Surprisingly, the manga actually scores a few points for that same lack of sound. In the audio department, one would expect the anime would be an obvious winner, mangas obviously not being equipped to convey sounds in any way, shape or form. Since most of the flames are pretty similar in shape, the lack of colour in the manga makes it difficult to recognize whose attack is striking who. Every person has one of the seven types of flames, each having a unique name, property, and a colour corresponding to the spectrum of the rainbow. The reason for is that in a certain part of the series, we are introduced to a power source known as the Dying Will Flames. The only downside here comes in the black and white format of manga, albeit being a main characteristic that defines mangas, is especially hindering in KHR‘s case. On the manga side, I can’t deny Akira Amano‘s skill at drawing, with characters and scenery being rather easily distinguishable, while most action shounen mangas tend to be confusing at times, with the inevitable myriads of increasingly flashier attacks and increasingly faster fighting moves. Graphically, the anime is pretty good-looking, with the more action-filled later parts being particularly well animated. Also, when the situation calls for it, Reborn can shoot Tsuna with a magical bullet called the Dying Will Bullet, which allows him to achieve superhuman feats, and later on becomes Tsuna‘s main source of power. Under Reborn‘s stern guidance, Tsuna must gather new members to be part of the Family, who will act as his Guardians, in order to help him in his path to becoming the next Vongola boss. His mission is to raise Tsuna from a failing drop-out to the next successor of the greatest mafia family, Vongola. His life is changed, when he is assigned a new home tutor, the infant hitman Reborn. We follow the life and adventures of Sawada Tsunayoshi, a good-for-nothing high school student, whose poor grades, lack of physique, and wimpy attitude earned him the moniker No-Good Tsuna. The story is mostly the same in both the anime and manga, the only difference being the order in which some episodes/chapters appear. Therefore, I will do this one as a double review, like a comparison between both mediums, giving the pros and cons of each. With that in mind, I feel it wouldn’t do justice to only make a review of either the anime or manga version of Katekyo Hitman Reborn. Katekyo Hitman Reborn‘s problem is the latter. While I do read a decent amount of manga, it’s usually only in the case the anime of said franchise stops following the manga, or is just simply cancelled. Having dubbed this blog Ani-manga Reviewz, I came to the realization that in order to fill its premise, I had to make manga reviews as well.
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