Katekyo Hitman Reborn

Katekyo Hitman Reborn is a completed supernatural shounen manga series by Akira Amano. It has been adapted into an animated TV series as well as into several novels and video games.
==Canon==
The main protagonist is a teenager, Tsuna Sawada, who one day suddenly finds himself stuck with a pint-sized "tutor" by the name of Reborn. His new teacher is revealed to be a mafia hitman, who tells Tsuna that he is the next heir to the Vongola mafia family, and thus has to be trained. Additionally, Tsuna is supposed to find more people to create his own "family". 
The series follows Tsuna as he struggles against his fate, meets and befriends additional Family members, and discovers that the Vongola rings he and his guardians are meant to wear hold their own secrets.
===Characters===
* Tsunayoshi Sawada
* Reborn
* Hayato Gokudera
* Takeshi Yamamoto
* Kyoko Sasagawa
* Ryohei Sasagawa
* Haru Miura
* Mukuro Rokudo
* Kyoya Hibari
* Bianchi
* Iemitsu Sawada
* Timoteo Vongola
* Xanxus
* Byakuran
* Skull
==Fandom==
Although less ubiquitously popular than The Big 3 Manga, Katekyo Hitman Reborn began only a few years after those series and ran along with them in Weekly Shonen Jump. Viz Media frequently cross-promoted the aforementioned Big 3 with KHR and other SJ series such as Hikaru no Go and YuYu Hakusho, and as a result fans who started with one series often ended up reading the others. 
===Fanon===
====Dying Will Flames====
One of the popular elements to play with from this series is the Dying Will Flames. In canon, the mafia has learned how to harness the magic powers that some humans have which come out when they have to face something with their "dying will". This magic comes in seven main types, and each one is associated with a color, personality traits, and specific magic powers. Sky flames in particular have the trait of attracting all the other flames and harmonizing with them, which has been interpreted/reinterpreted by different fans in different ways. Many stories treat it similar to a sort of poly-soulbond, sometimes with flavors of soulmates. Additionally, how flames work, how they interact, and how they affect the people they belong to have a large amount of fan theories and headcanons. Some more popular ones are that for each flame-type there is a "classic" expression and an "inverted" expression (where the person is an atypical example of the type and doesn't have the standard personality traits ascribed to it), that Clouds need to lay claim on a territory, that sealing someone's flames while they are still young and growing leads to trouble thinking and controlling their body (hence Tsuna's status as "dame"), and that there are various negative effects around breaking bonds or disharmony.
Dying Will Flames have also been used as a kind of fusion or AU where they are applied to other canons. This might be explained by the fun fan activity of trying to guess what category bests fits a characters, such as when fans put characters into Hogwarts houses.
====Bizarre Namimori====
Tsuna's hometown and the primary setting of the story is the small, relatively normal Japanese town of Namimori. Some things (such as the power and reach of Kyouya's Disciplinary Committee at Namimori Middle, or Takeshi's dismissal of Hayato's bombs as fireworks and the dangerous intrusions of the Underworld as just a "mafia game") are a bit bizarre, but likely simply the results of some comedic/dramatic exaggeration by the manga. In a number of fanworks, these aspects are theorized about and played with. Sometimes Namimori is essentially a retirement village for members of the Underworld. Other times, it has an unusually high concentration of flame-active individuals, but is otherwise normal. There are multiple fics where the town is a closed city, sometimes with a supernatural element that won't let residents leave. While the details differ, a large number of KHR fanfics make Namimori abnormal in some way.
===Fanworks===
=====Fanfiction=====
* Close to Home by metisket. A finished, mostly gen Hibari/Chrome kidfic.
* Birthright (KHR fanfiction) by Morcai. An unfinished gen time travel fic.
* Sidelines by esama. A finished gen time travel fic.
* Wild Justice (KHR fanfiction) by Lys ap Adin. A finished Kyouko-centric deathfic.
* Playing Pretend by InsaneScriptist. A finished Mukuro point of view Chrome-centric character study.
* If You Can't Beat 'Em by metisket. A finished Hana-centric gen fic.
* Concrete Feet by chespin. A finished Haru-centric gen fic.
* one more day (is not enough) by shanatical. An unfinished Shouichi/Haru/Byakuran polyamory fic.
* Force of Nature by Ramabear. A finished Xanxus/Hibari Naruto crossover reincarnation fic.
* Generation Cross by Luki. An unfinished Tsuna-centric time travel fic.
* Dead-Eyed Tsuna by wyrvel. A finished Tsuna-centric deconstruction fic. Has a now-discontinued sequel.
* the isn't it beautiful? series by esquitor. An Alternate Universe/Universe Alteration gen with it's own lore and worldbuilding.
* Seiryū by petrichor. A gen original character self insert reincarnation fic. Has two spin offs and some meta.
* Father's Pride by Bleach-ed-Na-tsu. A Giotto and Tsuna gen fic.
* More Than No Good by KuraiArcoiris. Unfinished twin fic.
*Black Sky by Umei no Mai. A Harry Potter crossover with a genderswapped Harry.
=====Fanvids/AMVs=====
* Reborn! AMV Butterfly Effect by xStoneHill.
==Pairings==
===Numerical System===
It has become common practice in the KHR fandom to replace certain character names with numbers or letters. For example, the members of the Vongola family have these abbrevations:
G 	Giotto
27 	Tsunayoshi Sawada
59 	Gokudera Hayato
80 	Yamamoto Takeshi
18/H	Hibari Kyouya
L 	Lambo
84 	BasilReborn Numerical System Accessed May 6th 2011.
Pairings are written without signs or spaces between them, resulting in codes such as 5927 or D1827. They are therefore hard to identify for the uninitiated fan. The reason for these numbers lie in the Japanese language and the fact that numbers can have several forms of pronounciation. For a more detailed explanation see Shiroro's "little lesson on the numerology of Reborn".Accessed May 6th 2011.
==Resources==
===Fanworks===
* Katekyou Hitman Reborn! at Archive of Our Own
* Katekyo Hitman Reborn! at FanFiction.Net
===Wikis===
*KHR on Wikipedia
* Reborn Wiki 
* German Reborn Wiki 
===Fancommunities===
*KHR rare pair week (Tumblr) Has a discord link
*KHR kink meme (DW Community)
*rebornfandom (DW Community)
*hitman-reborn (LJ Community)
*khr-yaoi (LJ Community)
*reborn-fst (LJ Community for FST)
*hitmanreborn (DW Community)
*K-H-R-Fanclub (deviantArt Community)
* KHR Shipping Meme (Tumblr)
* Katekyo Hitman Reborn Confession (Tumblr)
* KHR blogs masterpost (Tumblr) 
* Katekyo Hitman AUs (Tumblr)
* Incorrect KHR quotes (Tumblr) Has a link to KHR Discord server.
===Meta===
* KHR entries in ship manifesto (Livejournal link)
* KHR entries in ship manifesto (Dreamwidth link)
* To Catch A Cloud Hibari meta in Characterfest by ivory_and_horn
===Recs===
*Fanfic Recs / Katekyō Hitman Reborn! (TV Tropes rec list)
* Katekyo Hitman Reborn! Fic Recs List by ilaem (LJ)
* KHR fic recs skygemspeaks' KHR fic rec tag.
* Katekyo Hitman Reborn Skyberry's Fanfic Recommendations
* http://midnightkaito.wixsite.com/my-wonderland/reborn-fanfic-rec
===Zines===
*Katekyo Hitman Reborn! Zine 2017 (Dec 2017)
*KHR x Uniform (Nov 2018)
*Drawing Days (Sep 2021)
*Jump for the Stars - cinematic-style zine featuring shounen anime series as movie posters (2022)
*Sunny Days (Aug 2023)
===Other===
* KHR Otome Game Project (Tumblr)
* Katekyo Hitman Reborn! on MyAnimeList.net
==References==
Category:Katekyo Hitman Reborn