 Sam Kusek of Manga Recon likes Mukuro as the enigmatic villain, though believes him to be a "big creep".He also praises Akira Amano for the originality of Mukuro's techniques, viewing it as "one of the most interesting ideas I've seen," and making him, along with Tsuna, the "real winners overall" of volume 9.However, David Rasmussen from mangalife.com commented that the fight against Mukuro in the manga is a "long, long, "DragonBall-Z"-sized struggle".