First up: Katekyo Hitman Reborn!
Chinese name: 家庭教师REBORN!
Basic Summary:
One fine day, Sawada Tsunayoshi(or just Tsuna)'s mother decided that he needs a home tutor to help with his work, and thus, hired one.
However, he didn't expect to have an assasin as a tutor. What shocked him more was that this assasin-tutor was barely one-year old.
The little assasin, named Reborn, was hired by the 9th head of the infamous Vongola mafia family to train and prepare Tsuna for his role as the 10th Vongola boss. Apparantly, the 9th boss was Tsuna's grandfather.
Poor Tsuna had no choice, actually, no matter how unwilling he was. Thus, Tsuna's long and dangerous road to being a mafia boss begins...
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Another focus point of the story is the weapon of choice used by Tsuna(though unwillingly most of the time). It's call the 'Dying Will Flame', that appears after a person is being shot by the 'Dying Will Bullet'. Basically, if the person had any regrets when he was shot, the Dying Will Flame will appear on his forehead and he'll come back to life with MUCH GUSTO to fulfill his wish. After doing so, he'll return back to normal. However, if that person doesn't have a regret, he'll just die after receiving the shot.
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Is it Good?
Well, to be honest, I wasn't very sure about it at first. I've tried reading it a loong time ago (downloaded the first chapter and such), and I didn't like it. ^^;; Apparantly, the front volumes (from vol 1 to vol 7)are full of random stuff/crack/jokes/plain silliness, and I think the main purpose is to introduce all the characters(including characters that will be important later on in the story...). At the beginning, Tsuna was a SUPER WIMPY fellow that I kinda dislike him...^^;;
In the end, I skimmed through the first 7 books and reached the 8th volume...in which the REAL plot starts, and much serious fighting ensues. And from there, I give the manga at least 8 marks for the excitment~
What about the art?
As you can see from the picture above, it's the kind of art that I like~ XD Reborn! is a shonen manga that's drawn by a female artist, thus you'll get lots of lean and handsome guys, some pretty girls, and some odd ones to show that the artist CAN draw.
Final words
I'll really reccomand it to anyone who likes a unique story~ I like the mafia gist of it as well as the element of something like magic/chakra amongst the real-life weapons. On the other hand, DON'T WATCH THE ANIME. :x the anime doesn't do the manga justice at all. *huffs*
MARKS: I'll give it 8/10~ (really wanna give 9/10, but I have to keep in mind how I had crawl through the first 7 volumes to get to the exciting parts...)
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p.s: READ IT!
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