Katekyo Hitman Reborn

Right ok and now onto the last of the top 5 anime….. can you guess what number it is? Yeah that’s right it’s number 5 (I just proved to myself that I can count to 5) ok so bad jokes aside the last anime is one that I only recently found out about, it’s Amano Akira’s Katekyo Hitman Reborn. To make it easy for you reading this (and me writing it) I shall call it Hitman Reborn (Katekyo just means “home tutor”). Right so Hitman Reborn is about (get this) a Hitman called Reborn (shocking right). Well it is not really about him, it’s about a high school student called Tsuna, nicknamed at school no-good-Tsuna (hey they stole my nickname….. I will keep doing bad jokes until I run out haha).







Yamamoto Takeshi (Guardian of the Rain)







Reborn comes to Tsuna bringing the news that he is the 10^th Vongola family boss (yes it is a mafia anime…. Come on now that is cool). Reborn is entrusted by the 9^th boss to train Tsuna into becoming a person who is able of having the responsibility of a mafia boss. Along the way Tsuna makes new friends and some of them joing the Vongola family (weather they know it or not). Later in the series it is revealed that seven of Tsuna's friedns will become his guardiens which have the job of protecting (along with Tsuna) the Vongola Family. Each member of the guardiens is given a name that is associated with the weather, and each type of weather tells about the persons personality and the role in the family (such as the guardian of Storm has the job to be the center of every attack like a strom thatfircely blows away everything, so he is good at long range attaks) .







Tsuna's family members









Well the plot is a bit more complicated than that but not to go into to much detail I will give a brief outline (well i hope anyway). So with Reborn making Tsuna training Tsuna into becoming the 10th boss (weather he like it or not, and beive me he doesen't which again adds comedy to the series) he explains the diffrent wepons that the Vongola have, among them is the Dying Will Bullet: a bullet that if you get shot with it you will be reborn for 5 minutes with your body limitations removed (which means you get superstreaght and other cool abilities) and after 5 minutes you get back to normal. The main focuse of the powers in Hitman Reborn is the Dying Will Flame ( a veriasion on aura but unlike it the flame can melt objects). The flame resides with a persons body and the purer the flame the more powerfull the person is. There are seven diffrent types of flames (with their own diffrent colour) which match the title of the Vongola Guardiens: Sky (orange), Storm (red), Rain (blue), Sun (yellow), Cloud (purple), Lightning (green), and Mist (Indigo). Each flame has it's own characteristing and ability. Later in the series we see the characters using rings to make their flame materialise and by using Box Weapons ( it's where they store wepons that are engulffed in the Dying Will Flame or they ahve other abilities) they fight to protect the Vongola Family.







The diffrent Flame Attributes







Ok better stop the explanation of the powers here before i confuse you even more (and myself), so onto the part that you are waiting for (if you are still reading which i hope you are) the reason why i like the anime. Like i said at the begining entry, i just discoverd this anime recently, and thats why i like it. It is something new to watch and something completly diffrently to the anime that i usually watch, in the sense that it does not have a dark story line. The powers in it (yes yet again talk about the powers, well i mean thats what makes anime in my onpinion) they are very varsatile and they anime does not start with how they use the powers staright from the first episode. The series start with only Tsuna being able to use the Dying Will flame when reborn shoots him with the Dying Will Bullet, while the other characters use normal means of fighting e.g. Gokudera Hayato using dynamite (well normal for anime anyway).







Gokudera Hayato












Later on in the series the whole battels fought in the series are by the means of using the Dying Will flame, which in my opinion is quiet a good way to do the series because the first half of the series is a bit boring (funny and entertaining still), but if you keep watching the series it does get great. Another reason is the characters in the series which unlike most of the anime are made to be funny so they are a like comic relief characters (but main characters) which make the series funny and unlike the manga it is a made a bit chieldish altho still good. Also the character of Tsuna is one that i never seen in anime, he does not whant the life of a mafia boss and half the time he never whants to fight, this makes me what to watch the series more to see if he will develop into a character like Naruo or Ichigo who fight to protect people.