Reborn!

Katekyo Hitman: Reborn!

Reborn!, known in Japan as Katekyō Hitman Reborn! (家庭教師ヒットマンREBORN!, Katekyō Hittoman REBORN!?, "Katekyō" being a portmanteau of Katei Kyōshi and translated as Home Tutor), is an ongoing 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 the next in line to become the boss of the most powerful Mafia organization, the Vongola Famiglia. 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 are serialized in Japan in Weekly Shōnen Jump. The individual chapters are collected and published in tankōbon volumes by Shueisha, with twenty-one volumes released currently. Viz Media licensed the series for an English language release in North America, shortening the series name to Reborn!. Viz is serializing the chapters in their Shonen Jump Advanced manga anthology and began releasing the tankōbon volumes in October 2006. Reborn! has become one of the best-selling manga from Shueisha with several of its volumes becoming top-sellers in Japan. Reviewers from the series praised its used of comedy as well as the designs used for the infants characters. However, since volume 8, they mentioned it has became more violent turning into a better shōnen series praising the storylines and the fights. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reborn!