The Fiends Episode 76: Hitman Reborn!

Mike interviews Reborn from the anime and managa series Katekyō Hitman Reborn! at the 2010 Anime Syracuse Festival.

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Shot on location in Syracuse, New York in the Nicholas J Pirro Convention Center at OnCenter on Setptember 11th, 2010.

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Reborn!, known in Japan as Katekyō Hitman Reborn! (家庭教師ヒットマン) 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, the Vongola 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.

Reborn (リボーン, Ribōn?) is the holder of the Yellow pacifier of the Sun. The titular character, Reborn is an infant hitman belonging to the Vongola Family. As the Vongola IX's most trusted member, he becomes Tsuna's home tutor and trains him into becoming a Mafia boss. Since he is an official Vongola member and is only there to train Tsuna, he is not allowed to directly interfere with most of Tsuna's battles, though he is allowed to defend against attacks directed solely at him. His "partner" is a shape-shifting chameleon named Leon (レオン, Reon?), who usually sits on Reborn's fedora. The bullets used by Reborn are created inside Leon. When Reborn's student is gradually progressing, Leon's tail falls off, his shape-shifting abilities become unstable, and he is no longer able to create bullets. When Leon shape-shifts into a gun, a move Reborn uses is called Chaos Shot, which is a shot that branches off with the sun dying will flame. After Leon creates special items for the student, he returns to normal.

No matter how strong the emotion, Reborn always keeps a straight face and handles many situations as calmly as possible. He randomly appears dressed as "another person" who no one except Tsuna and Dino recognizes, and seems to see nothing unusual in any of his own behavior.

In the future, Reborn is mentioned to be dead, and in order to avoid the Negative Seven Rays which Byakuran unleashed in the atmosphere in order to slowly kill the Arcobaleno, the past's Reborn remains in Vongola's underground base and wears a special suit. He is normally voiced by Neeko in the anime but in his short appearances as an adult, Ken Narita voices him.

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