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That's 11 times 29!1. What... is this cover page, exactly. Because to me, it looks for all the world like a picture of D. Spade and Chrome as 12-year-olds. XD And okay, yes, Chrome always looks approximately 12 years old, but Spade is supposed to be a fully grown man! Actually, something like 150 years past full grown! So needless to say, this is a bit disconcerting.
That said, he looks hot as all get out and I want to rip that jacket right off of him. To steal it for myself, I should clarify. Not as foreplay or anything. It's just, damn that is one nice coat.
BY THE WAY, ARE BOY BOOTS SUPPOSED TO HAVE HEELS, because it looks to me like... oh, never mind.
2. MEANWHILE BACK ON THE MOTHERFUCKING BOAT, the Ninth is standing around staring intently at a porthole, and unless I miss my mark here, it almost seems like Ganauche is implying that he's been doing this for the past four days. To me this is the most hilarious thing in the world. I am picturing this time-lapse montage of him just standing there while the sun rises and sets and rises and sets in the background, and I'm just cracking up so hard. BUT ANYWAY. Apparently things in Namimori hospital are going well, which, what?? Are the Nonos the ones responsible for siccing the Marshmallow Man on our unsuspecting Rain Guardian?? Or is Ganauche just totally bullshitting and he actually has no idea what the fuck is going on in the hospital and when he finally does send his guys to check things out later today they're going to be like, "ohhhhhhhhh shit we are so fucked"?
And they've also discovered that all seven Simon kids lost their families early on. This is all that they've discovered in the past four days, apparently. I would now like to reiterate just how lame the Ninth Vongola generation is and how deeply, deeply ashamed of themselves they should be, forever.
3. One major bombshell they actually did discover though--it sounds to me like CEDEF actually was responsible for whatever the hell happened to Enma's family. :O :O :O FLOOD OF BLOOD? JUST HOW MUCH PSYCHIATRY IS ENMA GOING TO NEED ONCE THIS IS ALL SAID AND DONE, because I swear to God new and freakier details just keep cropping up every damn week.
4. Back in Chateau de Simon, Enma is having horrifying dreams that hopefully won't result in him flying to Tatooine and killing all the Sand People. I had wondered whether Mami was an older or younger sibling, and it appears now that she was his baby sister, which falls right in line with the pattern of things getting increasingly terrible with every new detail we learn.
With that said, I am immensely grateful to Adelheid for being all hand-holdey and motherly and soothing and basically doing everything I wanted to do but can't because I, unlike Enma, actually exist in the real physical world and am incapable of interacting with a cartoon character! THANK YOU, ADELHEID.
Best of all, once she's done fretting over baby boss's situation and thinking angry thoughts about Nametwin, she decides that now is as good a time as any to remember that oh yeah SHE KIND OF KICKS ASS. AND IT'S ABOUT TIME. That's all I can say about that.
5. Back in the middle of nowhere, things have taken quite an awkward turn for our favoritest Storm Guardian, since Tsuna is now depressed beyond all reason and Reborn is sulking because for once he wasn't able to solve all of his problems with violence. Which leaves Gokudera responsible for keeping Lambo in line, which has never been a task for the faint of heart. On top of that, he's fretting about Tsuna of course, but he does that 24/7 anyway, so.
Thankfully this massively depressing scene is randomly interrupted by A HELICOPTER IN THE MIDDLE OF THE WOODS OUT OF NOWHERE. Thank you, helicopter! Of course, you don't seem to have actually affected Tsuna's mood in any way whatsoever, but A for effort! At least you got him talking about his feelings again, which is a step in the right direction, I say.
6. b-bawwww. ;_;
OF COURSE, ALL OF THIS IS STUFF WE ALREADY KNEW AND SAW COMING AND SOME OF US WROTE A LONG ESSAY ABOUT IT JUST LAST WEEK, but even so, man. Even so. ;____________;
7. Wow, Gokudera actually had more faith in Tsuna's dad than Tsuna did. That's pretty sad. But again, not in the least surprising. (Also I think Gokudera is more inclined to think favorably of other people's dads because as long as they're not poisoning their kids or driving their mothers off of cliffs--yeah that turned out to be a misunderstanding but still!--they automatically score higher than his own father.)
Anyway, I digress. So Tsuna knew Enma wasn't lying because he could feel the truth emanating from his fists!! Or something. But Reborn is concerned about something else entirely. He has a strong hunch that there's some dark shadow behind the Simon! Okay, all I can say to the entire Vongola family at this point is: GET. THERE. FASTER. Please. XD
8. Cannot be said enough: Daemon is a fucking creep. To the highest degree possible. I don't think I've ever truly wanted a KHR character to die a horrible fiery death before but this fucking guy cannot get killed off fast enough to satisfy me. Ugh. I'm still undecided if this means Amano is actually doing a good job with him or not.
9. Are they just walking around on the same path in circles?? Anyway, Gokudera feels uneasy about the dark shadow Reborn was talking about earlier, possibly because out of everyone in this group, he's the one who hates Mukuro-types the most. Or maybe it's just because it's a fucking dark shadow and YOU'RE FUCKING SUPPOSED TO FEEL UNEASY ABOUT IT. This is apparently obvious day in Vongolaland.
By the way, this has absolutely nothing to do with anything, but you have no idea how giddy I am about the fact that finally, finally, the Vongola have run out of so many shoulders that Reborn is forced to sit on Gokudera's. XDDD You just know he's going to jump ship the instant anyone else comes along, but for now the little bastard has no choice! No choice! HAHA, WE FINALLY WORE YOU DOWN.
Perhaps to celebrate this event, Adelheid's boobs have arrived to challenge the Vongola to a duel of pride! As Reborn so shrewdly observes, this is bad and there is a distinct possibility that they might just all be screwed. IF ONLY THERE WAS SOME CHARACTER WE HAD LONG AGO FORGOTTEN ABOUT WHO HAD RECENTLY ARRIVED ON THE ISLAND IN A HELICOPTER AND WHO IS UNIQUELY SUITED TO BATTLE THIS PARTICULAR CHARACTER.
10. SAY, NOW! MY GOODNESS GRACIOUS! WHOEVER COULD THAT BE.
Why, it's... Kusakabe! Wearing sunglasses! Our hero has arrived!!!
Oh yeah, and also this guy. I REMEMBER HIM. Hibird, right? How could I have forgotten that adorable little face? Well, Hibird, I wish you the best of luck in your fight against Adelheid, though I feel it's only fair to confess that Enma aside, Adelheid is totally my favorite Simon guardian and I may or may not actually be rooting for her at this point whoops. >_>
Oh, but Hibird, when you get a chance, do please ask that guy who sometimes follows you around JUST WHERE HE WAS AND WHAT THE HELL HE WAS DOING FOR THE PAST HOWEVER-MANY-IT-WAS CHAPTERS, JESUS. "Oh, I thought you meant the other mysterious island in the middle of nowhere governed by a mysterious mafia family with a blood grudge against the Vongola. My bad."
Seriously.
On a separate note, it's still a couple of weeks till New Year's but I've already decided that I'm going to make it one of my resolutions to be more consistent about comment replies. I've gotten so bad in the past few months, it's ridiculous. I just let everything pile up and then I get all discouraged whenever I log in because there's so much to get to and I don't have the energy to do it all but then I feel like an ass for just ignoring people, especially since you guys are all so awesome and leave detailed comments that point out stuff I hadn't noticed and raise really interesting points that I want to discuss. But I just get lazy and intimidated. ;;
So my new goal is to get to at least 3 comments a day, since I figure even someone as lazy as I am can't possible be intimidated by that many! START SMALL AND WORK MY WAY UP. That's the new plan. XDb
PHPPSMSS LIVES AGAIN
Gokudera's fight - exceed expectations (seriously, I wasn't expecting such strategy, tactics and insight to Gokudera's loyalty. Shitt P's character was beyond awesome.)
Letdown - Popping balloons to determine Vendice homestay(wth?) & Gokudera's battle armour is ... X_X What's with the glasses and a cigarette to light the dynamites is ... frankly speaking lame(yeah, yeah. I'm putting my head in the line of fire with all the Gokudera fans here)
Byakuran's appearance - ... what? Sorry, I wasn't one of those who was cheering for his appearance. He was supposed to be dead damnit.
Tsuna VS Enma - slightly exceeding expectations (Tsuna's dad being accused of murder was gold. FINALLY. Something resembling mafia in KHR, well other than the use of guns during the inheritence ceremony).
Letdown - Again, Tsuna looks a bit ugly.
Daemon & Chrome - beyond expectations (am holding my comments for this one)
Note: Was Amano trying to provide immense fanservice? People are like going 'more explicit! More I say!'
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So all in all, the plot is moving forward (thank god) though I still found it highly stupid to have such exaggerated powerups for Ryohei and Lambo.
Short comment on this chappie:
Tsk Makeste, I notice you like to flip-flop a lot *wags fingers* One moment, the ninth and guardians utterly fail during the inheritence ceremony. Then with a face palm, they were forgiven. And now, they are condemned again. For all you know, they will be redeemed again with the ninth sticking his tounge out or something.
Makeste, you MUST BE FIRM (like me, lol). I don't forgive stupidity so easily. MUAHAHA. In my opinion, their flaws are just piling without any room for redemption. The ninth familinga must have gone senile.
And Hibari is OOC here! He came to their aid so EAGERLY ( That look on his face is foreign damnit! That's not smirking! That's sugar high!)in a helicopter!
REBORN LIKE AN INTERNET PHOENIX! Welcome back!
The nerd in me delights in the fact that you used a Harry Potter grade for this, regardless of whether it was intentional or not. |D
a cigarette to light the dynamites is ... frankly speaking lame
But... that's what he always used the cigarettes for! XD And at least this one doesn't give him bad breath and cancer, so yeah, I am kind of partial toward it sob.
We've known for a while that Byakuran wasn't dead, though; he was in the epilogue of the Future Arc that appeared in whichever manga volume (I forget now XD), and also aired in the anime. Apparently Tsuna only killed the future Byakuran, and the present-day Byakuran was then taken into custody by the Vongola who locked him away on a mysterious island in the middle of nowhere (say, that sounds familiar, HOW MANY MYSTERIOUS ISLANDS ARE THERE IN THIS MANGA, my goodness). I'm assuming this means he's either escaped, or the Nonos have actually set him loose on Yama for reasons only their senile old brains can fathom.
Totally agree about Tsuna vs Enma. Of course, it's a given that I'd be hyped over that situation because Tsuna's dad being accused of murdering Enma's family is the single angstiest thing that's happened in this manga since Gokudera's angsty flashback of angst that later turned out to not be true. Makes me wonder if this will have an anticlimactic ending as well, but hey, in the meantime I'm loving this.
Note: Was Amano trying to provide immense fanservice?
Either that or she was trying to creep everyone out beyond all reason. THE JURY IS STILL OUT.
Lol, and you're right about my flip-flopping; I do change my mind a lot. But hey, that's not always a bad thing! I am flexible and my opinions can be easily swayed by persuasive arguments and/or hilarious facepalms. I have accepted this, and if the Ninth ever does stick his tongue out... well, it depends on the context, but there is indeed a good chance that I will grant him total amnesty once again. UNTIL THE NEXT FAILURE and so on and so on. Okay, yeah, I'm really damn fickle. XD
Haha, as for Hibari, to be fair he just had an awesome helicopter ride and now he gets to fight the person who was all up in his face before challenging his Discipline Committee authority. If that doesn't put him on cloud nine, nothing ever well.