KHR 388: The Gritty Angst Reboot

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

KHR 388: The Gritty Angst Reboot

I’VE BEEN ANTICIPATING THIS ALL WEEK. REBORN, OLD FRIEND, TELL US WHAT WE CAN EXPECT TO SEE IN THIS CHAPTER.

…you really know how to kill the mood, do you know that.

dfslkj YOU GUYS. ENOUGH ALREADY WITH THE PILLOW TALK, YOU OVERPOWERED EGOMANIACS. Thank God Amano didn’t put all of this at the end of last week’s chapter or I would have had the world’s worst case of blue balls and I don’t even have balls.

well that’s never good

—IS HE CONCERNED OH MY GOD REBORN IS CONCERNED. Shit.

…is he threatening Reborn by threatening Tsuna’s life? *SITS UP STRAIGHTER*

Instead of making an announcement that you’re about to attack, and then narrating your attack strategies in real time as you go along?? Sir, what you’re proposing is madness. This is a shounen manga, Bermuda, and we have RULES. AND OUR FIRST RULE IS, SCREW THE RULES. Now take your logic, and get the hell out of my KHR.

does anyone remember when he used to be adorable

What a long, long time ago that was.

This hideout, man. It really is the lair that has it all. Wall sconces, towering platforms in telepathy-proof rooms, Arcobaleno-themed cave drawings, and apparently it’s even hooked up to the Floo Network. Just remember not to sneeze when you say “Namimori”, Tsuna, or with your luck you’ll end up somewhere in Nambia. Probably in the middle of a wildebeest stampede.

Oh my god. No. CHAPTER, ARE YOU REALLY GOING TO GO THERE. OH MY GOD I WAS NOT PREPARED. I NEED TISSUES AND A PILLOW TO HUG AND ABSORB MY TEARS.

AND ALSO, POPCORN.

WHAT HAPPENED TO BELIEVING IN ME WHO BELIEVES IN YOUUUU oh my god I was not prepared for this. NOBODY TOLD ME THERE WOULD BE FEEEEEEEEEELS

DID HE JUST SAY TSUNA EARNED A PASSING GRADE. REBORN. REBORN, WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING, YOU CAN’T GRADUATE TSUNA, SURE THE KID HAS BEEN LOOKING PROMISING LATELY BUT HE CAN STILL BARELY TIE HIS OWN SHOES. AND WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU IMPLYING BY ALL OF THIS.

—fuck he just got all fatalistic and left. REBORN WHAT IS THIS. YOUR ANGST, IT IS HYPNOTIC. IT’S LIKE FUCKING YAMAMOTO ANGST, I CAN’T GET ENOUGH ALL OF A SUDDEN.

TSUNA STOP MAKING FACES I CAN’T I CAN’T I CAN’T

No need to beat around the bush, almighty exposition square. We all know Gokudera and Yamamoto are the ones who were sent to the hospital (QUICK REBORN, GO AND ASK THEM IF THEY LOVE EACH OTHER), whereas the Kokuyous all got shuttled back to their ghetto hideout in No Man’s Land because that’s just how they roll. Mukuro, your health plan sucks.

What’s that, Fon? Mammon saved the day? Say that again, please? MAMMON SAVED THE DAY. All right, easy there guy, I heard you just fine the first time, actually. I just wanted to hear it again because it was pleasing. In fact, you know what, go ahead and say it one last time. Who saved the day? Mammon? YES, OKAY, THAT IS VERY GOOD.

WHAT ABOUT YOUR FRIENDS WHO ARE IN THE HOSPITAL AND WHO YOU HAVEN’T SEEN IN A MONTH? Oh wait, that was us. We haven’t seen them in a month. Well anyway, what about them?!

NOBODY CARES. FUCK THAT GUY. Though on the other hand, Tsuna going home to say hi to his pop will invariably lead to more scenes of him having daddy issues. Which is important. Daddy issues, or Gokudera and Yamamoto… shit, why must I choose.

And meanwhile, Tsuna is just standing there having two pages of flashbacks to a conversation he literally JUST FINISHED HAVING. Normally I’d be pissed off that Amano wasted two whole pages of space going over something we only just saw LAST WEEK, but I have to admit that in this case, I understand why she did it. Last week this was brand new information and we were all too busy processing it and (in my case anyway) being shocked ourselves to reflect on the impact that it has on the characters. Here, we get to relive it again from Tsuna’s perspective.

YEP. ‘BOUT SUMS IT UP THERE. Pretty big fucking dilemma, the chapter was quite aptly named.

FEELS ATTACK IMMINENT IN THREE… TWO…

ONE

*EXPLODES*