List of Reborn! episodes
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Reborn!
Reborn!, known in Japan as , 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...
anime
Anime
is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....
series, originally titled as Katekyō Hitman Reborn!, is a Japanese
Japanese language
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television series
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directed by Kenichi Imaizumi and produced and animated by Artland
Artland (anime studio)
is a Japanese animation studio. It has produced numerous noted anime series, including the award-winning Mushishi and epic Legend of the Galactic Heroes...
. It first began airing in Japan on the television network
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TV Tokyo
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is a television station headquartered in Toranomon, Minato, Tokyo, Japan. Also known as , a blend of "terebi" and "Tokyo", it is the key station of TX Network. It is one of the major Tokyo television stations, particularly specializing in anime...
on October 7, 2006, and has since broadcast over 200 episodes, which are each referred to as a "Target". The anime is an adaptation
Literary adaptation
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of Akira Amano
Akira Amano
is a female Japanese manga artist known for the shōnen manga series Reborn!.Early versions of Reborn! were published in seinen manga magazines. In late 2003, the series, a stand-alone short story at the time, was published in the Weekly Shōnen Jump. After the success of the short story, the series...
's manga
Manga
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series of the same name, which was first serialized
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in Japan's Weekly Shōnen Jump
Weekly Shonen Jump
is a weekly shōnen manga anthology published in Japan by Shueisha under the Jump line of magazines. The first issue was released with a cover date of July 2, 1968, and it is still circulating. One of the longest-running manga magazines in Japan, it has a circulation of 2.8 million copies...
in 2004. The series centers around the life of Tsunayoshi "Tsuna" Sawada, a timid boy who learns he is the great-great-great grandson of the founder of the Italian Vongola Mafia family. Tsuna, who is the only living heir, must learn to become a proper Mafia boss
Crime boss
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and is required to undergo training from the Vongola's number one hitman
Hitman
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, an infant named Reborn.
As of June 26, 2009, a total of twenty-eight DVD
DVD
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volumes have been released in Japan by Marvelous Entertainment, with another four scheduled to have consecutive monthly releases. The DVDs have secondary volume titles: the first eight volumes are "Bullets" which contains the first thirty-three episodes; the next eight are "Battles", and contains episodes 34 to 65; volumes seventeen and eighteen are "Daily Chapters", containing episodes 66 to 73; volumes nineteen to twenty-five are "Burn" volumes, and contains episodes 75 to 101; and twenty-sixth onwards are referred to as "X.Burn" volumes.
In 2008, Funimation
Funimation Entertainment
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, on behalf of Japan's d-rights production company, exercised a power of attorney
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to remove fansub
Fansub
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bed episodes of the Reborn! anime from the internet. Thus, to prevent copyright infringement
Copyright infringement
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, cease and desist
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notices were sent to fansub groups who were subtitling
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the series. On March 21, 2009, d-rights collaborated with the anime-streaming website Crunchyroll
Crunchyroll
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in order to begin streaming subbed episodes of the Japanese-dubbed series in North America. New episodes are available to North America a week after its airing in Japan.
Season 1: 2006 - 2007
Seasons 2 - 3 : 2007 - 2008
Season 4: 2008
Season 5: 2008 - 2009
Season 6: 2009
Season 7: 2009 - 2010
Season 8: 2010
Season 9: 2010
DVD releases
Marvelous Entertainment, the Japanese company that handles the DVD distribution of the series, released the first volume on January 26, 2007. Each disc contains special features. A total of twenty-four volumes have been released in Japan as of February 27, 2009. Volumes twenty-five to twenty-eight are scheduled to have consecutive monthly releases this year. So far, only Region 2 coded DVDs have been released in Japan.Each volume has so far contained only one disc, with each containing four episodes, save the eighth volume ("Bullet 8"), which contains five episodes. Besides the secondary volume titles - Bullet, Battle, Daily Chapter, Burn, X.Burn and Choice - there are also subtitles
Subtitle (titling)
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below the Reborn! title in the Battle and Burn volumes. The Battle volumes are subtitled "vs Varia", while the Burn volumes are subtitled "The Future".
Region 2
| Volume | Release date | Discs | Episodes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bullet.1 | January 26, 2007 | 1 | 1 - 4 |
| Bullet.2 | February 23, 2007 | 1 | 5 - 8 |
| Bullet.3 | March 21, 2007 | 1 | 9 - 12 |
| Bullet.4 | April 27, 2007 | 1 | 13 - 16 |
| Bullet.5 | May 25, 2007 | 1 | 17 - 20 |
| Bullet.6 | June 29, 2007 | 1 | 21 - 24 |
| Bullet.7 | July 27, 2007 | 1 | 25 - 28 |
| Bullet.8 | August 31, 2007 | 1 | 29 - 33 |
| Volume | Release date | Discs | Episodes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Battle.1 | November 30, 2007 | 1 | 34 - 37 |
| Battle.2 | December 21, 2007 | 1 | 38 - 41 |
| Battle.3 | January 25, 2008 | 1 | 42 - 45 |
| Battle.4 | February 29, 2008 | 1 | 46 - 49 |
| Battle.5 | March 19, 2008 | 1 | 50 - 53 |
| Battle.6 | April 25, 2008 | 1 | 54 - 57 |
| Battle.7 | May 30, 2008 | 1 | 58 - 61 |
| Battle.8 | June 27, 2008 | 1 | 62 - 65 |
| Volume | Release date | Discs | Episodes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daily Chapter 1 | July 25, 2008 | 1 | 66 - 69 |
| Daily Chapter 2 | August 29, 2008 | 1 | 70 - 73 |
| Volume | Release date | Discs | Episodes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burn.1 | September 17, 2008 | 1 | 74 - 77 |
| Burn.2 | October 31, 2008 | 1 | 78 - 81 |
| Burn.3 | November 28, 2008 | 1 | 82 - 85 |
| Burn.4 | December 26, 2008 | 1 | 86 - 89 |
| Burn.5 | January 30, 2009 | 1 | 90 - 93 |
| Burn.6 | February 27, 2009 | 1 | 94 - 97 |
| Burn.7 | March 18, 2009 | 1 | 98 - 101 |
| Volume | Release date | Discs | Episodes |
|---|---|---|---|
| X-Burn.1 | April 24, 2009 | 1 | 102 - 105 |
| X-Burn.2 | May 29, 2009 | 1 | 106 - 109 |
| X-Burn.3 | June 26, 2009 | 1 | 110 - 113 |
| X-Burn.4 | July 24, 2009 | 1 | 114 - 117 |
| X-Burn.5 | August 28, 2009 | 1 | 118 - 121 |
| X-Burn.6 | September 16, 2009 | 1 | 122 - 125 |
| X-Burn.7 | October 30, 2009 | 1 | 126 - 129 |
| X-Burn.8 | November 27, 2009 | 1 | 130 - 133 |
| X-Burn.9 | December 16, 2009 | 1 | 134 - 137 |
| X-Burn.10 | January 29, 2010 | 1 | 138 - 141 |
| Volume | Release date | Discs | Episodes |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Volume | February 26, 2010 | 1 | 142 - 145 |
| Middle Volume | March 3, 2010 | 1 | 146 - 149 |
| Final Volume | April 30, 2010 | 1 | 150 - 153 |
| Volume | Release date | Discs | Episodes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Choice.1 | May 28, 2010 | 1 | 154 - 157 |
| Choice.2 | June 25, 2010 | 1 | 158 - 161 |
| Choice.3 | July 21, 2010 | 1 | 162 - 165 |
| Choice.4 | August 27, 2010 | 1 | 166 - 169 |
| Choice.5 | September 15, 2010 | 1 | 170 - 173 |
| Choice.6 | October 29, 2010 | 1 | 174 - 177 |
| Volume | Release date | Discs | Episodes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bullet Box | June 17, 2009 | 8 | 1 - 33 |
| Battle Box | March 3, 2010 | 8 | 34 - 65 |