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The Genei Ryodan (also known as the Phantom Troupe) is the name for a gang of theives, from the anime/manga series Hunter × Hunter.

The group consists of a total of 13 nen users. New members join the group by killing (and therefore replacing) a previous member. In case of where a member dies of other causes, the leader of the group, Kuroro Lucifer, is responsible to find a suitable replacement.

Kuroro Lucifer

Very little is known about Kuroro's past except for the fact that he originated from Ryuuseigai. Ryuuseigai, the City of the Shooting Stars, is a city of outcasts. People who have no official records of existance, it is a place that few even know exists. Sometime in the past, he formed the Genei Ryodan with six other Ryuuseigai residents and left the city. Later, the group was joined by more members, in accordance with Kuroro's idea of a group comprising of exactly 13 members.

Personality

Kuroro Lucifer is intellegent and charismatic. He is an enigmatic who appears as a calm, handsome young man. He seems to be a born leader, able to hold the Ryodan together despite the volatile personailities that make up the group.

When in York Shin City, he uses his calm presence and communication abilities to assume another personality in order to gain Neon Nostrad's trust. He is a born leader, and well versed in strategies. He easily controls the Ryodan which clearly contain some individuals with the most volatile personalities.

The only people Kuroro does care about are his fellow Ryodan. When Kuroro reads Neon's prophecy which contained Ubogin's death, he cries for him. Lateron he performs a massacre in memory of his comrade. Besides that, he shows no fear of his own death, even anticipating it. Another hunter, Senritsu, states, when she listened to his heartbeat, he sounded as if he was living with death, and apparently appears sadistically happy with it. To Kuroro the Ryodan are more important than his own life. He stresses that the importance of a leader only extends to following his commands, but the group should always be placed first before the leaders life.

By the end of the Genei Ryodan Story Arc, Kuroro's heart is wired with a materialized arrow by Kurapika. This arrow will pierce through his heart, kill him immediately whenever those conditions happen: 1. He tries to use his Nen, i.e his powers 2. He talks to a fellow Ryodan gang member. Note that when Hisoka try to talk to him, he just keeps silent, as Hisoka was still a member of Ryodan. Not until Hisoka took off the spider picture in his back, to prove that he did not belong to Ryodan clan any more, did Kuroro began to talk to him.

Instead of killing Kuroro, Kurapika renders him powerless to contain the Ryodan. As they must find a way to cure their leader before committing further crime. Kurapika knew that killing Kuroro will not lead to the destruction of the Ryodan clan. They will elect a new leader and grow stronger over time.

Talents and Nen Ability

Quick thinker and very able-bodied. He ability to fight off the two most powerful members of the Zaoldyeck assassin family at once is proof for his enormous fighting skill and strength.

Kuroro's Nen Ability - translated directly - is called Skill Hunter. By this skill he can steal the Nen Abilities of other people to use them as his own. The theft victim, of course, no longer has access to his ability. The theft happens under strict conditions:

1. The user must witness the nen ability in action
2. He must enquire about the ability and know how it works
3. His victim's hand must touch the book's cover
4. All of the above must be done within an hour

To use one of the stolen abilities, he materializes a special book and turns to the page of the wanted ability. While using an ability, the book has to remain opened. Additionaly, an ability vanishes from the book, when its former user dies.

Known Nen Abilities in the Book

Teleportation

The ability to teleport a person back and forth from one place to another, without that person's consent. He uses it on Nobunaga when he is about to attack Hisoka, as quarrels inside the Ryodan are supposed to be either solved verbally or, if no solution can be found, by coin flipping.

The Indoor Fish

A materialization of a fish that can only survive in a completely sealed room. The fish looks like a skeleton and feeds on human flesh. While the person is being fed on, they neither feel pain, lose blood and stay conscious despite being mortally wounded. Once the fish disappears, the wounds usual effects manifest, often killing the victim

Fun Fun Cloth

An ability owned by the Owl, a member of the Injyuu. This cloth is materialized, and can increase and decrease in size according to the user's will. Whatever is covered in the cloth decreases in size until it fits in the palm of a hand. The user can make it go back to its original size by letting it out of the bag. People can also be shrunk this way, without being injured.

Kuroro obtains this ability while the Ryodan torture the Owl after they captured him to find out how he hid the auction pieces they intended to steal.

Lovely Ghost Writer

An ability stolen from Neon Nostrad. It creates accurate predictions of future events. The user cannot predict their own future. The ability requires:

1. A person's full name
2. Their date of birth
3. Their blood type

The target person writes the required information on a piece of paper, then hands it to the abilities user, who then calls the "Lovely Ghost Writer", a sort of green monster that attaches to the users arm and moves his pen. The user does not know what he writes, beeing in a trance-like state.

The prophecies take up a specific pattern. They are made up of 4 to 5 paragraphs of 4 lines each corresponding to the weeks or months to come. The first paragraph is always about something that has already happened.

Neon refuses to read her own predictions, feeling it would spoil her ability, but Kuroro has his predictions read out by the adressees. So this seems not to be an ability restriction, but rather a matter of personal style.

Bonorenofu

• Age - 30

• Weight - 85kg
• Height - 185cm
• Nen Type - Unknown
• Blood Type - AB

Nen Ability: He plays music through the holes on his skin during battle. He is from the Gyudondondo tribe, and when the boys are 3 years old, needles are poked into their body. The needles are slowly replaced with bigger sticks, until holes are created. The people of this tribe are called "dancing warriors". Different sounds are created depending on the holes.

Feitan

• Age - 28
• Weight - 45kg
• Height - 155cm
• Nen Type - Transformation (Henka)
• Blood Type - Unknown

A rather mysterious member of the Phantom Troupe, Feitan is attired in what one would expect from a bandit-- dark clothes with a skullhead scarf that covers his mouth. His droopy eyes either hints about his boredom or his affinity to sleep. Silence is golden--for Feitan seldom speaks.

Feitan kills people in the blink of an eye, shown when he tore off several people's heads in a massacre at Yorkshin. His movement is so fast that you don't even see the flash of the weapon or the attack he used--only a dead body remains.

Nen Abilities - Pain Packer: Pain Packer allows Feitan to transform all of the damage that he has received into a minitature sun that burns the victim painfully to death. While using this ability, he can also transform Nen into armor to protect himself from the heat.

Franklin

• Nen Type - Emission (Houshutsu)
• Age - 33
• Weight - 127 kg
• Height - 219 cm

A hulking, Frankensteinian monster is what Franklin appears to be, complete with scars and sewn-up wounds that ravage his face. It does seem though, that beneath his harsh exterior lies a small, caring spot in his character, as Franklin acts as a care-giver to Shizuku, and shows concern of her well-being.

Nen Ability - Double Machine Gun: Franklin is a human machine gun, as his fingers cap off to reveal chambers where he channels his nen that shoot out as bullets. This power has been shown to wipe out a room full of people very quickly.

Kurotopi

• Nen Type - Materialization (Gugenka)
• Age - 25

The most distinctive thing about Kurotopi is his haggard appearance. A thick and messy mane of hair flops down his face, obscuring everything except for an occassional glimpse of his eyeball.

Nen Ability - Gallery Fake: Kurotopi's nen ability allows him to replicate any object he is in contact with accurately, as long as it isn't living or the object does not have nen sealed into it. Be it cards, antiques, or even buildings, all would be faithfully replicated under Kuroro's instruction. The copied object disappears in a day's time. However, before ceasing to exist, Kurotopi can track the movements of each and every replicated object.

Machi

• Nen Type - Transformation (Henka)
• Age - 24
• Weight - 48 kg
• Height - 159 cm
• Blood Type - A

Not known to show much emotion, Machi seems to be one of the most cold members of the Phantom Troupe. The only person she has shown some feeling to was Kuroro, the leader of the Phantom Troupe. Hisoka seems to have an occasional interest with her, although it's hard to see whether it's genuine, given Hisoka's unpredictability. Machi also doesn't appear to be interested a single bit, spurning his advances on all occasions.

Nen Ability: Machi's nen is shaped into thin wispy-long threads which she uses in a variety of ways, such as seaming together old wounds to heal them, repairing back dislodged limbs like what she did for Hisoka, or like a hangman's noose that strangles enemies with a tug. Her thread's strength is proportional to the length. The longer the thread she makes, the easier it is to break.

Nobunaga

• Nen Type - Reinforcement (Kyouka)
• Age - 30
• Weight - 75 kg
• Height - 183 cm

Like one of the ronin warriors in Edo period Japan, Nobunaga comes complete with a long Japanese sword that he uses with great finesse and skill. Nobunaga's speciality is the unparalleled use of the sword in executing enemies.

Nobunaga's En: Supplementing his swordfighting skills is the use of En in creating a circular boundary that can detect the slightest of movements of his opponents. Once the opponent steps into this boundary, an immediate retaliation can be expected from Nobunaga. His Nen ability is currently unknown.

Shalnark

• Nen Type - Manipulation (Sousa)
• Age - 24
• Weight - 72 kg
• Height - 180 cm
• Blood Type - O

With blond hair and baby blue eyes, Shalnark seems to be a guileless and innocent boy straight out from the realm of shoujo manga. But see him in action with the rest of the Phantom Brigade and that thought is dispelled. Shalnark is one of the most intelligent and quick-thinking members in the group--being adept at using the computer and at information gathering, providing the brains behind the brawn. Shalnark is also a Hunter, so he has the ability to gain access to certain information that could be potentially useful in the Phantom Troupe.

Nen Abilities

Black Voice: Shalnark is able to control the physical movements of any person he has targeted, as long as he has a special antenna on them. This is done via a cellphone interface in which he remotely controls other people from a distance, while pointing the antenna at one he placed on the person.

Auto Mode: When Shalnark places an antenna on himself, he temporarily gains immense strength. However, he can only control himself through giving himself instructions and cannot withdraw from Auto Mode until he has accomplished the task. After going out of Auto Mode, Shalnark cannot move for two days. He also doesn't retain any memory from what happened in that state.

Shizuku

• Nen Type - Materialization (Gugenka)
• Age - 19
• Weight - 45 kg
• Height - 160 cm

Someone with a quiet disposition and polite personality seems to sum up most people's initial impression of the cute bespectacled girl. However, don't be beguiled by her unassuming and blurred appearance--as she is an active member of the Phantom Troupe and would not think twice about killing any adversary.

Nen Ability - Deme-chan: Shizuku uses her nen to create a self-styled vacuum cleaner (Nicknamed "Deme-chan") that is able to consume any inanimate matter under her command. This has proven very useful in many occasions for cleaning up evidence that the members leave behind, especially blood and dead corpses. Anything sucked up into her vacuum cleaner cannot be retrieved, except for the last material that was sucked in.

Phinx

• Nen Type - Reinforcement (Kyouka)
• Age - 33
• Weight - 85 kg
• Height - 185 cm

According to some other hunter sources, the large dome shaped hat and yellow costume that Phinx normally dons is a ceremonial costume from his native country, which seems rather gaudy. Thankfully, he changes into a simpler dressing style without the cumbersome accessories whenever he prepares for battle--and is a genius when it comes to unarmed combat. Phinx uses his hands in battle, which have been shown to be extremely powerful.

Nen Ability - Ripper Cyclotron: Phinx's nen type is Reinforcement, so you can bet that he must be pretty powerful. His ability involves how many times he winds his arm. The more winds that he does with the arm, the stronger his blow will become.

Pakunoda

• Nen Type - Specialization (Tokushitsu)
• Age - 28
• Weight - 52 kg
• Height - 182 cm
• Blood Type - O

A sophisticated woman with revealing attire, Pakunoda exudes an air of self-confidence that can be intimidating to others. Pakunoda is fully loyal to Kuroro, and may even go against the Phantom Troupe in order to help him.

Nen Ability - Memory Bomb: For those who know of her nen ability, their fears are well-founded, as Pakunoda is able to read the thoughts of any person or any object she has had contact with. Be it a brief touch or an engaged conversation, Pakunoda is able to draw out secrets kept hidden within the premordial regions of the brain. Attempting to create false memories is impossible, since Pakunoda can only extract the most pure memories. Without a doubt, the private information she has garnered is highly useful in exposing weaknesses and secrets, especially in finding out the opponent's nen ability or in situations requiring some form of extortion or blackmail.

Pakunoda's hidden ability is to shoot her memories into her opponent, using a revolver and special Nen Bullets.

Ubogin

• Nen Type - Reinforcement (Kyouka)
• Age - 29
• Weight - 127 kg
• Height - 258 cm
• Blood Type - B

Ubogin is the eleventh member of the Phantom Troupe. Nobunaga has compared his personality to Gon's, seeing how not only do they have the same Nen type, but their behavior is similar as well. However, like all of the Phantom Troupe, Ubogin doesn't hesitate to kill anyone. Out of all of the Phantom Troupe, Ubogin is the strongest in terms of physical power.

Nen Ability: Ubogin has seasoned his nen to the point where he has 100% power in the Reinforcement type Nen. He can strengthen his muscles to the point where neither bullets nor missiles will have much of an effect on him, and can strengthen even his vocal cords in order to kill someone internally. His favorite ability is his "Big Bang Impact", which is nearly as powerful as a missile.

See also

• Hunter × Hunter
• Hunter × Hunter characters

• Hunter × Hunter