posted by on December 22, 2025
Continuing drawing hxh characters based solely on the descriptions of them from Media Club Plus by @friends-table. This is Nobunaga, member number 1 of The Phantom Troupe.
Jack: Also with them is Nobunaga, who is a rōnin with a classic sort of top knot and a robe and a katana
Keith: Yeah, “Dr. Warm-Hearted Miser”?
Jack: Yeah. [Sylvia laughs]
Keith: That’s his other theme song.
Austin: I’m telling you, they’re compatible.
Dre: I love that Guilty Gear character.
Keith: That song— both of those songs are the songs of a guy who would steal a trillion jenny from a casino.
Dre: Sure.
Austin: It would make Leorio more like Lupin III and less like Leorio.
Sylvia: He would be Danny Ocean.
Austin: He’d be Danny Ocean.
Keith: Who he looks like. He looks like Lupin III.
Dre: Yeah.
Austin: He’s already a Lupin III type.
Keith: Yeah.
Sylvia: I mean, Nobunaga would fit right in, then. He’d just be, um…
Austin: I’m telling you.
Keith: Right.
Austin: Yeah.
Sylvia: Oh, I can’t remember the name off the top of my head.
Austin: Jigen.
Sylvia: Jigen.
Austin: No, Jigen’s the other one. Jigen’s the other one.
Keith: The other one, the other one.
Sylvia: No, Jigen’s not the Samurai, yeah.
Austin: What’s the Samurai’s name?
Sylvia: I don’t know.
Austin: Oh, this is brutal. I can see his hair. I can see his— it’s Fujiko, it’s Lupin, it’s Jigen.
Sylvia: It’s Goemon.
Austin: Goemon! Of course.
Sylvia: Yeah.
Austin: Another classic historical thief.
Sylvia: Yeah.
Austin: Magical historical thief.
Jack: Nobunaga introduces a creepy power here. It doesn’t help him too much, but it’s probably going to be frightening in future, [Sylvia: Mm-hmm.] and it’s a new Nen ability called En.
Sylvia: Yeah. You’re correct. En is going to be on the exam.
Jack: Okay.
Sylvia: Like, this is something to remember, I feel like.
Keith: It’s so great that he introduces it and then we actually don’t see it used.
Jack: Yeah.
Sylvia: Yeah, we just kind of get the powerpoint presentation.
Dre: Yeah.
Jack: Here is how it—
Dre: And we see, like, the bubble, but.
Keith: Yeah.
Jack: Yeah. Here’s how it works. He extends his aura out from himself, [Keith: Yeah.] a really quite substantial distance. Not like a city block but definitely, like, an entire building.
Keith: Yeah.
Sylvia: Mm-hmm.
Jack: And anything that moves within that building can…
Keith: It’s as if it’s touching his body.
Jack: Yes. He says, “I could feel any falling leaf.” We get this sort of image of him surrounded by these falling golden leaves, kind of briefly coming back to Nobunaga as a Rōnin and the sort of poetic imagery of a Rōnin, as opposed to what he has been this episode, a grieving fairly pragmatic man guarding two children.
Jack: Nobunaga is both, um, really really funny. He’s a really funny character. He is scary in a way you never quite know how short his fuse is. He is extremely capable. He cares very deeply for Uvo, and in times in this little arc when Chrollo is out of action, demonstrates himself pretty capably to be able to like, think on behalf of the Troupe.
Jack: Which in the sort of Nen calculus, that’s about as good as it gets. Y’know? We even say this in Heaven’s Arena where it’s like, whoa, what’s his power? And then it reveals itself. So for Chrollo to have this seemingly limitless book. But I think Nobunaga backing down and then it being a trick and then lunging is such a nice illustration in the difference between how Hisoka and Nobunaga see like, worthwhile fights. Y’know, Hisoka has that ridiculous game he plays that I’m now sick of where he’s like, you have to be good enough to fight me, and Nobunaga is like, I’m gonna cut your head off with a katana, because y’know, you betrayed the Troupe or whatever and it’s only Chrollo’s intervention…
Jack: That is the only thing I know about Bonolenov. I’ve seen an image of him and then a bunch of people responding with crying emojis. Which is, that’s funny to me. Um, Machi tells Chrollo about Gon and Killua, Nobunaga, or one of Nobunaga’s two games, Nobunaga actually has three games. Nobunaga game one: I’m going to kill the person who killed Uvo. Game two: I’m gonna fight anybody at the smallest moment’s notice because I’m high strung, but I’m also kind of funny about it. Game three: we should recruit Gon and Killua [chuckling] Those are his three conversations.
Sylvia: And it is just like, so unceremonious and Nobunaga’s being like, I told him not to move or whatever afterwards? And it’s, like, such a nice touch. Again, makes the Phantom Tr— Reminds you that the Phantom Troupe are not just a funny samurai who gets mad and like, his friends and stuff. Y’know?
Dre: Mhm.
Sylvia: Like, oh, yeah, these guys are murderers.
Jack: 56 is, uh, they are talking about Nobunaga, who can take out foes with one strike.
Keith: While Hisoka’s scouting out Abengane with the rest of the Troupe, a song called “Master of Iai” plays. [clip of “Master of Iai” begins]
Sylvia: This has to be a Nobunaga song, right? ‘Cause that’s, like…isn’t that the sword style that he does?
Keith: Yeah. Yeah, it is. Yeah. [music ends]
Shoutouts to the Friends at the Table Transcription team for their work, which made my job easier with this one: https://sites.google.com/view/fatttranscripts/more/media-club-plus