Katekyo Hitman Reborn! Forum

There's a certain... dichotomy here.

Holy crap, this was hilarious. Now, here’s an opener that just lassos your interest and pulls you in right out of the gate. “Ree-bohnnnnn!!!”

My reasons for enjoying are maybe a little “high concept,” but I really felt like this was the creation of a five-year-old who idolizes mobsters, but has absolutely zero understanding of the world of organized crime. Like, instead of his role model being Scarface, with his mansions and his hot ladies and his mountains of blow, he has this is an ideal of this outrageously-violent chibi who murders wise guys and grants wishes with the same cheap, plastic toy gun (that also happens to turn into a chameleon and everything else, really.) I just imagine the scenario being something like AX COP where adult animators have just taken some “story pictures” made during free draw time and turned them fully-animated toons without any editing.

Oddly enough, because it’s intentionally ludicrous, this works as some kind of response to a couple other shows I’ve watched lately. It demonstrates about as much comprehension of the actual mob as BLUE EXORCIST did for demonology… but that’s the joke. The part where the kid tries to ask his crush out while he’s running around in his underwear with must be a raging boner (that’s the implication, right?) isn’t tricky like VAMPIRE BUND or NEEDLESS… because it's a joke.

I can’t fathom how this pilot kicks off five seasons and 100 odd episodes of content, but I haven’t laughed out loud this hard (literally LOLed) for an anime in as long as I can remember. This didn’t make a single shred of sense, and I’m so glad it didn’t.

REE-BOHNNNNNN!!!

Watch this episode “What?! I’m A Tenth-Generation Mafia Boss?!” below and decide for yourself.

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Reborn starts off sort of like a comedy gag series but it becomes a (pretty cool) shonen action series. It is also one of the seemingly rare shonen mangas created by a woman, which kind of explains why the males in the series get prettier as the the series goes on.

Also this show has a lot of great opening themes/animations.

I'm really wishing that Yakitate!! Japan had some sort of licensing for its anime, because THAT is probably the shonen "action" comedy series with the strangest setting (bread baking, complete with over-the-top tournaments), so that Tom could watch that. Too bad only the manga had any US licensing.

Ciaossu!

I love Reborn. The anime was awesome but there was some big problems in the subbing area so I decided to move onto the manga - and it was alright. Some of the later sagas, as with a lot of other mangas, took a bad turn, but it's still pretty fun!

Reborn starts off sort of like a comedy gag series but it becomes a (pretty cool) shonen action series. It is also one of the seemingly rare shonen mangas created by a woman, which kind of explains why the males in the series get prettier as the the series goes on.

Also this show has a lot of great opening themes/animations.

I'm really wishing that Yakitate!! Japan had some sort of licensing for its anime, because THAT is probably the shonen "action" comedy series with the strangest setting (bread baking, complete with over-the-top tournaments), so that Tom could watch that. Too bad only the manga had any US licensing.

Ciaossu!

@Marshal Victory:

Yeah, the beginning is pretty much "Tsuna encounters problem, Reborn shoots him with dying will bullet, Tsuna deals with problem", but eventually actual villains start showing up and things get very shonen actiony. I like the power system in the series, it is pretty ridiculous.

@Lurkero said:

By the way. You should check out Hunter x Hunter later on when more episodes are uploaded to Crunchyroll. I enjoyed that series because it involved kids, but it was more serious.

HxH is amazing. New series is shaping up nicely, despite what some over-reactionary whiners I've seen think.

It looks interesting. I would check it but 203 episodes? Way too many.