High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The episodes of the Reborn! anime series, originally titled as Kateky Hitman Reborn!, is a Japanese television series directed by Kenichi Imaizumi, and produced and animated by Artland. It first began airing in Japan on the television network TV Tokyo on October 7, 2006, and has since broadcast over 100 episodes, which are each referred to as a "Target". The anime is an adaptation of Akira Amano's manga series of the same name, which was first serialized in Japan's Weekly Sh nen Jump in 200 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 crime family. Tsuna, who is the only living heir, must learn to become a proper Mafia boss and is required to undergo training from the Vongola's number one hitman, an infant named Reborn. As of June 26, 2009, a total of twenty-eight DVD volumes have been released in Japan by Marvelous Entertainment, with another four scheduled to have consecutive monthly releases.