Timoteo, the Vongola IX-the current head of the family-, sends Reborn, an infant hitman from Italy, to train the reluctant Tsuna. In Reborn! a boy, Tsunayoshi 'Tsuna' Sawada, is chosen to become the tenth boss of the Vongola Family, as he is the great-great-great grandson of the first Vongola boss-who moved to Japan from Italy. Reviewers praised its humor, storylines, fights and character designs, noting that the series grew more violent after volume eight, becoming a more typical shōnen series. Reborn! is one of the best-selling manga series of Weekly Shōnen Jump, with over 30 million tankōbon copies in circulation. Discotek Media later licensed the home video rights for the television series for subbed-only release.

Viz Media only published the first sixteen volumes, with the last one being released in July 2010. In North America, Viz Media licensed the manga and the streaming rights for the television series for English release. A number of video games, light novels, and other products were also created based on the series. It was serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump from May 2004 to November 2012, with its chapters collected into 42 tankōbon volumes.Īn anime television series adaptation by Artland was broadcast on TV Tokyo from October 2006 to September 2010, and ran for 203 episodes. The Vongolas' most powerful hitman, a gun-toting infant named Reborn, is sent to teach Tsuna how to be a boss. It follows Tsunayoshi Sawada, a young boy who discovers that he is next in line to become boss of the Vongola family, a powerful Mafia organization. Reborn!, known in Japan as Katekyō Hitman Reborn! ( Japanese: 家庭教師ヒットマンREBORN!, Hepburn: Katekyō Hittoman Ribōn! ), is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Akira Amano.

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