makeste | This chapter really makes me want to try out that one smiley all the cool kids are using.

:'D That one. Am I doing it right? I mean, both laughing and crying, it looks like. Which, given the material Amano provided this week, seems highly appropriate.

1. Amano's cover pages have often reduced me to a foolish babbling state, be it because of her dazzling coloring skills, her WTF character fashion choices, or her unparalleled ability to convey budding romance between innocent young men. That said, this week's cover truly is on a whole different level. Chapter 310: Lambo! Lambo! Lambo! Featuring sleeping-yet-somehow-drinking-from-a-spilled-cup!Lambo, eating-his-sandbox!Lambo, giddy-with-barely-restrained-excitement!Lambo, drew-a-face-on-a-potato-and-gave-it-a-fedora!Lambo, clearly-stoned-out-of-his-mind-and-staring-at-the-cover-text!Lambo, got-hung-out-to-dry!Lambo, God-Chrome-what's-your-problem-I'm-just-trying-to-stretch-your-skirt-out-to-an-actual-decent-length!Lambo, poop-artist!Lambo, thar-she-blows!Lambo, and last but not least, omg-it's-a-beetle-I-must-chase-it-sans-my-pants!Lambo. FEATURING LITTLE BOY PENIS.

THAT'S RIGHT, FOLKS.

After years of toeing the NSFW line with unbearably sexy fourteen-year-olds and the occasional Shamal, Julie, and/or Dino, this manga has officially reached the level of COULD GET YOU ARRESTED FOR HAVING IT ON YOUR HARD DRIVE.

AMANO. I'M SO PROUD OF YOU. I guess. Since I really don't know what other reaction to have. XD

2. Anyway, so when we last left off, Gokudera and Tsuna had fallen down a hole only to stumble upon Large, who for some reason is cosplaying as the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, and Lambo, who for some reason is cosplaying as a cow. Oh, right.

Nice landing, Reborn! I really like Gokudera's expression in that last panel. It's like he suddenly had a moment of surreal realization: "Huh. So this is my life." Yep.

3. Damn! Of all the rocky cave blobs to stumble into, we had to pick the one that was load-bearing! CURSE YOU, CONVENIENT CAVE ARCHITECTURE.

Actually, I have to call bullshit on this one. Tsuna's capable of blasting craters a quarter-mile wide (disclaimer: there is no reference for this whatsoever; it's just my ballpark estimate), so all he'd have to do is disintegrate the entire fucking ceiling. PROBLEM SOLVED. Seriously. I'm pretty sure the only reason he didn't think of this himself is because he was too thrown off by the fact that Large actually talked. :O

4. Hell, he's not just talking, he's in full-blown exposition mode. Adelheid must have finally let him borrow some of whatever super-coffee she's always drinking.

SPEAKING OF HYPER-CAFFEINATED CHILDREN, if only Lambo were as exhausted as a normal five-year-old would be in the middle of the fucking night after a full day of hiking and watching friends get sucked into black oblivion. I can't help but feel like this apparent sugar high is Gokudera's fault. You just had to give him six different types, didn't you? Never could do things halfway.

--oh shit. And so the violence begins. D:

5. Does anyone get the feeling that Lambo's ability to differentiate between when someone really likes him and when someone really does not like him is almost as warped as Julie's?

I do have to give Large this much credit: He's at least bothering to try and explain the whole situation to Lambo first. That's more than, say, Aoba would probably do.

Of course, then he goes and announces his intention to "blood-bathe" Lambo, so maybe his dickishness levels aren't so far off from his buddies' after all.

6. MAGIC HAIR! An ability of Lambo's we haven't seen in quite some time! Watch and be amazed as he removes a veritable treasure trove of items presumably retrieved from the back of an old station wagon! Also far, far too many dead bugs.

And I feel like someone should just take this entire page and turn it into a demotivational poster.

In fact.

There.

7. OF ALL THE THINGS TO PROMPT HIS RING TRANSFORMATION FFFFF.

AND SPEAKING OF SAID TRANSFORMATION

I'M REALLY NOT SURE WHAT TO THINK ABOUT THIS.

...Oh, who am I kidding. You just know his future selves will find some improbable way to make it look cool.

8. Aww, he made Gokudera proud. |D

AND WHAT DO YOU MEAN "TOO TIGHT", LAMBO, YOU WEIGH LIKE FOUR POUNDS, HOW COULD ANYTHING EVER POSSIBLY BE TOO TIGHT ON YOU.

Wait, so Lambo's "pride" is not losing a sumo match? What??

--AND OH, FOR THE LOVE OF... 8(

9. "He's dead." Lol. Oh, Large. Your naivete is almost charming. YOU'RE IN A MANGA, DEAR.

Wait a sec, that "yare, yare" sounds familiar! Could it be...!

10. It is! TYL!Lambo! *_* It's been so long! And you done got hotter, son! Even Reborn is all jaw agape at the sight of you. YOU MADE REBORN HAVE AN EXPRESSION, WHAT KIND OF VOODOO ARE YOU WORKING.

Haha, awesome. So I presume next week Lambo will invent some sort of on-the-fly BS about how he technically appeared before his younger self touched the ground outside of the ring. And then this shit is on with a guy roughly the size of Donkey Kong! As long as it doesn't turn out to be a retread of the Thunder Ring Battle (DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT, AMANO), I'm pretty sure this fight will kick some kind of ass.

And before I go, Happy Birthday,

snowpoison (or almost, in this timezone, anyway)! Hope you have an awesome day. ♥ Also, just a general heads up, I'm going to be even flakier about comments than usual ~~which is saying something~~ for the next few days, seeing as I am fighting off a monster of a cold which may be partially responsible for my finding this chapter as amusing as I did. YAY COLD MEDS. |D

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1- This cover page. I think you pretty much covered everything about how amazingly ridiculous it is. Oh Lambo, I love you.

2- I feel like Gokudera's learning so much in this arc. ~~That he already should have realized anyway but.~~ ...Part of me feels like it's cause he has no Yama to distract him from everything..=c

3- But...if he broke the ceiling it would fall on top of them wouldn't it? o.o The whole thing's still pretty silly though

4- Large THREW HIM ON THE GROUND. Sorry, I- I had to D8

6- That poster. LMAO.

7- He's five, his priorities are gonna be pretty warped pfffft And. Why did I not expect a helmet?

8- It's all that afro that can't fit into one place that makes it too tight D8 (Here's to hoping TYL!Lambo's head isn't too big!)

10- It's been...more than a hundred chapters, hasn't it? And the last time we saw him it was for like 3 panels....damn I missed him 8D I hope all that dinosaur ass kicking had an affect on his older self!

And feel better soon! &hearts

1. It definitely has to be in my top ten (...well, top twenty) covers, just for the sheer ridiculousness factor. I LOVE YOU, AMANO--AND YOU TOO, LAMBO.

2. You make a good point about him having to cover for Yamamoto's absence. So in addition to losing his temper and bitching about things (his usual job), he also has to make adorable faces and cheer people on (Yamamoto's usual job). He's gaining lots of valuable experience, that's for sure.

3. If he broke apart the ceiling it would fall and squish them, yes. But if he completely disintegrated it, there'd be nothing left to fall on them. And given what we've seen his latest and greatest X Burner do in the past, I think he's more than capable of vaporizing the whole thing. Maybe the counter flame that he uses to stabilize himself would cause too much damage before he could get off a decent shot, though.

7. He hasn't gotten much better at prioritizing even ten years later, apparently. I did lol at that, I admit. XD

10. Yeah, aside from the one-panel cameo at the end of the Future Arc (at least, I assume he was there; don't feel like making the effort to actually go back and check, lol), he hasn't shown up since his TYL!self swapped out along with I-Pin, Kyoko, and Haru all the way back at the beginning of the Future Arc. Which means it's been like three years. Damn.

And thanks! I do feel much better now. :)

1- Pffft yes. It makes me feel so many things at once.

2- Yeah, the lack of Yamamoto seems to be helping everyone's character out a bit (if you include having seen more serious!Ryohei and everything Yama's learned from being taken down like that as well).

3- ..True, yeah, it'd make more sense if he tried to just burn out the whole thing. HMMM. (Even if it would be too risky, I think it should be more like:
Tsuna: Maybe...I can try to burn the whole roof before it falls!
Reborn: No stupid, we could all die if you try that.

..Seems like a more like them than just letting Lambo fight like that.)

10- Yeah. And I don't think we'll get much time with him, unless Amano makes this a long fight, but considering the last 4 chapter fight we got...*cringe*

Yay, glad to hear that c8

This chapter really makes me want to try out that one smiley all the cool kids are using.

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