Katekyou Hitman Reborn! (Reborn!)

There is no putting it lightly—Tsunayoshi Sawada is just no good. He is clumsy, talentless, and desperately in love with the school idol Kyouko Sasagawa, a girl so completely out of his league. Dubbed "Loser Tsuna" by his classmates, he seems to be the very personification of failure in the guise of a middle-schooler.

Tsuna's boring life takes an extraordinary twist when he encounters the mysterious Reborn, who happens to be a hitman... and shockingly, a baby! Sent from the strongest Mafia family in Italy, Reborn is assigned the daunting mission of preparing the dull middle schooler to succeed the ninth boss of the notorious Vongola family, who is on the brink of retirement. The dull boy has a grueling road ahead, but with the help of his new criminal affiliates and his peculiar home tutor, perhaps even Loser Tsuna can achieve greatness.

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Sawada, Tsunayoshi

Main

Kokubun, Yukari
Japanese

Hibari, Kyouya

Main

Kondou, Takashi
Japanese

Gokudera, Hayato

Main

Ichinose, Hidekazu
Japanese

Reborn

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Narita, Ken
Japanese

Yamamoto, Takeshi

Main

Inoue, Suguru
Japanese

Rokudou, Mukuro

Main

Iida, Toshinobu
Japanese

Lambo

Main

Takeuchi, Junko
Japanese

Dokuro, Chrome

Main

Akesaka, Satomi
Japanese

Sasagawa, Ryouhei

Main

Kiuchi, Hidenobu
Japanese

Fran

Supporting

Kokuryu, Sachi
Japanese

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Imaizumi, Kenichi

Director, Episode Director, Storyboard, Animation Director

Hiramitsu, Takuya

Sound Director

Tanaka, Masayoshi

Episode Director, Storyboard, Key Animation, Character Design

Nakano, Hideaki

Episode Director, Storyboard

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	1: "Drawing Days" by SPLAY (eps 1-26)
	2: "BOYS & GIRLS" by LM.C (eps 27-51)
	3: "Dive To World" by CHERRYBLOSSOM (eps 52-73)
	4: "88" by LM.C (eps 74-101)
	5: "Last Cross" by Masami Mitsuoka (eps 102-126)
	6: "EASY GO" by Kasuki Kato (eps 127-153)
	7: "Funny Sunny Day" by SxOxU (eps 154-177)
	8: "Listen to the Stereo" by Going Under Ground (eps 178-203)

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	1: "Michishirube" by Keita Tachibana (eps 1-12)
	2: "ONE NIGHT STAR" by the ARROW (eps 13-29)
	3: "Echo again" by SPLAY (eps 30-38)
	4: "Friend" by Idoling!!! (eps 39-51)
	5: "Sakura Addiction" by Takashi Kondo & Toshinobu Iida (eps 52-62)
	6: "Friend" by Sasagawa Kyouko vs. Miura Haru (eps 63)
	7: "STAND UP!" by Lead (eps 64-76)
	8: "AMEato" by w-inds. (eps 77-89)
	9: "CYCLE" by CHERRYBLOSSOM (eps 90-101)
	10: "Suberidai / Slide" by Mori Tsubasa (eps 102-114)
	11: "Sakura Rock" by CHERRYBLOSSOM (eps 115-126)
	12: "Smile" by Aya Ueto (eps 127-139)
	13: "Aoi Yume" by Mori Tsubasa (eps 140-153)
	14: "Yume no Manual" by CHERRYBLOSSOM (eps 154-165)
	15: "Gr8 Story" by SuG (eps 166-177)
	16: "Famiglia" by D-51 (eps 178-190)
	17: "Canvas" by +Plus (eps 191-203)

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May 20, 2009

Wish

Recommended

Katekyo Hitman Reborn is an outstandingly well made anime. I definitely recommend that you watch it if comedy and action applies to your genre of choice.

At first glance, Katekyo Hitman Reborn may seem boring. The major flaw of the anime is that it absolutely misleads you, and it completely deceives you into either a) dropping the anime or b) thinking the anime is lame, when it isn't!
The first 20 episodes may mislead you to drop the anime, just like it misled me, because of its fillerlike episodes. You will most likely tell yourself "Wow, this is really lame. What's the point of all this?" ...

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Mar 3, 2015

yuuujinchou

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KHR is like any other long shounen series; For someone relatively new to anime, it can be very fun and addicting. If you are too familiar with the tropes used in this genre, it can become a real chore and way too predicable.

Story: The plot progresses in the usual shounen way: The weak and optimistic protagonist trains, and starts fighting enemies who seem much stronger than him, and once he defeats them they often become his allies. The first 20 episodes were fillers, but since I found them funny I didn’t really mind. The battles drag out a bit sometimes, but they are well ... done in general and there’s enough suspense to keep the viewer interested. The biggest problem however is the filler episodes; they were initially funny, but the same jokes keep getting repeated again and again and it becomes annoying fast. Even without talking about the recaps, some episodes were just completely unnecessary, like before each battle they have at least one episode where the characters just encourage each other and talk about the upcoming battle.

Characters: The cast seems pretty diverse, but all the characters can fit in an archetype in some way or other. They gain maturity and confidence during the battles, but it seems to revert once the battle is over, and they are back to repeating the same catchphrases again and again. Many of the jokes are based on character antics, but after 200 eps, it becomes really predicable and repetitive. Another thing that really bothers me is the female characters; even though some of them are strong, their strength is nothing compared to the male characters, they hardly participate in battles, often can’t do anything without help from the males (Chrome, cough* cough*). And while it is important to have a female character who can’t fight but serves as moral support, having two of them is way too much especially when one is portrayed as very annoying and immature. Many of the characters who don’t fight are very uninteresting; Despite tagging along for 200+ episodes and getting a lot of screentime, they don’t get character development at all. Hibari Kyouya was especially poorly written; he is some lone wolf who practically wins every battle in 1 min without effort or remarkable injuries, and he doesn’t have character growth at all. In other words, he can be easily qualified as a ‘Gary stu’.

Art: While the character designs are interesting, the art is very inconsistent. It improves through the series, but was never really detailed and every once in a while it is still possible to see poorly drawn frames without pausing the video.

Sound: The osts were decent, but they get kinda annoying after being repeated 98343981 times, especially when you can easily predict when they will be played. Most of the openings and endings however were pretty good and original. The seiyus’ voices fit the characters well, but some of them may annoy you, like Haru and Lambo’s.

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Jul 24, 2015

DeXeTer

Not Recommended

Reborn is a generic shonen people may tell you it’s more than that but really it isn't the story is pretty interesting for a shonen a mafia story sounds cool right? Sadly we have a terrible protagonist which whines a lot characters like shinji and kamille do this a lot as well but their reasons are justified in their series. As they do have actually mental issues tsuna does not show this yes you can say it’s a fucking shonen but hunter x hunter had a psychologically distraught protagonist as well.

Tsuna is a generic high school teenager which has the hots ...

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