimera eggs are basically Pariston's bargaining chip, which he obtained by switching the plane before he quit HA. Regardless of what HA will choose to do with Beyond, he'll send the hatched Ant soldiers no matter what to either side:

1) if HA were to monitor Beyond,  Pariston will release the soldiers to the world.

2) If HA choose to not do anything, Pariston will set the soldiers onto HA.



If you go back to read the Election Arc, Pariston's motives are hinted as "making things more fun and interesting", which basically mean he enjoyed being the obstacle for being obstacle's sake and just want to create more chaos. He became the VP just for the hack of being the obstacle of Netero.  Right now with 5000 ants bargaining chip on his hand is his idea of 'making things more interesting". That's why Ging is getting on board, knowing Pariston is bent on messing with HA.... Ging basically said "enough of messing with HA,  play with ME instead this time!"



So you can say maybe Pariston is basically Hisoka x 100...instead of looking for fun fights and interesting people as toys, Parison see politics and the world as his toys, the more chaos the better.



I have a feeling the 5000 chimera ants are MacGuffin. Pariston finally got the ultimate target of fun - Ging. (and of course he's just using Beyond and Kakin)

SaSa-Zoldyck said:
Those 5000 chimera ants are pretty much Pariston's playtoys and DC his playground lol.





Yeah but it was 100 hunter organisation airships. So it is supposed to be a property of the hunter organisation. But I guess since it wasn't recorded on the book the vice chairman (Pariston at the time) was one of the only one who knew about this. So maybe he silenced all the people who knew about it with threat and money and he left the organisation with them.



ichii_1 said:
I see a lot of people getting the chimera thing wrong-



Pariston scheme was to send the v5 organization or the hunter's organization into the dark continent and a lot of would die, so Ging came and said stop fooling around with people's lives and send in the 5000 chimeras to check the dark continent first instead of sacrificing people.

Yeah, I got the same thing when i was reading mangastream's translation. He doesn't want the association to be Pariston's plaything. I really don't get along with mangapanda's translation.

well too long talk about the dark continent.. seems like they won’t be going soon…. There maybe many new training sessions involved as well as introduction of new characters

Nidhoeggr said:
Ok, here's a little summary of the last two chapters from someone over at Mangastream:



Ging meets with Pariston and proposes he joins Beyond's team. He also tells Pariston to stop causing trouble because Pariston wanted to send his pet army of 5000 Chimera ant soldiers against one of two targets: the New World if the Hunter Association goes along with Beyond or the Hunter Association itself if it doesn't. Also, Ging might want to be a long wolf in the New World......looks like Gon will have to search for his father in the New World.



I have another interpretation of that.

Ging tells him to stop causing trouble and instead send 5000 chimera's to the dark continent.

Where does it remotely say Pariston will send the chimera's to one of the two organizations?

It sucks that you can only buy online viz release in a handful countries :( Both the mangastream and mangapanda translation were bad.

beefsteakken said:
keragamming said:
I'm kinda tired with the politics intrigue I already have to deal with this in attack on titan.

Weird. That's one reason why I thought the latest AoT arc was so great. The poli intrigue is even better there doe in fairness the translation for this HxH arc isn't that good.



Yea, I'm not saying the arc is bad, I'm just saying I'm not a big fan of politics intrigue stuff.



I'm enjoying the current arc in attack on titan, I just don't want to deal with any more politics intrigue right now from any other manga series.

This is pretty interesting, no sight of Gon or any other MC. I wonder if it will keep going like that? Anyway, the Dark Continent seems like a hell of a place. I don't know if any of them could really even handle it considering the horror stories and what happened to people who came back....in one form or another. I wouldn't even mind if Ging and the Zodiacs were the focus, tbh. They seem pretty interesting.



Silent-Knight said:
The dark contnent kind off sounds like a scary place to be with all those twisted creatures living there....luckily the pro hunters are going together with beyond who knows the place well



Imagine if he somehow got killed as soon as they got there?