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Bonolenov, the Mummy with Boxing Gloves

posted by graham on December 13, 2025

An embalmed person with red boxing gloves and black shorts punches forward with a faint circle of jupiter behind him

Continuing drawing hxh characters based solely on the descriptions of them from Media Club Plus by @friends-table. This is Bonolenov, member number 10 of The Phantom Troupe.

It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these, but I realized recently that a lot more of the episode transcriptions have been completed than the last time I had looked. As always, I’m primarily bottlenecked by how quickly I can assemble the descriptions.

Jack: On the left-hand side of the image is a embalmed person.

Sylvi: [laughing]

Jack: Uh… she is sitting calmly, uh, she is, she is not the focus of this scene, which is so fun. Between the sort of gorilla fellow, uh, uh, in the first image, you know, it turns out not being a main character whatsoever, and this person kind of just framed sideways, you know, in the very edge of the frame. I really like this. Uh, this person has been wrapped, head to toe, in bandages, it looks like. Uh, alternatively, they could be chitinous. They could be, this could be plates, almost like a, like a. Uh, a woodlouse, or a beetle, or an armadillo, or pangolin — [chuckling] the plated animals.

Phinks, the Racecar Driver

posted by graham on November 26, 2024

A mustachioed Italian-looking man, wearing a stereotypical Egyptian Pharaoh headdress and a green tracksuit with red stripes, talks on the phone apprehensively

Continuing drawing hxh characters based solely on the descriptions of them from Media Club Plus by @friends-table. This is Phinks, member number 5 of The Phantom Troupe.

Jack: [...] Next to them is a fellow in a racing [unintelligible] outfit.

Sylvi: [laughs]

Jack: Green racing driver’s outfit, uh, uh, white shoulders on his jacket, red stripes, green sort of track jacket, almost. Now, next to this person, this is interesting. This is a character I have seen before. I, I don’t know anything about —

Jack: We have Phinks! With a P-H. P-H-I-N-K-S.

Keith: Yep. [Sylvia laughs]

Jack: Who is a grumpy racing driver. He’s a man in a sort of racing driver.

Sylvia: Oh, okay. That’s an interesting— I didn’t get racing driver from him. I always got, uh, Chris Moltisanti.

Keith: But I get it from the jacket though. Sorry, you get who?

Dre: Yeah, I totally get it.

Sylvia: Chris Moltisanti from The Sopranos?

Keith: Oh, it is.

Jack: Oh, yeah. [Dre laughs]

Sylvia: The, like, tracksuit vibe?

Jack: Yeah, totally. It’s absolutely that tracksuit vibe. I also saw it as, like, a racing jacket or, like, racing colors.

Keith: Yeah. Yeah.

Sylvia: Yeah, no, absolutely.

A Year of HxH Characters

posted by graham on October 1, 2024

A year ago, a new podcast came out, and with it brought me one of the silliest and most fun art projects I’ve ever been a part of. There’s plenty more art to come, but I wanted to do a bit of a review as I migrated and archived the old art from cohost onto here. Rather than filling up RSS feeds with over 50 drawings one at a time that many of you may have already seen, I’ve opted for this grid approach. Each one is clickable to go look at the original cohost post. Maybe I’ll update them to web-archive once cohost shuts down. Who knows?

Media Club Plus is a podcast by Friends at the Table and its premier season focused on Hunter X Hunter anime based on the manga by Yoshihiro Togashi. I’ve been listening to Friends at the Table for years, and I knew that the group behind Media Club Plus would be fun to listen to, even if I didn’t know anything about Hunter X Hunter (HxH). Part of the conceit of the podcast, after all, was that Jack De Quidt had also never watched the anime nor read the manga, so we would