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

[makeste]

:'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

Comments

[daigranon.livejournal.com]

That cover page. I stared at it for a moment and was like, "She didn't...that isn't...it is."

Feel better, btw! *hugs*

PLEASE EXCUSE MY CAPSLOCK. IT WAS A DARE /SOB

[rikasaurus.livejournal.com]

1. THE COVER PAGE WAS GOLDEN, BUT...LAMBO'S BABY DONG CAUGHT ME OFF GUARD. GOOD THING NO ONE WAS AROUND WHEN I SAW IT LOL

2. LOL STAY PUFT MARSHMALLOW MAN. HE DOES LOOK PRETTY....SPECIAL.

5. GEE. SAYING YOU'RE GONNA TURN A 5 OR 6 OR EVEN 7 (HOWEVER OLD HE IS. IDEK ANYMORE) YEAR-OLD INTO A BLOOD BATH IS A BIT...MUCH :/ I STILL THINK THE WAY LARGE SORT OF SWITCHED UP JUST LIKE THAT WAS A BIT MUCH, SINCE IT SEEMED LIKE HE REALLY LIKED LAMBO. ENMA, I CAN UNDERSTAND, BUT THE REST OF THE SHIMON? NOT SO MUCH.

6. LMFAO THAT POSTER.

7. FIRST, HIM SCREAMING 'PLAY WITH ME' MADE ME THINK OF THAT KID IN THE EVIL STRAWBERRY VIDEO. SECOND, I THINK HIS UPGRADE IS AWESOME, AND HE LOOKED QUITE ADORABLE IN IT XD

8. IT'S TOO TIGHT BECAUSE HIS HEAD IS HUGE.

10. TYL!LAMBO, HOW WE'VE ALL MISSED YOU SO. I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE HOW THE REST OF THIS BATTLE TURNS OUT. I REALLY ENJOYED THIS CHAPTER.

[part-b.livejournal.com]

That cover page... what has been seen, etc.

[reana-camellia.livejournal.com]

:'D <- but i all this time thought that symbol in the middle is meant to be nose... so am i wrong? D:

[portrayedas.livejournal.com]

I was staring at the big Lambo in the middle of the cover page and wondering what that sign on him was/meant and then I realized it was his penis a couple minutes later and then I kept staring at it horror...

Appropriate icon is appropriate.

[demoerin.livejournal.com]

BAHAHAHAHA THE DEMOTIVATIONAL. Love it.

Adelheid must have finally let him borrow some of whatever super-coffee she's always drinking.
*snerk*

Gokudera's proud face is adoooorable. As is his crushed face when Large blasts Lambo the second time.

Wait, so Lambo's "pride" is not losing a sumo match? What??
Maybe it's more like "omg Large will play with me after all I AM STILL LOVED?? LET'S PLAY!" TYL Lambo will probably bring the real pride.

I was SHOCKED about Reborn having a facial expression! It's ... sort of endearing? So this is where the Lambo/Reborn shippers are coming from.

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.
TYL Lambo used one horn as a pick to anchor himself on the rock stand. On the previous page, I guess it was chunks of rock that made the dust cloud on the ground? Anyway, there's also a dust cloud where Lambo hung on.

[morgrix.livejournal.com]

That cover page is Lambo Love!!! I have this mixed feelings about him, haha, I couldn't endure him for sure! XD

I'm also happy to see YYL!Lambo! I missed him!!! I want more hints about the future!!! But I don't know if he will have time to give us that... :'D

I was gaping like more than so many Basils and a colony of flies was having a blast

[phppsmss.livejournal.com]

I swear only Lambo has that effect on me. This chapter - excluding the initial KHR crackish chapters - was the most idiotic, spastic and retarded chapter I've ever read. And I don't even mean it as an insult, as Lambo is the embodiment of such idioticity. If he is anything but, Lambo won't be Lambo but an OOC.

My mouth was literally hanging off its hinges when lambo's head was stuck with his er... power ranger helmet (well I was dead against it at for the first couple of minutes - having 5 yr old Lambo to model anything is just an epic FAIL - but when 10 yl Lambo modeled it, the helmet looked badass). He looked dead ugly, and the level of retardedness rose a notch higher - if it is even possible. Well at least that gives me a sense lambo's body size - he is as large as a helmet. Definately malnourished.

And the saddest thing is that this chapter alone beats Ryohei's previous chapters of crap - ahem punching mania. Sorry Ryohei, typical Shonen guys who just punch, or get punched, mindlessly with only ONE one-hit do or die KO move just doesn't cut it.

[ojuzu.livejournal.com]

You know, it's kind of nice to see Tsuna's eyes all bugged out again. Even though we may be in a serious arc right now, it's evident that Amano will never forget her roots. Her roots of one-year-old hitmen jumping onto the heads of teenage boys.

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 kind of wonder about his life pre-Vongola. I mean, he must have had some pretty screwed-up parents if they gave him something like the Ten-Year Bazooka at the age of five.

Also, I feel really bad for laughing at Lambo's bugged-out eyes.

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

I KNOW RIGHT. I mean, hell, he is smaller than Large's head. And that's with all the weird shit he keeps in his hair.

It's been so long! And you done got hotter, son!

Ahaha, YES. My first thoughts on seeing the explosion were I'll just bet a) that's TYL!Lambo in that cloud of smoke, and b) he will somehow be even hotter than last time we saw him. And lo, I am correct! XD

I hope your cold gets better soon. Those things are hell, bb. (Also, tea. Drink lots of tea.)

[smilypie.livejournal.com]

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

[way2dawn]

1. THAT COVER OH MY GOD. JUST... WHAT.

3. There was going to be an excuse why the others couldn't fight, anyway, so while it was really obvious that it was an excuse, I just shrugged.

7. It makes sense, given his attacks, I think.

8. Another way we get to see how the Future Arc made everyone mature a little.

10. TYL!Lambo! Woo! I'm excited to see the fight ^_^

[kuliise.livejournal.com]

The cover page was a surprise. 8'DD I did a double take when I saw...yeah. orz

YES TYL!LAMBO 8DDD

[windgoddess688.livejournal.com]

aaah Japan, if I hadn't have lived in you for a year I would have been slightly put off by that child pecker in the center, but all is understood XD

Wait, Reborn actually CAN SHOW THE EMOTION OF SURPRISE?! I THINK THE ONLY MORE EPIC FACE THAN THAT ONE WAS IN THE ANIME WHEN LUCHE CALLED HIM OUT AND WAS LIKE :BITCH EAT MAH DAMN COOKIES THAT I MADE FOR YOU MOFO'S! (well, something like that....i might have been paraphrasing)

*hugs* I send you healthy thoughts and campbell's soup and tylenol and-and gatorade! yeah, gatorade! rest well :D

[storm-obsession.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Reborn's expression to seeing Lambo's...appearance was rather shocking. And that was MY reaction to his expression.

[animenutcase.livejournal.com]

Nice to know I'm not the only one who was surprised to see surprised Reborn.

I am kind of disappointed that Large wasn't pressing a button when they dropped in. Just watch, in a few minutes there's going to be beeping and the button will be outside the ring and Large'll be like "SONOVA-"