The Slap-Pat Series

FIVE SLAPS / PATS

                                                    ON KATEKYO HITMAN REBORN

Before the entire male otaku population jumps at me for this, let me clarify to one and all, I am more of a shounen and seinen manga fan than the josei category which is apparently my target group so shut up and read.

‘Kateikyoushi Hitman Reborn’ translated to home tutor hitman reborn is one of the best-selling ongoing Weekly Shōnen Jump manga in Japan, illustrated and written by Akira Amano-sensei who is a female mangaka.

The plot revolves around young lad named Tsunayoshi Sawada, who finds out that he is the next in line to become the boss of the most powerful Mafia organization, 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.

I was told by a close friend to check out KHR late in 2007 but stalled till 2010 so from what I have deduced from the manga and anime, here are my five slaps.

1. A pat on the back to the voice actress of Sawada Tsunayoshi, Yukari Kokubun who still manages to make me giggle when she screams, “nnnooo” every time something goes comedically wrong in the series. 

2. A pat on the back to Akira-sensei for involving all the skulls on Gokudera. Though his personality is a bit tough to reckon with sometimes, he has the most aesthetically tasteful weapons in my opinion and yes, that includes the dynamite.

3. A slap on the cheek to Akira-sensei for turning the girls into maids. I know its shounen and yes, the culture of Japan is different but for heaven’s sake, the longest period since my personal boycott on the show, the only screen time Haru, Kyoko and Bianchi got was kitchen time. Surely the girls must be good at something rather than cooking and doing laundry.

4. A slap once more to the great Akira-sensei for making the only combative women extremely weak and frail , too young and possessing ridiculous abilities. To be more specific Chrome and I-pin and Bianchi. Okay future Bianchi and her scorpions are awesome but i can't stand poison cooking...again with the cooking. What's up with that?!

5. A pat on the back to Kenjiro Tsuda who used the same voice on three different characters in the show, now I’ll never be able to forget you or that smooth baritone .