50 Fun Facts About Katekyo Hitman Reborn!

Leon, the shape-shifting partner who makes bullets for Reborn in Reborn!, is what kind of animal?

Leon is a chameleon who usually sits on Reborn's fedora. He also produced the X-Gloves that Tsuna fights in.

The Vongola Family in Reborn! shares its name with the Italian word for which kind of seafood?

Clam is the meaning of the Italian word vongola, the variety most used in Italian kitchens. The humble name belongs to the most powerful Mafia family in the story.

What must Tsuna have when Reborn shoots him with a Dying Will Bullet, or else the shot kills him?

A regret is what the bullet feeds on: the person shot comes back to life determined to put that one thing right. Anyone hit with nothing left undone simply dies.

Tsuna Sawada in Reborn! is being trained to become which numbered boss of the Vongola Family?

Tenth is his number, which is why the story calls him Vongola Decimo. He qualifies because the other candidates died and he descends from the family's founder.

What nickname do classmates at Namimori Middle School attach to Tsuna's name early in Reborn!?

No-Good is the tag, Dame in Japanese, earned through poor grades, bad luck and a lack of athleticism. Even his own mother has little belief in him succeeding in life.

Lambo, the five-year-old hitman in Reborn!, dresses in a suit modelled on which animal?

Cow fits his family, the Bovino, whose name is Italian for bovine. He stores snacks and weapons inside his huge afro.

Kyoya Hibari, the feared prefect of Namimori Middle in Reborn!, fights with a pair of which weapons?

Tonfas are his choice: collapsible steel ones with hidden compartments holding chains and spikes. He uses them on anyone who crowds near him.

The Arcobaleno, the seven strongest infants in Reborn!, are named after the Italian word for what?

Rainbow suits them because each infant carries a pacifier in a different colour of the spectrum. All seven were adults before a curse shrank them.

The Reborn! manga ran from 2004 to 2012 in which Japanese manga magazine?

Weekly Shonen Jump carried the series for eight years, and its chapters fill 42 collected volumes. It became one of the magazine's best sellers, with over 30 million copies in circulation.

Bianchi, the half-sister of Hayato Gokudera in Reborn!, attacks her victims with which speciality?

Poison cooking is her art, and because she is immune to her own dishes she sees nothing wrong with serving them. Eye contact with her is enough to give her brother stomach aches.

Which weapon does Hayato Gokudera, Tsuna's self-appointed right-hand man in Reborn!, keep hidden all over his body?

Dynamite is his trademark, lit from the cigarette held in his mouth. The hot-headed bomber is also a genius who excels in his academic studies.

Takeshi Yamamoto, Tsuna's easygoing classmate in Reborn!, is the star of which sport at Namimori Middle?

Baseball was the one thing he felt confident at, until an arm injury drove him to despair and Tsuna talked him round. He later becomes a swordsman who treats Mafia battles as a game.

Ryohei Sasagawa, the loud upperclassman in Reborn!, keeps asking Tsuna to join which club at Namimori Middle?

Boxing is his passion, and the training has brought him to peak physical condition. He throws himself into every strange Mafia event without grasping what is really going on.

Which girl, the younger sister of Ryohei Sasagawa, is the crush of Tsuna Sawada in Reborn!?

Kyoko is the only reason he bothers going to school. For a long time she assumes the strange events around him are all part of a game.

Mukuro Rokudo, the illusionist who escaped a Mafia prison in Reborn!, carries which weapon?

Trident in hand, he can possess the body of anyone he has cut with it. He remains a master of illusions first and a fighter second.

Which manga artist, later the character designer of Psycho-Pass, created Katekyo Hitman Reborn!?

Akira Amano wrote and drew the series, opening with jokes while planning how the cast would link into a bigger story. Editors had asked her for a mix of gags and action.

Kyoya Hibari, who beats up anyone crowding near him in Reborn!, guards which of the Vongola Rings?

Cloud Ring duty fits a loner who prefers to be alone and enforces his own order across the whole town. His soft side shows only around animals and small children.

Tsuna must battle Xanxus, leader of the Varia in Reborn!, to hold which of the Vongola Rings?

Sky Ring is the one Tsuna bears as the family's heir. He overpowers his rival in the duel, though the rival still manages to seize all seven rings afterwards.

Chrome Dokuro, who shares a body with Mukuro Rokudo in Reborn!, holds which of the Vongola Rings?

Mist Ring is hers, matching the illusions that keep her alive. After an accident cost her an eye and several organs, illusionary organs were made for her.

Which Mafia boss, clumsy whenever his men are away, did Reborn tutor before Tsuna Sawada?

Dino was a klutz who wanted nothing to do with the Mafia until those lessons made him a capable head of the Cavallone Family. Later he becomes a tutor himself, to Hibari.

Which leader of the Millefiore Family in Reborn! draws on knowledge gathered from parallel worlds?

Byakuran heads the family that is wiping out the Vongola in the future Tsuna's group is thrown into. He built it by merging his own Gesso Family with another clan.

Kyoya Hibari in Reborn! leads which student body at Namimori Middle School?

Discipline Committee members are delinquents who stay loyal to him even though he cares little for them. Teachers and townspeople fear him as much as the students do.

Tsuna's X-Gloves in Reborn! burn with Dying Will Flames, which lets him do what in battle?

Tsuna can take to the air on those jets of flame. The gloves are made of the same material as the bullets Reborn fires at him, and were created by Reborn's pet, Leon.

Lambo's bazooka in Reborn! swaps a person with a version of themselves from how far in the future?

Ten years is the gap, so the crybaby five-year-old gives way to his fifteen-year-old self. The weapon belongs to his family, the Bovino.

Tsuyoshi Yamamoto, father of Tsuna's friend Takeshi in Reborn!, owns what kind of restaurant?

Sushi is the family trade, served at a shop called TakeSushi. Its owner is also a wielder of the Shigure Soen Ryu sword style, which he teaches to his son.

Reborn, one of the seven Arcobaleno in Reborn!, wears a pacifier of which colour?

Yellow marks the pacifier of the Sun, and it glows whenever another of the cursed infants comes near. Reborn got it when he was turned from an adult into a baby.

Which emotion triggers the Pinzu-Time Bomb that turns I-Pin into a human bomb in Reborn!?

Shyness starts a countdown of mahjong-style numbers on her forehead. The usual cause is Hibari, who looks strikingly like her martial arts master.

Doctor Shamal, an assassin in Reborn!, infects his enemies with diseases using which insects?

Mosquitoes of his own breeding travel inside the 666 pills he carries. He survives 666 diseases himself because each one cancels out another.

Each chapter of the Reborn! manga and each episode of its anime is officially called a what?

Target is the label for both: the manga ran past four hundred of them and the anime added 203 more.

What is the name of Vongola Primo, the founder of the family and ancestor of Tsuna in Reborn!?

Giotto founded the family, then retired to Japan and took the surname Sawada to hide his Mafia identity. Tsuna is his great-great-great-grandson.

The curse on Lal Mirch in Reborn! stayed incomplete when which subordinate tried to take her place?

Colonnello ended up with the blue pacifier meant for her, while she was left with a corrupted one. Her own curse slowly fades, which is why she eventually becomes an adult again.

Lal Mirch in Reborn! belongs to which Vongola group, whose leader is second-in-command in a crisis?

CEDEF is short for the Italian for External Consultants of the Family. Its leader has as much say as the boss in choosing an heir, and can split the Vongola Rings if the two disagree.

Which Arcobaleno in Reborn!, a martial artist who resembles Kyoya Hibari, is the master of I-Pin?

Fon holds the red pacifier of the Storm and has mastered at least 104 martial arts. He even shares a voice actor with his lookalike, though the story never explains the resemblance.

The Millefiore Family's seven rings in Reborn!, on par with the Vongola Rings, go by which name?

Mare Rings are the Millefiore's own set of seven. Together with the Vongola Rings and the pacifiers of the cursed infants, they make up the great power called Tri-ni-sette.

Why do the family's seven rings reject Xanxus in Reborn! after he seizes them all?

He lacks Vongola blood because the Ninth boss only adopted him, and only the bloodline can lead. The rejection hands the victory to Tsuna.

Which young disciple of Tsuna's father in Reborn! unknowingly carries fake Vongola Rings as a decoy?

Basil is beaten by a member of the Varia on that mission, unaware that the real ring halves were travelling safely by another route. He stays extremely loyal all the same.

Mukuro Rokudo's gang in Reborn! is named after which school, which it took over within three days?

Kokuyo Junior High fell to a band of Mafia criminals who had escaped from a high-security prison. They had come to Japan to look for the successor of the Vongola.

Which guards of Mafia law in Reborn! wield the Flame of Night and run a prison nobody had escaped?

Vindice punish anyone who defies Mafia law without mercy, and their flame lets them teleport wherever they wish. The story reveals them to be former Arcobaleno.

Which timid transfer student at Namimori Middle in Reborn! is secretly boss of the Simon Family?

Enma Kozato befriends Tsuna after being bullied, then leaves him a letter to test that friendship. Lambo drops it in the bin, and the two families end up at war.

Before joining the Mafia, Hayato Gokudera in Reborn! was a talented player of which instrument?

Piano ran in the family: his mother was a very talented pianist whom his father fell in love with at first sight. He turned to the Mafia after her death.

Which organization of identical masked women acts as judges of the Vongola Tournament in Reborn!?

Cervello women all look exactly the same and their names are never given. When one is beaten or killed, another immediately takes her place.

In Reborn!, which technique of the first Vongola boss does Tsuna learn against the Varia?

Zero Point Breakthrough lets Tsuna extinguish and freeze other people's flames. His own custom version goes further, capturing flame attacks and converting their energy into his own.

Which animation studio produced the 203-episode Reborn! anime that aired on TV Tokyo?

Artland made every episode under director Kenichi Imaizumi, across a four-year run. Two of the nine seasons are anime originals that are not found in the manga.

Which apprentice of Mukuro Rokudo in Reborn! frees his master's body from the Mafia prison?

Fran pulls off the rescue, which lets his master help Tsuna's group in person. In the future era he is also counted among the elite assassins of the Varia.

What cover story explains the long absences of Iemitsu, the father of Tsuna Sawada in Reborn!?

Oil fields abroad are the cover; in truth he is the Outside Advisor, holder of the second-highest position in the Vongola Family. Tsuna long takes him for a loser.

Inside which machine-like member of the Varia is the real Ninth boss hidden and drained in Reborn!?

Gola Mosca gradually drains the old man's life energy while a fake gives orders in his name. Tsuna is the one who saves him.

Which group within the Millefiore Family in Reborn! favours direct combat over cunning tactics?

Black Spell is the half drawn from the old Giglio Nero Family, while the former Gesso side prefers cunning battle tactics. The two halves dislike each other enough to sabotage one another's squads.

Checker Face, who cursed the Arcobaleno in Reborn!, is really which regular ramen delivery customer?

Kawahira administers the Tri-ni-sette, and his contest among the cursed infants was really a hunt for their replacements. He lifts the curse once another way to guard that power is found.

Lal Mirch in Reborn! is a veteran of which real Italian military unit?

COMSUBIN is the Italian Navy's command of divers and raiders, heirs to the frogmen Italy pioneered. A soldier she commanded there went on to become a fellow cursed infant.

Which illusionist Guardian of the first Vongola boss turns the Simon Family on Tsuna in Reborn!?

Demon Spade betrayed his own boss, then lived on for generations by possessing other people's bodies. He arranged the feud to keep the Vongola as strong as he wanted them.