Reviews for Reborn!

If you're able to stand seven manga worth of one chapter mini crack stories, only to get hit with a bag full of PLOT, then Katekyo hitman reborn might be the manga for you. Tsuna Sawada, the main protagonist, is introduced as a middle school boy who can do nothing right, and is a constant screwup. In comes Reborn, an assassin in the shape of a baby, who's badassery knows no bounds, and who consequently informs Tsuna that he's the unlikely successor to the greatest mafia family in the world, the Vongola. Tsuna certainly doesn't want this thrown upon him, but has no choicein the face of Reborn's stark violence- soon enough, he starts training, building courage and character, making friends/potential allies, and battling bad guys for his right to rule as the Tenth leader of the Vongola.

The first seven books are all comprised of various one-shots, introducing the characters, their quirks, and setting the groundwork for the eventual plot. When the eighth manga begins, the story suddenly gets heavy- the main and side characters begin to loosely band together to fight a common enemy, and the fun, happy times begin turning much more serious. However, there's still the occasional humor- the manga hasn't quite lost it's fun tone, but all in all, it sucks you in much, much faster than the 'Daily Life' arc did.

Reborn has something that always makes you look back to the previous chapters- the artist, Akira Amano, has written the story so that there's tiny little hints and foreshadowing to any current plot- hundreds of chapters ago! After the crack chapters, the plot suddenly becomes engaging and complex- enough to keep any happy fan's mind brewing with theories and counter-theories.

The art is also amazing- while it starts off a little *too* clean, a little *too* boring, Amano develops her style and by the current chapter, it's flowing with a unique individuality that makes you linger over the full-page spread for minutes.

Speaking of art- the very best thing this manga has to offer, hands down, are the characters themselves. Their dynamics, their quirks- everything about them sets them apart from so many others with their almost realistic feel and complexity. From Gokudera, the spoiled rich kid who tries to act tough and make it in the mafia world, to Belphegor, a prince to a royal bloodline who murdered his twin when they were younger and now goes insane at the sight of his own blood, to Mukuro/Chrome, the complex duo who seem to contrast eachother as the sociopathic world conquester, to the small, innocent girl- and yet, who seem to only be able to live as a part of one another in a form of strange symbiosis.

Of course, there's your run-of-the-mill characters too. The Quiet Badass/Dues ex Machina, Hibari, the overly loud, overly enthusiastic Ryohei- but even they have their quirks (extreme patriotism, extreme big-brother complex) that don't make them boring in the slightest.

Think you can get past hitmen babies (who, of course, aren't *really* babies), inventive weapons, and being kept out of the main plot for seven manga? What if we promised you an amazing plot, fully-fleshed characters, and bad guys who keep you guessing until the very end?

The choice, of course, is yours.

*THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS* There's so many things that can be said about Katekyo Hitman Reborn (KHR) - good and bad things, but mostly the latter. Our main protagonist, Tsuna, is a rather atypical hero in comparison to what you'd find in your standard fare of shounen manga in a sense. Tsuna has little to no self-confidence and believes he amounts to nothing much at all, himself and others referring to him as "No Good Tsuna" for having no spine, poor grades, terrible luck, and a lack of athleticism as he catches basketballs with his face in P.E. Bad news for Tsuna is he's assigned a mysterioushome tutor who says he's an assassin that has been hired to turn him into a suitable mafia boss - a future boss of the Vongola, the greatest mafia family in Italy. He screams and cowers in fear, always doubting himself and his abilities as the plot calls him for action.

This manga is a forgettable mess for roughly 60 chapters, making that seven volumes worth of material in which absolutely nothing of value takes place in the overall story. In this period of time, the manga mainly focuses on comedic acts and has little semblance of a plot as it goes through Tsuna's everyday life and the shenanigans that surround him as he's under Reborn's tutelage. This is all prior to the manga's push into becoming more focused on action and battles as it went, joining its Weekly Shounen Jump brethren as a full fledged battle shounen manga. The thing is, this is not smart comedy. Its over reliance on a number of running gags - Dino becoming an absolute klutz when none of his men are near him, Yamamoto having no clue as to what's going on around right in front of him, Ryohei's entire characterization as a bumbling idiot - most having to do with the apparent comical character flaws its characters possess. KHR's childish style of comedy is clearly not my cup of tea as it leaves me shaking my head at the thought anyone finding these acts humorous. The manga attempts to make you laugh by portraying its characters as buffoons. It very rarely switches up its execution and corny jokes become stale corny jokes.

A lot of times during the fights, the art is muddled by speed lines and unnecessary detail that distracts from the action, making it hard to pick out exactly what's happening at times. The artwork is often messy when out of fights as well, but less so as the manga goes on. A lot of the character designs go through a significant change. No Good Tsuna goes from a plain, lanky hero to a bishounen. That can used to define the general art shift as the male characters begin to look more and more feminine until some are even prettier than most of the female characters. There's a reason why this series is known as " fujioshi-bait."

As the story goes on and becomes more serious as it deals with actual mafia affairs, you expect this is all leading up to and building character arcs as the heroes are put into these dangerous situations. If you are indeed, you may wind up more than a little disappointed with the writing and story of KHR. Tsuna is still as reluctant as he was in the beginning of the series towards the end, whining and complaining, never taking full responsibility, outright refusing to be involved with the mafia still in the latest chapters, only rising to the occasion when one of his friend's life is endangered. His naivety is just frustrating altogether as he never really seems to learn anything in particular from his encounters that changes his character in a significant manner. His rebuttals to the Big Bads usually consist of the cliche "I'll protect my friends" line and nothing actually inspiring raises out of it because of this disconnection between the characters. Even at the end of the manga, 409 chapters in, he's fundamentally the same exact character, remaining stagnant even after all of his endeavors, and he even acknowledges it himself. So much for character development.

Characters in this series never particularly caught my attention as I felt largely indifferent towards the cast and the conflict within the story. There's a severe lack of dimensions to the characters as they possess only a handful of character traits usually with one particular exaggerated personality quirk that is meant to be a character flaw.

Chrome, the obligatory girl of the main cast, holds little to no worth at all, her ability to do nothing without the aid of her precious "Mukuro-sama" grates on the nerves. She simply serves as Mukuro's vessel, and then the series does a 180 and she is no longer useful even for that purpose. Ryohei should've remained the annoying comic relief character he was as he's what you'd call a muscle bound idiot without any charm. One who adds "To the extreme!" at the end of his sentences, an example of the exaggeration I was talking about before.

The Varia Arc is little more the than obligatory Tournament Arc that's become somewhat a stable in shounen manga. With that in mind, it's a shame to say this is KHR's at its absolute best. Xanxus wishes to stage a coup d'etat and take over the Vongola family after finding out he was adopted, meaning his bloodline restricts him from becoming the tenth boss. Of course, it has some twists, but it's still little more than a tournament arc with the gang training for its arrival.

The motivations of Byakuran don't go beyond "I'm bad and I want to kill, have some fun, and rule the world." I can't tell you how much that leaves to be desired, much of the characters' struggles aren't felt due to the complete shallowness of its antagonists - Byakuran being the main one for the longest arc. He does, in fact, have an unnecessary sob story that doesn't justify his motivations at all.

A thing that can be praised in KHR is its battle system, utilizing what is called Dying Will Flames with varying properties to differentiate fighters and also create a battle system with some complexity. They are used in conjunction with various types of weapons and fights have the potential to be very interesting. Illusions, animal based weapons, cloaks, gloves, rings, and so forth.

Execution in the manga, however, often leaves you puzzled. For example, in the finale battle of the Future Arc, Tsuna finally gets his anticipated show down with Byakuran after an agonizing wait. Much of the good guys are down for the count and it's all up to him to defeat him. Byakuran overpowers him rather easily and all seems lost. He then gets some power up via some awkward form of emotional catharsis, recognizing how his friends are there for him and everyone has helped him in some way, and deus ex machina involving the rings.

He's ready to go, fighting Byakuran on equal terms. No, but wait, Byakuran was only using 80 percent of his power so far. But, hey, Tsuna's only been using 50 percent of his new found power. By the books dialogue in a shounen battle manga without a twinge of humor or twist of any kind.

Riddled with cliches, deus ex machina, and sloppy writing is my diagnosis of this manga.

Ah, where shall I start with KHR? I was introduced to the franchise through the anime. When I realized the anime was cancelled, I finished the anime and then moved on to the manga. Every time I finished a chapter, the next one just got even better. I honestly enjoyed every moment of reading this. Story is flawless, ofc. The archetypes in the manga are just as perfect. The art is amazing. You can see she put her heart and soul into her drawings (esp in the Simon Arc and her drawings of Daemon Spade completely revived). Overall, I enjoyed this manga a lot. Hopefully, Akira will make anothermanga

This manga is really awesome in my point of view. I heard about it from a friend, and I decided to check it out. I got hooked immediately. The drawing style was cool, and the storyline was fantastic, just my type of manga. It starts out comical, but then later chps show it get intense and with some major action. And it's about the mafia. I mean that's rare to find a manga about the mafia. And I absolutely love the characters! Especially since the main character is weak and totally useless. It makes for good comedy.

Katekyo Hitman Reborn is a shounen about Tsuna, a no good loser from japan. Until he is visited by Reborn, a hitman home tutor from the vongola family. Together with Reborn tsuna must train to become the next mafia boss of the vongola. Hitman Reborn has a fairly slow start but once the second arc begins you wont be able to stop watching. The characters unfortunately is where the show falls down. All the characters are predictable with one or two exceptions and some characters become useless and annoying towards the later parts of the manga. The artwork is quite good, the the attacks look awesome and emotionalmoments draw you in.

Overall I would recommend this manga to any shounen lovers and generally manga readers.

I have to say Reborn is one of the mangas I've liked the most out of the many I've read. What I liked the most, and the reason why I even started reading it is because of the genre shift that made Reborn so famous, and it's something really amazing. It really shows you how the story grows and changes from the original lighthearted and quirky gag manga to a darker and more action based version with great characters and developtment. Tsuna is one of my favorite characters in all of manga because of his growth from a shy, insecure and cowardly boy intoa....braver version of himself, he's still pretty shy at the end but he's more open about speaking his opinion and isn't as much of a coward as he was before.

The fights were great, though they started to pile up. This relates to the plot. For example, in the Kokuyo arc after the shift the fights are in a realistic level with some few points that sound too weird to be true as more supernatural stuff are added into the mix.

What I liked most about that arc is how everything in the gag portion seemed to come together to the final fight against Mukuro which showed just how much Tsuna had really grown.

As the story went on and the arcs came out Reborn began to escalate and create its own little plot, and this is both good and bad. While the fights start off with few things that are out of this world it eventually gets even more complex as the story unfolds, it's not like it was bad but there came a point where you just didn't know where it was going to go.

This was more evident in the last few arcs, with each of the arcs starting out as the most amazing thing that would happen and ending up in a sort of rushed conclusion or as a dragged out fight, of course that's probably due to the fact that reading it week to week caused the fights to grow old even if they were pretty good.

What I think the problem was is that Reborn tried to bite a lot more than it could chew and when it was finally time to close all the ties it didn't know how to. I also didn't like how it ended very much because it felt like the author just wanted to go back to gag because she didn't know how to end th emanga properly, so in the end we came full circle, except that Tsuna seemed to have forgotten everything he learned.

Overall 8/10

(just for the record, this is a slight alteration of my anime review) Katekyo Hitman Reborn!, aka “The Idiotic Mafia anime”. Who would have guessed that the Godfather would get such a ridiculous spin-off in Japan? And here I thought zombies called orcs in Gungrave was too much. But let’s clarify a few things first. This show is a silly action/comedy that uses a backdrop story as an excuse for mostly random gags and some guys to come fight with some other guys. Don’t expect a captivating, multi-layered, well-thought of scenario. It is just a typical “kid wants to grow stronger and more secured with himself andlead its own empire” scenario, with the catch that he didn’t choose it. Others did that for him; specifically his father who wants to prepare him just to succeed him in his mafia family when he retires. It is not a bad premise actually; it is good to see a story where the lead character is forced to do something important against his will and gaining the support of those around him in the process. Remember Shinji in Neon Genesis?

Well too bad he is no Shinji and this is hardly a Neon Genesis. It’s nothing but a silly comedy with slapstick humour, random stories and over the top characters. So we can start by saying the story is barely there, goes nowhere, and you shouldn’t even care about it. Sure, there is occasional progress in the form of having the characters overcoming a challenge and becoming stronger but that never actually heads to something important. They go here, they go there, they travel in time, they play in a Pokemon-like tournament, they assume forms from the future, they gather magic rings, blah blah, random mambo jumbo just for kicks.

Pacing is another very negative thing. Having good humour and dense episodic storylines would be good but to the most part it is dragging to the point of insanity. The first 7 volumes are nothing but aimless childish episodic adventures where we just get to know the characters of the show. Past the introduction, they are boring and barely rewatchable. Down to it, it’s the characters that only matter in this show and your enjoyment is equal to how much you can laugh with them or tolerate them thereafter. The protagonist may appear to be Tsuma, but he is just a boring wimp who just has to do stuff for the heck of it. The real good ones are Reborn, the baby-mafia with a lizard gun, and Lambo, the afro cow-uniform baby. There are others almost as interesting and, yeah, again all of them are babies doing nonsense. Do you believe this is a shonen about babies? In fact, the entire show is quite juvenile in its humour and action; do not go comparing it to Naruto or One Piece because its target audience is much younger and thus has far less violence and intelligence.

Anyways, even if you get to love the characters for their weirdness it is still questionable for how long you will like them before they become annoying. There is no actual character development besides getting to see more sides to them (usually involving their future selves) and most of them are defined by an extreme personality quirk and nothing else. How many times can you stand watching them doing the exact same things before getting fed up with it? It might have worked with Urusei Yatsura in the 80’s but this is not nearly as extreme in humour or episodic in structure.

The artwork is ok all things considered, and so are the battles if you are around 10 years old but surely lack excitement. I mean, most of the times they shoot Tsuma with a bullet which makes his clothes rip apart (but not his trunks) and he gets all furious and powerful, doing all sorts of improbable things, only to revert back into a spineless idiot a few minutes later. And that is all the action you get to the most part. Later on it gets a bit more complicating with Pokemons and mgic rings but it never becomes hardcore action. Because it’s for kids.

So is it a good show? Sporadically yes, if your bar is rather low. It’s definitely not good in the beginning, and the characters are frozen stiff in personality and mostly repeat the same joke. And of course girls are useless who can only cook while boys love to fight. And babies carry gun lizards and time machines. And all that makes no sense and it’s funny for a couple of times before you get bored with its juvenile approach.

Chapters Read: 304 Overall Score: 7 This is a manga review. I promise I'll hit the anime once I'm further into it, but it hasn't registered enough episodes logged for me to review yet. Story - 5 The story in Katekyo Hitman Reborn is subpar at best and full of almost painful cliches. Full of previously unmentioned relatives, abusive senseis, naive characters, and pseudo villians who will join the heroes cause eventually. Ugh! The story surrounds Sawada Tsunayoshi who is a middle school student, he is naive, whiny, foolish, and over all extremely reluctant to get involved with anything. Before we ever have a chance to actually getto know Tsuna however he's thrust into a world that he knows nothing about, the world of the 'mafia'. Tsuna will be taught [see: abused) by his home tutor the cursed 'baby' Reborn. He will inherit the title of the tenth generation Vongola Boss (in trying to teach us italian Vongola means Clam, yeah so the Clam Mafia family......), but first he has to gather loyal followers to be his family. Here we get a whole new handful of cliches, but I'll cover those in characters. So instead of listening to Tsuna's abject denial of being a mafioso he is bullied into it, including at one point being told he would be he would be killed if he didn't suceed in a job that had nothing to do with him. And That's the base story....it's kind of.....painful really.....

Characters- 5

I'm not sure why this cast is so freaking endearing but well it happens, so I know if your reading this your thinking 'Loveable? With a score of 5?' Yes, loveable and with absolutely no character development at all. I have read 300+ chapters of this manga and the only people who have taken any steps forward as characters are DOkuro Chrome, Sawada Tsunayoshi, Miura Haru, and Sasagawa Kyoko. Four characters out of a very very large cast. Other Characters (Hibari Kyoya, Rokudo Mukuro, Xanxus, and Gokudera Hayato) come of as nothing more then petulant petty children. Don't misunderstand me though I like my fair share of pettyness, but the line has to be drawn somewhere. I draw the line at Xanxus throwing HOT coffee at Squalo's head for ? reason. That is the exact kind of action one would expect from Lambo not a 24 year old man, I really hate that alot. The villians seem to have no discernable purpose, let alone a purpose that you can take even remotely seriously. When Byakuran announces his grand scheme you really can't help but bury your face in your hands and cry a little. On the other hand Dokuro Chrome doing dishes with I-pin showed that she was trying her best to come out of her shell and accept the other girls friendship, and now.... now she's seen frequently with Haru, Kyoko , and I-pin. Then there is the ever cute, eve loveablr blackhole of character development himself Yamamoto Takeshi. Cute? Yes. Lovable? You Betcha! All the depth and meaning of a spoon? Right on the money. From the first time it's brought up all the way into the future arc Yamamoto honestly believes that this is all just a mafia game. A game with explosives, murder, prisons, and assassins. What a game.

Art- 6

Visually Hitman Reborn can fall anywhere between 'OMG what the hells wrong with that guy?' all the way over to 'from the right angel Hibari looks kind of good in that' and so on and so forth. In the later chapters more details become apparent, the characters start to appear less generic looking as more detail is added into their hair and clothes. Overall the art isn't horribly offputting but it's not really striking either. I do appreciate however that other then Hibari's unnatural attachment to his disciplinary committee outfit, that the characters actually wear different outfits from time to time. The most notable of these being the always horrible but ever changing wardrobe of Rokudo Mukuro. Another Area of notable detail is in the tattoos on Dino Cavallone's arms. Also a lot of detail goes into weapons and special moves. PS Mukuro's Khakkhara has some great detail, very cool looking.

Overall- 7

Pretty generous score considering this review's bias, but whereas the characters and story are fairly blase' my overall enjoyment of this franchise sits right about here. The story arcs though not page turners are interesting enough that you want to finish the story arc and you really want to see the villiansget their faces bashedin for what theydid to our 'heroes'. Returning side characters always add a nice flair bringing with them their own tricks, trip ups, and one liners that make you smile even if just a little. I think that whereas the things Hitman Reborn does wrong it does really really epicly wrong, the few things that it does right really draws you.

This manga is definitely worth a shot if you have enough patience- or you do have a liking for gag manga aside from action shounen manga. For the first 65 chapters or so it is mostly composed of one chapter stories that display the somewhat comedic daily life of main character Tsuna, and many of the main characters are introduced during these chapters- my advice is, don't let these chapters fool you into thinking that Reborn! is a boring manga that is filled with filler-like blank plots, it really isn't and that is because after these chapters, the series gets very, very good- sortof like how Darker Than Black is, if you are familiar with that anime you probably know that it took it's time to amaze it's viewers. After the aformentioned daily life arc, the series mood shifts (literally) and shocks it's readers with the serious development of plot AND the characters given that you mostly see them fooling around in the first arc. From then on, the seriousness is continued and the gag-style plots are dropped, leaving it's place to a great action shounen manga- so getting to those chapters is basically like finding a hidden treasure. It is a shame that people drop this manga because they couldn't bear with the first arc. Another good feature of Reborn! is that it has a great art style which develops throughout the whole series- a feast to the eye!

I used to love this back when I was 15 or so. Time do change things, huh? It's clear that the author didn't planned the series to go as far as it went, the first several chapters present a mostly slice of life manga focused on comedy, but eventually the author realizes that it's a Jump title, so BOOYAH! here comes some bad fighting arcs, from here all the way to the end, with a tinge of badly written science fiction. The problem with this series is repetition, which is not an abnormal thing when it comes to Jump titles, but it's just too damn much. Thelast arc, which was supposed to answer questions about some of the biggest mysteries of the manga, is just a mess of a tournament arc with lots and lots of fanservice and barely any plot.

On that point, KHR barely has any plot or character development, even though some characters like Gokudera and Yamamoto have interesting backgrounds and ideals, most of it just gets drowned in pointless fighting or repetitive comedy chapters. Every single potential development is wasted: some characters are interesting, the art is great, but everything goes down the drain because we surely need Tsuna to get new gloves and fight people he doesn't want to fight but he does so anyway since, you guessed it, it's Jump.

This is not good. Watch the anime up until the end of the Varia Arc, it's way more pleasant than reading to the whole manga series.

(To be clear: it's not a problem to be a Jump title or use shonen manga cliché. The good part about Jump manga is what authors do within those clichés to set themselves apart. KHR barely tries and clearly failed.)

Katekyo Hitman Reborn....... The manga Katekyo Hitma Reborn or Reborn is one of the most interesting mangas I have ever read. The first 25 or so chapters are displayed as a joke or a gag manga as it was originally intended but as the nonsense were done it took a left turn to battle type manga like the other gag manga Gintama. Now the recent chapters are displayed as it belong in the battle manga genre. The story went deeper as the chapters went on. The characters are memorable especially the titular character Reborn as its iconic stature as a Chibi Hitman. The main character Tsunayoshi Sawadaor just Tsuna shows growth in the manga as the beginning he was a clothes off extreme guy and went into a cool,calm, and likeable character or a real Shonen Protagonists.

I like this manga because its one of the very first mangas I have read other than Dragonball Z and Naruto. Now I can say with confidence that I prefer reading Hitman Reborn than the popular Naruto and Bleach all because its different and it contains a fair amount of battles while retaining some of the comedy that I fell in love with.

I highly recommend this manga for those who wants something else to read other than Naruto and Bleach or for those whose just tired of them both and want something to fall back on LOL. HAPPY READING!!

If you are wanting to read a fun manga series dealing with mafia and a lot of random things being thrown in there filled with a lot of action, then I think this series will probably be right for you. There's a lot of arcs in this series dealing with the future and past, many different mafia bosses, you have other mafia countries thrown in here, and you have a whimpy boy who is no good and useless for the main character. For those who read this already know what I am talking about, our main character hero is a boy called Tsuna ( nickname of course) and is useless and is no good, and can't even confess to the girl that he loves and just skips school all the time as he can never do anything right and he is failing school. Which all ends when he meets up with someone called Reborn who looks like some toddler but is apart of the mafia and is here to train Tsuna into being the best mafia he can be.

In the story Tsuna recruits members for his mafia gang, meets up with many other people who become friends but are also enemies, but as the saying goes, keep your friends close but keep your enemies closer.

Even if they are enemies though they also become very important in the story for Tsuna in his story of becoming the 10th vongola boss.

The beginning is of course slightly boring and slow as it is the introduction trying to get in all the main characters as possible to introduce everyone and explain all the stories and to try to toughen Tsuna up also. But as the story progresses, well that's when all the good awesome action comes in. And also the art gets better if you compare the first chapters to the newest chapters, the art had completely progressed further and you can tell the author got better. But when has anyone started out as a professional artist in the beginning ?

The whole story was very enjoyable even if the story bounced around to different arcs too much it was still very well put. It may have been annoying but it was great. The ending was satisfying too even if nothing too exciting happened it was still very great !

All in all I highly suggest this manga if you are really into the mafia stories with all the action that comes along with it !

I was introduced to KHR through the anime I guess, when I'm on IG debating who's the stronger anime character, I would hear about Tsuna. I would always see one picture with the flames had me thinking "This guy is a total badass" and he was a pretty strong guy so I wanted to watch the anime to see him in action. I looked up the anime only to find it was pretty old and didn't have dub(personally I like to watch older anime in dub) I was still going to watch it then I saw it had a lot of filler mixed episodes so Idecided to read it.

The first like 55 or something chapters had me really questioning if this was worth reading then after that everything started to come together, the characters we all love, the plot and my overall enjoyment went up 10 fold. Every time I finished a chapter, the next one just got even better, I literally could not stop reading it any chance I got I'd start reading, I honestly enjoyed every moment of reading this. Tbh once you pass the first 55ish chapters you're in for a very enjoyable ride.

Well well well, heheh, well well well.. It's finally come to this, huh? The manga series, that has left a tremendous impact on me and how I view the importance of friends, family, and living with no regrets. To attack ANYTHING you want in life like your life depends on it. To always believe in yourself and to stay in present, since the past is gone and tomorrow might never come. It all comes down to this moment? Are you really making me write about my thoughts regarding this story that has not only changed me, but also how I see babies and bazookas FOREVER!?NO, you're not making me do this you silly goose, stop being preposterous! I'm making myself do this, why? Because this manga has me oozing at the seems with so much power, optimism, and excitement for life from just thinking about it that I MUST explain why and perhaps convince someone else to try this story out as well for themselves. What is it about Katekyo! Hitman Reborn that makes me so geared up to live life to the fullest, as well as set its readers on their own journey to make their own redemption arc?

In short, we follow a young, PATHETIC, NO-GOOD TSU- I MEAN lad who is constantly getting struck down by society and spit on by just about anything that can produce saliva. Instead of telling kids to not come to school tomorrow, he's greeted by his mother with a reborn-I mean newborn baby tutor named Reborn! His mother oblivious to Reborn's real plan to morph Tsuna into the strongest leader of the most powerful family in the mafia underground. From here, Tsuna embarks on a journey of self-discovery, courage, and learning how to ignite the flame he always had within himself. Along the way he'll learn what true friends are, what it means to stand up for both of them and yourself, and to always believe in yourself.

INTERESTINGLY enough, this leads to one of my favorite parts about the story and that is, well the story. Many people do not like the first arc, aka 'The Daily Life'-arc but I LOVED IT! I'm sure it's just my personal taste for over the top shonen shenanigans, paired with introducing the main points of the story as well as characters that you'll grow and come to love. BUT NOT NAITO-LONGCHAMP, we do not speak of Naito Longchamp... Well actually I didn't mind him and was interested in learning about him more, but alas he was so unpopular he was even removed from the adaption, ouch! But back to the story...

This arc is chock full of fun to be had, and some cartoonishly hellish world building that makes stepping into this world all the more engrossing and wild to learn more about. Character dynamics, internal and external struggles, and personalities are seamlessly presented in a fun way that had me at a loss for what could possibly happen in the next chapter. And the good news is, this wasn't just the case for the first arc, but the entire manga itself!

With the exception of the Daily Life Arc to the next one, the Kokuyo arc, each arc is segues into the next one smoothly and with great pacing to boot, in my opinion. This seems to be a point where once again, I differ from the majority in their takes about the speed of the story. To me, nothing felt rushed and there was no or point in the story that I felt dragged on for too long. At any point there was, a new happening would occur that'd make the story move along, or engaging once again. I feel that a good example of this is in the Future arc, where an onslaught of new baddies are introduced and just when I thought we'd get a typical battle of characters fighting each other one on one, one of the baddies turns on the other, one of them defects, some of them group together and then JOB together (as true family should) and then we get a flashback that actually made me sympathize with one of the baddies. It's curveballs like this that keeps the story fresh and unpredictable. However it does come at a cost and one of the few issues I have with the story of the manga.

That issue in question being the very same storytelling technique I was just praising, how if at any point at the story, something out of left field would happen, and the tale would keep flowing. But this 'plot device' is more popularly known as a 'Deus Ex Machina'. Where the author randomly interjects an event or happenstance out of nowhere that ends up fixing or preventing the plot from ending right then and there. As much as I didn't find these occurrences distracting or out of field personally, I can see how others would have their reading experience impacted. But for me, I was too invested or in awe of the story beats, character developments/upgrades, and ludicrous nature of the story to really care if a relied on such a plot device or not.

I'm sure my taste in animanga up to this point plays a role in me looking forward and being excited for situations and explanations that are extraordinarily absurd or crazy (eg; Bobobo, Gintama, Saiki, Sket Dance, Beelzebub, etc.). So to me, it just made the story that much more fun, exciting and unpredictable. Especially if it gave lead into a new element into the story such as a power-up, lore, character, or epic event where author Amano Akira-san gets to showcase their creative and unique writing and illustrations to weave them into the world of Hitman Reborn entertainingly.

My final thoughts regarding the story of Hitman Reborn is that it's non-stop high octane insanity from the Kokuyo arc onwards. The transition from a predominately gag-action series to a battle-shonen (and a surprisingly bloody one at that) was honestly pretty jarring! I can almost recall the first moment I realized shit got dialed up to 11, no spoilers so no worry, but there's an instance of one of Tsuna's friends coming across a kid with his teeth gouged out, with BLOOD EVERYWHERE!? That being said, I know it wasn't Amano's idea to turn her story into a full fledged battle-shonen, but she makes it work! By still keeping the humor, personalities, and whimsy introduced during the Daily Life arc present throughout the rest of the story.

I'd say it's more like 'adding' more action elements to the story, rather than removing any of the unique character that makes KHR! what it is. Because whether the gang is fighting another mafia family with monsters, robots, and demons in their ranks, or traveling back and forth between the future and past to fight some inhuman entity, you can always tell that it's still reborn at the end of the day no matter how ludicrous the stakes may get.

Speaking of ludicrous, the art in this manga is so exaggerated, zanney, and cartoonishly extreme (Ryohei's words not mine) that it's able to handle the insanity of the story so perfectly that no elements, characters, situations, or events stylistically clash with each other that it'd feel jarring. The character designs are all pretty over the top, and I'm sure part of the reason seeing something like a skeleton viking demon clashing with a boy doused in flames and geared up in mech suit duking it out in the sky isn't jarring and works in KHR!'s favor is because of how early we're introduced to these fantastical elements.

Amano Akira's art is phenomenal to say the least, and the amount of progression she makes in her art of the trajectory of the manga's publication is wonderful to see. She's an artist that doesn't utilize a whole lot of detail on her characters, instead she uses these straight forward and simple designs to her advantage. With wacky character designs such as these, she's able to keep the characters and the reactions/actions they take EXTREMELY expressive adding to the over the top ridiculousness of an already insane situation.

Action during fight scenes, panel flow and page composition are handled so well that being sucked into the world of Reborn is an effortless effect when reading the manga. Detailed spreads are used sparingly, thus leaving a bigger impact on the reader when the do occur. And when they DO show up, boy oh boy it is usually some of the best explosive double-spread action to cremate the readers eyes when reading. I am warning you, nothing is held back in the action going on in these spreads. The wide array of character designs also lend themselves exceptionally well to the balls to wall action and scenarios they'll find themselves into.

Babies that are the strongest human beings on Earth, mafia, so many characters with some of the silliest hats and headgear you've ever witnessed, and mummy demons that took a break in Victorian era England. Nothing is spared with what characters you'll see in KHR! And it's this variety that makes the world of this manga seem gargantuan! ALL THAT BEING SAID, I have but ONE issue with the art. And I mean that because the art is incredible, surreal, expressionistic, and dream-like as it gets. But around the time it becomes a battle-shonen, I think Amano Akira was still getting her feet wet as to how to properly portray intense battles.

By that I mean there are certain panels during action sequences that I just had NO IDEA what the hell was going on because lines depicting movements and actions were everywhere, cluttered with symbols of impact and onomatopoeia along with the characters duking it out in question made it incredibly difficult at times to tell what was happening. But there's a silver lining to this, firstly this is something she fixes as the manga goes on so it's not like you have to bare long with it anyways. Secondly, even when it was happening, it wasn't with EVERY battle sequence, just the moments of impact on occasion and I saw this as a plus in all honesty. It's as if Akira-san was so excited and gunning to convey the sheer-magnitude of the fight going on that she herself got caught in the moment excitedly drawing these scenes that they sometimes came out as illustrations of pure unhinged chaos, and I thought that made it more epic, exciting, and raw to read.

But drawing raw ass fights isn't the only thing Amano-san has achieved with this manga. As I touched on before, her writing is so much fun to read. It's not the most complex stuff sure, and I'm very aware that some people are turned off by info-dumps and the like, but to me, I think it works in KHR's favor. For one, each time we would be given a moment where Reborn gives someone a spiel about why the current circumstances are the way they are, it was an exceptional demonstration of her ability to cultivate phenomenal world building for the story of KHR! But although I do like the straight to the point autism of most shonen stories, that's not necessarily the part of her writing I want to praise and shed light on.

The best part of her writing is how she creates these very organic character relationships, and natural developments in their growth as characters. This is not only a story about believing in yourself, dying with no regrets, growing from your mistakes, and making the most of the present, but it's about family and what it really means to love and care for them. While Tsuna time and time again expresses his disinterest in becoming a mafia boss with peanut gallery he's accumulated throughout, it's a much different story when he see's them in the light of his friends and family who love and support him and that he'd do the same. And it's with these character interactions and dynamics that we see the high standard that his friends hold him up to, as well as banter between characters that can be witty, charming, hilarious, to serious, sad, and touching. Not everyone is always buddy buddy with each other from the get go, but to see characters work their misunderstandings with one another is what really sells the genuineness of Tsuna's friends and foes he encounters throughout the story.

Minor spoiler here so maybe skip to the final paragraph if you don't want to be spoiled? But people are pretty vocal about Tsuna staying, in their eyes, stagnant throughout the story and I think this couldn't be further from the truth. By the end of the story, we witness Tsuna growing into a respectable young man who would put his life on the line for those he cares about and to seize any opportunity for growth that has an air of uncertain outcome with dying will, facing his fears head on, no regrets. Just because he's a little clumsy or doesn't want to be the head of a mafia has nothing to do with that. The man who takes himself too seriously, no one takes seriously. Like did readers really want Tsuna to turn into some stoic, badass, edgelord by the end of the story? I mean, just look at Dino-san, Reborn's previous pupil. A man who's still extremely clumsy unless duty calls and his men are around him. Except with Tsuna, by the end he doesn't need to be shot by the dying will bullet to stand up for his friends/family and to put his life on the line for them.

Well well well, HAHAHA, well well well! Ya see? It finally came down to this! You didn't ask for it but I gave it anyways! I wrote this with the objective of finding out what it is about Katekyo! Hitman Reborn that makes me so geared up to live life to the fullest, as well as set its readers on their own journey to make their own redemption arc? Through Tsuna's journey of becoming the head of the mafia, filled with hardships, anguish, self-doubt, and moments of stagnation, he pushed through, grew, and became someone that he himself could look up to. His tale has left a tremendous impact on me and how I view the importance of friends, family, and living with no regrets. To attack ANYTHING you want in life like your life depends on it. To always believe in yourself and to stay in present, since the past is gone and tomorrow might never come. Come now, it's time to pick up this manga and start your redemption arc.

Basically Katekyo Hitman Reborn!AT THE START is a comedy kind of like 'doreamon' which starts with a problem and ends solution which is tsuna getting shot in the head and getting topless to save the day. After the first with volumes the manga heats up and evoles into a fighting manga with battles using dieing will flames! Everything gets more exciting after this with more enemies every corner and new weapons everybattle. The art is eye catching,hard to believe that they are able to draw so well with a deadline of 1 week.

I first watched the anime and it was my first time watching an anime so I completely fell in love with it so when I found out that there were more stories in the manga, I immediately started reading it and got immersed to the story. It was a good choice for me to read from the beginning because there were a lot of chapters that were not in the anime and there were some episodes in the anime that were not written in the manga. Hitman Reborn is one of the best anime and manga out there, I encourage you guys to read andwatch it because you can get a lot of lessons from it. You can see how the characters develop and experience their moments as you read/watch it.

You will certainly not regret reading the manga and watching the anime.

Katekyo Hitman Reborn is a cult classic of the Shonen genre. The premise is quirky even by usual standards, and the sudden and permanent switch from comedy to action may leave you bewildered, but this manga is one that stands on its own beside the other greats for its character development, unique story arcs, and a healthy balance between comedy and action/adventure. Reborn's plot centers around a young boy named Tsunayoshi Sawada, nicknamed "No-Good Tsuna", who unwillingly becomes the pupil of the infant in a suit and hat named Reborn! The catch is, this is to become the 10th head of the mafia family knownas Vongola, and Tsuna wants nothing but an ordinary middle school life. The rest is fairly easy to guess, or so you might think.

The first part of the manga is a fairly standard comedy, with characters that have running gags appearing throughout the chapter in an effectively hilarious manner. Tsuna is the butt-monkey that every character laughs at, misunderstands, or abuses on a regular basis. He occasionally does something heroic, gets a dreamy look from the girl he likes (which of course he does not see) and falls asleep exhausted to do it all again tomorrow. It's interesting to see that his room gets destroyed for comedic effect many times, and you can actually see the cracks and the bandages on the cracks later in the series. He also collects an obviously absurd number of roommates early on that continue to live with him throughout the entirety of the series.

After a short introduction we quickly progress into the serious arcs of the series. This is where characters that have previously been part of the comedy routine are now fighters in various battles that the MC must face for reasons. The comedy still comes in occasionally to lighten the mood, but we never again will have an entire chapter devoted to a true comedy skit like the beginning of the manga. It's really kinda sad, but fear not, there's plenty more here worth reading.

What follows is a glorious series of battles and interactions between characters that each are more memorable than the last. It's worth noting here that the anime does an excellent job for the most part of adapting these battles and it's definitely worth seeing. However the anime doesn't cover the entire manga, but the anime does have some filler arcs that aren't bad. On the flip side, if you've seen the anime and are wondering if the manga is worth reading, it most definitely is, but it is fairly difficult to find a decent translation or buy a hard copy.

The art style does leave a bit to be desired, and fight scenes can sometimes be a bit hard to follow. The only other drawback is that the entirety of the work lacks a certain focus, and in the end it does fall prey to the "friendship is magic" trope. Otherwise this is a truly special work in the catalogue of shonen manga and worth checking out if you have any interest in the genre.

what a ride. let's me just say that the ending for this series was so perfect. The anime was very good, especially the songs, but since i started the manga I was continously blown away. Everything looked and flowed so much better in manga forms, in my humble opinion, of course. Even stuffs that I previously sometimes found annoying in the anime such as lambo, kyoko, haru and the random comedic moments ..... became parts that I absolutely love in the manga! I dont know whether it was the story of the manga arcs or the manga art, but the humour dynamic was played outso much better, whereas in the anime I sometimes skipped them. Moreover, the fights were amazing in the manga, mainly because they showed a lot of blood lol. But even though in some shots all I could see were lines and shades, it sent tingles down my spines... the characters also looked so good.... and I also felt closer to the characters, especially tsuna, because the manga gave him a lot more monolouge. I can't believe I was annoyed at him for being a pussy in the begining. If I were to turn back time, I would not skip a thing - I would watch the daily life arc to the end. Although maybe I would've prefer to read it because I love the manga form so much, but then again I wouldnt want to miss out the amazing music from the anime - maybe read the manga and then watch the ops and eds? Anyways, the Katekyo Hitman Reborn manga from where the anime left off has been amazing. All the fights were extradionarily badass and I've grown to love all of the characters and their dynamic. Reading the last few chapters only reinforces that. The author gave us continous epic fights, and it ended with everyone in the hospital. It was hilarious as they fight among themselves, yet it was 'peaceful' at the same time as everything has returned to normal. I don't even mind that Katekyo Hitman Reborn had no villain. In fact, that's what made the dynamic in this story so good. All the villains became good, but the rivalry dynamic remained and it is absolutely hilarious! The last few chapters beautifully depicted this. Another thing that touched me was the bond between Reborn and Tsuna. Tsuna rely on Reborn so much, and Reborn in return trust Tsuna so much..... and at the end Tsuna realises what a valuable journey Reborn has gifted him.... it's just so beautiful..... I wrote this immediately after I finished the series to accurately capture my thoughts. Often, all these feelings would dwindle down and I cannot put them in words afterwards... Overall, in my opinion, this has been a great ride and I absolutely enjoyed it.... Goodbye, Katekyo Hitman Reborn.............

10/10

Hello this is my second review and first on a manga so I hope you like it Reborn definitely one of my favorite manga A very good story with good characters and also fights History: The beginning somewhat cliche in manga shonen as the main character Sawada Tsunayoshi (Tsuna) good for nothing that her mom would hire a tutor called reborn which is just a baby, reborn confesses that he was sent by the mafia to train the 10th head of the mafia vongola Tsuna and so it all started. By time passes, Tsuna gets to know new friends and enemies like Gokudera, Yamamoto and thanks to its master isbecome very stronger.

Although it has a very stupid end.

Characters:

Tsuna: The main character of a typical shonen manga good for nothing that after many power-ups is a complete bad ass who fights for his friends.

Yamamoto: A sports junkie that leave the sports for his friends and began to use a katana as a weapon

Gokudera: An idiot who have grievances to his father that he believes killed his mother and is obsessed with the boss, using explosives as a weapon and is obsessed with being the right hand of the boss.

Ryohei: The brother who likes to tsuna, A boxing addict who uses his fists as a weapon

Reborn: The guardian, a child who is infected by a virus that became due child to be the best the murderer

Lambo: A 5 year old boy who likes to play with even reborn ever pays attention that is a descendant of the bovine family

Chrome: A girl saved by Rokudou mokuro and thanks to illusions gave their organs returned, illusions Use as a weapon

Rokudou mokuro: an enemy who was taken to prison after being defeated by tsuna, when he is in prison he appear in a dream of chrome, in the dream he says that he give the organs to chrome by illusions

The punctuation that I give is: 9.5

I hope you like it!!!!

This is the first work i've ever taken the time to review but i think its worth it. It would be sad for someone to read only the first few chapters and then quit it because it wasn't what they thought it'd be. Reborn is a FANTASTIC MANGA/ANIME. It really is a work of art. I will praise it up and down except for first chunk of chapters/episodes. Until chapter 62 the story is CRAP. HORRIBLE, HORRENDOUS AND SO DISSAPOINTING. Its the whole comedy aspect of it, and while they're are funny moments its prolonged for too long and it ruins the concept of a mafia story. Thebeginning is mainly getting to know the characters, which is why its important to read it but difficult to handle if u can't stand too much foolishness. Cuz thats exactly what it is. A whole bunch of gags with 1-2 characters who actually see the idiocy in the situations.

And dear lord the main character is pathetic. The bursting into his boxers thing got old quick and very annoying. However its all worth it for what he eventually becomes.

The current Tsuna is BADASS! Just the best.

For story (mainly because of the horrible beginning) i'll give it 8/10

Art...art is a hard one. The beginning of the manga has terrible art. The beginning can only get a 5/10 for me, and thats being generous.

But if u can believe that i'd give later chapters a 10, then thats exactly what it is.

Characters 9/10 (only cuz i need more background! HIBARI WTH IS UR STORY?)

Enjoyment... 10

Overall 9.5