makeste | Target 302!

Just a quick side note before I jump in here--I'm heading up to Lake George tomorrow to go camping for the weekend, so in all likelihood I'll be MIA until Sunday night at the earliest. There is supposedly Wi-Fi access in select parts of the campground I'm staying at, but even if I do manage to get online at some point, I probably won't have much time for LJ antics. So have a good weekend, everyone. ♥

--oh, right. The chapter. XD

1. I had several instant reactions to this cover page, each of which was completely different.

EVERYBODY LOOK AT ME, CUZ I'M SAILING ON A BOAT~
Wow. Way to not waste any time, Amano. Did they just blink and suddenly they were sailing the high seas, or what?
Why do they need three boats?? I thought it was just Tsuna and pals going to Shimon Island? Do they have King Kong stored in the hold of one of those things or something?
TAKE A GOOD HARD LOOK AT THE MOTHERFUCKING BOAT

2. Oh fuck they brought the Nonos. Well, that's it;

amberrei, you're absolutely right. They are definitely going to lose. And fast. :/

Has anyone else noticed how Timoteo, Coyote (RIP...??) and Ganauche are the only Nonos who ever get dialogue? They don't even let the brownie guy talk, geez.

Speaking of Ganauche, I love this guy so much. Just listen to him, rambling on about "money and power", awww. He definitely harkens back to the old school mafia days when those things actually meant something and battles weren't decided by magic rings and tiny, adorable animals.

3. Oh my God. XDDD Seriously, you could just copy-paste this bottom panel into the Lonely Island music video and it would not look remotely out of place. (Gokudera totally bought you that jacket, didn't he, Tsuna? Not that I'm complaining. You should just let him buy all of your clothes from now on.)

If only Yamamoto, Hibari and Chrome were here to complete the assembly of badass. Well, Hibari's probably tailing them on a Sea-Doo or something.

Also blah blah Tsuna fights for his friends blah blah sky that envelops Vongola blah blah stuff we've all understood for at least a hundred and fifty chapters, etc. MOVING ON.

4. So our heroes arrive at the Shimon Triangle only to find... nothing! Just waves and blue skies as far as the eye can see. It's okay, Vongola family, I once got lost on the way home from the DMV. You guys are totally excused. Besides, it was worth it for Ryohei's face when he says they've wasted time. "Man, this is so the opposite of extreme. :|"

Oh no, wait, the island was totally there after all, my bad. An invitation, Tsuna reasons, which makes sense to me. It would hardly be the first time Enma has propositioned Tsuna, and I take this as a positive sign for their relationship. Maybe there's still hope after all!

5. Oh Lambo. That's the spirit. That is exactly the correct response to islands. You should be a captain in One Piece, Lambo!

Oh snap, they almost beached themselves. GOOD JOB, TEAM; you'd have been really screwed then. XD

6. And so the Vongola kids were dumped onto a raft and sent to an island without adult supervision like so many Survivor contestants. DUN DUN DUN.

The Nonos couldn't even be assed to get them like a high tech Super Raft or something. Just your everyday, run-of-the-mill Lambo-powered raft. (Disclaimer: There is a good chance--like somewhere around a 100% chance--that in fact they are actually tugging Lambo behind them. But I like my interpretation better. "KICK, LAMBO, KICK! WE'RE ALMOST THERE!")

7. --HOLY SHIT

GOKUDERA JUST TURNED INTO EDWARD ELRIC!!!

...AND ALSO THERE IS SUDDENLY A SHIMON FAMILY STANDING THERE, HOW ABOUT THAT.

Adelheid's chest is bigger. Again. I swear to God. And is it just me, or did Aoba straighten his hair for the occasion? How fancy of you, Aoba.

8. Why, Reborn, whatever are you talking ab-- lsdkfjladjsflksdjfl jffff g fj

FDLSKDJFJJ

VINDICE

FFFFFF THEY LOOK JUST THE WAY I REMEMBERED THEM FROM MY NIGHTMARES.

9. Holy shit there's so much happening on this page and I'm running short on time, so, briefly:

It came as a bit of a shock that Enma and co. actually weren't expecting to see the Vindice there either. You know it's trouble when even the bad guys are thrown for a loop.
OH ADELHEID, I'VE MISSED YOUR EXPOSITION.
Christ what do you mean they were human?! SHIT THESE GUYS GET CREEPIER BY THE SECOND.
THANKS FOR FILLING IN THE ROLE OF "LOL DERP THAT'S AWESOME" THAT YAMAMOTO SO RECENTLY AND PAINFULLY VACATED, JULIE.
"Have you come to mourn for Vongola who will soon meet their end?" Enma, stop talking like a bad 80s cartoon villain. (Or... don't.)
VINDICE SERIOUSLY TERRIFY ME TO THE CORE OF MY FUCKING SOUL. SERIOUSLY.

10. Terrifying as they and their black speech bubbles are, however, I at least have to give props to the Vindice for laying out the rules of this fight, which strike me as oddly hilarious. "IF YOU LOSE YOU GO TO JAIL... FOREVER." Small wonder Enma likes these guidelines; after losing so many games of tag in elementary school, they must be comfortingly familiar to him.

Well, like I said before,

amberrei, I've got my fingers crossed that your theory pans out. PRISON BREAK ARC, FUCK YEAH.

And since I won't be around tomorrow, as mentioned, Happy Birthday,

mecomptane! PEACE, ALL.

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Aaah, I agree with you then. Still, there was a little parenthesis while they were waiting for Talbot to upgrade the rings, and some other when Tsuna said the 'I'M GOING ALONE' thing, so we shouldn't really complain maybe... >.<

And, this is definitely NOT going to be the final battle, I'm sure. Too many things have been introduced for the arc to end like this...

Don't put too much hope in the prison break arc XD;;;;;; I hope I didn't make too much damage with my hypothesis. I would totally do that if I were her though. It would allow me to:

1)explain about Vindice and Vindicare,
2)create a fucking exciting arc,
3)show angst,
4)introduce new characters(but maybe we had enough of this in Reborn X°D),
5)make use of minor characters(the ones outside jail)...

MANY THINGS. I would like Reborn to be a seinen, after all. So, I'm biased. I'm fucking tempted to make a doujin... but I would change many things, make characters go oc, and introduce an oc which would make people hate me.

(LOL, I'm listening to FMA's third OST and Beethoven's Fifth came out: WHY AM I IMAGINING THE INHERITANCE CEREMONY SCENES*from the first page of 295 to the last of 296* WITH NO WORDS AND JUST THAT MUSIC GOING ON AS THE BGM? I might make some shitty MAD if my PC wasn't exploding with everything including youtube)

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