Hello, Mr Despair

Late Tia is late. I‘m only just getting into the anime of last year (Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei, Darker than Black, Ghost Hound, Gurren Lagann) and there’s already a whole stack of stuff that’s being subbed for 2008 (Shigofumi, Soul Eater, Persona?), not to mention all the manga I’ve been meaning to catch up on - Bleach, I’m looking at you - and everything I’ve had sitting on the backburner. *doooom*

You know, I woke up today and decided I prefer Marmon to Mammon, inexplicably. And speaking of Reborn:

I can’t say it’s much of a surprise that Spanner – rescued? kidnapped? – Tsuna but I can say that it was marvelously executed. (This page? Killed me dead. DEAD, I SAY.) Spanner's far too pretty to be a non-recurring character; in fact, I don’t think Amano-sensei even has any of those. Recall Irie Shouichi’s cameo in chapter 1X and the Kokuyou gang and the Varia and the Cervello etc. etc.

Check out Spanner’s creepy fanboy *___* expression. I LOLED. It turns out he’s something of a perv for Tsuna Japanophile (Nipponphilist? I’m sure there’s a proper term for it, haha). And Ryohei is awesome as usual. In short? Great chapter.

PS. ricordi!!! I saw partly NSFW Xanxus/Squalo, and thought of you. XD