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I finally caved in and got an Enma icon.
It was only a matter of time, I suppose.1. I can't remember the last time Amano has so blatantly shipped a pair of characters like this. Probably not since Squalo first made his feelings for Yamamoto loud and clear.
"Tsuna and Enma are both clumsy... BUT PERHAPS THEY CAN UNDERSTAND ONE ANOTHER...?" I swear, that line doesn't even need any editing to become the tagline for a doujinshi. You can just leave it as is. And I'd read that doujin. And I'm pretty sure it would be adorable.
2. It's been a while since we had some good old fashioned freaks of nature battling Tsuna. Now that we're about a month into the Inheritance Arc, I do find myself feeling nostalgic for the Future Arc every so often, with its insanity and monster-people and hard to follow action panels and people shouting "GRAAR! AAARGH!"
And then I read this page and this one and that nostalgia faded awfully fast. XD
3. I tell you what, though, Amano sure does love to draw Tsuna bashing people's faces in lately. And she's getting pretty good at it. I mean, it's well executed, you know? Spit flying, eyes popping, and Tsuna looking oh-so-I-just-don't-fucking-care as he pulls it off. For what it is, it does its job well. It holds its own in the world of face-bashing panels, is what I'm trying to say.
4. ...okay, yeah, thank God that's over and done with. XD So, having reminded us all that yes, it is still a shounen manga despite the BL cover, Amano returns to the current plot of "Boy Tsuna, this sure is going to be one crazy week leading up to the inheritance ceremony." Enma applauds Tsuna's kung fu skills, and Tsuna, still a closeted action hero even now, tries to deny it by making up ridiculous stories about I BUMPED INTO THIS TREE AND IT MADE ME DEFY GRAVITY SOMEHOW OKAY.
And meanwhile, Reborn helpfully drops more and more hints for me to use to support my crazy theories. THANK YOU, REBORN. You're a good friend.
5. OH MY GOD,
As always, Gokudera is hilarious and adorable, but I would like to take a moment to call attention away from his adorable hilarity and towards the cover of the book he is holding, "Secrets of the Underground Creature." That's right, you guys, SOMEONE WROTE A BOOK ABOUT SHITT P. AND GOKUDERA FOUND IT AND PURCHASED IT. Why do both of those facts make me so, so happy? I don't even know.
Anyway, so Gokudera's all "LET'S CALL EVERYBODY IMMEDIATELY!!!!" which also makes me happy because nowadays his crazy overreacting response is to call all the guardians together rather than running off to
And then he goes and accosts Enma, hahahaha.
6. Meanwhile, Chrome is shopping (buying chocolate, I might add. Isn't that one of Mukuro's favorites? HMM SUSPICIOUS) and for some reason Nametwin is spying on her?? And then Enma calls and he makes this pedotastic face when he answers the phone and then he actually ADMITS TO STALKING CHROME, o-omg. And makes a perverted comment about Adelheid's legs (HER LEGS NOT HER BOOBS, HELL YES HE IS A MAN OF QUALITY TASTE). And responsibly passes up a call to action from his boss.
This feeling I have... IS THIS WHAT THEY CALL LOVE? *_* Julie, please do me a favor and show up in the manga more so I can lol at you.
7. So in the end, they only managed to gather the Vongola Fab Four and the Shimon gang minus Nametwin and Shitt P. Who is busy meditating. Gokudera makes a note of it in his own stalker log.
And now I have to stop and fangirl Gokudera again. I'M SORRY. But holy shit he is taking command of the meeting and assessing the threat and telling everyone that they need to work together to stop it, and he's done the research and has formed a plan of teams based on everyone's expertise, and just. I am so goddamn happy I feel like I could burst, okay. ;_________; MY BABY IS ALL GROWN UP AND DOING HIS JOB RESPONSIBLY AND WELL!!!!111
Hell, if he keeps this up, he might actually become so capable that I can no longer make fun of him. ...D:
8. ...anyway so the teams consist of Kaoru and Yamamoto, Hibari and Adelheid, Aoba and Ryohei, and so on and so on, all of which is just SO SHOCKING that I actually started typing this sentence even before I clicked on this page. What can I say, I'm psychic or something. Anyway, Yamamoto congratulates Dera on having thought this out pretty thoroughly, which just goes to show that either Yamamoto is far less observant than I thought, or more capable of being deviously condescending than I would have ever expected.
Aoba objects because he doesn't like being talked down to, but Adelheid shuts him up, and immediately everyone is all, "OHHHHH SHIT SO SHE'S THE ONE IN CHARGE, EH?" but really, they should have known all along.
9. Julie is one smug, lazy bastard. The more I see of him, the more I adore him. Though if I knew him in real life I would probably want to punch his face in. BUT EVEN SO, HE'S A CUTE LITTLE ASSHOLE.
More importantly, though... what the hell is Shitt P. doing there, exactly? She is just... leaning... but standing absolutely rigid...???
10. "By the way, has everyone been taking good care of 'that'?" Uh oh, I sense a possible theory-buster...
Oh, no, wait, it's just some weird... pendant... thing. That he's inherited as the boss of the Shimon family. And that suddenly makes him have a dying will flame in his eyes or something. I knew there was something about those eyes, dammit.
I do hope Enma doesn't wind up becoming one of the traditional-style Reborn villains, though. Much better if he actually befriends Tsuna and it's actually a surprise when the betrayal happens. YEAH, I SAID "WHEN." DON'T GET ME WRONG, I LIKE THE LITTLE SHOTA, BUT THERE IS NO WAY THIS CAN POSSIBLY END WELL.
Next week is Golden Week, right? So SJ's probably taking a break. Oh well. XD
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...I was going to say "NO DON'T SAY THAT!" b-but you're probably right, actually. Sob. One of these days he will learn to be consistently awesome.
Yeah, I thought it was pretty clear. Maybe they were all too busy STARING AT HER BOOBS to notice that she is the boss of everyone. XD
He does seem like that type. Lazy and perverted and then all of a sudden OMG BADASS. He should be a Naruto character.
It made me want to try leaning on a wall like that just to see if it was even possible. But I'd probably lose my balance and fall and kill myself.
Yeah, that upside-down flame is really fucking weird. WHAT'S UP WITH THAT.
And I hope so. I HOPE SO. I've got my fingers crossed even though it already looks like Amano might be heading in a different direction. XD
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AHAHAHA XD totally. omg why is this such a shonen stereotype
I just tried leaning against a wall like that and it feel completely unnatural, my shoulder kept wanting to take the pressure of my head and everything. Shitt P is special.
The upside down flame made me wonder if it was some other form of the dying will flame, and if maybe Enma is constantly stuck in negative or something. It also made me think of Longchamp's desolation bullet and I went back to see if they mentioned the Shimon family developing the bullet or something. XD WELL THAT WAS STUPID WHY DID I DO THAT
From your last entry about possible outcomes, I liked the idea of number three, that the ceremony can't commence without Tsuna's consent. idk if he gets cold feet and the Vongola family is without a leader and vulnerable to usurpation then I can totally see this tiny suspiciously strong and ready-to-prove-its-might family taking over. But then again, when has anyone ever been right about the plot? XD
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Ooh, I have to go back and reread the second half of Tsuna vs. Xanxus now; I forgot about the whole negative thing. But now that you mention it, Enma's flame does kinda remind me of that? HMM. And lol, I don't think it was stupid to go back and check; on the off chance that you were right you would have been hailed as a genius manga prophet or something. XDD Oh man, if Amano actually has mentioned the Shimon at some point in the past and we all just forgot about it, I would facepalm so hard... AND YET I CAN'T RULE OUT THE POSSIBILITY, because she does that. 8|
But then again, when has anyone ever been right about the plot? XD
Sob it's true. AND YET I KEEP TRYING IN SPITE OF THAT. One of these days...? XD