Reborn!

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

(Redirected from Hitman Reborn! DS: Mafia Daishg Vongola Festival!)

For other uses, see Reborn.

Reborn!

The cover of the first volume of the official English manga release

REBORN!
(Kateikyshi Hittoman Ribn!)

Genre

Action, comedy, mafia,supernatural

Manga

Written by

Akira Amano

Published by

Shueisha

English publisher

BI

Viz Media
NA

Viz Media

Demographic

Shnen

Magazine

Weekly Shnen Jump

Original run

April 4, 2004 November 12, 2012[1]

Volumes

42 (List of volumes)

Anime television series

Directed by

Kenichi Imaizumi

Studio

Artland

Licensed by

NA

Viz Media
[2]

Network

TV Tokyo, Animax

Original run

October 7, 2006 September 25, 2010

Episodes

203 + 1 OVA (List of episodes)

Light novel

Kateky Hitman Reborn!: Hidden Bullet

Written by

Hideaki Koyasu

Illustrated by

Akira Amano

Published by

Shueisha

Original run

March 12, 2007 ongoing

Volumes

Related works

Video games Anime and Manga Portal

Reborn!, known in Japan as Kateky Hitman Reborn! (REBORN! Kateky Hittoman Ribn!?, "Kateky" being a portmanteau ofKatei Kyshi and translated as Home Tutor), is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Akira Amano. The plot revolves around the life of a young boy named Tsunayoshi Sawada, who finds out that he is next in line to become the boss of the most powerful Mafia organization called Vongola, theVongola Family. As such, the Vongola's most powerful hitman, a gun-toting infant named Reborn, is sent to tutor "Tsuna" on how to become a respectable boss. The individual manga chapters were serialized in Japan in Shueisha's Weekly Shnen Jump from April 4, 2004 and ended in November 12, 2012 and have been published into forty-two tankbon volumes as of March 4, 2013. Viz Media licensed the series for an English language release in North America, shortening the series name to Reborn!. An anime adaptation of the series by Artland aired on TV Tokyo between October 7, 2006 and September 25, 2010. There have also been various video games based on the series, as well as two light novels by Hideaki Koyasu. Reborn! has become one of the best-selling Weekly Shnen Jump manga with several of its volumes becoming top-sellers in Japan.[3][4] Reviewers from the series praised its use of comedy as well as the designs used for the infant characters.[5][6] They also mentioned that though it has become more violent since volume 8, it has turned into a more typical shnen series, praising the storylines and the fights.[7][8]
Contents
[hide]

1 Plot 2 Media

o o o o o o

2.1 Manga 2.2 Anime 2.3 CDs 2.4 Video games 2.5 Radio 2.6 Light novels

3 Reception 4 References 5 External links

[edit]Plot
See also: List of Reborn! characters The Reborn! story revolves around a boy named Tsunayoshi "Tsuna" Sawada, who is chosen to become the Vongola (Italian clam) Family's boss due to him being the great-great-great-great grandson of the first Vongola boss, who had moved to Japan from Italy during his own time. He is told by Reborn that he will become the tenth (Italian decimo) Vongola boss. Also, the other candidates for the position of the head of the Vongola Family have died. For these reasons, Tsuna is the only remaining heir. As such, Timoteo a.k.a. "Vongola IX", the current head of the family, sends Reborn, an infant hitman from Italy, to train Tsuna. Tsuna then unwillingly undergoes training from Reborn. Reborn's main method of teaching Tsuna is the "Deathperate Bullet" ( Shinukidan?), which will make the person be "reborn" with a stronger self intent on fulfilling his dying will. Through his experiences, the initially clumsy and underachieving Tsuna unconsciously becomes stronger, more confident, and willing, which ultimately makes him better suited as the Vongola Family's boss despite continuing to reject his Mafia inheritance. He also starts making several friendships such as his crush Kyoko Sasagawa. Tsuna goes through many predicaments in his progress of becoming the Vongola boss including fighting against escaped Mafia convicts posing as Kokuyo Junior High students. Later, The Varia, Vongola assassin squad, claim the right for their boss, Xanxus to be the true Vongola boss, and starts a competition with Tsuna to decide who would be the Vongola boss. To defeat the Varia, Reborn recruits most of Tsuna's schoolmates to become the Vongola guardians: Hayato Gokudera, an expert on dynamite who wishes to be his right-hand man, Takeshi Yamamoto, an athlete who likes baseball and thinks that the Mafia is a game, Ryohei Sasagawa, the energetic captain of the school boxing club and always goes to the most extreme, andKyoya Hibari, the

deadly head prefect. Lambo, a weak infant hitman who wants to kill Reborn, and also is very annoying, lazy, and spoiled, andChrome Dokuro, a girl who has a mental and physical link with the criminal Mukuro Rokudo, joins them as well. Later, after defeating the Varia, Tsuna and his friends are transported to the future where they must face the Millefiore Family, who are annihilating the Vongola. They also find that all the Arcobaleno are dead except for Lal Mirch, who was the holder of the corrupted Pacifier. As Tsuna and the Vongola Guardians from his time fight the Millefiore they learn that Shoichi Irie, a comrade of Tsuna's future self, was the one who sent them to the future as the future Tsuna said they were the only ones who can defeat the Millefiore leader Byakuran. It is later revealed that Byakuran has gained knowledge from parallel worlds and that he wants to obtain all the Mafia rings in order to obtain a power similar to omniscience. After defeating Byakuran, Tsuna and company return to the present where they learn that Tsuna is to undergo the inheritance ceremony to officially become Vongola X. However, the ceremony is attacked by the Shimon Family, who have sworn revenge on Vongola Primo for supposedly betraying the first Shimon boss. Armed with their new Vongola Gear, Tsuna confronts the Shimon family on a secluded island. The Mafia family, Vindice, are involved in the battle and imprison the losers of the feud. After several battles, it is revealed, Daemon Spade, an illusionist and guardian of the first generation of Vongola, was manipulating Shimon. He uses the conflict to take control of Mukuro's body and intends to conquer Vongola to remodel it to his image, but the combined strength of Tsuna and Shimon's leader, Enma Kozato, manages to defeat Daemon once and for all. Afterwards, Reborn and the other Arcobaleno are offered a chance to compete against one another in order to undo the curse inflicted upon them. Each Arcobaleno chooses a representative to fight for them, and the winner will have a chance to undo the curse. However, the Vindice enter the fight and reveal to Reborn and Tsuna that the tournament is actually a front for the selection of a new Arcobaleno, while the previous Arcobaleno are discarded to either die, or become Vindice themselves. Unable to accept the method, Tsuna formed alliance with the entire remaining teams to defeat Bermuda and the Vindice. During the last day of the Representative Battle of the Rainbow, Tsuna defeats Bermuda and his team, making his team won the Representative Battle. Checker Face, the ringleader behind the Curse of the Rainbow that inflicted upon the Arcobaleno, reveals himself and disclosed his true identity as Kawahira as he tells them the truth behind the Tri-ni-set. Finally finding another solution to keep the Tri-ni-set safe and Yuni's concision, Kawahira agreed to remove the curse inflict upon the Arcobaleno and entrust the safety of the Tri-ni-set to the future generations. After the events in the Arcobaleno Battle Reborn asks Tsuna to make a decision and become the tenth head of the Vongola Family, which Tsuna refuses. Reborn leaves since he has no business again with Tsuna. A week after Reborn's departure, Tsuna realises that he is still No-Good Tsuna and states that nothing has changed. However, Reborn then comes back, declaring that he will train Tsuna into Neo-Vongola Primo, which is similar to becoming Vongola Decimo. Remembering that now he has friends that he could rely on and finally understood that he did change from everything that he has experienced, he realised that everything was all thanks to his tutor and partner, The Home Tutor Hitman Reborn.

[edit]Media [edit]Manga
Main article: List of Reborn! chapters Written and drawn by Akira Amano, the Reborn! manga began serialization in the 26th issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shnen Jump magazine on April 4, 2004, ending its run on November 4, 2012.[9][10] The individual chapters are also published in collected volumes by Shueisha, with the first volume having been released on October 4, 2004,[11] and as of September 4, forty volumes have been released, with the final 42nd volume to be released in March 2013.[10][12] The series is licensed in North America by Viz Media, who serialize the chapters in their monthly manga anthology Shnen Jump Advanced and have also released them in volumes. The first volume was released on October 3, 2006;[13] the sixteenth volume was released on July 6, 2010.[14] Viz has currently placed the series on hiatus. Reborn! is also licensed in German by Tokyopop,[15] and in French by Glnat.[16] An official character book titled Kateky Hitman Reborn! Official Character Book Vongola 77 was released on October 4, 2007 in Japan. It is based on the manga and covers the 77 incidents that happened since Reborn arrived at the Sawada household. The book also reveals profiles of major characters including birthdays and favorites. Short side stories not shown in the manga are also included, along with free color posters drawn by Amano.[17] On April 2, 2010, the series' first artbook, titled Reborn Colore!, was released.[18]

[edit]Anime
Main article: List of Reborn! episodes The series has been adapted into an anime series that lasts 203 episodes, and is produced by Artland and directed by Kenichi Imaizumi. It first aired on October 7, 2006 on the Japanese networkTV Tokyo and ended on September 25, 2010.[19][20] Though the anime series has not been licensed for distribution outside of Japan, Funimation, on behalf of Japan's d-rights production company, exercised a power of attorney to remove fansubbed episodes of the Reborn! anime from the internet. Thus, to prevent copyright infringement, cease and desist notices were sent to fansub groups who were subtitling the series.[21] On March 21, 2009, the anime-streaming website Crunchyroll began streaming subtitled episodes of the Japanese series in North America. New episodes were available within an hour after the airing in Japan.[22] As of May 29, 2009, a total of twenty-seven DVD volumes have been released in Japan by Marvelous Entertainment.[23][24] The DVDs have secondary volume titles: the first eight volumes are "Bullets" which contains the first thirty-three episodes; the next eight are "Battles", and contains episodes 34 to 65; volumes seventeen and eighteen are "Daily Chapters", containing episodes 66 to 73; the next seven are the "Burn" volumes and contains episodes 74 to 101; and starting from volume 26, they are referred to as the "X.Burn" volumes.[23][25] A DVD box containing the Bullet episodes was published in Japan on June 17, 2009. [26]

[edit]CDs
All of the Reborn! music was composed by Toshihiko Sahashi. Each theme music has been released into a single or album by their corresponding performers.[27] Four Reborn! OSTs (Original Soundtracks) have been released; the first soundtrack, Kateky Hitman Reborn! Target 1 OST, was released in Japan on December 20, 2006;[28] the second, Kateky Hitman Reborn! Target 2 OST, was released in Japan on April 18, 2007.[29] The third soundtrack was released on August 20, 2008. It includes two CDs that include songs used from episode 78 onwards in the anime.[30]OST 4 was released in Japan on September 26, 2010. It consists of a few tracks that will be used in the second season of Reborn! Most of the Japanese voice actors of the series have performed a song; all of them were gathered in a CD called Katekyo Hitman Reborn! Character Soshutsuen Album Bongorefamiry Sotojo - Shinukidekatare! Soshiteutae!, which contains ten tracks.[31]Pony Canyon also released two volumes of Katekyo Hitman Reborn! Opening & Ending Themes, which contain the opening and ending themes from the series.[32][33] Additionally, there have been various CDs that include songs performed by various characters such as the Varia or Hayato Gokudera along with Takeshi Yamamoto.[34][35]

[edit]Video

games

Besides characters from the series making special appearances in Jump Super Stars and Jump Ultimate Stars for the Nintendo DS (more prominently Tsuna, who can be chosen to fight aided by Reborn), there are six video games based solely on the series. The first one released was Katekyo Hitman Reborn! DS Shinuki Max! Vongola Carnival!! on June 28, 2008 for the Nintendo DS.[36] and three fighting games titled Katekyo Hitman Reborn! Flame Rumble were subsequently released on the Nintendo DS With the latest game in the Flame Rumble series being released in July 2009.[37][38][39] Katekyo Hitman Reborn! DS: Fate of Heat, an adventure fighting game, was released for the Nintendo DS.[40] A PlayStation 2 game titled Katekyo Hitman Reborn! Dream Hyper Battle! was released on August 30, 2007, and the same game was released on the Wii on January 10, 2008. In contrast to the PlayStation 2 version, the one from Wii added characters from the fight between the Vongola and the Varia.[41][42] Katekyo Hitman Reborn! Kindan no Yami no Delta for the Wii and PS2 was also released in Japan on November 20, 2008.[43][44] Katekyo Hitman Reborn! Nerae was released for the PlayStation 2 on August 28, 2008, but unlike the other games it was from the adventure genre.[45] Another Nintendo DS game entitled Hitman Reborn! DS : Mafia Daishg Vongola Festival! was released on December 4, 2008.[46] On July 23, 2009, Katekyo Hitman Reborn! DS Flame Rumble X was released for the DS.[47] Also there were two releases for the PlayStation Portable, the names of the titles are: Katekyo Hitman Reborn!: Battle Arena and the newly released, Katekyo Hitman Reborn!: Battle Arena 2 - Spirit Burst. Both titles are side-scrolling arcade style fighting games that take place before and during the 10 Year arc.[48][49] Another game was created by Marvelous Entertainment, with the title of: Katekyo Hitman Reborn! Kizuna no Tag Battle, for the PlayStation Portable last February 25, 2010.

[edit]Radio

Starting from September 10, 2007, after the recording of the episode for the following week, there is a radio show called ReboRaji! Bucchake Ring Tournament (!riboraji! ~bucchake ringu sdatsusen~?). The hosts for the radio are Hidekazu Ichinose (the voice for Hayato Gokudera), Suguru Inoue (the voice for Takeshi Yamamoto), and Rika Ishibashi (as the assistant). The show has brought in guests starting from the tenth episode. It has also hosted live audiences for the show during the Christmas break in 2007, and also a couple of episodes near the end in Osaka, Nagoya, and Tokyo. The last episode of ~Bucchake Ring Tournament~ was aired on June 30, 2008. However, they restarted the radio show on July 21, 2008.[50] The current radio show name is ReboRaji! Bucchake Namimori Dong Dong (! Dong Dong riboraji! bucchake namimori DingDong?). The hosts are Hidekazu Ichinose, Suguru Inoue, and Toshinobu Iida (the voice for Mukuro Rokudo).[50]

[edit]Light

novels

So far, three Reborn! light novels have been released by Shueisha. Written by Hideaki Koyasu and illustrated by Akira Amano, the novels were originally serialized in Jump Square. The first one,Hidden Bullet 1: Mukuro's Illusions (1 Kakushi dan 1 MukuroGens?), shows how the character Mukuro Rokudo took over Kokuyo High, and it was released on March 12, 2007.[51]The second one, Hidden Bullet 2: X-Fiamma (2 X- Kakushi dan 2 X-en?), which recaps the mystery of Xanxus, was released on February 5, 2008.[52] A third light novel, Hidden Bullet 3: Millefiore Panic (3 Kakushi dan 3 Mirufire panikku?) was published on July 3, 2009. It is focused on the Millefiore Family as well as various members of the Vongola Family.[53]

[edit]Reception
The Reborn! manga has been highly popular in Japan, with the series having ranked as the tenth best seller of the Weekly Shnen Jump magazine as of 2007,[4] a total of 7 million copies sold.[4]During 2008, it increased to 15 million copies.[54] During its second release week, the twentieth volume of the manga ranked as the third best seller comic in Japan.[3] In 2008, the manga sold 3.3 million copies in Japan, becoming 4th best seller series from the country in 2008.[55] In the first half of 2009, Reborn! ranked as the seventh best-selling manga in Japan, having sold over 2 million volumes.[56] Volume 23 ranked fifteenth with 598,192 copies, and it was followed by volume 24 at the twentieth spot, which sold 554,920 copies.[57] In 2010, Reborn! was the eighth highest selling series in Japan, selling a total of 3,479,219 copies.[58] Additionally, the second light novel from the series became the third best selling light novel in Japan during 2008, having sold 106,229 copies.[59] The DVDs from the anime have also been popular in Japan, sometimes appearing in the Japanese Animation DVD Ranking.[60][61] The DVD box from the first season sold all its weekly copies during the week of its release. [62]

Various publications from different types of media have commented on Reborn!. The Mainichi Shimbun newspaper has noted Reborn! to have one of the highest number of cosplayers in Japan.[63]Carlos Santos from Anime News Network noted the first volume from the manga to have several episodic chapters in which the plot does not go to the important parts of the series and that the art was "downright messy and crowded", but noted the "volatile chemistry" between Tsuna and Reborn to be very likely.[64] Popcultureshock.com noted the series to be aimed for girls due to the large number of male characters appearing in the chapters and mentioned the series has a good combination of artwork and humor, making jokes repeated gags very funny.[5] A. E. Sparrow fromIGN praised the artwork from the manga due to the "cartoonish characters exist alongside chiseled, well-sculpted figures" and liked how it jokes with the "Mafia concept" since most of it is comedy.[6] The change of the series' tone has also met various responses. In a review from the ninth volume, Sparrow noted the series "is quickly becoming a great shnen read in no small part due to this current storyline" and noted the manga evolved since the character start to grow up and the fights became more violent.[8] Comicbookbin.com mentions that though they liked that the fights were well made and the comedy was still in the series, volume 8 of the manga becomes too violent and that its common reader may find it strange.[7] Ben Leary from Mania Entertainment expressed mixed comments about the series' darker tone since the eighth volume, praising the way the fights are done and how the tournament between the Vongola and the Varia was handled.[65] Nevertheless, he still missed the series' comedy, wishing a refresher following the tournament's ending.[66]

[edit]References

1. 2. 3.

^ "Reborn! Manga to End in Weekly Shonen Jump on Monday". Anime News Network. November 7, 2012. ^ "VIZ streams Reborn". Anime News Network. Retrieved May 7, 2011. ^
a b

"Japanese comic ranking June 1016". Anime News Network. June 18, 2008. Retrieved June 19,

2008. 4. ^
a b c

"Comipress News article on "The Rise and Fall of Weekly Shnen Jump"". Comipress. May 6, 2007.

Retrieved June 2, 2008. 5. ^

a b

F. Erin (June 14, 2008). "Manga Reviews: Reborn! Vol. 7, Hikaru No Go, Vol. 12". Popcultureshock.

Retrieved October 26, 2008. 6. 7. ^ ^

a b a b

Sparrow, A. E. (May 20, 2008). "Reborn: Volume 7 Review". IGN. Retrieved October 26, 2008. Leroy Douresseaux (June 27, 2008). "Reborn!: Volume 8 By Leroy Douresseaux". comicbookbin.com.

Retrieved October 19, 2008. 8. 9. ^

a b

Sparrow, A. E. (October 14, 2008). "Reborn: Volume 9 Review". IGN. Retrieved October 26, 2008.

^ "Akira Amano". Viz Media. Archived from the original on April 5, 2009. Retrieved November 22, 2007.
a b

10. ^

"Reborn! Manga to End in Weekly Shonen Jump on Monday". Anime News Network. 2012-11-07.

Retrieved 2012-11-15.

11. ^ "REBORN!/1" (in Japanese). Shueisha. Retrieved November 22, 2007. 12. ^ "REBORN! 29 [Reborn! 29]" (in Japanese). Shueisha. Retrieved March 4, 2010. 13. ^ "VIZ Media . products - Reborn!, Vol. 1". Viz Media. Retrieved November 22, 2007. 14. ^ "Reborn!, Vol. 16". Viz Media. Retrieved March 20, 2010. 15. ^ "Bcher: Manga: Reborn!" (in German). Tokyopop. Retrieved 23 June 2009. 16. ^ "Reborn1" (in French). Glnat. Retrieved 23 June 2009. 17. ^ "REBORN Retrieved June 7, 2008. 18. ^ "REBORN Japanese).Shueisha. Retrieved April 2, 2010. 19. ^ "Reborn! episodes" (in Japanese). TV Tokyo. Archived from the original on April 5, 2009. Retrieved April 5, 2009. 20. ^ "Reborn! staff" (in Japanese). TV Tokyo. Archived from the original on April 5, 2009. Retrieved April 5, 2009. 21. ^ "3 Titles' Fansubs Pulled on Behalf of Japan's d-rights (Updated)". Anime News Network. August 11, 2008. Retrieved October 4, 2008. 22. ^ "Crunchyroll to Simulcast Reborn! Anime Worldwide". Anime News Network. March 17, 2009. Retrieved June 8, 2009. 23. ^
a b

Vongola77" (in Japanese).Shueisha.

REBORN Colore

" (in

"REBORN! GOODS COM - DVD" (in Japanese). reborngoods.com. Archived from the original on

October 26, 2008. Retrieved October 4, 2008. 24. ^ "REBORN!XX-Burn.2 DVD" (in Japanese). Amazon.com. Retrieved March 3, 2009. 25. ^ "REBORN!XX-Burn.1 DVD" (in Japanese). Amazon.com. Retrieved March 3, 2009. 26. ^ "REBORN! DVD Bullet BOX" (in Japanese). Amazon.com. Retrieved June 15, 2009. 27. ^ "REBORN! GOODS COM - CD" (in Japanese). reborngoods.com. Retrieved October 4, 2008. 28. ^ "TV Tokyo-kei Anime Katekyo Hitman Reborn! Hyoteki". CDJapan. Retrieved May 17, 2008. 29. ^ "TV Tokyo-kei Anime Katekyo Hitman Reborn! Hyoteki 2". CDJapan. Retrieved May 17, 2008. 30. ^ "REBORN! ~3~" (in Japanese).Amazon.com. Retrieved June 15, 2009. 31. ^ "Katekyo Hitman Reborn! Character Soshutsuen Album Bongorefamiry Sotojo - Shinukidekatare! Soshiteutae!". CDJapan. Retrieved June 16, 2008. 32. ^ "REBORN!OPENING&ENDING THEME SONGS~ ~" (in Japanese). Amazon.com. Retrieved June 15, 2009.
[dead link]

33. ^ "REBORN!OPENING&ENDING THEME SONGS2" (in Japanese). Amazon.com. Retrieved April 11, 2010. 34. ^ "REBORN! THE VARIA SONG" (in Japanese). Amazon.com. Retrieved June 15, 2009. 35. ^ "REBORN!Sg4(&)" (in Japanese).Amazon.com. Retrieved June 15, 2009. 36. ^ "Katekyoo Hitman Reborn! DS Frame Rumble Gaikyoushuu". GameSpot. Retrieved June 4, 2009. 37. ^ "Katekyoo Hitman Reborn!! DS Kaien Ring Soudatsuen!". GameSpot. Retrieved June 4, 2009. 38. ^ "Hitman Reborn FR Hyper". GameSpot. Retrieved June 4, 2009. 39. ^ "Hitman Flame Rumble X". GameSpot. Retrieved June 4, 2009. 40. ^ "Katekyo Hitman Reborn DS: Fate of Heat". GameSpot. Retrieved June 4, 2009. 41. ^ "Shnen Jump scans confirm PS2 game date". jeux-france.com. Retrieved February 17, 2008. 42. ^ "Hitman Reborn ! Wii : une vido" (in French). jeux-france.com. Retrieved February 17, 2008. 43. ^ "Hitman Reborn! Kindan". GameSpot. Retrieved June 4, 2009. 44. ^ "Hitman Reborn! Kindan (Wii)". GameSpot. Retrieved June 4, 2009. 45. ^ "Hitman Reborn Nerae". GameSpot. Retrieved June 4, 2009. 46. ^ "Hitman Reborn! Festival". GameSpot. Retrieved June 4, 2009. 47. ^ "Hitman Flame Rumble X". GameSpot. Retrieved June 18, 2009. 48. ^ "Katekyoo Hitman Reborn! Battle Arena". GameSpot. Retrieved October 4, 2009. 49. ^ "Hitman Battle Arena 2". GameSpot. Retrieved October 4, 2009. 50. ^
a b

"Official net radio site". anime-reborn.com. Retrieved March 16, 2008.

51. ^ "REBORN! 1 " (in Japanese). Shueisha. Retrieved May 28, 2008. 52. ^ "REBORN!2 X-" (in Japanese). Shueisha. Retrieved May 28, 2008. 53. ^ "3 " (in Japanese). Shueisha. Retrieved June 29, 2009. 54. ^ "Top Manga Properties in 2008 - Rankings and Circulation Data". Comipress.com. December 31, 2008. Retrieved August 26, 2009. 55. ^ "2008's Top-Selling Manga in Japan, by Series". Anime News Network. January 2, 2009. Retrieved January 3, 2009. 56. ^ "Top-Selling Manga in Japan by Series: 1st Half of 2009". Anime News Network. June 15, 2009. Retrieved June 15, 2009. 57. ^ "Top-Selling Manga in Japan by Volume: 1st Half of 2009 (Updated)". Anime News Network. June 15, 2009. Retrieved June 15, 2009. 58. ^ "Top-Selling Manga in Japan by Series: 2010". Anime News Network. 2010-11-30. Retrieved 2012-11-15.

59. ^ "2008's Top-Selling Light Novels in Japan". Anime News Network. January 4, 2009. Retrieved January 4, 2009. 60. ^ "Japanese Animation DVD Ranking, May 2531". Anime News Network. June 2, 2009. Retrieved January 4, 2009. 61. ^ "Japanese Animation DVD Ranking, November 511". Anime News Network. November 13, 2008. Retrieved January 4, 2009. 62. ^ "Japanese Animation DVD Ranking, June 814". Anime News Network. June 24, 2009. Retrieved June 24, 2009. 63. ^ "Mainichi Newspaper Posts Comic Market Cosplay Photos". Anime News Network. August 18, 2008. Retrieved June 19, 2008. 64. ^ Santos, Carlos (September 5, 2006). "RIGHT TURN ONLY!! Eternal RTO!!". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 27, 2008. 65. ^ Leary, Ben (June 4, 2010). "Reborn! Vol. #13". Mania Entertainment. Retrieved October 26, 2010. 66. ^ Leary, Ben (August 20, 2010). "Reborn! Vol. #15". Mania Entertainment. Retrieved October 26, 2010.