Katekyou Hitman Reborn!
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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 known ... as 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.

I mean where do I even start with this, being the only reviewer to read the entire series, is that the entire series is absolute trash it goes in way too many directions to be even close to coherent. I mean I get behind the or I'm going to train you to be a mob boss and you're gonna be like the best mafioso ever and you have underlings that's cool but then you introduce things like Lambo and I-pin who explodes and a girl who can only cook poisoned food what the fuck is all this bullshit being put together. It's another series ... that's trying to do too many things at 1 time and not doing any of them very well. As of right now I'm on chapter 55 and the story is starting to be what I originally thought it was some sort of supernatural crazy thing I'm glad to see that it's getting there these goddamn crazy ass babies and we're learning about what they are it's kind of weird but whatever. Hey looks like chapter 80 is starting to be an actual manga which is very surprising it's actually taking a shonen turn for the better.

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The original above statement stands as is and my feelings at the Time. Then I feel that the story does reflect this and it does go from one battle to another where the main character constantly overcomes Adversity and never loses at all And near the end we actually find out who babies are or at least the origins. As we know who the babies are from like forever ago. Seeing them actually in their full adult forms with their full range of power is amazing absolutely one of the coolest parts of the series. And I believe that the artists or the story guy should make the series of The pre-story cause apparently they went on a whole bunch of missions together and that actually sounds like it would be really cool with what they've shown their abilities are I would love to see that. I'd also would love to see the pre-human kind when those alien people come out of now where I why how is this story line even making any sense a longer. Again like I said in the 1st Paragraph this series tries to do way too many things but by the end it does some of them well, fight sequences are good flashbacks are good the story itself is a little crazy. And I do like how at the end Tsuna actually gathers everybody to help the him fight the Vindici. Worth one read at most...maybe two. With the craziness and bullshitery that goes on it's mediocre at best.

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. The ... last 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.)