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Anime Yu-Gi-Oh! sendiri masih tayang di Jepang dengan judul Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V sejak 6 April 2014. Anime tersebut bukanlah bagian dari cerita inti Yu-Gi-Oh! namun dengan banyak elemen dari manga asli ciptaan Kazuki Takahashi.
Sementara itu, Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Movie pernah dibuat dan dirilis pada 2004 yang disusul dengan film lain bertajuk Yu-Gi-Oh! 3D: Bonds Beyond Time pada 2010 sekaligus merayakan ultah franchise ini yang ke-10.
Yu-Gi-Oh! pertama kali dibuat pada 1996 dalam bentuk manga oleh Kazuki Takahashi sebanyak 28 volume hingga 2004. Kisahnya sendiri mengenai seorang anak bernama Yugi yang memiliki kepribadian lain setelah mengenal permainan Millenium Puzzle.
Pokémon The Movie - Black: Victini and Reshiram / White: Victini and Zekrom (Japanese:Victini & the Black Hero: Zekrom / Victini & the White Hero: Reshiramビクティニと黒き英雄ゼクロム & ビクティニと白き英雄レシラム Bikutini to Kuroki Eiyuu Zekuromu / Bikutini to Shiroki Eiyuu Reshiramu) are the 14th Pokémon movies that take place during the Best Wishes Saga and will star Victini and Zekrom or Reshiram. The double movie is being co-released at the same time. They premiered in Japanese theaters on July 16, 2011. White—Victini
and Zekrom received a limited release in US theaters on December 3 and 4
2011, making it the first Pokémon film to released commercially in
theaters since Pokémon Heroes in 2003. It aired on Cartoon Network on
February 11, 2012. Black—Victini and Reshiram premiered on Cartoon
Network on December 10, 2011. It was released on DVD in the US on April
3, 2012.
For the first time in the series's history, two different
versions of a film were released. White—Victini and Zekrom features the
Victory Pokémon Victini and the Deep Black Pokémon Zekrom, while
Black—Victini and Reshiram features Victini and the Vast White Pokémon,
Reshiram.
Movie Information
Directed by
Kunihiko Yuyama
Produced by
Takemoto Mori
Choji Yoshikawa
Yukio Kawasaki
Junya Okamoto
Koichi Kawase
Written by
Hideki Sonoda
Season
Pokémon Movie
Running time
98 minutes
Budget
Unknown
Première
Japan
July 16, 2011
United States
December 3rd & 4th 2011 December 10th & 11th 2011
Home video
Japan
December 16, 2011
United States
April 3, 2012
Ratings
Japan
Unknown
UK
Unknown
United States
7.8/10
Plot
The movie opens as usual with scenes of various Unova Pokémon on
land, in the sea, and in the air. Ash and Pikachu battle against a Sawk
(in Black)/Throh (in White). The trio keeps walking until they come to
a fork in the road. They take the right fork on the road in Black, and
the left fork in White.
In White Hero: Zekrom, Damon
is walking through a hot desert when he sees a Blitzle with an injured
leg. With Reinculus's psychic help to lift it up onto his shoulder, he
walks back to the small village to return Blitzle to its owner, a little
girl. Her father thanks Damon for his help but tells him to go home,
and his plight is useless. Damon begs them to believe him that the
Hometown of Earth can be revived, but they turn him away.
Suddenly a huge tornado tears through the desert towards the
village, stirring up a stampede of Bouffalant. The villagers look on
helplessly, but Damon marches towards the disaster and holds up his
hand. Reshiram appears and Damon climbs on its back, riding as it
destroys the tornado and halts the stampede. Damon asks the townspeople,
stunned by the dragon's appearance, to give him another chance.
In Black Hero: Reshiram, the setting is a frozen snowy
countryside, and a young boy and his parents are attempting to gather
precious plants without disturbing some fighting Beartic. Damon has been
turned away by this village as well, but when a glacier crashes into
the coast and strands the boy and his parents with the Beartic in the
middle of the frozen lake, Damon summons Zekrom, who destroys the
glacier. Again he asks them to give him another chance to speak as they
look at Zekrom, shocked.
Meanwhile, back near Ash and company, two Deerling are playing
nearby on a cliff, but one is startled by Victini peeking out from a
crack in the rock and begins to fall, as the other grabs it by the tail.
Ash hurries over to help, but as he grabs them both, he also slips as
the rock crumbles. Victini grabs him on the foot just as he falls, and
he is able to jump a hundred body lengths to a far cliff down below the big Castle looming over the city. He tells Iris and Cilan to go on ahead and he will meet them after.
While he walks through the cave, rather lost, Victini continues
to give him psychic visions showing him the right ways to go. At one
point Ash, Pikachu and the Deerling walk through a cave with many rock
walkways, and an orb sitting at the very bottom briefly glows and
illuminates the entire cavern.
Ash gets out and Iris and Cilan come up to the Castle to meet
him. Cilan mentions that legend says the Castle flew from a barren
looking valley visible in the distance to the mountain top. At his
companion's disbelief he says it is only
what people say, but it's definitely true the town has incredibly
delicious fruits. Ash longs to eat some, announcing he is always hungry,
and Cilan offers macaroons in a basket. As they make their way through
the Castle to the town below, Ash's macaroons continue to vanish before
he can pop them in his mouth, as Victini, invisible, steals them.
Fireworks begin to go off in town, making Victini choke mid-swallow, and
sending the trio rushing to find a way out so they don't miss the
cut-off time for the tournament.
As they wander aimlessly, Damon appears and offers to help,
saying he's helping at the Castle at the moment. He guides them out and
they sign up for the tournament. While walking in town they see a
Golurk, and follow the huge Pokémon until they meet its trainer,
Juanita, a woman running a souvenir cart full of Victini plush and other
goods. While Victini watches invisibly, she explains Victini is a
Pokémon said to live in town, and will bring power to people. Ash wishes
he could meet such a Pokémon, but she says hardly anyone has ever seen
Victini. Iris buys a little wooden Victini charm to bring her luck in
the tournament. Team Rocket overhears, and decides to abandon plans to
capture Pikachu to get a Victini instead.
The mayor of the town, Mo-monto, announces they have all had
another wonderfully bountiful harvest, congratulating the townsfolk,
then starting the tournament as he explains each participant has a
wooden necklace. While in town, they must battle people at random, and
whoever loses gives up their necklace. He officially begins festivities
with his Klink evo-line Pokémon powering up a street organ to play
music.
The tournament begins and a Serperior battles against Pikachu
first, being defeated. Iris battles Emboar with Emolga, who uses Volt
Switch which sends out Iris' Excadrill instead, forfeiting the match.
Iris glares at Emolga who makes a cute face hoping to be forgiven. Iris
hurries to see Cilan's battle, her eyes lighting up as she fangirls over
the Hydreigon his Pansage is battling. He and Pansage look annoyed
until she becomes sheepish and cheers for
them instead, but in vain as Pansage is defeated. Next, Ash's Oshawott
battles Emboar, successfully keeping its eyes open as it uses Aqua Jet,
defeating Emboar. Scraggy, who is out of his ball as Ash plans to use
him, does a victory dance, swinging his pants from side to side, then
holding his arms up, Victini suddenly appearing in front of him as it
dances as well, startling him. He looks around in confusion before
running after Ash to the next battle.
It is Samurott versus Tepig. Tepig's Ember doesn't even budge
Samurott, who sends it flying into the Victini toy cart run by Juanita.
Victini was hiding in it, and touches Tepig, who instantly powers up,
his eyes bugging out as he speeds back out ready to fight. Ash orders
Ember again, Cilan and Iris gaping in disbelief, but the attack is
humongous, engulfing the entire street in flame and knocking out
Samurott.
Carlita, the trainer of Hydreigon, who was helping her mother
(Juanita) clean up the toys, wonders if Victini could be responsible for
the win. She challenges Ash, who uses Scraggy against her dragon. It
tries to use Headbutt, getting knocked into the bushes instead. Carlita
watches carefully and gasps as she sees Victini appear momentarily to
touch Scraggy, who powers up and defeats Hydreigon instantly. Carlita
gives up her wooden necklace, then goes to explain to Ash and his
friends that Victini is responsible for the wins.
Ash realizes then that Victini may be what caused him to jump so
far, and who guided him through the caves, and who ate his macaroons.
When Victini finally appears when tempted by Cilan's macaroons, Ash is
so happy to meet it he hugs it and spins it around. It begins to cry
from being scared by being flung around, and goes invisible. Ash
apologizes. They walk through town together while Carlita says what a
miracle it is that Victini is appearing, and for macaroons of all
things. When they go down a road, Victini begins to get nervous, but Ash
grabs it and runs. Suddenly Victini is stopped by an invisible force
field, becomes extremely upset, and explodes a fire attack that reveals
the entire force field around the Castle area for a moment. Then it
vanishes, leaving the group distressed. Carlita explains there is a
force field caused by the protective pillars that are scattered
seemingly randomly around the Castle, and Victini cannot leave them.
They find Carlita's mother and explain about Victini. Cilan asks
her to tell them where the nicest, sweetest place in town is, where
someone would go to feel happy and good, because maybe Victini is there.
As they head towards the place, they run into Damon and Mo-monto. They
learn Juanita is Damon's mother, and Carlita
is his younger sister. Juanita complains he hasn't contacted her in
half a year, and they try to surprise him with the news that Victini is
there, but he merely replies that he knows already.
They find the secluded little garden area, which happens to be
part of Mo-monto's property, with a pond and various Pokémon, including
many Cottonee, Petilil, Minccino, Purrloin and Drilbur. Ash falls into
the pond trying to make Victini show itself, and it tries to help him,
but drops him in the water. They play and splash around together, while
the mayor and family look on enjoying how happy Victini looks.
They go into Mo-monto's home where he tells the story of the
People of Earth, and how they are all descendants of them. Once, a
thousand years ago, the People of Earth lived in the Hometown of Earth,
and Victini belonged to the King. The people used the earth wisely and
lived in peace, skillfully using a power inside of the earth called the
dragon pulse, which kept the land bountiful and prosperous. When the
king's two sons, the Princes of the kingdom, one the Hero of Truth who
is the friend of Reshiram, and one the Hero of Ideals who is the friend
of Zekrom, begin to fight, war breaks out, and the town is ravaged as
the dragon pulse goes out of control, reversing its power and draining
the land of all green and life.
The king, using Victini's power, which it willfully gives to help
its friend, moves the entire Castle with most of the people inside of
it away from the ravaged land. He devises protective pillars to keep
Victini's power in check and also to protect the Castle. It lands atop a
mountain some distance away, but the King's energy is gone, and he dies
before the protective pillars can be disabled. They fall haphazardly
around the area, trapping Victini within their confines for all time.
The princes realize their mistake, but it is too late already, the
dragon pulse having turned to chaos. Reshiram and Zekrom, exhausted by
battle, revert to the form of a round stone, which the Princes hide
where nobody can find them.
They go back outside to watch the Pokémon playing, Victini
happily picking and sharing fruits with everyone. They think about how
lonely Victini must have been trapped in the area around the Castle for a
thousand years, but Cilan hopefully says maybe Victini was not so
lonely, watching it play with the Pokémon.
Damon stands with his family and Mo-monto, and says he wishes to
borrow Victini's power. He turns to his mother and reminds her that she
mentioned her dream once, and she flashes back to when he was small,
standing with Juanita in the ruined, barren land where their ancestors
lived. She said it was her dream that people could again live there. He
says her dream can come true, now.
In a small study with just the four of them sitting together,
Damon tells his story. He says how three years ago, he had been
tirelessly working to find a solution to the dead land in their
ancestor's home, visiting villages around the world where the People of
Earth live in small, scattered villages, but is rebuffed each time being
told he is chasing fantasy, that they can no longer live together in
the Hometown of Earth, as it is dead. He convinces Mo-monto to help him,
and hears a mysterious voice in his head, the voice of one of the
dragons. Together, they go deep into the caves below the Castle. At one
point Mo-monto cannot find a way to go any further down, but Damon
appears on a lower level, neither of them sure how he found his way
there. Mo-monto realizes only Damon is meant to go on. In White, Damon
meets Reshiram, who recognizes him as the Hero of Truth. In Black, he
meets Zekrom, who acknowledges him as the Hero of Ideals.
Now with one of the legendary dragons on his side, he returns to
the villages, convincing the villagers with his power over the dragons.
In White, it was Reshiram who stopped the glacier, and a young boy of
the village gave Damon some of the precious plant in a glass vial as a
token. In Black, it was Zekrom who stopped the tornado and stampede, and
Damon was given a small Blitzle toy by the young girl who owned it.
As he is recounting his tale, there is a knock on the door. All
of the villagers from the snowy village and the desert village walk in,
supporting Damon now in his dream.
Ash and friends are asleep outside. Victini is asleep in Ash's
lap, dreaming. It dreams of the force field trapping it, and sees before
its eyes the many centuries passing, seasons changing rapidly and a
town springing up on the mountain below the Castle's new location. At
the end, the King appears, begging forgiveness for accidentally trapping
Victini. He vanishes, and Victini screams for him, which awakens Ash
despite having been only in Victini's dream. Ash pets the sleeping but
troubled Pokémon, mumbling that it must have indeed been very lonely.
Victini wakes up and seems startled and hurried, making everyone
follow it to a ledge of the Castle, where they watch the sun rise over
the ocean. Victini acts very agitated and excited, and Ash realizes it
dreams of visiting the sea. He promises he will take Victini there one
day.
Meanwhile, Damon is preparing to attempt to move the Castle back
and revive the Hometown of Earth, with his family and the other
descendants watching and supporting him. He sends out his Sigilyph, who
begins to power up the Castle's internal workings, and the many Solosis
and Duosion who live below it wake up and begin to glow. As the Castle
comes to life, the protective pillars begin to glow, then rise up and
close in on it. Victini flies away from them in terror, trying to avoid
being hit by the force field. It is pushed into the main room, where
Damon asks it to lend him its power. At first it smiles happily seeing a
vision of the king asking the same thing long ago, then panics as it
realizes this is not the king, but it is too late. Victini is trapped by
the force field and its power begins to be forcefully drained to power
the Castle, which begins to rise up. As it rises, the green, healthy
dragon pulse spills out and water and life creep back into the Hometown
of Earth once the healthy pulse reaches it.
At first Ash and company are stunned, but then Ash wants to know
where Victini went, and finds it suffering as its power is drained. He
begs Damon to stop, but Damon seems to think he is merely borrowing the
power, and uses his Reuniclus (in White) or his Gothitelle (in Black) to
stop Ash, Cilan, and Iris. When his sister and mother also see
Victini's suffering, Damon is shocked when even his mother begs him to
stop. Reshiram (in White) or Zekrom (Black) soon appear to aid Damon and
stop their meddling, but Juanita sends out her Golurk who bravely
attempts to fend off the legendary Dragon, but is knocked out and falls
through the clouds.
Damon, desperate to save the hometown of his ancestors, tries to
explain that sometimes sacrifices must be made for important events such
as this. Ash says he doesn't need that kind of truth/ideal, and renews
his frenzied attempts to destroy the ancient device draining Victini's
power, but is held immobile, then rendered unconscious by a psychic
attack from Damon's Pokémon.
While unconscious, the suffering Victini sends a vision to Ash of
the final moments of the king's life. The king, weakened and near
death, tells Victini the Castle must never be moved again, as it would
let the unhealthy, chaotic dragon pulse run amok and could potentially
ruin the world. Ash watches as the king dies before Victini's eyes. When
he awakens he and the others are in the storage room of the Castle.
Juanita and Carlita ask them to forgive Damon, knowing he means well.
Ash panics and shouts out the information he learned in the vision.
Juanita realizes that the dragons reverted to their stone form before
the dragon pulse went bad, and thus Damon's dragon was asleep before it
could have known about the King's final warning and the danger of the
chaotic dragon pulse, which is already running amok and destroying the
forest blow them as they speak. With Damon's dragon partner being overly
powerful, Ash feels it is almost hopeless, but Juanita says one thing
could stop the dragon—the other dragon, its counterpart, which is
probably asleep in the caves below the Castle, where Damon found the
dragon he is using. Ash sets out with Iris and Cilan, using the secret
way down that he found with the Deerling before he met his friends again
and Damon guided them out of the Castle earlier in the movie.
Once down below, Cilan and Iris are surprised as Ash is walking
on the lower level suddenly, and nobody knows how he got there, even
himself. He soon hears a voice—of Zekrom in White, demanding he show his
ideals, and Reshiram in Black, demanding to know his truth. The path
begins to crumble, and Ash and Pikachu race to avoid falling. At the
bottom they come across one of the stones—and the proper dragon awakens
from its long slumber, once again asking Ash about his ideals, or his
truth. Ash clearly states he just wishes to help Victini, and does not
want to let it die, and how he promised he would take Victini to the sea
after it has been alone for a thousand years. The dragon agrees to help
Ash.
Meanwhile, the Castle continues to drift back towards the old
valley, leaving destruction in its path, hidden by thick clouds from
Damon and his dragon's view. Momonto, flying in his helicopter, passes
the horrible scene and flies to the Castle to warn them. Juanita and
Carlita tell him they know already but can't stop Damon. Juanita's
Golurk reappears to once again try to fight with Damon's dragon, but is
beaten down to the courtyard, where it lies unable to move as the dragon
powers up a final attack. As they watch, another attack blocks the
final blow, and Ash appears, riding on the back of his own dragon.
Ash's Dragon sets him down at the Castle, then it continues to do
battle with Damon's. Reshiram and Zekrom fight each other, until,
Reshiram (in White) or Zekrom (in Black) falls, nearly unconscious, down
towards earth, only for the other dragon to swoop down and save it by
scooping it up onto its back. Damon's dragon, now near the ground, can
clearly see the destruction being wreaked in the wake of what Damon is
attempting to do.
Back in the Castle, Ash and Pikachu manage to defeat
Reuniclus/Gothitelle, then he runs to destroy the device trapping and
slowly killing Victini, but throwing himself at it does nothing, along
with Pikachu's attacks. Suddenly, Damon's dragon appears in front of
Ash. Damon demands it stop him, but it destroys the device instead, much
to everyone's surprise. Ash catches and cradles a much-weakened Victini
protectively. As the Castle begins to sink, Damon asks why the dragon
betrayed him, and it states that it has heard the fury of the earth.
Zekrom and Reshiram clear the clouds so Damon can see what is happening
below—instead of life sprouting, the forest is being destroyed by the
chaotic and out of control dragon pulse. He is crushed as he realizes
his mistake and asks the dragons what to do. They explain they need to
use the Castle to reverse the pulse and block the source, and begin to
cause the pulse's power to be sucked up into the Castle away from the
earth.
Damon says the Castle might be ruined and everyone must leave
quickly. Carlita and Iris evacuate on Hydreigon, and the rest begin to
climb into Mo-monto's helicopter. Ash, holding Victini, stops and asks
Damon what he will do, Damon merely replying this is something he must
handle. Ash tries to run to the helicopter, but is thrown back. The
protective pillars are still hovering around the Castle, trapping
Victini. Ash refuses to leave without it, and as everyone else leaves,
Ash sits on the floor huddled with Victini as the Castle, accelerated by
the power it is absorbing, shoots higher into the atmosphere, Damon
being knocked out and falling. Ash is cold and begins to have trouble
breathing. Damon re-appears riding Golurk, and Golurk, Reshiram and
Zekrom continue to attempt to destroy the protective pillars to no
avail. Damon tries to encourage Ash to be brave and hold on, as he is
one of the dragons' chosen, but the protective pillars surround Ash,
Pikachu and Victini so tightly, Damon cannot get through to them.
Now very high in the atmosphere with oxygen levels and
temperatures dropping, Ash is delirious and nearly unconscious. He
whispers to Victini how sorry he is for being unable to keep his promise
to take it to see the ocean. It is so cold that Ash's tears freeze
before they hit the ground and he loses consciousness. Victini powers up
in its urge to save Ash, using V-create, the warmth of it waking Ash
before Victini uses it to finally break the pillars, crashing through
them up into the sky. The distorted dragon pulse is also released
harmlessly into the atmosphere, and the Castle goes back down. Damon is
able to board again, but Ash is unconscious.
With Ash wrapped in a blanket, and Zekrom and Reshiram pushing
the Castle as Mo-monto guides in his helicopter, they find the source of
the dragon pulse near the ocean, and use the Castle to plug the "leak",
as the dragons instructed. Once the Castle settles, the dragon pulse
calms and turns healthy once more before dissolving. Team Rocket, who
had been seen twice unsuccessfully stalking Ash at the Castle, look at
the ocean and state that they feel good anyway.
The group, now safe, stands on the beach, obviously feeling mixed
emotions, as Victini vanished and supposedly perished in its final
V-create attack it used to free itself and release the polluted dragon
pulse. Ash states that here is the ocean, and apologizes again for being
unable to do anything to help Victini. He takes one of Cilan's
macaroons, throwing it at the water and shouting it was what Victini
loved. The macaroon stops and is eaten in midair as they watch. Cilan
happily exclaims this is a "taste" they all know well. Ash grins and
pretends he is going to eat the final macaroon, Victini appearing and
whimpering as it reaches for it. Ash gives it over and hugs Victini
tight, making it choke a bit.
Everyone looks happy, but Damon falls to his knees, overwhelmed
by his mistake. His mother lifts him up and smacks him hard on the back,
saying that what is really important is yet to come. Victini shows Ash a
vision of it using its power to help restore the Hometown of Earth, and
Ash understands Victini and he cannot be together much longer as it has
a job to do. Zekrom and Reshiram depart, powering up their tails as
they shoot into the sky over a rainbow.
As the credits roll, various scenes of the newly restored lands
are shown, with Damon and the People of Earth looking on with Ash and
friends as they all say goodbye. Zekrom and Reshiram can be seen flying
over the ocean and above cities. Other various scenes flash by,
including a thunder and rain storm caused by Thundurus in Black, and a
wind and rain storm caused by Tornadus in White. Team Rocket is also
seen stalking Ash and friends from inside a cafe, watching as they walk
past, Proof/Peg from the previous movie also walking by.
title = Pokémon the Movie: Genesect and the Legend Awakened
japanese title = {{tt|神速のゲノセクト ミュウツー覚醒|
Extremespeed Genesect: Mewtwo Awakens}
caption = English poster cover
directed by = Kunihiko Yuyama
produced by = Takemoto Mori<br>Choji Yoshikawa<br>Yukio Kawasaki<br>Junya Okamoto<br>Koichi Kawase
written by = Hideki Sonoda
running time = 95 minutes
season = Pokémon Movie
prev = MS015: Pokémon the Movie: Kyurem vs. the Sword of Justice
budget = $30,270,596
japan = July 13, 2013
united states = {{tt|October 19, 2013|Cartoon Network}}
home video japan = December 18, 2013
home video united states = December 3, 2013
rating japan = TBA
rating united kingdom = TBA
rating united states = TBA
english title = Extremespeed Genesect and the Reawakening of Mewtwo}}
{{nihongo|'''Genesect and the Legend Awakened'''|神速のゲノセクト ミュウツー覚醒|Shinsoku no Genosekuto: Myuutsū Kakusei|literally meaning; ''Genesect of Godspeed: Mewtwo's Awakening''}} is the sixteenth Pokémon movie. It will be released alongside the short ''[[Pikachu and Eevee Friends]]'' on July 13th, 2013 in Japan. The Movie was to be announced on October 19, 2013 on Cartoon Network and CITV in United States and the UK.
The full name of the movie have been revealed to be "Extremespeed Genesect and the Reawakening of Mewtwo" from CoroCoro magazine.
==Summary== What is this red Genesect, a Pokémon from 300 million years ago, who boasts special speed and power doing in the middle of a large mordern city?
==Featured Pokémon== * [[Red Genesect]] * [[Genesect Army]] * [[Mewtwo (MS016)|Mewtwo]] ** Mega Mewtwo Y
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from the minimum level of 1%. He also has the ability to recover from
severe injuries which would normally be fatal. This ability is revealed
in volume 4 to be due to his having sealed Kotori's power five years
prior to the start of the story, and him using her healing ability each
time he gets injured. Although this only works on severe or life
threatening injuries, minor injuries like scratches and bruises that
would heal naturally will heal at a normal human level unless a severe
injury triggers the healing flames. Later in volume 5, he discovers he
can also use the powers of the Spirits (other than Efreet's) that he has
sealed but he can only use the powers in a limited fashion for a short
time as even doing one strong attack drained his energy to the point
where he almost passed out.
Abandoned by his birth mother, he lives with his foster sister
Kotori. He has blue hair and brown eyes, and is in his second year in
Raizen High School, class 2-4. He was in despair for a time after being
abandoned and subsequently adopted, which made him sensitive to similar
feelings from others and wanting to bring them out of it, fuelling his
desire to save the Spirits. He meets his real sister Mana Takamiya later
in volume 3. In volume 7 Westcott briefly addresses him as Takamiya
before switching back to Itsuka.
She is the first Spirit saved by Shido. She transfers into his class
at the end of the first volume. Shido named her for the date of their
first meeting, the 10th (though one kanji is different, the tenth day of
a month is pronounced as Tohka). Reine later added the Yatogami surname
for her. She has long dark purple hair and purple eyes. She is ignorant
of the ways of the world, but nevertheless has a normal sense of
embarrassment. She seems to have strong feelings for Shido, which she is
shown to be unable to understand when she gets jealous after seeing
Shido accidentally kiss Yoshino. However on learning that Yoshino is a
Spirit like herself she decides to support Shido in his cause to save
the other Spirits such as Kurumi, even actively participating in battles
at times.
She gets captured by DEM Industries at the end of volume 6, then in
volume 7 on seeing Shido ambushed and is about to be killed by Ellen,
she is filled with such despair that she transforms and goes on a
rampage, attacking everyone in sight including Shido. However he manages
to kiss her to bring her back. Westcott calls her transformed state the
Demon King, adding that this transformed state is the actual form of
Spirits like her in the bordering dimension that they come from before
manifesting in this world.
Her Angel is Sandalphon,
which takes the form of a a broadsword, usually with a throne that
doubles as the scabbard, although at times it seems as though she can do
just as much damage with or without it, using her hands to project dark
energy spheres or bolts in order to slice through inanimate objects
with ease. Her Astral Dress, Adonai Melek, consists of a purple
ballgown. At full power she shatters the throne (volume 1) and combines
the pieces with the sword turning the blade into Halvanhelev (the Last
Sword) lengthening the blade several meters long, dramatically
increasing her powers and can be charged to unleash an ultimate blow.
Fortunately, the one time she used Halvanhelev charged up Shido was able
to stop and seal her before the energy was unleashed. When she goes
completely berserk (volume 7) her Angel changes to Nehemah,
a stronger version of Sandalphon, and her Astral Dress becomes darker
in colour and more revealing. Her AST and Ratatoskr codename is
Princess.
A highly intelligent classmate of Shido who is athletic,
"beautiful", and the most famous person in Shido's school. She is often
described as doll-like in appearance. She has short white hair and
blue-grey eyes. She is the only human "girlfriend" of Shido, and out of
all the other girls who like him, she is the most aggressive in her
pursuit of him showing no bounds in her attempts to learn more about
him, get closer to him, or even on trying to get more intimate with him.
If not obsessive it borderlines as she does some weird things such as
knowing Shido's exact measurements, and dressed up as a maid when
he visited her after overhearing he likes maids. Her dating
preparations include an energy drink where one drop will increase his
energy a hundredfold, chloroform for emergencies, and a pair of
handcuffs with masking tape in case she needs to use them. She knew
Shido from when they were children living in the same apartment building
and him doing something that had a profound impact on her.
Her hatred of Spirits stems from a Spirit who killed her parents
five years prior when it blasted her parents after they managed to
escape their burning home. Due to this, she joined the AST, in which she
holds the rank of Master Sergeant, in an attempt to find the Spirit
responsible for the fire codenamed "Efreet" and kill her, as she
believed that "Efreet" was the culprit. However "Efreet" who turns out
to be Kotori was not the Spirit responsible. She reluctantly believes
Shido when he tells her that while Kotori unintentionally started the
fire, she did not kill Origami's parents and that there was another
spirit there (later named Phantom.) Although whether Phantom killed her
parents, or another spirit was there and was the one who killed
Origami's parents is unknown. However, considering Phantom went to great
lengths concealing its identity such as not having a clear image or
voice whenever meeting anybody in addition to wiping Shido's and
Kotori's memories 5 years ago its unlikely that it was the girl Origami
saw mocking her parents death. This singular aim of revenge has enough
drive within her to overcome her calm, calculating, and composed
personality for her to go to the extent of disregarding orders and
hysteria, getting her into trouble on more than one occasion. Notably,
she was about to be discharged from the AST in volume 5 until Westcott
intervened, after which her punishment was reduced to two months of not
being allowed to use Realizers.
She is also a protagonist of Date AST Like, a spin-offmanga which focuses on her relationship with Mikie in the AST, as well as the main character of Date A Origami, a 4-komacomic strip manga which focuses on the romantic comedy aspect of the main series.
Shido's foster sister who was a human that gained the power of a
Spirit five years prior to the start of the main story and thus, saved
by Shido at that time. There is no record of how she obtained her Spirit
powers, and she herself cannot remember; she does not know why both
Shido's and her own memories are vague or missing at that crucial point,
though she suspects someone may have tried to erase those memories.
However, she isn't able to handle her Spirit powers for long before she
loses control and is overcome by a powerful need to destroy and kill.
When her Spirit powers overwhelm her, she retains almost no memories of
any events that transpire during that time. She temporarily takes back
her powers from Shido to save him from Kurumi with her power being
sealed by Shido once more later on. The reason another sealing was
needed was because she took all 100% of her power back breaking the
Spirit Link between them that would cause her powers to return to Shido
when she calmed down. During this state Shido has none of Efreet's
powers and thus is completely and mortally human which will stay dead
when killed. At the second sealing, she and Shido both regain their lost
memories of the first sealing: an entity called "Phantom" granted her
her Spirit powers when she was left alone at home and crying (with which
she destroyed everything around her and nearly killed Shido), told her
to kiss Shido if she wanted him to live (which was how Kotori knew about
the method to seal a Spirit's powers, and also the ability to heal from
serious injuries that Shido got from her), and afterwards stripped them
of their memories of its existence, as well as Shido's memories of the
entire incident. This memory also disproves Origami's belief that Kotori
was the one who killed her parents, and that it was another Spirit that
did it. Considering how Phantom went to great lengths to conceal its
existence it seems likely that a third spirit was present and the one
who Origami saw murdering her parents. Especially since Phantom never
shows itself with a definable appearance or voice while the figure
Origami saw was definitely a girl who apparently wanted to be seen.
She has red hair, often in twin ponytails, and her eyes are red. She is almost always shown with a Chupa Chups
lollipop in her mouth. She displays two very different characters,
bordering on split personality. When she wears white ribbons in her
hair, she is completely relaxed and peaceful and shows an immature,
spoiled character that's always clinging to her brother. When on the Fraxinus
or dealing with major situations, she switches to black ribbons taking
on an arrogant, superior attitude to everyone including Shido, but
nevertheless still cares deeply for him as shown on many occasions. This
difference in character is revealed in volume 4 to be due to Shido
giving her black ribbons as a present for her ninth birthday after
sealing her powers, and telling her to be strong as long as she wears
them. However she is extremely weak to horror-related things, and reacts
strongly to them regardless of character. She also shows evidence of
concealed romantic interest, such as when she declared to Mana that a
foster sister is better than a full sister because full siblings can't
marry, then gets flustered when she realizes she said it in front of
everyone else.
Her Angel is Camael,
a halberd with a flame edge that is capable of changing shape to a
cannon that extends to her right elbow. The cannon takes a little time
to charge up and absorb Kotori's flames but has a devastating attack
that almost killed Kurumi and blew a hole clean through her angel.
Kotori with her powers has the ability to recover from severe injuries,
which Shido is able to use unconsciously while her powers are sealed
inside him. Its represented by healing flames coming out of the wounds.
How much of this effect remains when her powers are sealed is unknown.
Her Astral Dress, Elohim Gibor, is a kimono which mainly consists of the
colors pink and cream. In her Spirit form she also has horns growing on
her head, with her black ribbons tied on them. Her AST and Ratatoskr
codename is Efreet.
Reborn!, known in Japan as Katekyō Hitman Reborn!(家庭教師ヒットマンREBORN!Katekyō Hittoman Ribōn!?, "Katekyō" being a portmanteau of Katei Kyōshi and translated as Home Tutor), 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.
The individual manga chapters were serialized in Japan in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump from April 4, 2004 and ended in November 12, 2012 and have been published into forty-two tankōbon volumes as of March 4, 2013. Viz Media licensed the series for an English language release in North America, shortening the series name to Reborn!. An anime adaptation of the series by Artland aired on TV Tokyo between October 7, 2006 and September 25, 2010. There have also been various video games based on the series, as well as two light novels by Hideaki Koyasu. Reborn! has become one of the best-selling Weekly Shōnen Jump manga with several of its volumes becoming top-sellers in Japan.[3][4] Reviewers from the series praised its use of comedy as well as the designs used for the infant characters.[5][6] They also mentioned that though it has become more violent since volume 8, it has turned into a more typical shōnen series, praising the storylines and the fights.[7][8]
Plot
The Reborn! story revolves around a boy named Tsunayoshi "Tsuna" Sawada, who is chosen to become the Vongola (Italianclam)
Family's boss due to him being the great-great-great-great grandson of
the first Vongola boss, who had moved to Japan from Italy during his own
time. He is told by Reborn that he will become the tenth (Italiandecimo)
Vongola boss. Also, the other candidates for the position of the head
of the Vongola Family have died. For these reasons, Tsuna is the only
remaining heir.
As such, Timoteo a.k.a. "Vongola IX", the current head of the family,
sends Reborn, an infant hitman from Italy, to train Tsuna. Tsuna then
unwillingly undergoes training from Reborn. Reborn's main method of
teaching Tsuna is the "Deathperate Bullet" (死ぬ気弾Shinukidan?),
which will make the person be "reborn" with a stronger self intent on
fulfilling his dying will. Through his experiences, the initially clumsy
and underachieving Tsuna unconsciously becomes stronger, more
confident, and willing, which ultimately makes him better suited as the
Vongola Family's boss despite continuing to reject his Mafia
inheritance. He also starts making several friendships such as his crush
Kyoko Sasagawa.
Tsuna goes through many predicaments in his progress of becoming the Vongola boss including fighting against escaped Mafia convicts posing as Kokuyo Junior High students. Later, The Varia, Vongola assassin squad, claim the right for their boss, Xanxus
to be the true Vongola boss, and starts a competition with Tsuna to
decide who would be the Vongola boss. To defeat the Varia, Reborn
recruits most of Tsuna's schoolmates to become the Vongola guardians: Hayato Gokudera, an expert on dynamite who wishes to be his right-hand man, Takeshi Yamamoto, an athlete who likes baseball and thinks that the Mafia is a game, Ryohei Sasagawa, the energetic captain of the school boxing club and always goes to the most extreme, and Kyoya Hibari, the deadly head prefect. Lambo, a weak infant hitman who wants to kill Reborn, and also is very annoying, lazy, and spoiled, and Chrome Dokuro, a girl who has a mental and physical link with the criminal Mukuro Rokudo,
joins them as well. Later, after defeating the Varia, Tsuna and his
friends are transported to the future where they must face the
Millefiore Family, who are annihilating the Vongola. They also find that
all the Arcobaleno are dead except for Lal Mirch, who was the holder of
the corrupted Pacifier. As Tsuna and the Vongola Guardians from his
time fight the Millefiore they learn that Shoichi Irie, a comrade of
Tsuna's future self, was the one who sent them to the future as the
future Tsuna said they were the only ones who can defeat the Millefiore
leader Byakuran. It is later revealed that Byakuran has gained knowledge
from parallel worlds and that he wants to obtain all the Mafia rings in
order to obtain a power similar to omniscience.
After defeating Byakuran, Tsuna and company return to the present
where they learn that Tsuna is to undergo the inheritance ceremony to
officially become Vongola X. However, the ceremony is attacked by the
Shimon Family, who have sworn revenge on Vongola Primo for supposedly
betraying the first Shimon boss. Armed with their new Vongola Gear,
Tsuna confronts the Shimon family on a secluded island. The Mafia
family, Vindice, are involved in the battle and imprison the losers of
the feud. After several battles, it is revealed, Daemon Spade, an
illusionist and guardian of the first generation of Vongola, was
manipulating Shimon. He uses the conflict to take control of Mukuro's
body and intends to conquer Vongola to remodel it to his image, but the
combined strength of Tsuna and Simon's leader, Enma Kozato, manages to
defeat Daemon once and for all.
Afterwards, Reborn and the other Arcobaleno are offered a chance to
compete against one another in order to undo the curse inflicted upon
them. Each Arcobaleno chooses a representative to fight for them, and
the winner will have a chance to undo the curse. However, the Vindice
enter the fight and reveal to Reborn and Tsuna that the tournament is
actually a front for the selection of a new Arcobaleno, while the
previous Arcobaleno are discarded to either die, or become Vindice
themselves. Unable to accept the method, Tsuna formed alliance with the
entire remaining teams to defeat Bermuda and the Vindice. During the
last day of the Representative Battle of the Rainbow, Tsuna defeats
Bermuda and his team, making his team won the Representative Battle.
Checker Face, the ringleader behind the Curse of the Rainbow that
inflicted upon the Arcobaleno, reveals himself and disclosed his true
identity as Kawahira as he tells them the truth behind the Tri-ni-set.
Finally finding another solution to keep the Tri-ni-set safe and Yuni's
concision, Kawahira agreed to remove the curse inflict upon the
Arcobaleno and entrust the safety of the Tri-ni-set to the future
generations. After the events in the Arcobaleno Battle Reborn asks Tsuna
to make a decision and become the tenth head of the Vongola Family,
which Tsuna refuses. Reborn leaves since he has no business again with
Tsuna. A week after Reborn's departure, Tsuna realises that he is still
No-Good Tsuna and states that nothing has changed. However, Reborn then
comes back, declaring that he will train Tsuna into Neo-Vongola Primo,
which is similar to becoming Vongola Decimo. Remembering that now he has
friends that he could rely on and finally understood that he did change
from everything that he has experienced, he realised that everything
was all thanks to his tutor and partner, The Home Tutor Hitman Reborn.
