Reborn!, known in Japan as
Katekyō Hitman Reborn! (家庭教師ヒットマンREBORN! Katekyō Hittoman Ribōn!?, "Katekyō" being a portmanteau of Katei Kyōshi and translated as Home Tutor), is a Japanese
manga written and illustrated by
Akira Amano. The plot revolves around the life of a young boy named
Tsunayoshi Sawada, who finds out that he is next in line to become the boss of the most powerful
Mafia organization called Vongola, the
Vongola Family. As such, the Vongola's most powerful
hitman, a gun-toting infant named
Reborn, is sent to "tutor" Tsuna on how to become a respectable boss.
The individual manga chapters were serialized in Japan in
Shueisha's
Weekly Shōnen Jump from April 4, 2004 and ended in November 12, 2012 and have been published into forty-two
tankōbon volumes as of March 4, 2013.
Viz Media licensed the series for an
English language release in North America, shortening the series name to
Reborn!. An anime adaptation of the series by
Artland aired on
TV Tokyo between October 7, 2006 and September 25, 2010. There have also been various video games based on the series, as well as two
light novels by Hideaki Koyasu.
Reborn! has become one of the best-selling
Weekly Shōnen Jump manga with several of its volumes becoming top-sellers in Japan.
[3][4] Reviewers from the series praised its use of comedy as well as the designs used for the infant characters.
[5][6] They also mentioned that though it has become more violent since volume 8, it has turned into a more typical
shōnen series, praising the storylines and the fights.
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