Pakunoda, the Touch-Memory Reader

posted by graham on December 23, 2025

Continuing drawing hxh characters based solely on the descriptions of them from Media Club Plus by @friends-table. This is Pakunoda, member number 9¹ of The Phantom Troupe.

Jack: And we are introduced to them very quickly. We have Pakunoda, who is a sexy lady. She has a lovely piece of animation. She checks her wristwatch, at one point, and she’s wearing her watch like a bracelet with the face on the inside of her wrist like some people do, so she’s, like, looking at the inside of her wrist to check the time.

Jack: But it’s…well, it’s interesting. We learn later that sort of a lynchpin of the back of this episode is the Nen power of another Phantom Troupe member. Pakunoda? Pakunada?

Keith: Pakunoda.

Sylvia: Pakunoda, yeah.

Jack: Who can sort of verify whether something is true by reading the memories of people she touches. We haven’t had this power confirmed, but that seems to be the case.

Sylvia: Yeah. I think that’s like a really important thing to draw on is the, like…the way the different founding members sort of step up during this sequence.

Keith: That’s like, the…like, emotional core of these episodes is that Pakunoda, Feitan, Franklin, Machi, Nobunaga, and, uh, Uvo—

Jack: Phinks and Shalnark.

Keith: And Phinks and Shalnark, they’re all founding members and they have all found themselves on opposite sides of this thing. They have like, they have spent years together both developing totally separate understandings of how the Spider moves.

Jack: The violence when they play their hand, not just the Troupe but generally I think about the great scene where Uvo bit the guy’s face off.

Keith: Oh yeah.

Jack: …is really embodied, is really visceral, and is almost always on camera. Y’know, when the anime team commits to one of these moments of violence, they don’t cut away from it. And I like that, y’know, if we want to sell that this world is fundamentally violent and thirteen of our protagonists deal this violence regularly, I think it makes sense that the violence remains shocking when it happens. But, I mean, time for another incredible moment of violence as Pakunoda starts loading her pistol.

Keith: We actually get a good, another new song that I can’t tell you, well not I can’t, I won’t tell you the title of this one because it’s, it actually becomes a variation, it becomes a theme of a character that we haven’t met yet.

Jack: The spoiler that Keith’s not telling me is that this title actually is called “Pakunoda x Nen Freedom x Reunited with the Troupe.” [Keith and Sylvi laugh]

Keith: Yeah, that’s a real, that is Jack’s best called shot yet. [Jack chuckles] But no, during the whole scene where Pakunoda has, uh, Squala in an armlock and then also the memory stuff that we’re about to talk about, it plays this song. [A few seconds of “Who’s the Bomber[2]” plays]

Sylvia: Ooh!

Jack: Oh, it’s good!

Jack: This is sort of like a 60’s French sort of mystery theme going on here. [Jack and Dre chuckle]

Keith: It is a little bit noir-y, which is funny for what it ends up being used for. It definitely fits better here.

Jack: Pakunoda is kind of noir-y.

Sylvia: Oh, she’s very…

Jack: She, she thinks about people’s memories, she has a revolver.

Sylvia: She’s the…

Keith: Yeah, there’s a lot of detective stuff going on in this one, people are trying to figure out the location of everything. But it becomes, it does not…This is much more noir-y than what it gets used for eventually. [Sylvi chuckles] They replace the strings with a guitar and it’s odd. Odd choice.

Jack: So, no use beating around the bush. Pakunoda can shoot her memories into people for as long as she has bullets, using a Nen power called Memory Bomb.

Keith: Recollection Bullet: Memory Bomb.

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