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Sawada Tsunayoshi ([personal profile] not_mafia) wrote in [community profile] paradisamemes 2013-07-23 07:57 pm (UTC)

Katekyo Hitman Reborn!

Is a series about talking mafia babies and people running around in their underwear with their heads on fire.

And occasionally drunken hedgehogs exploding into spiked balls of death.

Yeah, this is not the most ridiculous thing that happens in this series by far. It's a finished shonen manga that's 409 chapters in length which features an adorable, derpy loser of a boy who, come to find out within the first few chapters of the manga... is actually the last living heir to the most powerful family of the Mafia. Naturally this leads to his life being filled with far too much crazy and danger for his liking.

The series started out as a crack manga that parodied other shonen mangas, so the characters, especially the ones that get introduced in the beginning are ridiculously quirky and endearing. ... actually almost all the characters in this manga are quirky in some way. If you want a taste, there's: the baseball head that takes naivety to the extreme, a bomber who will chew anyone out but has an unhealthy hero worship of the protagonist, a cow suit-wearing crybaby who can turn himself into older versions of himself with a bazooka, and not to mention the mafia hitman baby who serves as Tsuna's tutor and puts him through absolutely ridiculous and extreme situations in order to prepare him for his role as a Mafia boss. Also, said mafia hitman baby regularly engages in cosplay, and can communicate with bugs. This does not even put a dent in all the weird and quirky characters this manga has.

It's a long read and some of the arcs kind of stretch on (lol future arc) but it's so worth it to meet the characters and watch their development. Not to mention, the people who rp in the fandom are fantastic. It's not overly popular like it used to be so I think the haters have left, for the most part, and now I play with people who are so amazingly creative and wonderful and make you fall even more in love with the characters you already loved and make you fall in love with characters who you never batted an eye at. We're a small group, but they're awesome people, seriously. <3

And here, have a gif:

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