This is one of the rare weeks in Rebornland when following BOTH the anime and manga is paying MAJOR dividends.

first! the manga:
supermassive raw DL for Chapter 252, PLUS:
spectacular word-for-word translation for Chapter 252BASICALLY, IF I AM ALLOWED TO SAY THIS MUCH ( Read more... )

glockdown wrote the roundabout retrieval of yamamoto takeshi, the continuation, companion piece to The Life and Death of Mister Honda.

Looking back, The Life and Death was the first story that did the most to change the way I felt and thought about Yamamoto, just like half_sleeping's Do-over did the most to change the way I felt and thought about Irie Shouichi. I am ( Read more... )

khr_undercover is open for a second round of signups, closing on 30 June, guys, so go for it! The present signup list is already making me grin from ear-to-ear with expectation: check out the first round of revealed!entries if you want to know what I'm talking about.

I must admit the only two writers I was able to guess were half_sleeping's Student, Scientist, Soldier (Spy ( Read more... )

Reborn chapter 239 preview (locked to community)
download here @ mangahelpers
english translation here (locked to community)

( HOW CUTE, BYAKURAN )

So kayuuko posted about Reborn Episode 121 (... I only look at the anime when she posts about it). Raw uploads here, apparently (locked). Spanner+Shouichi flashback + Spanner/Tsuna screencaps over here! Or see it here.

... and uh. I know I never pay attention to Yamamoto, but I am quite sure I didn't miss THIS in the manga.

( YAMAMOTO TAKESHI VS. NOZARU )

Incidentally, it was Irie Shouichi's birthday today (the evidence is in a tiny tiny corner of the Vongola 77 book as mentioned here), and I am too tired to scan it at the moment (also I suspect it may have been scanned before, merely not brought to attention as he was not especially relevant then). Sadly, only the Italian community remembered ( Read more... )

Dear everyone, LJ is being Kind of Weird now and interfering with my attempts to reply to comments; I will do so once the service stops being so insane. However, there is something I do need to post about:


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I do not strictly have the time to make this post (would have done it over the weekend, but guess who was perched on a ladder reviewing sixty-five arch files in two days?), but if I don't do it now I may never do it (seeing as how the release of the next Reborn chapter will probably change everything all over again ( Read more... )

It's a great time to be a Spanner fan, and here's why:

☢ The release of Reborn Episode 106 (thanks craze_izumi!) - which means animated Spanner. If you start watching this from 7.26, you get to see Shouichi yelling, and you get to see Spanner from 7.43. You also get to see Shouichi smiling when Spanner is mentioned.

☢ Now Veoh has a much better-quality ( Read more... )

Happy Birthday, Shou-chan glasssubway!
It's your birthday in both our countries now, so I can finally post this!
Part of me hopes you're asleep as I type this, so you can see it when you wake up. *laughs*

( that's me without you )