Dispatches from the front

(The manga front, since I’m attempting to ignore the political front, having done my part and having no wish to expire from nerves.)

On Lynn’s instigation, I am reading Katekyou Hitman Reborn. Of course, first I got her to tell me when the initial underwear shenanigans stops and the real action starts. My recommendation to other people picking this up: read the first handful of issues; if you can’t stand it, skip straight to issue 60 and start from there, possibly pausing to read the Wikipedia entries first so you know who’s who. So, onward.

Have finished the first Mukuro arc. Agree he’s shaping up to be an interesting character.

Love Hibari best, though.

Much more fond of inward!Tsuna than berserk!Tsuna, but I’m known to like the quietly dangerous ones best, see above re Hibari.

Reborn kind of grows on you.

This is a pretty dark story, despite aforementioned shenanigans. Lots of blood and violence, and I understand it ramps up too. So far it’s in the process of not-too-uneven fights, though, so it’s not hitting my ultra-squicks.

Death to Funimation, death I say, and to the Japanese company who wanted to suppress fansubs before licensing. Don’t they have any idea how to work the market?

Hoping for more Hibari.