@AlmostLegendary:
I think Tsuna did develop a lot. The reason he went back was because of him meeting Emma. I'm not sure if you caught it but there was a lot of similarities between Emma and Tsuna. Tsuna also saw Emma as the guy he used to be. So of course it would cause problems for his new development. However, you guys just want Tsuna to wake up and be rambo. Silly.
No we just don't want him to be as pathetic as he was in the beginning, which he wasn't for a while during the future arc before being reset by Enma rather than using the perfect opportunity Amano made for his development by making a character so similar to how he was. He doesn't have to be rambo… Hell Luffy isn't rambo and presumably all or at least most of us like OP and don't think it has a crappy protagonist. So no, you're "silly" for thinking we want Tsuna to suddenly be out of character badass commando.
Realistically what do you want Lamboo to do? He's a little kid.
I've seen plenty of little kids that aren't as obnoxious as Lambo. Amano should let him stop annoyingly interrupting the plot with unfunny "comic relief" about farting, peeing, and shitting. He can still be a goofy little comic relief kid without having to soil himself every time we're having a somewhat serious discussion/thought. Hell his failing to assassinate Reborn gag was far better than this: "Tsuna: serious thought Lambo: I gotta pee! Tsuna: Ah! Wait a second Lambo!". He has grenades, and a bazooka that turns him into a more competent form, AND Vongola Gear that he used the animal form of last arc in terms of battle competence as well. Hell, Lambo's development could go somewhere with that "wanting to play with the Family" bit from 10years Lambo, making him be more than tagalong wetting himself jokes.
Chrome has developed very smally but she's not the same character she was when introduced. Where do you want her character to go? It's basically unrealistic expectations on your end.
So it's unrealistic to want main characters that do not annoy the reader constantly, and (in Chrome's case) are not utterly dependent on another character? Wow, so now I know why Bleach does so well; all those naysayers just have unrealistic expectations for a plot, character development, and pacing. I mean, I'm not asking for total change in character into "rambo" despite what you seem to think. And with Chrome, her minute development was pretty much reset too. In the future the other girls got her to open up and be a bit less shy, she comes back to present and is as withdrawn as always. And there's been 0 development on not being dependent on Mukuro. She at least fought Mammon/Viper a little, so we know she can but since then she's become useless without her "Mukuro-sama". And yes, she beat Glo… with Mukuro's help. She has no independence whatsoever, and even if she never gets independent on the organ issue it'd be nice for her to handle at least one battle without Mukuro helping.
If you're so sick of KHR you can stop reading it. No one is putting a gun to your head.
Actually, as retarded a retort this is, you should consider applying that logic to this thread: don't like it, don't read it.
Most of the fights are 1 v 1. I don't see you complain about that in OP. Seriously I guess you expect the good guys to start jumping people because they're the Mob. Once again unrealistic expectation. A terrible reason to dislike a series the fights are 1 v 1. What a fucking joke.
Apparently you missed "tournament style" and "with sideliners that give a blow-by-blow and conveniently can't interfere" and only saw "1-on-1" and got enraged because, indeed, most shounen battles are 1-on-1. See, tournament arcs can be ok if set up that way, like Varia was. However, the future arc devolved from potential team-ups to inexplicable or convenient sidelining of characters to force a 1-on-1 tournament style fight out of context. Also, the complaint lies in part in the fact that Amano does this EVERY arc, making things incredibly predictable. Now this current arc was set up as a tournament style arc, but the problem is, since Amano always does this, it was so bloody obvious Shimon were villains before they even started taking action against the Vongola. It was kind of funny really that she tried to make it a twist by making them be friends for a bit, though in doing so she made the match-ups even more predictable. And of course, a major offender of conveniently making what looked to be a team effort boil down to 1-on-1s with spectators: Choice, aka box animal combat on motorcycles! It was introduced as a strategic team effort game and turned into… a simple bunch of 1-on-1s with a bullshit ending of "well it's a draw technically, but the bad guys self-rezzed so they win!" A few times at the start of the future arc, Amano had some refreshing battles that broke from this (well Tsuna vs King Mosca at least that I can think of). And yes, other shounen split off people to have 1-on-1 fights, but most times it's not a sudden barrier forcing the others to be spectators and narrate the fights, usually they're either split ahead of time or fighting an opponent of their own. And apparently when one of your friends is in a life or death battle and you can't interfere because of a barrier, the best thing to do is give a blow-by-blow of the battle. Never mind trying to help somehow, practicing for your sports announcer career is more important. And to preempt it: yes, other stories use characters to explain what's happening but Reborn does it both in excess (4x of "Aoba's glasses are black!" in 1 chapter) and when it's bloody apparent already ("There's a mountain behind Ooyama! There's no way something that big and freaking obvious could have been caught by the reader!") whereas traditionally that technique is used in comics when it's not easily discernible by the reader what is going on. The tournament stuff is just awkward in situations where it's forced and regardless it contributes a great deal to predictability.