User blog comment:PhantomRougeFan/The Very Dark arc??/@comment-4896558-20130602160330

The Chimera arc is probably the darkest arc, but also a lot of character growth as well in this arc. Sure a lot of characters have dies like Kite, the chairman, and others. But it's well worth the impact on the story that makes it so good.

And if Kite didn't die I don't think Gon would have matured as much as he did, and I don't mean like chaning into an adult and nearly dying but more along the lines of realizing people die and they don't come back... aside from the fact with Kite of course.

Finally you get that character Knov whom at first was a total stuck up jerk who gave off that superior attitude with everyone and later had a mental breakdown realizing his flaws and that he wasn't all that he thought he was.

But that's just my saying on it.