Their boxes are OVER NINE THOUSAND!!!!!!!!!!111

Aug 08, 2009 14:05

So, like...caught up on all of those chapters of Reborn last night. I don't know if it was because my translations were kind of crap, or my eyesight is bad, or I speed-read through what was probably some important plot developments, but...

JEEEEEESUUUUUUSSSSS



Set up my rage in the form of a bullet list, just so no one will be overwhelmed by the influx of CAPS! :) Also, I stole the idea from honooko to delegate the things I DIDN'T like with a " - " bullet, and the things I actually found myself smiling about from time to time with a " + " bullet. SA, MINNA, HAJIMEMASHITA.

On the events following the Melone base arc:

- WHAT DO YOU MEAN, IT WAS ALL A TEST? GEE, WE ONLY NEARLY LOST OUR LIVES FOR IT AND EVERYTHING. BUT IT'S OKAY, SHO-CHAN. WE FORGIVE YOU ALMOST INSTANTANEOUSLY FOR NEARLY SQUEEZING OUT WHAT LITTLE LIVES WE HAD LEFT.

As a matter of fact, I feel like this gets its own separate paragraph of rage.

You know, I don't even think it's the whole "LOL IT WAS JUST TRAINING" thing that truly buggered me, it was just how quickly everyone came to TERMS with it. Like, just because TYL!Tsuna came up with the idea, it was automatically okay? And how the hell did Irie Shoichi even get caught UP in it? IIRC, there's a scene where Reborn asks him if he wants to join the Vongola family, and he's like, "LOL NAH", so that means he wasn't a member of Vongola before? Then what the fuck was he even DOING as a double-agent? Y'know, risking possibly bone-breakage and stuff in the meantime? Maybe this will be explained soon. Hopefully.

BUT SOMEHOW I DOUBT IT. After all, lol, it wasn't really important to explain why, Gokudera aside, somebody like HIBARI didn't go around beating the shit out of Shoichi for such a dangerous/bothersome/wtf-ever plan anyway. (And I somehow can't really wrap my brain around the idea of TYL!Hibari being okay with it, either, but, well, apparently he was. TYL!Hibari has been a disappointment on so many levels, but that's another page, another rage.)

+ RYOHEI. *__* TYL!Ryohei was such a fucking putz, but normal!Ryohei made me smile like no one's business. It was almost like a little bit of the Daily Life arc came back with him, aaaaaaah. I like how it took 5 hours to explain everything to him because he kept not understanding it, lol. (I WOULDN'T, EITHER, RYO-KUN.) I'm also guessing, BTW, that his girlfriend in that anonymous picture is Kurokawa Hana, lol. It looks like her haircut.

+ TYL!Squalo. This is actually funny because I hated regular!Squalo. But now he's had ten years to grow on me, I guess? Ha ha. I kept giggling everytime he'd come up over comm and everybody would make this horrible faces and start frantically lowering the volume of their headsets.

- TYL!everyone else in the Varia except Levi and his moustache. Actually, I take it back, I didn't really mind Lussuria that much, either. Or Xanxus. (As a matter of fact, I probably also like Xanxus in his TYL!form more than I did his original counterpart. But that might just be because Amano made him more PRETTY. *__*)

Ugh, okay, amended. I really only hate TYL!Belphegor and Fran. TYL!Bel's hair makes up its own continent, his backstory with his non-dead brother Raziel was overblown, stupid, and seemed almost like FILLER amidst the more important things that were currently going on at the moment, and Fran just seems like fangirl bait. Assuming Fran is a boy. WHICH -

- GODDAMNED GENDER AMBIGUOUS MOTHER-FUCKERS. 1.) Fran. 2.) Daisy. 3.) Kikyou, for a while, until somewhere along the line they threw in the kanji for "guy" in relation to him. 4.) Mammon. Sort of. Just...STOP THIS. NOW. I mean, it shouldn't surprise me that Byakuran, KING OF THE METROS, has his own separate squad for gender-confusion, but mostly it just makes me pissed off. This series is becoming goddamned fangirl trash. FFFFFFFF

+ ELECTRIC GAMMA <333333 Don't think I didn't see you hiding in the crowd with your Tazaru-aniki and your Nozaru-aniki, tsk tsk. I really want to see just WTF it is he's going to do. In an ideal world, he'd sub in for Lambo as the Vongola's lightning elemental in this stupid battle royale series, everyone would realize he is VASTLY SUPERIOR TO LAMBO IN EVERY WAY, AND MAKE HIM THE NEW LIGHTNING GUARDIAN. And then Gokkun would cry. "Storms and lightning are like brothers" AHAHA MY ASS. Oh well, I can dream~

- Too. Many. Box-weapons. When Xanxus used his fucked-up tiger/lion/liger thing whatever, I was like, "OMG WHY DOES HE HAVE URI???". And then I was like, "waitaminute, wtf is Uri?". And then I was like, "WHAT DAY IS IT? I LIKE PUDDING." /YGO Abridged BUT NO, SERIOUSLY, the solution to powering-up your guys ISN'T giving them brand-new shiny weapons every five seconds, Amano, it's them learning to use what they already HAVE. Like, Gokkun? HOW MANY BOXES OF HIS SISTEMA CAI HAVE WE GOTTEN TO SEE YET? LIKE, THREE? YEAH. THAT'S WHAT I MEAN. I about face-palmed when, at the end of the Melone base arc, what do the main characters get but BRAND NEW BOX WEAPONS? Why is this even necessary? And then the ones who already DID have animal-based box weapons got, like...powered-up versions of them? OR SOME SHIT? I admit, I'd sort of stopped paying attention by that point.

- Speaking of Gokkun, I am so overflowing with burning seething boiling RAGE that the boy has yet to win a goddamned fight EVER. His track record? Ring battle against Belphegor: LOST. 1st fight with Electric Gamma: LOST (so hard, at that. Unf-unf, schoolboy torture. I won't even PRETEND to be upset at his defeat on THIS one). 2nd fight against Electric Gamma: DRAW (don't even pretend that was anything but). Choice battle against Daisy: WTF WAS THAT EVEN WAS THAT EVEN A LOSS IT WAS LIKE TOTAL PWNAGE BEFORE HE COULD EVEN BEGIN. O.o I was just... Agh, as a die-hard Gokkun fan, it was almost physical PAINFUL to type those last few sentences. Come on, sensei~ *tugs at Amano's sleeve* When's the boy gonna get his chance to shine, already?

+ IRIS HEPBURN AND HER GROUP OF NASTY VEGETABLE-MEN MINIONS. God, I wanna be like her when I grow up. Also, I wonder what happened to her. I hope she comes back again. :) She was by far the only villain I gave a crap about during the Melone base arc (with the exception of Gamma, of course).

- Genkishi, your backstory was scattered and ill-maintained. Were you good? Were you bad? WE'LL PROBABLY NEVER KNOW, NOW. NOW THAT YOU'RE DEAD. MAYBE. HOPEFULLY FOR THE LOVE OF GOD I HATED YOU SO MUCH

- Stop kicking everyone's ass, Yamamoto! Just...THIS. I mean, was it wrong that I LAUGHED OUT LOUD IN GLEE when he ran straight into Genkishi's illusionary wall way back when he first fought the guy? XD;; I mean, at first I thought during my earlier rage about Gokkun that I was just being character biased, and then nope, I remembered Yamamoto. I LIKE Yamamoto. I might even like him better than Gokkun, lately. (Ehhhh...not really. But still.) But GOOD LORD BUDDHA SNOW-SHOE GODDESS SKADI QUEZACOATL BRAHMA IN HEAVEN, please let the boy stop pwning the ass of everyone he comes across. It's, like...so unbalanced and not fair it's not even funny. He's like Hibari pt. 2. He's like what Mukuro COULD have been if Amano hadn't decided to sub-let his soul to Chrome. Erghlack. Please let someone wipe the floor with him in the name of fairness soon, Amano. <3

+ Hibari's hedgehog SKEWERING HIS HAND UNINTENTIONALLY <3 <3 <3 I was laughing so hard during that portion of his fight that I thought I was gonna cry. I normally can't stand Hibari with the EXTREME LIGHT OF A THOUSAND OF RYOHEI'S SUNS, but his facial expression when he leaned down to pick up his hedgehog or whatever was so cute~

+ Similarly, though I hate D18 with a passion, the face he makes at Dino while Dino is trying to convince him not to go around punching everyone in the face at the start of the Choice battle is surprisingly adorable. Ha ha, keep this up, sensei, and you might make me a shipper yet. (HAHAHHA DON'T HOLD YOUR BREATH)

+ SUITS *______* It's about goddamned time.

- Tsuna's weird fluctuating mood swings when it comes to protecting the female er, non-combatants of his team? Puh-lease. It really gets my goat how not even BIANCHI is getting in on all of this fighting. WTF? Like, skinny, mal-nutritioned half-dead CHROME can go out and get her ass kicked by men of various sizes/rapacious intents, but Bianchi's stuck in the stands watching with Kyoko and Haru? GOD, I HATE HOW THIS SERIES TREATS WOMEN. I REALLY FUCKING DO. Or Christ-damn, maybe I just want to see some poison cooking-related boxes/box weapons lol orz.

- NOPE, GOD, I REALLY HATE HOW THIS SERIES TREATS WOMEN.

- CHROME, AS OF LATE. Ugh, Amano did with her EXACTLY what I'd hoped she wouldn't do way back when: DOMESTICATE her. Like, FFFF FFFFFF FFFFFFFF I about shit bricks when I saw her washing dishes with I-Pin in the kitchen. MAKE ME A SANDWICH, CHROME. BRING ME MY BEER. DIE IN A FIRE, FEMINIST SUPPORT GROUPS. I mean, just...at first, when Kyoko+tachi are trying to get her to eat, and just talk in general and stuff, I was like, "ooooh, cuuuuute~" and I felt some warm fuzzies and was glad poor Chrome-chan got away from the weird passive-aggressive abuse of Ken and Chikusa. (?!) But then I realized that this is not in fact what I wanted. I don't WANT Chrome to become one of the girls. I want her to stay one of the boys. D: And kick ass proper.

- Bianchi is too pretty to go around wearing those stupid goggles for much longer. Get over your phobia soon, Hayato-onii-chan~ D: D: D:

+ IRIE SHOICHI. *____*

- On the other hand, IRIE SHOICHIIIIIIIIIIII >FFFFF

+/- SHO-CHAN. I mean, it's hard to explain where my feelings lie on this. I love the character - his half-arsed, whiny nerdicism combined with his crazy hair and weirdo sense of dress makes me want to cuddle him until the end of days. On the other hand, I sort of hate his role in the story. Or rather, I should say, I hate what the story is currently doing with him at the moment. Suddenly, he's important? Suddenly, he's a SOOPAH IMPORTANT MEMBAH of the Vongola team? ETF? I guess that's not really poor Sho-chan's fault, though. I'm curious what he means when he says that he made Byakuran the way he is. Also, random, but WHY exactly did TYL!Gokkun say to kill him, again? Weren't all of the TYL!Vongola in on the plan? Or did I not pay attention adequately?

- I don't even like Mukuro that much, but for the love of poop, BRING HIM BACK ALREADY. You're nearing the -100 chapter mark, Amano. (Why do I have a feeling that he's going to come back to bail Chrome out of her Choice battle AGAIN? Except, like, in his real body? I dunno - it just seems like the sort of crazy crap Amano might pull.)

+ ARCOBALENO. It's about time we found out a LITTLE bit more about them. I'll include 7^3 in this, too. Just watching dudes punch each other for 60 chapters without any further explanation of the story was getting on my nerves.

- On the other hand, 7^3. D: WTF, a series of rings and baby pacifiers provides the foundation for the universe/world? ????????????????

- This Tsuna/Haru/Tsuna/Kyoko love triangle or whatever is going to make my heart explode, I can feel it. Like...I REALLY REALLY REALLY LIKE TSUNA/HARU, BUT KNOW IN MY HEART THAT IT WILL NEVER BE. So I keep telling myself, "Oh, okay, eventually Amano will introduce some other love interest for Haru (maybe Gokkun, since the series has minisculely hinted in that direction for a while now) and then I won't mind the Tsuna/Kyoko so much because HARU-CHAN WILL FIGHT ON WITH HER NEW LOVE DESU~ and I won't have to cry" but goddammit if I have yet to see new-potential-Haru-love-interest (save Bianchi lol wut), and so every time I see the series leaning slowly towards Tsuna/Kyoko I feel myself die a bit. Haru is the superior of the two girls, IMHO. At least she has a definitive personality.

- Needs moar 1896. Personal preference I guess, though. Same with 8059. Same with Gamma/anyone under the age of 18, lol. (Well...I guess there's Uni. Which is its own pile of weird in and of itself.)

- Ew, Byaku-rin. The more I see of you the less I like you. I hope you die, even though so far NO ONE HAS DIED IN REBORN D: D:D D:

Ugh, that's all I can think of right now. LOL, I'm all raged out for a while, so now I'm gonna sit around and look at funny 4chan macros until my eyes bleed. God, KHR, I guess I should be glad I CARE enough to rage about you for hours on end, but really, I just -



- RARGH.

[EDIT]: OMG, FORGOT TO MENTION:

Gokudera? Teaching Yamamoto how to tie a tie? OMFG YES

I HOPE YOU KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS, RUNE.

omgwtf, nobody dies in bleach, katekyou hitman reborn!, raaage post

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