{"site":"Yomimono","license":"CC BY 4.0 (citation required)","generated_at":"2026-05-23T21:20:27.992Z","story":{"id":"r_d2cd8dcb96354530916817e0","slug":"decade-later-reborn-still-divides-its-biggest-fans","url":"https://yomimono.id/decade-later-reborn-still-divides-its-biggest-fans","headline":"A Decade Later, Reborn! Still Divides Its Biggest Fans","summary":"A new retrospective by Jairus Taylor at Anime News Network revisits Akira Amano's Reborn! manga and anime, examining how the series' tonal shifts and uneven pacing hold up more than a decade after its 2012 conclusion. The piece balances affection for the cast with frustration at the series' structural problems.","why_it_matters":"The retrospective captures the ambivalence many long-time fans feel toward a series that was a Weekly Shonen Jump staple and an early Crunchyroll simulcast, but whose legacy is complicated by its genre identity crisis.","published_at":"2026-05-19T21:17:01.000Z","source_count":1,"sources":["Anime News Network"],"citations":[{"source":"Anime News Network","title":"Retrospective: Does the Dying Will of Reborn! Still Burn?","url":"https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2026-05-11/retrospective-does-the-dying-will-of-reborn-still-burn/.223310"}],"license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","entities":{"anime_titles":["Reborn!"],"manga_titles":["Reborn!"],"studios":[],"people":["Jairus Taylor"],"type":"review","domain":"anime","is_roundup":false}}}