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ITP: The first act of every good heist film.
"WE'LL NEED TO ASSEMBLE A TEAM..."SUMMARY OF THIS CHAPTER:
351 opens with a cover page of the Arcofriends and their animal mascots all sorted by color for our convenience! For all those people out there who haven't been paying attention. Admittedly, I still mix up Luce and Aria to this day so I'm one to talk ha ha ha, ANYWAY. Reborn's GIANT HEAD greets us on the following page where he wakes up to find every other person in the house just WATCHING HIM SLEEP. OKAY. Apparently they were worried about him; Tsuna's worry quickly turns to dismay when Reborn makes this face. To be fair, dismay is the probably the mildest reaction someone could have to that face.
Displaying a keen sense of self-preservation, Tsuna guns it out of there, leaving Reborn to turn the conversation to Iemitsu, somehow, which gives Amano a decent if somewhat abrupt segue into the following scene. Lal and Iemitsu chat about how busy Iemitsu is (though he sure doesn't seem busy to me, just lounging around in his expensive chair sneezing and daydreaming about Nana), when Oregano (long time no see!) and Basil show up and are all like A CLIENT HAS ARRIVED!! but I don't know why they couldn't just come right out and say that it's Colonnello! Because it totally is Colonnello, who has come to CEDEF bearing a MYSTERY REQUEST. HMMM.
Meanwhile, Mammon visits her boss to spy on him changing his clothes and ask him for a mystery favor as well! Not only that, but Verde is hitting up Mukuro with mystery propositions as welll. Clearly some serious shenanigans are going down. Cut to Enma walking around looking for kittens to feed (ADORABLE), only to stumble across a pair of seriously obese cats purring contentedly while Skull of all people appears and tries to play this off like Enma now owes him some kind of eternal debt. Lastly we cut to Fon who is just standing around pondering out loud who to ask to be his own representative. Which, assuming everyone else out there is thinking along the same lines as me (and judging from the comments in the 350 post, I'm definitely not alone o/), is pretty obvious.*
On his way back home from school Tsuna wanders smack dab into the middle of a group of hoodlums! CLEARLY THIS CAN ONLY MEAN ONE THING: MAFIA ANTICS ARE AFOOT. Sure enough, out pops Dino (and Romario too) with his winningest pretty boy smile and a Reborn riding on his shoulder. Reborn then finally lays his request on his two pupils, and guess what it is! If you said "FIGHT" then congratulations, you are fully cognizant of the fact that you are currently reading a shounen manga. |D
THINGS OF NOTE:
- If the Sky Arcos don't get babyfied like the rest of them, why is there a babyfied Sky Arco on this cover page? And it's not the first time, either.
- I said "every other person in the house" but that's not quite true; Lambo at least clearly did not give a shit. XD
- Bianchi doesn't react so differently from her brother when the object of her adoration is in distress.
- For the record, I'm 100% behind Tsuna's split-second decision to run out of the room screaming, and had Reborn smiled that smile in my direction, I would have been out of there even faster than he was.
- Iemitsu has "at least five dozen assassins out there wanting to kill [him]." This is KHR, so I can't tell if this is actually hyperbole or not. Somehow I get the feeling that it isn't...
- This is like the first time I've ever seen Basil and he wasn't making a :O face!
- The translation of "Kora!" as "Dammit!" just cracks me up every time. It's like he's Jack Bauer.
- How does Xanxus already know what Mammon is about to ask him? Can this guy read minds or something? I have been seriously underestimating Xanxus. o_o
- Enma feeding stray cats in his spare time is seriously precious and the world is not good enough for someone so pure and adorable oh my goodness.
- I also like how it seems to be virtually impossible for him to have a conversation with someone and not reference Tsuna in some way, shape, or fashion at some point.
- *KAWAHIRA. AGAIN I AM REFERRING TO KAWAHIRA.
- And regardless of how scary the other Arcos' groups may be, it's pretty clear that Reborn's got this in the bag. Really, the other guys might as well save us some time and just throw in the towel now. Except not because the idea of a free-for-all between basically all of the fighting characters ever introduced in the manga has me practically salivating. SO FORGET I SAID ANYTHING.
8D
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Unless, of course, the man with the silver mask never meant to turn anyone back from the start and is planning something more sinister. >)
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And of course as you noted, there is always the possibility that Checkers can't be trusted, which would not really come as a shock. XD
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Longchamp.
And now I kinda want a Kawahira/Longchamp team.
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But I'm pretty sure Pantera at least is.
It'd be quite interesting to see them fight, really.
And he appeared for a whole volume, there's no way he's not going to re-appear at some point, it'd be the perfect moment!
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And, for some odd reason, I keep wanting Colonello to win. And then I keep imagining that since he and Lal share the curse, both of them will turn back and so they will have a happy life together :D
*was too overpowered by Lal's blush when Colonello appeared*Enma is pure gold and it's so funny that Skull is actually using such a stupid thing to ask him. (ALSO ENMA'S EXPRESSION WHEN HE SAID "An Arcobaleno?" WAS SO CUTE ♥__♥)
Also, Enma fighting with Tsuna ;_; Can they not just fight together as good husband and wives -_-
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As much as I love Lal and Colonnello, though, it's gotta be Uni in the end. I don't know if she'll actually win, but any Arco that does win and doesn't give the prize to her is just... well, really kind of a dick, for starters. XD
ALL OF ENMA'S EXPRESSIONS ARE CUTE. |D *agrees with you about all of the Enma-related things you just said*
And you know Enma and Tsuna are going to form an alliance so quickly it might as well ALREADY BE FORMED. And once they narrow the remaining teams down to just the two of them Enma will probably be like, "welp, sorry Skull" and just FORFEIT because he is contractually obligated not to fight Tsuna anyway (lol and that's not even an exaggeration, THANK YOU SO MUCH, VINDICE), and they all like Reborn better than Skull in any case, let's face it.
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I keep on forgetting about Uni! Is she in this? Reborn could probably win and give it to her, since he would so do anything for her.
YES ♥ EVERYTHING ABOUT ENMA IS♥♥♥
That idea is so probable that it might as well be canon. *_* I'm excited to see that part of this story XD
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I think the man in checkers implied that the "strength" they're competing with is not just physical, though, so pretty much anyone could win even if they lost.
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Considering she appears to be pretty much the same age/size she was in the 10 years later arc while Gamma is 10 years younger, it would be basically perfect for the two.
why yes all I care about is the possibility of star-crossed lovers getting a happy ending out of this
Actually, just now it occurred me that Tsuna may or may not take pity on one of the opposing teams (depending on whose backstory is most tragic) and guiltily allow them to win somehow... and it'll turn out that was Reborn's plan all along or something. XD
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But yeah. Reborn's going to win. And then he'll turn down the offer of turning big and awesome and Yamamoto-twin-like again because....argh, you can't just have the title character of the manga who's famous for being chibi-sized to suddenly turn big and hot, damnit!
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And then he'll turn down the offer of turning big and awesome and Yamamoto-twin-like again because....argh, you can't just have the title character of the manga who's famous for being chibi-sized to suddenly turn big and hot, damnit!
And he has to give the prize to Uni, anyway! Can't have her dying on us again. XD
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Tis amusing that there is so much that Amano is messing us with. The Arcobaleno workings, the competition, and the man with that silver mask is all made to keep us in the story (even though I've lost most hope for the story to ever become serious in a good way ^^;).
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I'm always optimistic at the beginning of these arcs, and then inevitably something always comes along and spoils it... but damn it, Amano's teasing us with Arco history AND the promise most epically epic tournament since the Varia Arc (and it doesn't hurt that Varia was my favorite arc by a large margin). YEAH, I'M EXCITED, I CAN'T HELP IT.
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wait...*about to imagine that plot continuity exists in this realm along with mafia marshmallows* wasn't it mentioned that Lal would return to normal if she didn't use her powers.....so wouldn't Colonello be better off winning for himself so he CAN FRIGGIN BE NORMAL AGAIN WITH HER?!(give or take 10 years) *coughandhavebadasskidscough* damn you colonello and your just off the mark chivalry...
ahhh battle royales like these are so hard to pull off in any story, i hope Amano is able to keep the pace and interest up! ah hell, even if she didn't i'd still read it XD
ps- omg ur computer died on you too?! *tear* i know how that feels! that was my birthday present from it back in August ;____;
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