If I’m being completely honest when I first watched Hitman Reborn I didn’t like it that much which is terrible because as I started rewatching this anime a month or two ago I fell in love with it. I’m currently on episode 79 on the rewatch as I am writing this review and gonna try to finish the rewatch off in a few months time because of exams coming up soon. So back on track, I knew about Tsuna’s existence because of how freaking sick he looked with his gloves way back but didn’t actually know who that was. 2 or 3 years later when I knew about this series, I gave it a shot and as I said in the beginning, somehow I didn’t like it but on this current rewatch I was so wrong. Hitman Reborn for me at least is a near masterpiece with an amazing plot, characters, development, arcs and much much more.
The plot in Reborn starts off basic with the protagonist of the show Tsunayoshi Sawada portrayed as a loser and always does things wrong, he’s just no good. Everything changes when he meets the Hitman Tutor Reborn who comes to Tsuna’s house and wants to make him the 10th Generation Vongola boss. An anime about mafia, how can you not like this? In the first 20 episodes it’s about meeting other characters such as; Gokudera, Yamamoto, Hibari, Kyouko, Sasagawa, Kyoko, Lambo, Dino and other characters. These first 20 episodes are pure comedy into getting to know the characters and what they are like. In my opinion I didn’t like the first 20 episodes that much even on rewatch because the comedy in reborn is a hit or a miss. It’s perfectly fine if you find it funny but it just didn’t click to me. After these 20 episodes the anime pops off, we start off a serious arc which I’m not gonna say anything on but it’s freaking amazing and the main reason I got addicted and fell in love with reborn even on the first watch. However after the arcs there is more hit or miss comedy but it gets better in my opinion.
The anime covers 4 arcs:
Daily Life Arc: episode 1-19, 27-33, 66-73
Kokuyo Arc: episode 20-26
Varia Arc: episode 34-65
Future Arc: episode 74-203
I absolutely adore the art style in reborn because of how clean it looks, sometimes in the anime in doesn’t look the best sometimes but I love how Akira Amano draws. She has also drawn character designs for a popular anime like Psycho Pass (which is great btw go check it out). Her art style is very unique compared to other anime and manga which for me stands out a lot.
This image is a bit blurry but you can tell this is some banger ass art
I absolutely love the cast of reborn as it’s so “everything”. There isn’t anyone that I really dislike apart from Lambo because he can be annoying but that would probably just be it. Everyone in the cast is just so much fun to watch, them fighting, them laughing it’s freaking amazing. My personal favourite characters would definitely be Tsuna, Gokudera, Hibari, Yamamoto and Mukuro. The character development in this anime is constant and you can tell how they’ve matured, Tsuna especially. From a no good to one of the best characters ever makes me tear up man. I really can’t wait until I finish my Reborn rewatch to see how much my goat has grown.
The sound in reborn is actually pretty good, the fight sounds like clashing are amazing too. The OST’s are great especially the Tsuna’s Awakens” theme, it’s iconic. My favourite opening would be OP 4 , dude this gives me goosebumps everytime I listen to it. Most of the openings in Reborn are really freaking good. If I’m being fr I don’t like most of the Reborn endings but my favourite one is ED 7 and my second favourite is ED 5
Well there we have it, who knew that making reviews was kinda fun. I’m gonna be starting the manga of Reborn when I finish the anime of where it left off and I’ll probably write a review on it too, anyways I hope this helped you wanting to pick up this series, it’s great. You won’t have any regrets watching it.
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