posted by on December 23, 2025
Continuing drawing hxh characters based solely on the descriptions of them from Media Club Plus by @friends-table. This is Kortopi, member number 12 of The Phantom Troupe.
Jack: He is accompanied by Kortopi, a one-eyed— or maybe— hmm. A small child in a green raincoat with long gray hair cover— with only one eye visible beneath. Then there is Uvo, a—
Keith: Fully covering their face.
Jack: Yes.
Keith: Like, can’t see their face.
Keith: Yeah, this is something that Hunter X Hunter is so good at, is like, I talked about this episode as setting up pins and like, Hunter X Hunter is constantly setting up pins and you just never know when they’re gonna get knocked down. Sometimes it’s two minutes, sometimes it’s ten episodes, sometimes it’s thirty episodes, like who knows? Like, later on we see, uh, it’s introduced that Kortopi has, [Jack: Oh yeah…] that his copies count as En and then like five minutes later that becomes like a crucial part of the plan. And that sort of maneuver is happening constantly in this show, where you learn something and then a little while down the line they pull it and twist it in a new way, and then use it and be like, look, this thing that you learned about!
Jack: I’m so excited to see them fight. It’s so funny. Um, okay. As part of his Professor Layton puzzle, Chrollo asks Kortopi to make ten dummy hideouts. This is another rapid escalation of Nen. Y’know, I’ve now just given up on the sort of upper limit of what Nen can do. [Dre laughs] We’ve seen Kortopi copy things, and now Kortopi, Chrollo says ‘make ten hideouts’ and Kortopi says ‘I’ll make you fifty.’ And they all act as En, anyone who enters them will be seen.
Keith: Yeah, Kortopi instantly makes a fake city.
Sylvia: This combined with the way that Kortopi, like the way they talk about Kortopi’s En, I feel like is like such a big like, oh the roller coaster is cresting the top of its rise moment for these episodes?
Jack: Yeah.
Keith: Yeah. This is what we talked about earlier where when they’re making the fake city, uh, as a, to hide their hideout, Kortopi’s like, yeah the buildings function as my En so if they’re walking through it I’ll be able to tell there’s intruders coming. And then they now reuse that ability for, ‘hey, Kortopi, we just realized that we have those Scarlet Eyes, and we know about, that the Phantom— the Chain User also was interested in Scarlet Eyes, why don’t you find the Scarlet Eyes, touch them, and then it’ll bring us to where their hideout is.’ And this be—
Sylvia: We get like a really good shot of them like, digging through crates trying to find the Scarlet Eyes.
Jack: That’s great. They are overwhelmed by their own loot.
Keith: Oh yeah, tons— there’s tons of loot.
Sylvia: The, um, the visual of Kortopi using his En is so cool. I like, love the way that they animate this.
Jack: Yeah, you wanna describe what this looks like? I wrote down, ‘Kortopi vision.’
Sylvia: It’s just like, it’s sort of like is it— would you say wireframe? I don’t really know how to describe the actual…
Jack: Yeah, it’s a bit like the, um, the beginning of Escape From New York. [Dre laughs]
Sylvia: Yeah, there’s like, some, there’s like this representation of the city, and then the red eyes just like, floating in the darkness basically of it? And I like that it’s just the position of the eyes that you get. Like, there are limitations in this. It’s not necessarily like, Kortopi can tell how many people are in the same room as the eyes, he can just tell, ‘oh they’re moving this way and someone has them.’
Jack: […] Rather than having sort of like a sheet of hair over her face like Kortopi, it is almost like dangling down in these presumably very irritating to draw threads. [Everyone laughs] They are all over her face and body.
Keith: Yeah. And I do like you’ve got the spooky corner over here. You’ve got the friends, [Sylvia: Yeah.] the XBox friends, Feitan, Kortopi, and Bonolenov. They play XBox together.
Sylvia: Yeah, except Bonolenov and Kortopi are an item. They go antiquing on the weekends.
Keith: Yes, yeah. [Jack chuckles]
Jack: Feitan and Kortopi have short solidarity.
Sylvia: Of course.
Jack: I think during the screenshot stream I referred to them both as small children.
Sylvia: You did. [Keith laughs] Oh! Can I just say, by the way, there is a lot of, like, fanart of Kortopi being this, like, adorable little cherub underneath the hair while I was looking for, like, a good icon to use for this.
Keith: That’s bizarre.
Sylvia: And it’s bizarre to me, because underneath Kortopi’s hair, to me, it’s Okuyasu’s dad.
Keith: To me, it’s an eyeball floating in a void.
Sylvia: From our JoJo episodes. [Dre chuckles]
Jack: Oh, wow, yeah, yeah, yeah. So, we never see Kortopi’s face? I don’t really consider this a spoiler, but you know.
Keith: Genuinely don’t remember.
Sylvia: I don’t remember. I never have thought of it.
Dre: I don’t think so.
Jack: Wow.
Keith: It might happen in the manga? Yeah, I have no idea.
Sylvia: Yeah.
Keith: No clue.
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