However, due to Tsuna's high position in the mafia, various other families conspire to kill him, forcing him and his friends to confront them.
Besides the manga and the anime, Tsuna has also been featured in video games and light novels based on the series, as well as a CD soundtrack.
[2] When Reborn shoots him with the Vongola Family's Dying Will Bullet, he returns as a powerful berserker who aims to act on his regrets to make it right.
[8][9] In Hyper Dying Will Mode, he also uses the X-Gloves (イクスグローブ, Equiçu Guroobu), which were created by Reborn's pet Leon.
This new form allows him to access a higher level of flame output and increases the power of the original x burner, with the attack having a 'face' which resembles Natsu's.
Following several months of training with Reborn, Tsuna becomes the target of the Kokuyo gang's criminal agenda to destroy the Vongola.
[24] After reuniting the six Vongola guardians, Tsuna attacks the Millefiore base along with Lal Mirch, Ryohei, Yamamoto and Gokudera.
[27] Spanner develops special contacts lenses which assists Tsuna with stabilizing the X Burner and uses it to the defeat the remaining soldiers from the Milliefiore member Irie Shoichi.
[28] However, Irie reveals to be a spy allied with Tsuna's future self to help the Vongola defeat the Milliefiore leader Byakuran.
In the new "Inheritance Story Arc", Tsuna makes friends with transfer students who turn out to be members of the Shimon Family, a small Mafia clan.
An old man, Talbot, uses the Vongola Primo's blood, Penalty, to give the rings an upgrade with only a 50-50 chance it'll work.
His confidence and determination revived with Hibari's help and the revelation of the fifth key that showed Giotto never betrayed Cozart Shimon.
However, when Reborn starts having strange dreams of Checkerface, also known more mysteriously as "The Man in the Iron Hat", Tsuna and his fellow student Dino Cavallone are roped into being his representatives in the "Battle of the Rainbow".
Before the battles start, Byakuran flies to Tsuna's house and alights on his roof, offering an alliance with Team Uni.
However, Reborn manages to negotiate an alliance with Iemitsu's team in time to save Tsuna's Boss watch from being destroyed.
The next day Tsuna catches up with Enma on the events of the battle and is shocked to learn that the whole Shimon family will be on Skull's team.
He uses his fully released Maximum Rifle to successfully injure all enemy combatants, excepting their allies on Team Reborn.
Colonello fires a second shot from his Maximum Rifle, this time including the members of Team Reborn in the attack.
He is featured in all of the Hidden Bullet light novels by Amano and Hideaki Koyasu, but with a minor role, as they are focused in other characters from the series.
[34][35] The Japanese music distributor Recochoku has made two annual survey of which anime characters that people would like to marry.
[37] Erin Finnegan from Pop Culture Shock noted Tsuna to be a very popular character within female readers of the series due to his appearance and praised how entertaining are his comedy scenes.
[38] Carlo Santos from Anime News Network commented that Tsuna needs to do more important things in the first volume from the manga to make the series more interesting, such as relating more with the Mafia.
[39] Charles Tan from Comics Village noted the story of his character to be "simple" but liked how Tsuna is an "inept, bumbling kid" as well as he agreed with Santos that his relation with Reborn is very good.
He noted Tsuna's first skills caused by the Dying Will Bullet to be an attempt from Akira Amano to add new things to the story, but added that "it almost cheapens the experience.
"[41] However, Ben Leary from the same site also found the Dying Will Bullets to be very repetitive, but added that "watching it happen is such a blast you still look forward to it even when you see it coming.