You know, the text on the cover page might say "three buddies spending happy times together", but it's pretty clear that the true purpose of that page is to show how much Gokudera and Tsuna love Yamamoto. He's totally the star; not only is he in the forefront, but the other two are smiling specifically at him, and they're in his room on top of that. A more accurate opening text would have read "EVERYONE LOVES YAMAMOTO...!" and it would have been absolutely true.
The Ninth needs to go join the "so are they good, or bad, or what...?" club that Kawahira founded.
I like how even on the phone, Gokudera can't manage to conceal his emotions at all ever. I can't even imagine how his face would have looked like if we could have seen it at that moment. ...Well, no, actually I can, because it probably looked just like Tsuna's. Sob my poor traumatized boys. ;_;
And keep in mind, Enma was really the only one out of the entire bunch that even bothered with a half-assed attempt. Everyone else was pretty much ready to crucify the Vongola with no questions asked. So yeah, definitely nooooot too pleased with the Shimon family just now. :|
THIS CHAPTER IS GORGEOUS BECAUSE AMANO IS ALWAYS AT HER BEST WHEN SHE'S BEING A MANIPULATIVE MANIPULATOR OF EMOTIONS.
And after thinking on it some more, I've actually come to the conclusion that Yamamoto almost certainly was the one who wrote the "delitto" message, actually. It makes perfect sense for him, after writing down Kaoru's name (which was unfortunately later crossed out), to struggle in his last moments of consciousness to come up with another clue for his friends, and since the paper that Kaoru dropped was the clear instigator for his sudden violence, he would have singled in on that. There wouldn't have been time for him to write a detailed explanation, so he would have focused on the one thing that he could write, that weird Italian word that he didn't understand but which was obviously important enough for Kaoru to try to murder him over.
The fact that he wrote it in hiragana and not katakana actually makes it more likely for him to have been the one that wrote it. If it had been Kaoru, he would have known the proper way to write the word in Japanese, whereas Yamamoto ended up with a sloppy, confusing translation. This post over at Mangahelpers describes it better than I could.
On top of that, since the Shimon family had no idea that Tsuna had already refused to go through with the ceremony, it would have made no sense for Kaoru or anyone else to leave a "clue" hinting at what they were after. They would have had no reason to, since as far as they knew, the Vongola were planning to go through the ceremony on schedule. So I really do think it had to be Yamamoto. It's just unfortunate that his clue indirectly led to Tsuna playing right into the Shimon family's hands.
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The Ninth needs to go join the "so are they good, or bad, or what...?" club that Kawahira founded.
I like how even on the phone, Gokudera can't manage to conceal his emotions at all ever. I can't even imagine how his face would have looked like if we could have seen it at that moment. ...Well, no, actually I can, because it probably looked just like Tsuna's. Sob my poor traumatized boys. ;_;
And keep in mind, Enma was really the only one out of the entire bunch that even bothered with a half-assed attempt. Everyone else was pretty much ready to crucify the Vongola with no questions asked. So yeah, definitely nooooot too pleased with the Shimon family just now. :|
THIS CHAPTER IS GORGEOUS BECAUSE AMANO IS ALWAYS AT HER BEST WHEN SHE'S BEING A MANIPULATIVE MANIPULATOR OF EMOTIONS.
And after thinking on it some more, I've actually come to the conclusion that Yamamoto almost certainly was the one who wrote the "delitto" message, actually. It makes perfect sense for him, after writing down Kaoru's name (which was unfortunately later crossed out), to struggle in his last moments of consciousness to come up with another clue for his friends, and since the paper that Kaoru dropped was the clear instigator for his sudden violence, he would have singled in on that. There wouldn't have been time for him to write a detailed explanation, so he would have focused on the one thing that he could write, that weird Italian word that he didn't understand but which was obviously important enough for Kaoru to try to murder him over.
The fact that he wrote it in hiragana and not katakana actually makes it more likely for him to have been the one that wrote it. If it had been Kaoru, he would have known the proper way to write the word in Japanese, whereas Yamamoto ended up with a sloppy, confusing translation. This post over at Mangahelpers describes it better than I could.
On top of that, since the Shimon family had no idea that Tsuna had already refused to go through with the ceremony, it would have made no sense for Kaoru or anyone else to leave a "clue" hinting at what they were after. They would have had no reason to, since as far as they knew, the Vongola were planning to go through the ceremony on schedule. So I really do think it had to be Yamamoto. It's just unfortunate that his clue indirectly led to Tsuna playing right into the Shimon family's hands.