D.Gray-Man to Publish 50 Pages in Akamaru! Confirmed!

[murasaki-mary.livejournal.com]

D.Gray-Man is going to appear in the summer issue of Akamaru Jump! It is confirmed! =) Akamaru is scheduled to be released on August the 17th. So, we'll probably get spoilers 3 to 4 days ahead. Some confirmed pictures and spoilers are below:

Click here to see a scan of the announcement from Shounen Jump about DGM being in the next issue of Akamaru Jump.

Spoilers

Translated Spoiler Summary
Source: 2ch
Credit: 産業
Verification: Confirmed
- The Noahs, lead by the Earl, is gathering.
- What are the power of the 3rd Exorcists?!
- Getting closer to Kanda's origin!!

Credit to akiranowe at MangaHelpers.com for the spoiler. It seems like this big chapter will be a countinuation of the latest chapters' plot developments. =D

Furthermore, Akamaru Jump is a seasonal magazine that is usually released around Japanese holidays. It only publishes one-shots by ametures, yonkoma (4 panel comics) by already popular series, and one-shots by professional mangaka to promote their upcoming series that will be in a different serial magazine. Akamaru Jump DOES NOT publish consecutive chapters for serials. Shounen Jump publishes serials and Shonen Jump uses Akamaru Jump to publish a lot of their one-shots from submissions by ametures. Considering that DGM has been on hiatus since the end of April, Hoshino is probably using Akamaru's next release to promote DGM's return with a huge chapter, a color page, and the cover of this issue of Akamaru Jump to retrive some of her readership and gain new fans in turn. Sounds like good advertisement to me!

DGM will probably not be serialized in Akamaru Jump, and even though it seems like DGM is promoting itself as if to end it's current haitus, her return to Shounen Jump still hasn't been mentioned. So she may return to Jump soon or not. It just depends on whether or not the haitus continues after this chapter is published. Some people have also been speculating that she may switch over to a monthly magazine like Jump Square, and personally, if she can't countinue to keep up a weekly publication pace after this hiatus is over, then I think she would fit quite nicely in Jump Square. ;)_{Square's website is pretty, don't you think? Can't you just see D.gray-man in their website's lineup already?}


Sources:

MangaHelper's Post #358 and Onwards
Also Posted at Exorcists Order

I hope this post was informative and helped to clear up a lot of everyone's questions. :)

Comments

[closeincline.livejournal.com]

Please let this be true. I want more soon! *tries not to get to hopeful*

[sakuraxsyaoran.livejournal.com]

It's true. The person who posted the information on 2ch has always posted true spoilers. :o)

[closeincline.livejournal.com]

I saw your post with it! I am so happy *u*

[sakuraxsyaoran.livejournal.com]

Same here. BTW, I just updated the entry with a scan that confirmed that the news is legit. ^o^

[closeincline.livejournal.com]

What!?! Wahhh!!! *goes to check it*

[knittedninja.livejournal.com]

This is how I feel! O_o :crosses fingers:

[date-masamune69.livejournal.com]

i hope this is true and i will be very happy to see d-gray come back in jump ;o;

[murasaki-mary.livejournal.com]

It is confirmed. :)

[date-masamune69.livejournal.com]

yay awesome i'm so happy xD
thanks for the confirmation!

[murasaki-mary.livejournal.com]

You're welcome dear. =D *hugs* <3

[date-masamune69.livejournal.com]

*hug* yay since the last chapter with yuu i wanted to know what's next :3

i hope d-gray will be back on shonen jump !

[murasaki-mary.livejournal.com]

Same here. I'm really on the edge of my seat waiting to know more about his past simply because I just don't know hardly anything. O_o Hoshino is so good at making curiosity kill people. XDD

[date-masamune69.livejournal.com]

totally xD

[athuria.livejournal.com]

HOSHIT 50 PAGES OFADLKASGklaakjdgahdhlasklfalshajg... ♥

If this turns out fake I will punch a baby. Soon as I find one.

[murasaki-mary.livejournal.com]

No need. It's been confirmed! =D

[liy93.livejournal.com]

50 pages... so there is someone on Heaven who doesn't hate me. ;O;
... And COLOR COVER AND PAGES! This is a benediction! *-*

[murasaki-mary.livejournal.com]

Yes, amen that it's back. :)

[mittens-220.livejournal.com]

I think this news is posted in every DGM fan forum and community XD Because all the ones I checked so far has the news already.

I'm so happy I can't stop smiling to myself ^_^

[murasaki-mary.livejournal.com]

Well, when news is posted in more than one place, it does help to get the news around.

[konrankoneko.livejournal.com]

*joy*
OMG YEEEEEEEEEEES. I pray this is news turns out to be right. Oh, this has made my whole week~.

I'm so happy I feel like I could float on air~

[murasaki-mary.livejournal.com]

You'll be floating on air for a while then, because it's been confirmed! 8D

[konrankoneko.livejournal.com]

*A*

*floats about the room*

You my dear have just made my whole month~. Oh, I'm so happy I could crap a rainbow~

[murasaki-mary.livejournal.com]

I could crap a golden egg! X3 Yippie~

[bloodi-corset.livejournal.com]

But wait....Akamaru Jump is seasonal. Is DGM gonna be seasonal then? oAo

[murasaki-mary.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure that is not happening to DGM. There is more about that in my updated post. :)

[kupodesu.livejournal.com]

SO MUCH JOY *__*

I hope it's not gonna be seasonal though o__o that'd be...depressing.

[murasaki-mary.livejournal.com]

Don't worry, it should not be seasonal. There is more about it in my updated post.

[wispyhollow.livejournal.com]

I LOVE YOU FOR BRINGING THIS BEAUTIFUL NEWS.

[murasaki-mary.livejournal.com]

Welcome. :D

[symbolism-egg.livejournal.com]

At last!

[murasaki-mary.livejournal.com]

Ditto, right? It's been a long time. O_O

[sitiomania.livejournal.com]

I am starving for more D.Gray-Man ohgod I can't wait. I really really really hope it won't be seasonal.

[murasaki-mary.livejournal.com]

It should not be seasonal. There is more about it in my updated post. ;D

[dr-composed.livejournal.com]

Ah~! I'm so happy! I cannot BELIEVE where Hoshino-sensei left off. I've been dead ever since I finished the manga so far. T_T Kanda is my favorite character EVER, so to be cut off right before learning about his past just kills me. Dx And not only that, but I'm writing a Yullen fic in Kanda's POV for DGM Big Bang, and it would SO help to know what the hell happened to him to make him so cold (not that I'm complaining ;D).

And I can't stop wondering... Does the whole 2nd Exorcist thing mean he's not human...!? O.O

[murasaki-mary.livejournal.com]

I'm glad to have provided the news! <3 Personally, I think being a second exorcist hasn't taken away his humanity just his lifespan. Without knowing much, because much hasn't been revealed, I speculate that part of his life span was sacrificed to make the fusion with his innocence work. Maybe it was like a sacrifical offering to the innocence to instead fuse with someone it did not choose? But how he still gets the benefit of being so hard to kill seems to somewhat neutralize the con of sacrificing some of his life span to use innocence....So that's where my theory gets unstable. :/ Thus I can't wait till the big new chapter is out to find out more on Kanda and the 3rd exorcists! =D

[dr-composed.livejournal.com]

Hmm... That's a really good theory. And at least we know that, since he doesn't have an adverse reaction to Innocence like the 3rd Exorcists do, he's not part Akuma. Though I still think he might be only partially human (which scares me, but makes sense >.<).

So, wait, this chapter is supposed to be really long...? =D

[murasaki-mary.livejournal.com]

Yep! It's going to be 50 pages according to the sources in my article above. Aren't ya' happy? ^_________^ I'm glad you like my theory, and I do agree that he still might turn out to be only partially human. I feel that this is possible because of how the manga heavily hints at something terrible happening to Kanda to successfully make him into a 2nd exorcist. It's either that or his shortened life span. I was going to post this in another comment, but I'll just post it in my reply:

Maybe, since he isn't a user of innocence naturally, he sacrifices his life span when he uses his innocence even though he isn't a paracitic user! We've all known this forever, but I think the new twist is that he is sacrificing to his innocence. He can't just use it like everyone else who isn't parasitic. D: It could be that he is even sacrificing himself everytime he does simple attacks like Hell's Insects, but he gives up more of his life for the more powerful attacks like um...Sangenshiki...I think that's what it's called anyway. X3

I'm still not sure why he's dellusional and sees lotus flowers, though! I shall keep speculating to figure that one out. ;D Who knows, maybe it has something to do with the "forbidden art" used to fuse Kanda as a sacrifice with his innocence....hopefully he doesn't see random lotus flowers lying around just as a side effect. XD

[dr-composed.livejournal.com]

Happy? Happy doesn't even BEGIN to cover it!!! =D

I dunno, he seems pretty comfortable with his Innocence... But maybe that's just me... Though it makes sense that he would be sacrificing part of himself (you're right, that does seem pretty obvious xD). I just think there's a different reason, other than that he wasn't originally meant to weild Innocence. (Or maybe I just don't want it to be that reason? xD) Yeah, it's Sangenshiki. I went back to his fight with Skin in the manga so I could use it in my fic. xD

I feel like the lotus flowers have some greater significance than just being some sort of side effect. Like, I read a story recently (it was AU, but it was a good interpretation) where the lotuses were something about his past that was haunting him. So maybe he started out human, then they did experiments and made him not completely human, and those experiments had something to do with lotuses...? Or the lotuses were an unpleasant part of his past before the experiments, and now he can't seem to let go of them? I can't remember if he had the lotus in the hourglass in the manga, too. I know it was in the anime.

[haruharusaku.livejournal.com]

FINALLY! ♥♥