My spoiler diet lasted for all of one week!

[makeste]

Pathetic, I know, but I couldn't help it when I was waiting on the edge of my seat for updates on the last chapter's dire circumstances.


1. Oh my God. They rented an entire goddamn mafia castle just for Tsuna's wedding. I mean inheritance ceremony. MAFIA DON'T DO THINGS HALFWAY.

I like that none of the guardians look like they got absolutely any sleep last night (and Gokudera's face in particular is finally starting to reflect the fact that I'm nearly certain he has not slept AT ALL in the past WEEK). Just a little detail (and maybe even an unintentional one), but it's one of those things I love about this manga, and almost makes up for the fact that the following page is pretty much a waste of space. But never mind that; on to more terrible things.


2. DAMN YOU AMANO IF I WANTED TO READ ABOUT BELOVED CHARACTERS SUSTAINING PERMANENT LIFE-ALTERING INJURIES I WOULD PICK UP FMA AGAIN.

What the fuck is this shit. I feel like I accidentally stumbled upon one of those really sadistic genies, where they still grant you the three wishes but they sneakily toss in an evil twist with each one, so that when you say you want "angst" and "character development for Yamamoto" in the next arc, they go, "OKAY... :D" and the next thing you know, this is happening.

HOWEVER

ON THE PLUS SIDE

LONGCHAMP IS HERE

NAITO YOU BASTARD I'M SO FUCKING HAPPY TO SEE YOU GODDAMN. DO SOMETHING FUNNY.


3. That'll do, pig, that'll do. |D

Things I love: 1) That Gokudera had to announce him because Amano was SO SURE that we'd all forgotten, 2) THAT EVERYBODY IS -CHAN, HEY THERE, SAWADA-CHAN, WHAT'S HAPPENING, GOKU-CHAN~, and 3) that his suit is SO TACKY that it might actually be cool, except that I'm pretty sure it would circle around again from there so that it became tacky AGAIN because it's just that plaid. Also those boots. Haha just look at them.

Anyway, after milking his cameo for all its worth, he conspicuously points out the obvious fact that Yamamoto Good-Chance-He'll-Never-Walk-Again Takeshi is STANDING RIGHT THERE, which I had been meaning to ask about, except not really because I read spoilers.


4. But for everyone who doesn't have the willpower of a crack addict, the basic gist is that Chrome is awesome and Reborn is a man with a plan.

I'm not going to lie, I find this whole affair mildly creepy, BUT WHATEVER. It is a good scheme, and I can get behind any plot circumstance that actually allows Chrome to do something for once. She basically saved the day. You go, Chrome.


5. Continuing our mafia red carpet tour, we are greeted by Dino! HEY THERE, LITTLE D, GOOD TO SEE YOU AGAIN. Leave some groupies for the Vongola kids, why don't you.

As always, where there is a Dino, a Squalo is sure to follow, and even though TYE!Squalo isn't half as hot as his TYL! counterpart, and even though part of me is SO SAD that we couldn't have the usual accompanying panel of "Squalo! 8D" from our resident queer rain guardian, it's still awesome to see him. Everyone can't help but make incredibly obvious comments on how young they all are now that they're not TEN YEARS OLDER, but don't be too hard on them, they're sleep-deprived.


6. Heh, I expected that Squalo would be able to see through the Yamamoto illusion in two seconds, but I'm a bit surprised that Dino conned on so quickly as well. I underestimated you, Dino. (Also, that side-view panel of you is really hot. I hope you adopt your ridiculously sexy TYL hairstyle soon.)


7. But more importantly, it's time for a shota reunion! Once again, Enma is being picked on, and Tsuna is the one to come to his rescue while the rest of the Shimon family cowers around their fallen boss since they're SO HELPLESS. POOR LITTLE SHIMON FAMILY. :|

Tsuna informs them all that Yamamoto is SURPRISE ALL BETTER!, and the Shimon family proceeds to direct not-at-all suspicious and/or predatory glances at him while Tsuna hits on Enma some more but something is off?? FOR SOME STRANGE REASON, he doesn't seem to be having the same bashful shota reactions to Tsuna's advances as before, and it's almost as if there was some horrendous misunderstanding between the two of them that is now weighing heavily on all of their interactions and giving this conversation tragic and sinister undertones!

D:


8. Then Hibari shows up because his crowd senses were tingling, and says some vaguely 8018ish things before Reborn decides it's time to get a move on with the show. We then proceed to the interior of the castle, where once again, Amano provides us with ample evidence that every single person in the mafia is butt-ugly except for Vongola and Friends. Also they're all old and stuff. I guess the Bovino family is the only one that regularly makes a habit of recruiting five-year-old hitmen.


9. Tsuna, Gokudera, and Ryohei are all "ANY MINUTE NOW...!" and shiftily glancing from side to side in anticipation, and I would just like to take this moment to say that in spite of the many horrible things that have resulted from Yamamoto's being attacked, at least one good thing has come of it as well, and that's that Ryohei has for the time being been bumped up a notch on the main character scale. This is very cool. I am down with this.


10. Unfortunately, before anything exciting can actually happen, Amano abruptly ends the chapter with a cop-out redo of the color page that kicked this arc off. While it is cool that the scene is replicated so exactly and that we finally understand the full context of it, I can't pretend that on a whole this isn't ridiculously lame. NOT FAIR, AMANO. But I suppose it's my fault for being foolish enough to expect to see the inheritance ceremony actually take place in a chapter titled "INHERITANCE CEREMONY." ...

On the plus side, I'm pretty sure Yamamoto is at least 70 percent hotter in this version than in the original. Ryohei too. And also Shitt P, and that's a damn hard thing to accomplish. Yes, indeed.


Guess I'll just have to resign myself to yet another long and drawn-out wait for the next chapter. Inheritance Arc, you are going to be the death of me. XD

Also, I would like to use this opportunity to pass along birthday wishes to mibelle26, lampazo_libre, fuchi_conejo, and viridianphoenix, despite the fact that only one of these wishes is actually on time. Sorry. XD But Happy Birthday, guys! ♥

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[daigranon.livejournal.com]

LONGCHAMP EJKJRERJTEIUERUTNIRRUYBKUYTJHNUVJH

-10 years later-

ahem.
Chrome being useful, SQUALO, DINO, and THE SUITS made this chapter for me. Excuse me while I keyboard-smash some more.

I need to make a post just to this chapter, excuse me.

[makeste.livejournal.com]

Now I can't help but suspect that the ten-year bazooka runs entirely on fangirl reactions to seeing Longchamp again. THE SECRET INGREDIENT.

Oh yeah, can't believe I forgot to fangirl over the suits. IT'S LIKE CHOICE ALL OVER AGAIN BUT HOPEFULLY WITHOUT ALL OF THE FRUITLESSNESS. And this time Gokudera even tied his hair up for maximum sexiness. Good-looking chapter, this.

Haha, this is the sort of chapter that awakens the need to ramble in many, so I completely understand. XD

[talklikeazombie.livejournal.com]

I freaked when Longchamp finally made his appearance xD

[makeste.livejournal.com]

SO FREAKING HAPPY. That seriously made my day, and on a day when the news is announced that YAMAMOTO IS MAYBE PARALYZED, that is an amazingly hard thing to do.

God, I hope this finally prompts them to introduce him in the anime once they get done with the Future Arc. *FINGERS CROSSED*

[reana-camellia.livejournal.com]

1) Make me wonder why don't they do it in Vongola Mansion instead.
ARE YOU IMPLYING JAPANESE-MADE CASTLES LOOK MORE EUROPEAN THAN EUROPEAN CASTLES, Amano-sensei? >:D

3) Sawada-chan? Now i am certain Byakuran is Longchamp 10 years later. Seriously xD
I can't wait till he tries to call Hibari Hibari-chan~

8) *insert Hibari fangirling comments here*
LOL, apparently he thinks he's the only one who can beat people in school grounds. Now he's going to hunts down people who dare to cross the line. Neeever ever take Hibari's prey, folks~ :D

[makeste.livejournal.com]

Heaven forbid they make the reasonable choice of holding it in the castle THEY ALREADY OWN in the country ALL OF THEIR GUESTS ALREADY LIVE IN. No, clearly Japan was the only option.

...so he was the final villain. It all makes sense now.

I'm just amazed he actually took off the uniform for once and put on a suit. :O

[azartti.livejournal.com]

I actually screamed when I read that Yamamoto might not be able to walk again and Longchamp FINAL appearance made it better... but I was still sobing, orz. AT LEAST HE'S THERE.

Chrome is so awesome and I love her deeply and take that haters!

On a separate note, I kind of want to see a flashback with Reborn's reaction at the attack scene :| or a fic

[makeste.livejournal.com]

I still can't believe it. SURELY THEY MUST BE JOKING, RIGHT? This is Shounen Jump, main characters do not just up and get paralyzed, come on. D: The doctor had better be wrong. Or else they had better use their awesome Vongola Science to fix him afterward.

I love that it's all her, too. No Mukuro in sight. Hope it stays that way for a bit, no offense to any Mukuro fans.

Yeah, Reborn's so :| all the time that it's really hard to get a read on him. Fic would be nice. I'd have a go at it, except that these last couple chapters are kinda making me want to write angsty Yamamoto aftermath fic instead, GO FIGURE, HOW MYSTERIOUS.

[way2dawn]

Ahhhh Yamamoto please be able to walk again ;_;

Also, I don't really care much about Longchamp, so... yay suits again! Looking pretty sexy there, Vongola. And now that you mentioned it, I'm really liking that they look sleep-deprived, too, and really stressed out in the last 3 or 4 pages; it really does add to the realism.

[makeste.livejournal.com]

HE WILL. IT'S ALL JUST A CRUEL PLOY TO FRIGHTEN THE READERS. At least it had better be.

They are an attractive bunch. LET'S JUST DO THIS ENTIRE ARC IN SUITS. A good old fashioned suit arc. That's what this manga's really been needing. And yeah, I may just be reading way too much into it, but they really do seem to be way more tired and stressed than usual, Gokudera and Tsuna especially.

[dismahboomstick.livejournal.com]

CAN I JUST SAY FUCK YES TO LONGCHAMP, OMG. I also hope this isn't just a cameo! I need him back in my life like burning, so he needs be an amusing part of this plot or the next :/ and i really like pissing off the people who hate him, bitches.

Okay, i really want to see what Shitt P can do in a fight. She HAS to be able to do more than stand around being awesome, right? RIGHT???

In other news, i can only hope someone will be kidnapped and held in the highest room of the tallest tower in this castle. and that someone should be longchamp. or squalo as Rapunzel.

[makeste.livejournal.com]

I SECOND THIS FUCK YES. I kinda did get the "one page cameo to please the die-hard fangirls" vibe, unfortunately, but maybe Amano will surprise me as she does all too often. Either way, it was awesome to see him.

Shitt P probably has some sort of U.M.A. one-hit instant kill attack. I'm scared to imagine it.

HAHAHA. Now I really want Tsuna to fight bad guy after bad guy only to finally reach the tower and have some guy come out and tell him, "I'M SORRY, TSUNA, BUT YOUR PRINCESS IS IN ANOTHER CASTLE."

[amberrei.livejournal.com]

>I like that none of the guardians look like they got absolutely any sleep last night

I didn't notice this right off the bat °-°

>part of me is SO SAD that we couldn't have the usual accompanying panel of "Squalo! 8D" from our resident queer rain guardian

SO TRUE

This chapter is LOVEABLE. I felt kinda better. On the other hand I'm feeling awful, seeing Tsuna always on the verge of tears kinda breaks me. My hyper intuition says many angsty fanfictions will be born.

...I thought it would have been hard to follow Reborn chapter by chapter, waiting a whole week for each... I was kinda wrong. The fanbase is freakin' huge, so there's plenty of forum/ljs/whatever to discuss about chapters and episodes... the Rebotaku week goes like this:

-Wednesday: Spoiler Hunt on MangaHelpers, discussion
-Thursday-Friday: Chapter out!
-Friday night: Reborn episode on TV Tokyo.
-Saturday-Sunday: Subbed episode.
-Monday-Tuesday: Speculations.
-Any Day: fanfic/fanart/doujin search.

...XD a fan's always busy~

[ekmisao.livejournal.com]

I go through this kind of week for the last year or so.

[makeste.livejournal.com]

Chances are good I'm just totally reading too much into it, but it really did look to me like Tsuna and Gokudera had more lines under their eyes than usual. Tsuna's probably been crying a lot too. Poor kid. :(

And yeah, I get what you mean about feeling better but also not. This arc is working it on all sorts of levels.

And it is indeed the fandom that keeps on giving. |D Always something going on, heh.

[reana-camellia.livejournal.com]

-Wednesday: Spoiler Hunt on MangaHelpers, discussion
-Thursday-Friday: Chapter out!
-Friday night: Reborn episode on TV Tokyo.
-Saturday-Sunday: Subbed episode.
-Monday-Tuesday: Speculations.
-Any Day: fanfic/fanart/doujin search.


wai, it totally describes my life D8 *cry in the corner*

[felinaofl2.livejournal.com]

FUCK YES WE GET HOT MAFIA IN SUITS. Mmmm, eyecandy chapter~ And Tsuna gets a whole castle?! Best birthday mafia ceremony ever!

"He'll never walk again..." BULLSHIT. Yama is too awesome for that nonsense, sir.

I made a 8D face when Dino showed up and we heard that wonderful sound of VOOOOI... then squeed like mad when the Varia appeared (No Xanxus though- Amano, you cocktease!). Squalo and Dino immediately hauling Tsuna off to talk about how they miss their gay baseball boy the Illusion!Yama before leaving to go be gay together is one of the cutest and best scenes ever. :D

Also, is it just me or does Enma on page 12 have a total "Bitch, please!" vibe going on?

[makeste.livejournal.com]

I love love love that everyone is in suits. THE MAFIA TAKE THEIR BLACK TIE AFFAIRS SERIOUSLY. Everyone from the Varia to HIBARI HOLY SHIT. So awesome.

Indeed. I feel like someone should have told the doctor, "but ah, you do realize that he's YAMAMOTO FUCKING TAKESHI, right?" And then the doctor would have been like, "OOOOOHHHH, WELL WHY DIDN'T YOU SAY SO, MY MISTAKE, HE'LL BE JUST FINE," and that would have been the end of our worries.

Yeah, I love that they just... kidnapped him. And no one else could really do anything but stand there and make faces (lookin' at you, Gokudera).

AND HE TOTALLY DOES. That kid can hold a serious grudge. I like how Tsuna did not appear to notice a thing, either. Apparently his hyper intuition has an Enma-shaped blind spot.

[kat8cha.livejournal.com]

FMA is over! And ended happily! Sort of. XD

I... was trying to imagine Yamamoto sword fighting from a wheelchair. I... I tried really hard and couldn't do it. :( However, I doubt they'll put Yamamoto in a wheelchair. I'd like it if we had a few chapters of recovery however.

I also went 'OMG FUNERAL WREATH YAMAMOTO BACKSTORY RIGHT THERE'.

Dino should know Yamamoto pretty well. I know EVERYONE forgets it because it was Daily Life arc but YAMAMOTO DID LIVE WITH DINO FOR A SHORT WHILE.

>> The mafia probably DON'T bring their kids to things like this. Except the Vongola.

[makeste.livejournal.com]

SO I HEAR. I think I'm just gonna wait until Brotherhood finishes up and then marathon that. BUT ANYWAY.

Maybe they'll give him like a floating Professor Xavier hoverchair and he can do spins and backflips with it. I may or may not have pictured this several times over the past 24 hours and had a good lol each time. >_>

...he did go to Italy with Dino, that's right! TOTALLY SLIPPED MY MIND. I guess they had some vacation bonding fun times.

BUT I THOUGHT THE MAFIA BROUGHT THEIR KIDS TO EVERYTHING.

[rikasaurus.livejournal.com]

LONGCHAMP!!!! I have missed you, so. It's good to know that Amano didn't forget him after all....or maybe she did and had to cover it up by saying he's been skipping lol. OH GOD I HOPE HE BROUGHT A DATE.

And maaaaan. I missed Present!Day Dino with his pretty face and the Varia. Dino's hair looks less ridiculous.

I love how the illusions couldn't fool them, though. SQUALO KNOWS HIS PUPIL VERY WELL.

And ngl; I think Hibari's appearance really hints at 8018, but anyway....Glad he showed up on his own free will, I think xD

[makeste.livejournal.com]

I think she was pressured to cut him out of the manga and pretend like he never existed, but in the end she went, "SCREW THIS" and brought him back just to spite people. I LOVE HER FOR IT.

This manga just got a good deal prettier, it's true.

Haha, I was anticipating that moment with Squalo the instant I found out they'd have a fake Yama, and it more than lived up to expectations. ONE SENTENCE. IT TOOK EXACTLY ONE SENTENCE FOR SQUALO TO CLUE IN. Three words. That's pretty awesome.

Yamamoto is totally Hibari's favorite. Yamamoto is everyone's favorite.

[ekmisao.livejournal.com]

Chrome made a mistake that only the two tutors would be able to catch:

Squalo caught this: Yamamoto would NEVER put sword practice above baseball practice especially in peacetime. He would have said, "Ahehe, not really, there's no need for it at the moment, right?"

Dino likely caught this: almost all students don't say they've been practicing while the tutor is gone. Like himself with Reborn, and Tsuna with Reborn, it was more likely Yama would have said "Ahehe, not really, sorry teacher!". Tsuna or Dino would have said "Give me a break, Reborn! I've been through a lot already!" Hibari would have said he didn't care for practice.

Chrome, however, being the nice girl who finally found her own purpose for being with the group, would honestly have been practicing what Mammon and/or Mukuro have taught, and would honestly say so.

So they caught her by that answer and by being familiar with Mammon's tricks, not because Chrome was not convincing enough with the illusion.

But I swear seeing him like that just twists the knife in my heart...ouch...

[makeste.livejournal.com]

I love you for this analysis, I just want you to know. <3 I would have never given it this much thought, but you're right, it makes perfect sense that an answer like that would send up red flags in both of their minds. "WAIT A MINUTE HE ACTUALLY SAID HE WAS WORKING HARD, SOMETHING IS AFOOT."

And yeah, like I said, I found the whole thing kind of creepy, knowing that the real Yamamoto was back in the ICU while this illusion puppetted around. I know they had no choice, but it was still kind of, "Um..." XD

My icon is his "aww my boyfriend is a cripple" face

[mikenno.livejournal.com]

"Then Hibari shows up because his crowd senses were tingling, and says some vaguely 8018ish things"

Yeah.

Yeah.

I like 8018 okay

Re: My icon is his "aww my boyfriend is a cripple" face

[makeste.livejournal.com]

I too am somewhat fond of 8018, what with my shipping Yamamoto with everyone in the universe. And there were definitely undertones in this chapter. UNDERTONES.

[masanami.livejournal.com]

I loved this chapter but it kinda hurt my heart a bit. Yama-kun ;__;

[makeste.livejournal.com]

I am so in denial about Yamamoto's potential paralysis it's not even funny. LALALA OH YOU SILLY DOCTOR CLEARLY YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, HE IS GOING TO BE FINE. NOW LET'S ALL SING SONGS AND HOLD HANDS UNDER THE RAINBOW.

[amcw177.livejournal.com]

Wow. I'm surprised that this whole mist illusion plan thingy actually makes sense. I was banking on something horribly ridiculous but that... that might actually work. Reborn? I'm impressed.

Also, WHAT THE HELL YAMAMOTO?! This is like... OMG, imagine Yamamoto when he gets out of the hospital and he can't play baseball and all he can do is sit by the field and watch with his big puppy-dog eyes and still trying to be all 'HAHA It's okay, I can still watch and cheer, right?' about it but in reality he's broken and sad and and... I'm gonna go cry now.



The fact that the Varia are finally around makes me feel marginally better, though. And Gokudera's ponytail of pimptasticness. I love it. And Hibari. Hibari doesn't actually have to do anything. He just needs to be there and stare everyone down.

[flyby.livejournal.com]

OMG, imagine Yamamoto when he gets out of the hospital and he can't play baseball and all he can do is sit by the field and watch with his big puppy-dog eyes and still trying to be all 'HAHA It's okay, I can still watch and cheer, right?' about it but in reality he's broken and sad and and... I'm gonna go cry now.

fhjdklsfhdj omg D: *cries forever*

[morgrix.livejournal.com]

Hey, have you seen this:

maybe they are relatives

I'm pretty sure Yamamoto is at least 70 percent hotter in this version than in the original. Ryohei too.

Totally agree with that.

[makeste.livejournal.com]

Holy shit. They are incredibly similar-looking. XD

Absolutely. And to be clear, 70 percent is actually a conservative estimate. I'm almost positive it's way more than that.

[ojuzu.livejournal.com]

LONGCHAMP OH MY GOD YESSSSSSSS *:D forever*

I forgot he called them all -chan! That's so perfect, ahaha. ♥

Chrome got to do something! \o/ And she seems to have taken pains to make Yamamoto look even sexier than usual. Although that might just be the suit.

I love that, by the looks of it, the Varia arrived IN A FUCKING HELICOPTER. BECAUSE THEY'RE JUST THAT AWESOME. And Squalo, for some reason, is drawn in a really sketchy style -- though that's not a bad thing. (Did he always call everyone 'scum'? Or did he pick that up from Xanxus sometime while we weren't looking?) And I also love that he and Dino seem to be best buds now. |D

(Also, that side-view panel of you is really hot. I hope you adopt your ridiculously sexy TYL hairstyle soon.)

Quoting this for . . . um . . . no reason.

POOR LITTLE SHIMON FAMILY. :|

Ahahahaha. THEY ARE IN NO WAY SECRETLY STRONGER THAN THE VONGOLA GUARDIANS, WE SWEAR.

Tsuna hits on Enma some more

It never fails to amuse me that, no matter how much I love Kyoko and Haru, this is the closest thing to romantic interest Tsuna has ever shown.

it's almost as if there was some horrendous misunderstanding between the two of them that is now weighing heavily on all of their interactions and giving this conversation tragic and sinister undertones!

Gosh! I wonder what could have happened?

once again, Amano provides us with ample evidence that every single person in the mafia is butt-ugly except for Vongola and Friends.

All the pretty people are in the back, as is the lone female hitman we caught a glimpse of on the previous page. Or maybe this is the style this year -- you know, hire an illusionist to make you look like a balding middle-aged Gonk?

I would also like to state, for the record, I am in no way trying to write Tsuna/Xanxus femslash for au_bingo.

[makeste.livejournal.com]

LONGCHAMP MAKES EVERYTHING BETTER.

Yeah, it really is perfect. It's like he goes in there and does all those things so the fangirls can just live vicariously through him.

Like I said, at least 70 percent hotter. Chrome, you done good.

VARIA DON'T DO THINGS HALFWAY EITHER. And Squalo does have a habit of randomly and indiscriminantly insulting everyone he meets IIRC, though I'm not sure if "scum" was a favorite of his previously or not. It seems appropriate, though. And he really seems to have chilled out a lot. It's so awesome that he can just go hang out and be buds with Dino in spite of all of his usual tsuning and trying to kill people. That's Squalo for you.

Side-view Dino is a feast for the eyes.

THEY ARE THE REAL VICTIMS IN ALL OF THIS, CLEARLY.

Yeah, it's sweet that for once he can actually flirt talk with someone without freezing up and getting awkward. Maybe it's because Enma doesn't have boobs. Maybe the boobs scare him off. So failish, Tsuna.

WHAT HAPPENED IS THAT UNFORTUNATELY ENMA DOES NOT HAVE UNLIMITED TEXTING. So tragic, this could all have been avoided.

"Okay, all you attractive people, get in the back row now. We can't afford for you to draw attention away from the main character at this critical moment."

I would like to state that for the record, I may or may not find this very intriguing.