That is not character development, it’s freaking bullshit.
As soon as the effect wears off, he reverts back into a spineless idiot. Tsuma in particular is a spineless wimp, who becomes furious and powerful every time a magic bullet hits him. Nobody is trying to learn or mature, they only switch into their future selves, or try to imitate what they know they will become. You know from the very beginning what they will be like at the end of the story.
What I mean is that there is time travel in this show, where you see how cool and powerful everybody becomes in the future. Any supposed character development happens in a fatalistic way. All of which while shredding his clothes because that is supposed to be funny if you are 7 years old. Especially the part where Tsuma is in trouble, Reborn shoots him with a magic bullet, and he gets a convenient power up to save the day. Unless your mental age is bellow 8 years old or something, you will not laugh after the second time they reuse the exact same joke. People who complain a lot about the way One Piece characters look, they need to check out Hitman Reborn and realise how they are far from the worst.Most of them are defined by a single personality quirk, making them one dimensional at best, and have a running gag which repeats way too much without being smart or funny. Do you believe this is a shonen about babies? And their character designs are shit. There are others almost as interesting and, yeah, again all of them are babies doing nonsense. The real protagonists are Reborn, the baby-mafia with a lizard gun, and Lambo, the afro cow-uniform baby. The protagonist appears to be Tsuma, but he is just a boring wimp who just has to do stuff for the heck of it. Speaking of teenagers, character appeal in this series is awful. Don’t expect anything multi-layered, or well-thought out, since it is mostly a silly action/comedy focused on random gags, slapstick humour, and occasionally some excuse to have teenagers with superpowers fighting each other. Unfortunately, Hitman Reborn is not Neon Genesis. Being forced to do something is an interesting twist, since it gives lots of openings for dealing with psychological pressure, in the likes of Shinji Ikari from Neon Genesis. He doesn’t want to be famous and powerful, his father does, so he can succeed him in his mafia family when he retires. The premise is the typical “insecure boy grows stronger, makes allies and creates his own empire” with the catch being he didn’t chose it. It could be about pirates or ninjas and it wouldn’t make a difference. Not that it’s really about mafia just like it happens with most shonen, the theme is just flavour. Hitman Reborn, aka “The Idiotic Mafia anime”.
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