Marky's Blog: Hunter x Hunter (2011)

Chimera Ants Arc

Alongside Kite, Gon and Killua briefly work as biological researchers in the country of Kakin.
As they investigate a giant insect limb found on the country's shores,
the group discover it came from a man-sized Chimera Ant queen,
an insect that devours other creatures and then gives birth to progeny
that inherit the characteristics of the different species it has eaten.

The queen washes up onto an island nation called the Neo-Green Life (N.G.L.)
Autonomous Region, inhabited by a neo-luddite culture.
She quickly develops a taste for humans and builds a colony
in order to conceive both an army of offspring and a Chimera Ant king named Meryem.
The Chimera Ants proceed to wipe most of the population out before Gon, Killua, and Kite arrive.
The queen dies during labor, and the king and his Royal Guards flee the N.G.L.,
secretly overthrowing the government of the nearby Republic of East Gorteau soon thereafter.
Meanwhile, having left the N.G.L. for two months following an attack
by the Chimera Ant Royal Guardsman Neferpitou,
Gon learns that Kite is being manipulated by the ant and becomes enraged.

Under the guise of the former king of the Republic,
Meryem initiates the process of forcibly awakening Nen in the civilians
of East Gorteau in order to select soldiers to join his own personal army to conquer the world,
and convert the remaining inhabitants to foodstock.

As Ants formerly under the queen's rule rejoin the king,
the Hunter Association mobilizes quickly to stop the oncoming genocide
by sending in an extermination team of Hunters to East Gorteau.
Looking for a way to restore Kite to his normal state,
Gon and Killua join the extermination team in order to find Neferpitou.
The confrontation reaches its peak during a battle between the Chimera Ant King and Netero,
the chairman of the Hunters Association, and a second meeting between Neferpitou and Gon.