This is not the manga that I married!!
KHR! It's like I don't even know you anymore!!
1. Oh God most epic reaction panel page ever. There are, count them, 21 different reaction shots, and every single one of them is trauma-faced. ALL OF THEM. Even Mukuro, Xanxus, Squalo, and Hibari look horrified. EVEN BYAKURAN, though obviously for different reasons. I've never seen so many characters express exactly what I was feeling (well, what I was feeling at the end of the last chapter, anyway) in my life.
This page also rather painfully highlights the similarities in a few of Amano's character designs, because, uh. For a good thirty seconds there, I stared and stared but could not be quite sure exactly which character was Gokudera. XD I'M STILL NOT QUITE SURE...?? Is that him or is it Basil? GD AMANO. Way to make me feel like a terrible fangirl. XD
2. Oh sweet Jesus Byakuran is speaking sentences that don't end in musical notes. Something terrible is about to happen, isn't it?
--AHHHHHH I KNEW IT. D:
And even Tsuna is starting to scare the shit out of me. Wow, Uni, you were the only thing preventing everyone from going completely insane. She's gone less than six pages, and already Tsuna's finally gone Super Saiyan. HE WON'T FORGIVE YOU, BYAKURAN. Stop and think about that for a sec. There is someone that even Tsuna will not forgive. I think Hell must be gearing up for its own Winter Olympics.
3. I admit I am finding this chapter kind of hard to snark about so far, partly because I'm a bit under the weather, but mostly because I am starting to have some painful flashbacks of Naruto and Bleach's talkiest boss battles, and I am really starting to get bored. XD Only now do I realize how much those little musical notes were actually appreciated. Byakuran, stop being a parody of a villain.
4. ...seriously, wtf. XD
WHERE DID THIS RANT EVEN COME FROM. SUDDENLY BYAKURAN IS FURIOUS WITH THE UGLINESS OF THE HUMAN CONDITION. AND "ROOTS" ARE POPPING OUT OF HIS LEGS. WTF WTF WTF. And yeah, Tsuna, how dare you like Uni as a person as opposed to a powerful device, you bastard.
5. I feel like this chapter is trying to beat me over the head with itself. XD SO... MUCH... SHOUNEN. SENSES... OVERLOADING. KEEP SHOUTING, EVERYONE, SHOUTING IS THE ANSWER TO ALL OF LIFE'S PROBLEMS. Seriously, it's true. Manga wouldn't lie to me.
6. LOOK, SEE, THE SHOUTING MAKES THE EXPLOSIONS EVEN MORE POWERFUL!!!!
what is this chapter I don't even.
7. ARE YOU FEELING ADRENALATED YET???!!!
8. Wait, what. Right when I was on the verge of making a joke about "just look at all the special effects in this chapter, clearly Amano is trying to get nominated for Best Picture", suddenly there is a Byakuran flashback? *_* I'D ALL BUT LOST HOPE.
9. A flashback with freaking Cervello, even. :O OH, CERVELLO, YOU'RE SO MYSTERIOUS. Coordinating the plot from behind the scenes like this, oh you guys. Who the fuck are you. <3
Also, two things of interest: One, while it remains to be seen if the Vongola ring is what enables Tsuna's brand-new time-traveling powers or if the power was inside him all along!, we now have confirmation that the Mare ring has nothing to do with Byakuran's world-jumping abilities. And two, said abilities clearly have fucked with him and caused his radically detached and dickish view of the world: "I realized that I'm merely a 'conscience' programmed into a game." I mean, it was more or less already clear that his wacky superpowers are what caused his villainy, but it's still awesome to see it confirmed. Oh Byakuran, I'm glad we finally got a tiny peek into your quirky and disturbing thought processes.
10. ...right before you kicked the bucket.
What.
After all of the buildup, after 140 chapters--literally half of the entire manga--and after the incredibly moving sacrifice of Uni and Gamma to revive the Arcobabies, this is how Byakuran is finally defeated? WITH A GODDAMN X BURNER?
KHR, I love you, baby, so I am just going to bite my tongue and wait for the next chapter, because there are SO MANY THINGS that I could say right now, but I feel like I at least owe you a chance to explain yourself first. BUT IF YOU DON'T, we are going to have words. Angry, bitter words stewed in disappointment and the tears of children.
THIS CHAPTER. Seriously. Sigh.
1. Oh God most epic reaction panel page ever. There are, count them, 21 different reaction shots, and every single one of them is trauma-faced. ALL OF THEM. Even Mukuro, Xanxus, Squalo, and Hibari look horrified. EVEN BYAKURAN, though obviously for different reasons. I've never seen so many characters express exactly what I was feeling (well, what I was feeling at the end of the last chapter, anyway) in my life.
This page also rather painfully highlights the similarities in a few of Amano's character designs, because, uh. For a good thirty seconds there, I stared and stared but could not be quite sure exactly which character was Gokudera. XD I'M STILL NOT QUITE SURE...?? Is that him or is it Basil? GD AMANO. Way to make me feel like a terrible fangirl. XD
2. Oh sweet Jesus Byakuran is speaking sentences that don't end in musical notes. Something terrible is about to happen, isn't it?
--AHHHHHH I KNEW IT. D:
And even Tsuna is starting to scare the shit out of me. Wow, Uni, you were the only thing preventing everyone from going completely insane. She's gone less than six pages, and already Tsuna's finally gone Super Saiyan. HE WON'T FORGIVE YOU, BYAKURAN. Stop and think about that for a sec. There is someone that even Tsuna will not forgive. I think Hell must be gearing up for its own Winter Olympics.
3. I admit I am finding this chapter kind of hard to snark about so far, partly because I'm a bit under the weather, but mostly because I am starting to have some painful flashbacks of Naruto and Bleach's talkiest boss battles, and I am really starting to get bored. XD Only now do I realize how much those little musical notes were actually appreciated. Byakuran, stop being a parody of a villain.
4. ...seriously, wtf. XD
WHERE DID THIS RANT EVEN COME FROM. SUDDENLY BYAKURAN IS FURIOUS WITH THE UGLINESS OF THE HUMAN CONDITION. AND "ROOTS" ARE POPPING OUT OF HIS LEGS. WTF WTF WTF. And yeah, Tsuna, how dare you like Uni as a person as opposed to a powerful device, you bastard.
5. I feel like this chapter is trying to beat me over the head with itself. XD SO... MUCH... SHOUNEN. SENSES... OVERLOADING. KEEP SHOUTING, EVERYONE, SHOUTING IS THE ANSWER TO ALL OF LIFE'S PROBLEMS. Seriously, it's true. Manga wouldn't lie to me.
6. LOOK, SEE, THE SHOUTING MAKES THE EXPLOSIONS EVEN MORE POWERFUL!!!!
what is this chapter I don't even.
7. ARE YOU FEELING ADRENALATED YET???!!!
8. Wait, what. Right when I was on the verge of making a joke about "just look at all the special effects in this chapter, clearly Amano is trying to get nominated for Best Picture", suddenly there is a Byakuran flashback? *_* I'D ALL BUT LOST HOPE.
9. A flashback with freaking Cervello, even. :O OH, CERVELLO, YOU'RE SO MYSTERIOUS. Coordinating the plot from behind the scenes like this, oh you guys. Who the fuck are you. <3
Also, two things of interest: One, while it remains to be seen if the Vongola ring is what enables Tsuna's brand-new time-traveling powers or if the power was inside him all along!, we now have confirmation that the Mare ring has nothing to do with Byakuran's world-jumping abilities. And two, said abilities clearly have fucked with him and caused his radically detached and dickish view of the world: "I realized that I'm merely a 'conscience' programmed into a game." I mean, it was more or less already clear that his wacky superpowers are what caused his villainy, but it's still awesome to see it confirmed. Oh Byakuran, I'm glad we finally got a tiny peek into your quirky and disturbing thought processes.
10. ...right before you kicked the bucket.
What.
After all of the buildup, after 140 chapters--literally half of the entire manga--and after the incredibly moving sacrifice of Uni and Gamma to revive the Arcobabies, this is how Byakuran is finally defeated? WITH A GODDAMN X BURNER?
KHR, I love you, baby, so I am just going to bite my tongue and wait for the next chapter, because there are SO MANY THINGS that I could say right now, but I feel like I at least owe you a chance to explain yourself first. BUT IF YOU DON'T, we are going to have words. Angry, bitter words stewed in disappointment and the tears of children.
THIS CHAPTER. Seriously. Sigh.