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la_vie_noire) wrote2010-06-24 07:05 pm
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Okay, first of all, I'm still very damn sorry I cannot answer most comments.
Yes, I have to admit this was a damn good chapter in what concern my buttons. If only the rest of the manga where like this.
Yamamoto's illusion did something to my gut. It may be due the amazing fondness I have for the character, but it also may play a part that Reborn being the mindless shonen it usually is never does a melodrama out of it. Going from the panels showing Yamamoto there with the group in a very casual and not particularly poignant way to the single beautiful and relatively small panel of Illusion!Yamamoto's profile after it was revealed Chrome was creating him had a great emotional impact. Not sure it if was just me always having this thing for not-leading characters and their focus, or it was something relatively deliberate.
To be honest, I would have loved to see the other characters reacting emotionally to the illusion. Since this is the epitome of shoneness, there was nothing like that in this chapter. Still wondering is that actually made the emotionally impact more effective for me for its simplicity.
I love love how Amano is handling the build-up of Shimon's conflict. I think there are lot of things to say about the dynamics of Tsuna telling Enma with a smile he is going to inherit. Tsuna actually not doing it because he wants to be the Tenth, but because now we see (as in, it is really addressed) he has good reasons for not liking it one bit. Enma's grave expression in response, he thinks Tsuna is a Just Another Mafia Leader, and Enma would have to make his attack. The betrayal lurking behind.
Now, elaborating a little on Tsuna: I actually love his emotional stance on this. Not the typical "being the big best one" shonen approach. At least not right now. In most shonen, the climax, the most important event, the hero determination are all moved by this single goal: being the best, the leader, wanting to do this particular poignant thing that is the bane/reason of his existence. Right now I think it's pretty obvious Tsuna's personal issues about inheriting the title are a very secondary theme. He may had had the typical "in denial but never addressed why" reaction about the title before, but again, we are actually seeing he has good reasons for not liking it. He is going with it anyway because it will lead him to Yamamoto's attackers. Tsuna will take it, he would have preferred not to, but not that important when it comes to other things. Thus, Yamamoto's attack and Shimon's conflict totally overcast the "Being the Tenth" issue as the source of inner conflict/motivation for Tsuna. Yeah, a lot of the time heroes put saving/having a revenge over personal goal, but becoming The One is always a big theme. And for Reborn particularly because this was something always there since the first chapter. The manga plot was (and still is) fomented in this, and yet for Tsuna will be kinda cold and anti-climatic if he comes to a realization and suddenly accepts it (after the end of this arc maybe) because he already agreed to it when he noticed his choices were very limited.
So, Yamamoto may not walk again. And fandom is being exactly as ableist as you think it would be. (And don't get me wrong, I know this will be treated awfully in canon. I'm not that naive or optimistic, but fandom still fails. Yes, they are mostly young anime fans. They still fail.)
Also, loving that Mammon complimented Chrome's illusion and called it "of high level" but Squalo and Dino are just that special yadda, yadda.
Yes, I have to admit this was a damn good chapter in what concern my buttons. If only the rest of the manga where like this.
Yamamoto's illusion did something to my gut. It may be due the amazing fondness I have for the character, but it also may play a part that Reborn being the mindless shonen it usually is never does a melodrama out of it. Going from the panels showing Yamamoto there with the group in a very casual and not particularly poignant way to the single beautiful and relatively small panel of Illusion!Yamamoto's profile after it was revealed Chrome was creating him had a great emotional impact. Not sure it if was just me always having this thing for not-leading characters and their focus, or it was something relatively deliberate.
To be honest, I would have loved to see the other characters reacting emotionally to the illusion. Since this is the epitome of shoneness, there was nothing like that in this chapter. Still wondering is that actually made the emotionally impact more effective for me for its simplicity.
I love love how Amano is handling the build-up of Shimon's conflict. I think there are lot of things to say about the dynamics of Tsuna telling Enma with a smile he is going to inherit. Tsuna actually not doing it because he wants to be the Tenth, but because now we see (as in, it is really addressed) he has good reasons for not liking it one bit. Enma's grave expression in response, he thinks Tsuna is a Just Another Mafia Leader, and Enma would have to make his attack. The betrayal lurking behind.
Now, elaborating a little on Tsuna: I actually love his emotional stance on this. Not the typical "being the big best one" shonen approach. At least not right now. In most shonen, the climax, the most important event, the hero determination are all moved by this single goal: being the best, the leader, wanting to do this particular poignant thing that is the bane/reason of his existence. Right now I think it's pretty obvious Tsuna's personal issues about inheriting the title are a very secondary theme. He may had had the typical "in denial but never addressed why" reaction about the title before, but again, we are actually seeing he has good reasons for not liking it. He is going with it anyway because it will lead him to Yamamoto's attackers. Tsuna will take it, he would have preferred not to, but not that important when it comes to other things. Thus, Yamamoto's attack and Shimon's conflict totally overcast the "Being the Tenth" issue as the source of inner conflict/motivation for Tsuna. Yeah, a lot of the time heroes put saving/having a revenge over personal goal, but becoming The One is always a big theme. And for Reborn particularly because this was something always there since the first chapter. The manga plot was (and still is) fomented in this, and yet for Tsuna will be kinda cold and anti-climatic if he comes to a realization and suddenly accepts it (after the end of this arc maybe) because he already agreed to it when he noticed his choices were very limited.
So, Yamamoto may not walk again. And fandom is being exactly as ableist as you think it would be. (And don't get me wrong, I know this will be treated awfully in canon. I'm not that naive or optimistic, but fandom still fails. Yes, they are mostly young anime fans. They still fail.)
Also, loving that Mammon complimented Chrome's illusion and called it "of high level" but Squalo and Dino are just that special yadda, yadda.