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KHR 294, in which I invite you to join me on an emotional rollercoaster ride.

You see, after being spoiled for the biggest shocker so far in this arc last week, I resolved to stay away from spoilers this time, so you'll all get to read my pure and honest reactions in this post today. Hooray!

1. OH. OH MY HEART. ;_______;

Last week, a cover like this would have been merely adorable. This week, it is both adorable and gut-wrenching. (Also gay, but that's neither here nor there.) THE POINT IS, this is a very deliberate attempt on Amano's part to show us a scene that's fully guaranteed to make every single reader go, "Awww, I love these guys," while knowing FULL WELL that one of them (THAT HAPPY GUY THAT SHE DECIDED TO PUT IN THE FOREFRONT, NO LESS) is lying in a dramatic pool of his own blood at this very moment and OH MY GOD WHY WOULD SHE DO THAT. That is such a bitchy thing to do. My emotions don't even know even know what the hell is going on right now, and that is just not cool.

2. What, really Ninth, you're just going along with this now? Goddamn it, stop making it difficult to decide whether or not you're evil. It's bad enough we have to wrestle with characters like Mukuro; we hardly need yet another morally gray character with complicated motivations much like someone would actually have in real life!! >:(

Fortunately, one of the Ninth's sexy old man guardians interrupts this completely anticlimactic moment with a phone call from Tsuna's ever-reliable and awesome RIGHT HAND MAN, and what's this? DOES THIS MEAN GOKUDERA ACTUALLY WAS THE ONE TO FIND YAMAMOTO AND GET HIM TO SAFETY IN THE NICK OF TIME?

A-Amano. ;_; You do care! HAHAHA I INSTANTLY FORGIVE EVERYTHING. I AM EASY.

P.S. I love how Tsuna's first reaction to Gokudera's call was "Oh my God does he know how does he know?!" If it was anyone but Gokudera, this hilarious paranoia would be in no way justified, but. Yeah.

3. Oh, Tsuna. :( You just made the same face that I and pretty much every other Yamamoto fan made last week. THE VERY SAME. Oh God, and here I was afraid that this would turn into some Bleachish thing where we wouldn't find out what happened to Yamamoto for like YEARS and by then everyone else would be distracted with some other complicated situation so we wouldn't get to see any of these angsty reactions.

Turns out I needn't have worried. If anything, we might have the opposite problem, wherein Amano actually details the reactions so painstakingly that this chapter just becomes agonizing to read. Because I gotta tell you, I read the words "Gokudera-kun's voice... was shaking..." and I VERY NEARLY BROKE DOWN RIGHT THERE. JUST READING ABOUT IT. Oh God. But this is exactly what I love about KHR. It's all about the characters, first and foremost, and the plot follows second from there.

4. SO WE FOLLOW TSUNA TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM and oh man, I am so glad I didn't spoil myself for this because I am on the edge of my goddamn seat here. AHHH BRACE MYSELF, BRACE MYSELF...

... *SOBS OH MY GOD*

Oh Jesus. This is so hard to read. ;_; Ahh he's all bloodied up and with the oxygen mask and the blanket pulled up to his chin and Yamamoto, Yamamoto, you're not supposed to be like that, you're a shounen character who recovers from life-threatening injuries in two hours, it's not like Kaoru hit you with a wall or anything, AND TSUNA'S FACE. TSUNA'S FACE. WHY DO I CARE ABOUT THESE CHARACTERS SO MUCH, IT'S SO BAD FOR MY HEALTH WHEN THINGS LIKE THIS HAPPEN.

5. Oh wait, Ryohei was the one to find Yamamoto first. OKAY THEN. XD I'm down with that, too; Ryohei so rarely gets the chance to be the hero, after all. I like it when he does responsible things.

Also I am doing my best to avoid looking at the prominent Crying Tsuna panel because I really can't handle that right now. When this all comes out in the anime I'm just going to die or something. IT'LL BE LIKE WHEN LOST ENDED BUT EVEN WORSE. Can you even imagine watching this scene play out with the sad music and the seiyuu giving it all they've got for maximum drama? People are going to drown in their own damn tears.

Also Gokudera is my hero. RIGHT THERE WITH YOU, MAN. CURSE YOU KAORU WE WILL NOT FORGIIIIIIVE.

6. OH SHIT

SHIT SHIT

THE PUNK WAS RIGHT THERE THE WHOLE TIME SHIT SHIT SHIT. AND HE'S ALL, "OH YEAH WE WERE HANGIN' BUT THEN I LEFT" OH YOU LIAR. YOU LYING LIAR WHO IS LYING!!1 Also I'm kind of terrified one of the Shimon is going to try to finish the job and off Yamamoto when the Vongola aren't looking. ARE WE GOING TO HAVE A KHR VERSION OF THE GODFATHER HOSPITAL SCENE?!

FFFFFFFFF it's times like this I wish the majority of the Vongola family wasn't born and raised in the world capital of obliviousness. TSUNA WHERE IS YOUR INTUITION WHEN WE NEED IT.

7. BUT WAIT! REBORN HAS BEEN WATCHING DETECTIVE CONAN AND DID A SMART THING?!? YOU GO REBORN. YEAH, THAT'S RIGHT, NOBODY MESSES WITH HIS FAVORITE MAFIA IDIOT ON HIS WATCH.

Lol, this sure puts the Shimon family in an awkward position. "Oh shit, if we leave he's gonna tell them all that Kaoru did it, but if we insist on staying over his objections we'll give ourselves away for sure." What a quandrary. THAT THEY FUCKING DESERVE.

I gotta hand it to Adelheid for having the balls to try and argue anyway, though. And I love that veiled threat (or what I totally perceived as a veiled threat, anyway) that Reborn gave her: "You might be attacked as well." INDEED THEY MIGHT.

8. Oh snap, Yamamoto actually did the cliched "use my own blood to write a message to reveal the killer" thing before he passed out. My heart is gladdened somewhat to know that a small part of him must surely have enjoyed this, Yamamoto being who he is. "Haha, just like in the movies." That was a once in a lifetime chance, after all. Also it was totally hardcore.

9. OH SWEET WE GET TO FIND ABOUT THE BOTTLE OF SIN. And Reborn's the one explaining it, didn't expect that.

--Oh, fucking gross, it is blood. Ugh. In fact, it's pretty much exactly what my first instinct said; a bottle of blood that when you drink it you inherit all the memories of the Vongola family's evil deeds throughout the ages. Oka~y. And for some reason the Shimon family wants this thing?? WHATEVER FLOATS YOUR BOAT, I GUESS, BUT THAT'S PRETTY EFFING TWISTED.

And the only chance the culprit has of getting the bottle is at the Inheritance Ceremony...

...oh, nice, Amano. WELL PLAYED. Maybe Kaoru's not such an idiot after all.

10. "I'll ask the Ninth to open the ceremony. Whoever did that to Yamamoto... I'll catch them, no matter what it takes! I'm going to the Inheritance Ceremony!"

Oh wow, I just felt a chill run down my spine. Seriously, that is beautiful, how that played out. Even knowing about the whole sin thing now, even having already refused, he has no choice now if he wants to uncover Yamamoto's attacker. He's forced to go through with it. More than that, he wants to, because he's determined to find the culprit and bring them to justice. PERFECT. SO PERFECT. It's completely in line with his character and makes perfect sense with the plot and it's all coming together now, hell yeah.

HATERS TO THE LEFT, Y'ALL, this arc is quickly becoming amazing. Best chapter in ages, and that's really saying something. I. LOVE. THIS. MANGA.

ETA: Also before I get completely caught up in this whirlwind of narrative excitement, Happy Belated Birthday to

rinkhals! ♥

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Ryohei: I like it when he does responsible things. I KNO RITE.

The Shimons will learn never, EVER to underestimate Reborn.
One thing that I admire Amano for is ~~her drawing of pretty bishies~~ her emotional contrast. You have Daily Life...and then you have THIS.

For a long time now I have been confused with the Shimon Family's goal. They apparently want to take down the Vongola, right? But even when they are alone they talk about how they don't want any interupptions with the Inheritance Ceremony. But this chapter got me thinking. Reborn claims that Yamamoto wrote the name of the culprit and the Italian word for sin in his own blood.

But to my knowledge, Yamamoto doesn't know Italian, so why would he write that? My guess is that Kaoru wrote that word so that the Vongola Family would continue with the ceremony in order to catch the culprit. I think that the Shimon Family wants to rise above their status as a weak family using the Sin of the Vongola. The Sin is only shown during Inheritance Ceremonies so that is why the Shimon Family wants it to be successful. I believe that the Shimon Family will interupt the ceremony and Enma will wind up drinking the Sin. After a long battle Tsuna will probably defeat Sin!Enma and they'll probably make up and become friends again.

But this is all just a crazy theory...

If it was anyone but Gokudera, this hilarious paranoia would be in no way justified, but. Yeah.

I laughed so hard BECAUSE IT IS TRUE. XD

But this is exactly what I love about KHR. It's all about the characters, first and foremost, and the plot follows second from there.

Oh, yes. ♥ ♥ ♥ There aren't a lot of shounen manga that get this far and still have a strong enough focus to stir emotion the way KHR does. I love that Amano went there, she didn't just show him banged-up and bloody but she actually showed the operation, forceps and all. ~~And Gokudera's face. It warms the awesome!cockles of my heart.~~

My heart is gladdened somewhat to know that a small part of him must surely have enjoyed this, Yamamoto being who he is. "Haha, just like in the movies." That was a once in a lifetime chance, after all. Also it was totally hardcore.

Yes! This is exactly the kind of thing he would get excited about. Oh, Yamamoto. ;_;

a bottle of blood that when you drink it you inherit all the memories of the Vongola family's evil deeds throughout the ages.

But if you drink it . . . well, the bottle looked full. Maybe you add some of your own blood? Or maybe just owning it is enough? IDK.

Those last few pages: HELL YES, TSUNA. I'M SORRY I EVER DOUBTED YOUR CAPABILITIES FOR AWESOME. \o/

Deary me you just said EVERYTHING that went through my mind. I've read so many shounen manga and although they went to their dark places, something about the fact that my beloved slice-of-life, cracktastic, bad-guys-are-redeemed series becoming, well, this is absolutely bizarre. It's truly spectacular. I mean, I was wondering where about Tsuna. He's gotten so, so powerful lately and how much stronger could he get before it just seems ridiculous? I had completely forgot that he is able to grow into maturity and that is what we are seeing now. It's... it's... wow.

:D Tsuna! I can finally see a bit of development coming in for ya! X3

And...Yamamoto. ;____;

Well, I guess we're into seeing something that actually is mafia-ish. ^^; Bottle of blood, alright. :[ Ew...

You did a great review lol congratulations.

Omg just read your review and everything played out for me again. Have to agree, this chapter was. the.best.in.ages. For severaldifferent reasons, neverthless. And through it has left a lof of WTF questions and had a million cases of asspullage, when Reborn chapters didn't do this?

Through, even if I was bitching at some characters while reading this and picking on Amano, in the end I still was all 'OMG ILU Tsunaaaaaa, OMG ILU Gokudera, OMG, I love you Yamamato, AMANo you I love more than everyone else!'

Through, I'm a little disappointed that tsuan goes to the inheritance ceremony only to figure out who's Yamamoto attacker - and I'm really wincing saying 'only' here, because it's YAMAMOTO and one of his closest friends we're talking about, but I would neverthless want him to mature a little and finally stop to turn his back on the WHOLE inheritance thingy. on the whole VONGOLA thingy. But maybe a little more time should pass for it to happen,through.

Aside from this, this arc is seriously bastardly amazing. I remember the end of the Future arc with Byakuran when I already wanted to puke merely seeing him after all those 298356349586349 chapters and just wanted it to end ASAP. TO be honest, making reviews is harder too, because almost every page now is 'woah woah woah isn't it awesome' contrary to the 'I'm following this wtf trainwreck only because I love the characters dearly' of the past.

This said, I truly admire your dedication to the manga. Myself, half the time I snark and fall into the hole of neverending sarcasm and critisize everything, but you have the courage and love enough to embrace every chapter regardless of how wacky the plotholes were etc. I don't have that much soul in myself, but since we have you, it's all right \o/

really Ninth, you're just going along with this now

No no, he said he wasn't giving up! And then... telephone.

TSUNA'S FACE. TSUNA'S FACE.

I know, I konw... There There *hugs*

REBORN HAS BEEN WATCHING DETECTIVE CONAN AND DID A SMART THING?!? YOU GO REBORN.

I LOOOVEE Reborn and that's one of the reason I do.

fucking gross, it is blood.

I LOLed when I read this!
Maybe it has some special power (because Shimon has a (or more??) new flame (S), Vongola will need more power! (but... HOW IS THIS F****** POSSIBLE???)

I loved your post, btw.

I am still reeling. This chapter was hard on someone who likes 80 best of all and also knows too much about hospitals. (Wanna read how I broke it down into details over at

jote_jote's LJ?)

6) It's fascinating how calm Kaoru is, being in the waiting room full of crying people. KAORU, THEY ALL CRY BECAUSE OF YOU. And you just stabbed someone who had been so kind to you. Geez!

Where's Hibari? ;A;
I feel that he is left out from the whole drama. He had better be looking for the culprit to atone for this. T_T

9) the whole vial of blood thing reminds me of Vampire. Oh dear, now all Vampire!Giotto doujinshis become closer to the canon LOL.

I love the theme laid out in this arc. Sin and Enma. Enma is the god of Judgement in Hell. :D

This arc (finally) becomes awesome and exciting.

YOU READ MY MIND OR SOMETHING BECAUSE THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I'M THINKING.

The cheek of Shimon to stay there WHEN THEY KNOW WHAT HAPPENED! OMG my mind absolutely raged when Mizuno lied. Really, Mizuno and Adelheid aren't my favorite people now.

TSUNA'S FACE WHEN HE SAYS GOKUDERA'S VOICE IS SHAKING. Pretty sure that's how I look like while reading this chapter.

Like many others, I'm still reeling.

I'LL BE OBSESSED WITH THIS CHAPTER. It's what I wanted to read. Emotions, angst, realism: YAMAMOTO HAS BEEN CUT DOWN TO DEATH AND HE'S IN AN HOSPITAL, no magical healing of injuries-not even Kangaryuu could lol-. I cannot describe how godly I think Amano is after the Tsuna-barging-in-the-surgery-room scene. HIS FACIAL EXPRESSION. I love 27 even more now. And the surgery panel. EVERYTHING SO AWESOME. Yet someone on OneManga's forum said THIS CHAPTER WAS CLICHEED. HOOOOOOW THE HEEEEEEEEELL =___________= Haters Gonna Hate.

I. LOVE. THIS. MANGA.
I could not possibly agree more.

This week, it is both adorable and gut-wrenching.
So true. It's like getting a kiss from your long-time crush and a full-blown punch to the gut both at the same time.

The emergency room scene was almost too much for me, and the bloody scissors--;__; I can't believe Kaoru had the nerve to show up, although it would have been veeeery suspicious if he hadn't. Uggh, I am incoherent. BEST CHAPTER IN FOREVER!!

That first page was so gay. And perfect for the 8059ness to come.

If it was anyone but Gokudera, this hilarious paranoia would be in no way justified, but. Yeah.
LMAO SO TRUE AHAHAHA

"Gokudera-kun's voice... was shaking...
;;;;;;;;;;;;; that panel ;A; I think I just stopped and stared in awe at how much that hit me. OMG.

Wow, Tsuna kicked down the ER...door. Is that possible?

BAWWWWWWWWWWWWWW SFLKJSADSLGSDJG

YOU LYING LIAR WHO IS LYING
/RAAAAAAAAAAAGE

I WAS SO 'YESSS' WHEN REBORN WAS PLAYING DETECIVE CONAN 8D HE CAN DO NO WRONG YOU SHIMON BETTER WATCH OUT

lol idg how blood can pass down memories... -_- oh well if I cared about details like that what am I doing reading this manga.

ALSO, IT DOESN'T SEEM LIKE WE'LL BE GOING TO ITALY YET, THIS MAKES ME SAD.

Oh man. OH MAN. That first image, I was like "It's so sweet, and Gokudera looks so happy and... and, that's just so rare and... wait... Yamamoto was attacked last chapter... what a minute... FUCK YOU, AMANO! WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS TO ME?!" ... I want a big HQ scan of that chapter image... NOW.

Oh, ninth, why so hard to get a good read on? Good? Bad? In the middle? Ugh.

OH, TUNAFISH! I FEEL FOR YOU, I DO. "Gokudera-kun's voice... was shaking..." Oh man... If Gokudera's voice is shaking when talking about Yamamoto... oh it's awfully bad, and you know it. Dread must have spread in Tsuna's gut much like the way blood seeps into snow. Oh man.

The absolute terror and trauma on Tsuna's face the entire time after he hears the news... Amano's good at that kind of expression, no doubt about that. Oh man.

The Shimon family really disgusts me. You make a half-assed attempt to see if the new Vongola boss is good or bad, HALF-ASSED you morons, before you decide that he's bad and should be killed because you've suffered so freaking much and oh woe is you. Disgusting little twerps. Don't hold the son responsible for the actions of the father.

Why does this chapter have so many gorgeous images?

And you know the worst part about it all? Yamamoto probably didn't write "delitto" or the name that was crossed out and all that. Because how would he know about that bottle when not even Tsuna or Gokudera did? How would he know its name? Even if he did read it on the note Kaoru dropped, it doesn't really make sense for him to remember it as something important when what he focused on was Vongola's crossed out crest. If he wrote anything, it would probably be "Shimon = Enemy, Kaoru did this" or something, it wouldn't be a word in Italian when he doesn't even know what its meaning is. And why would he write it hiragana? It would make more sense for it to be written in katakana as デリット or デリトト in order to make it clear that it was a foreign word. Which means that the Simon family is playing them, and that the Vongola are walking into their trap. Unless Reborn knows that it's a fake but wanted Tsuna to agree to the ceremony. However, he looked honestly surprised when Tsuna said he'd go through with it, which makes it more likely that they're being played. Fuck it.

... Long-ass paragraph is long-ass and rambly. Sorry, bb. <3

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