Reborn! takes place in a small, fictional little town in Japan called Namimori, Earth, somewhere around the year 2012. It's your quiet, average little town, with average people, average supermarkets, hospitals and schools-- the animals are normal ( at least most are ), technology is normal ( we have your tvs, psps and nintendo ds systems, you name it ), everything here is just so . . . normal! Here's the catch: Namimori is also home to descendents of the mafia world's strongest family in power, and they all happen to be teens who either don't know it, love it, or deny it to no end, and that's where Sawada Tsunayoshi falls under; an awkward, hopeless boy who just so happens to be the last rightful heir to the mafia throne, to become the tenth generation boss of the Vongola and tutored to do so by a talking baby hitman, Reborn.
The world of Reborn is a wacky place, even more so when it actually started out as a comedy and only went down the shonen road a little while after. The base of the series is certainly the mafia, but definitely not your average mafia. It all starts hundreds of years ago, where a man in Italy named Giotto ( together with another named Cozart ) chose to form a vigilante group with six others ( to act as his guardians ) with intention of keeping their town and people safe from harm and toxic individuals that happened to float around there, threatening others for money and destroying what they have to get to it. This was the start of the first mafia family, the Vongola, and for a while they climbed rapidly up the levels of influence, becoming the world's strongest family. That is, until the second generation boss of the Vongola came to power. The family started going down a road of corruption, losing all the values it once had and forgetting the true meaning as to why they came to be: to protect the ones they love. These brave and noticeable values turned to that of selfishness, power, and money, and doing anything to maintain that power, even if it meant taking down anything else in its way. Giotto, then retired, moved to Japan, lived out the rest of what he had in his life, and left his legacy behind.
Years, and years, and eight generations later, a young boy named Sawada Tsunayoshi is sniffed out by a hitman, sent by Vongola's ninth boss, more than ready to retire, and told that he's the next and only blood related heir they have left, even if it's way, way down the family tree. You see, Tsuna could have lived his loser life averagely and normally if Giotto wasn't his great, great, great, great grandfather; he could have sat around uneventfully with no purpose, yet ever since Tsuna met Reborn, things got weird. Really weird. Odd people started to flock to Tsuna as if he were a magnet, weird and near-inhuman things started happening around him, and unknowing of him, most of these weirdos would grow to be Tsuna's friends and forming his "famiglia" ( although he's very quick to deny that ).
The mafia in Reborn! is an underground world that keeps their secrets hidden from daily life and the outside world very, very well-- or else it wouldn't really be the mafia, right? Wrong, in a way-- because everything and anything mafia related in this series has a touch of oddity and magic, shonen power to it that's terribly difficult to turn the other way from. For starters, the world's greatest hitman is a talking baby. The mafia has enough knowledge and technology on their own to create time travel bazookas, as well as bullets that have various effects other than the natural and normal thing that bullets should do ( aka going through people, killing, wounding ect-- no, instead, these bullets can make people fight with their dying will, make them miserable, making shot body parts grow ten times their size-- hell, you name it. this manga is crazy ).
Making a bit of sense as to what was mentioned above, yes-- talking babies are a thing in this series. Not only that, but they're dangerous, powerful, and horribly cute mafia babies. One might think "wow, how does that even happen". Well, here's how ( most ) of this came to be, starting out with three very important group of items: the Vongola Rings, the Mare Rings, and the Arcobaleno Pacifiers. The Vongola Rings are seven rings with seven different attributes to match the user: sky, storm, rain, thunder, mist, sun and cloud. These rings, as you may guess, have belonged to the Vongola Family since the group's start, being the beginning of their reign underground, an important source of power, and passed down through the generations that came to be. The Don is the one to hold the sky ring while his guardians each hold one of the other attributes. The Mare Rings are similar, belonging to the Giglio Nero Family and sharing the same attributes. Then we have the Arcobaleno Pacifiers, seven pacifiers that also mirror these said attributes, coming with a trusty power and each representing a color of the rainbow. Together, these three groups create the Tri-ni-Sette, responsible for the world's foundation. Where did these come from and where are we getting at? Here's where things start to get a bit, ah-- extraterrestrial.
An unnamed species was said to have lived on Earth much longer than the first human came to be; they're duty over all was, is, to protect Planet Earth; to do so, when all but five of this species remained, together, they created the Arcobaleno Pacifiers by using seven types of stone, to begin creating the powerful Tri-ni-Sette. When all but two remained, with little power left to create two more separate sets on stones, the individuals, known as Kawahira and Sepira, decided to split the original pacifiers into two other sets, the Vongola and Mare Rings coming into existence and completing the Tri-ni-Sette. With the species dying out, they had to turn to the humans to keep these powerful stones guarded and safe, where the Vongola Rings were given to Giotto, the Mare Rings originally kept by Sepira, founder of the Giglio Nero Family, and lastly, the Arcobaleno Pacifiers being handed to seven lucky, handpicked individuals to protect the Earth's forces with their lives. Those chosen were called "The Strongest Seven", all in the mafia world or related to such, to be eternally cursed into the form of an infant to protect the pacifiers and keep watch over the Tri-ni-Sette as a whole, and Reborn was one of those seven.
So, there's the reason why the mafia has all the power and technology it has: that tech was given to one of the first families by beings that are light years in front of humans, and as the generations passed, studies and use of this were passed on and kept solely in the mafia. The dying flames, which are tapped into thanks to most of these special items, are the following, with their own respective power:
Sky: harmony; able to resonate, absorb, and purify other flames to use as the user's own. is also a lot more like actual fire than any of the other flames, and can be used offensively as such.
Sun: activation; induces and improves any type of activity done by the user, such as stimulating muscles and joints for those more prone to physical combat. as support, they can also heal and strengthen others.
Storm: disintegration; highly offensive flames, able to break and / or decay anything they come in contact with.
Cloud: propagation; has the ability to increase / expand, or multiply what the user desires. more efficient in open areas. they can also seemingly suck in other flames.
Mist: construction; generally, mist users are illusionists ( chrome, mukuro, mammon / viper ), able to work with and create illusions, and with the help of the mist flames, make them even better. while they aren't all that offensive, they're pretty good at making people go a little crazy.
Rain: tranquility; known for it's ability of stillness and calm, these flames are able to pacify and weaken a target by robbing their strength and movement capacity.
Lightning: hardening; these flames act a lot more like electricity than fire, sporadic when lit and even able to electrocute when used offensively. defensively, they can harden objects and create barriers for protection.
Of course, with power comes people who are power hungry; there have been many battles and near wars started to get close to the power of the rings, more respectively during the Future Arc, where present characters are sent to the future to fight a growing family that wants the entire Tri-ni-Sette for themselves. Hooray, world domination! Luckily, Tsuna and the rest of his gang of power wielders thanks to the rings use their power for the greater good ( at least . . . most of them . . . ), for protecting what's precious and keeping those who can't, safe.
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Reborn! takes place in a small, fictional little town in Japan called Namimori, Earth, somewhere around the year 2012. It's your quiet, average little town, with average people, average supermarkets, hospitals and schools-- the animals are normal ( at least most are ), technology is normal ( we have your tvs, psps and nintendo ds systems, you name it ), everything here is just so . . . normal! Here's the catch: Namimori is also home to descendents of the mafia world's strongest family in power, and they all happen to be teens who either don't know it, love it, or deny it to no end, and that's where Sawada Tsunayoshi falls under; an awkward, hopeless boy who just so happens to be the last rightful heir to the mafia throne, to become the tenth generation boss of the Vongola and tutored to do so by a talking baby hitman, Reborn.
The world of Reborn is a wacky place, even more so when it actually started out as a comedy and only went down the shonen road a little while after. The base of the series is certainly the mafia, but definitely not your average mafia. It all starts hundreds of years ago, where a man in Italy named Giotto ( together with another named Cozart ) chose to form a vigilante group with six others ( to act as his guardians ) with intention of keeping their town and people safe from harm and toxic individuals that happened to float around there, threatening others for money and destroying what they have to get to it. This was the start of the first mafia family, the Vongola, and for a while they climbed rapidly up the levels of influence, becoming the world's strongest family. That is, until the second generation boss of the Vongola came to power. The family started going down a road of corruption, losing all the values it once had and forgetting the true meaning as to why they came to be: to protect the ones they love. These brave and noticeable values turned to that of selfishness, power, and money, and doing anything to maintain that power, even if it meant taking down anything else in its way. Giotto, then retired, moved to Japan, lived out the rest of what he had in his life, and left his legacy behind.
Years, and years, and eight generations later, a young boy named Sawada Tsunayoshi is sniffed out by a hitman, sent by Vongola's ninth boss, more than ready to retire, and told that he's the next and only blood related heir they have left, even if it's way, way down the family tree. You see, Tsuna could have lived his loser life averagely and normally if Giotto wasn't his great, great, great, great grandfather; he could have sat around uneventfully with no purpose, yet ever since Tsuna met Reborn, things got weird. Really weird. Odd people started to flock to Tsuna as if he were a magnet, weird and near-inhuman things started happening around him, and unknowing of him, most of these weirdos would grow to be Tsuna's friends and forming his "famiglia" ( although he's very quick to deny that ).
The mafia in Reborn! is an underground world that keeps their secrets hidden from daily life and the outside world very, very well-- or else it wouldn't really be the mafia, right? Wrong, in a way-- because everything and anything mafia related in this series has a touch of oddity and magic, shonen power to it that's terribly difficult to turn the other way from. For starters, the world's greatest hitman is a talking baby. The mafia has enough knowledge and technology on their own to create time travel bazookas, as well as bullets that have various effects other than the natural and normal thing that bullets should do ( aka going through people, killing, wounding ect-- no, instead, these bullets can make people fight with their dying will, make them miserable, making shot body parts grow ten times their size-- hell, you name it. this manga is crazy ).
Making a bit of sense as to what was mentioned above, yes-- talking babies are a thing in this series. Not only that, but they're dangerous, powerful, and horribly cute mafia babies. One might think "wow, how does that even happen". Well, here's how ( most ) of this came to be, starting out with three very important group of items: the Vongola Rings, the Mare Rings, and the Arcobaleno Pacifiers. The Vongola Rings are seven rings with seven different attributes to match the user: sky, storm, rain, thunder, mist, sun and cloud. These rings, as you may guess, have belonged to the Vongola Family since the group's start, being the beginning of their reign underground, an important source of power, and passed down through the generations that came to be. The Don is the one to hold the sky ring while his guardians each hold one of the other attributes. The Mare Rings are similar, belonging to the Giglio Nero Family and sharing the same attributes. Then we have the Arcobaleno Pacifiers, seven pacifiers that also mirror these said attributes, coming with a trusty power and each representing a color of the rainbow. Together, these three groups create the Tri-ni-Sette, responsible for the world's foundation. Where did these come from and where are we getting at? Here's where things start to get a bit, ah-- extraterrestrial.
An unnamed species was said to have lived on Earth much longer than the first human came to be; they're duty over all was, is, to protect Planet Earth; to do so, when all but five of this species remained, together, they created the Arcobaleno Pacifiers by using seven types of stone, to begin creating the powerful Tri-ni-Sette. When all but two remained, with little power left to create two more separate sets on stones, the individuals, known as Kawahira and Sepira, decided to split the original pacifiers into two other sets, the Vongola and Mare Rings coming into existence and completing the Tri-ni-Sette. With the species dying out, they had to turn to the humans to keep these powerful stones guarded and safe, where the Vongola Rings were given to Giotto, the Mare Rings originally kept by Sepira, founder of the Giglio Nero Family, and lastly, the Arcobaleno Pacifiers being handed to seven lucky, handpicked individuals to protect the Earth's forces with their lives. Those chosen were called "The Strongest Seven", all in the mafia world or related to such, to be eternally cursed into the form of an infant to protect the pacifiers and keep watch over the Tri-ni-Sette as a whole, and Reborn was one of those seven.
So, there's the reason why the mafia has all the power and technology it has: that tech was given to one of the first families by beings that are light years in front of humans, and as the generations passed, studies and use of this were passed on and kept solely in the mafia. The dying flames, which are tapped into thanks to most of these special items, are the following, with their own respective power:
Sky: harmony; able to resonate, absorb, and purify other flames to use as the user's own. is also a lot more like actual fire than any of the other flames, and can be used offensively as such.
Sun: activation; induces and improves any type of activity done by the user, such as stimulating muscles and joints for those more prone to physical combat. as support, they can also heal and strengthen others.
Storm: disintegration; highly offensive flames, able to break and / or decay anything they come in contact with.
Cloud: propagation; has the ability to increase / expand, or multiply what the user desires. more efficient in open areas. they can also seemingly suck in other flames.
Mist: construction; generally, mist users are illusionists ( chrome, mukuro, mammon / viper ), able to work with and create illusions, and with the help of the mist flames, make them even better. while they aren't all that offensive, they're pretty good at making people go a little crazy.
Rain: tranquility; known for it's ability of stillness and calm, these flames are able to pacify and weaken a target by robbing their strength and movement capacity.
Lightning: hardening; these flames act a lot more like electricity than fire, sporadic when lit and even able to electrocute when used offensively. defensively, they can harden objects and create barriers for protection.
Of course, with power comes people who are power hungry; there have been many battles and near wars started to get close to the power of the rings, more respectively during the Future Arc, where present characters are sent to the future to fight a growing family that wants the entire Tri-ni-Sette for themselves. Hooray, world domination! Luckily, Tsuna and the rest of his gang of power wielders thanks to the rings use their power for the greater good ( at least . . . most of them . . . ), for protecting what's precious and keeping those who can't, safe.