CHAPTER 188

[betta-phish.livejournal.com]

It is out and about at OneManga in all it's glory.

Discussions and comments can go here, and may continue for as long as you see fit~

Comments

[ju-ju90.livejournal.com]

I've read it already! Almost scream when I saw Allen jump out of the ark~ omg.... and Yuu...suddenly he looks more 'beautiful' than usual. lol. I wonder what will happen in next chapter.. can't wait @__@

[queen-marshed.livejournal.com]

Woah. Hoshino sure is making up for lost time. There was more plot there than all of the freaking Suman arc. WOAH. O___o

KANDA ANGST TIEM NAO?

[betta-phish.livejournal.com]

YETH. KANDA ANGST PARTY.

[thrillerbark.livejournal.com]

I've read it yesterday. The chapter was great!! Earl in human form is ♥
but no tyki this time, buuu ;(

[jojo-kun.livejournal.com]

Tyki was it when Allen was jumping out of the Ark. I guess he was part of the bait? It seemed that he arrived at the same time as Allen.

[aubergine-pilot.livejournal.com]

AND SUDDENLY -

BACKSTORY!!

skalfj;laksjfholycrap. I. I have been waiting LITERALLY YEARS for us to get even this much info on Kanda's background.

THANK YOU FOR THE LINK♥♥♥

[betta-phish.livejournal.com]

I know right?! Kanda fangirls REJOICE!

[yamamoto-kou.livejournal.com]

Please be careful when reading the I Eat Manga scanlation because it's known to have a lot of errors. (Their version of chap 187 was pretty bad too)

If you want to get the story straight, try either Nagumo's (http://mangahelpers.com/t/nagumo/releases/17253) or Saoru's (http://fallen.dreamwidth.org/864.html) translation or wait for a better scanlation.

[darlingfox.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I noticed that too, especially on the "Kanda hacked Alma Karma into pieces" bit. I'd read the other translations before seeing this and IEM's version was completely different. I guess they prefer speed to quality...

[haru-kurofai.livejournal.com]

Hoshino-sensei is making up for the lost time with the new beautiful artwork.
Please excuse me while I try to make sense of the wtfness in my head, I'm so lost orz
I'll have to go back to read the last few chapters again, it's been too long and this chapter is so eventful!
I've got to say though, Yuu is beautiful ♥♥♥♥

[obsessed-love.livejournal.com]

RHOOOOOOODE!

I so want a doll like that.

♥

And Kanda looks so effing pretty <3

[betta-phish.livejournal.com]

/is considering making a Rhode doll.

[sakanagi.livejournal.com]

It's a brilliant chapter. ♥ I love it. That said, I'd really like to know what's going on with the Earl. The Earl really does look just like Mana...and it's suspicious that the Earl was back in his Noah form by the time Allen showed up.

But I love what's happening with Kanda and his backstory. It's great to finally see Kanda shaken by something, and his backstory explains so much about his personality and attitudes to people.

[harmony283.livejournal.com]

Read this chapter last night and already have a journal posting my thoughts but...

yeah Kanda just got prettier...and I think he might have 'What the Hell Hero?' moment if he does start overly angsting about Alma...*might be wishful thinking though*

kukuku...Hoshino's good, though~~ *can't wait for the next chapter now~* At least then I'll have more time to read and speculate over it

[murdering]

I want adorable humanform Rhode in her pretty dress back. :<

[jojo-kun.livejournal.com]

She'll probably turn back now that Allen's in the picture. ;3

[passealligator.livejournal.com]

I'm so happy about this chapter! For one, Kanda's beautiful... being beat up? I love when he's all beat up >w>;;
also, this chapter was huge and very well drawn! yesss, thank you Hoshino!

[passealligator.livejournal.com]

wait, but let me clarify on Alma... he was a friend of Kanda's in the experiment nine years ago, and they thought he died, but it turns out he was just in a comatose state? So, since he was conveniently left over, they're using him as a host of akuma genes like the other third exorcists?

[symbolism-egg.livejournal.com]

This chapter was a huge improvement over the last one. YAY!

Kanda backstory starts at last, Earl was hot, now we know Sherril's powers, why is Renee generic-looking now, hope Link reunites with the other characters, etc.

HERE COMES YOUR PRINCE, KANDA! I mean, HERE COMES THE KNIGHTAGE!

[riot-of-flowers.livejournal.com]

Damn, now I so want to read the next chapter and explode in confetti of several shades of color. And jumping to the bandwagon: I do also want a Rhode doll <3

And Kanda's and Alma's shampoo. Their hair look so gorgeous in this chapter, I'm so envious

*to the iconmobil!*

[terri-meixing.livejournal.com]

FINALLY KANDA BACKGROUND!!!!! All these years of waiting! N wow the Earl is hot I did not see that coming. Sankyu Hoshino-sensei! ~now I can't wait for the next chapter

[main-titles.livejournal.com]

Kanda really is lucky that he can regenerate so easily. That looked like a horrible head wound. But somehow his ponytail came apart, which I always appreciate. :D

[mellmell.livejournal.com]

Hoshino totally loves drawing him with his hair down.

Not that I'm complaining~

I AM SCREMING

[shurtw.livejournal.com]

K-Kanda's back story holy shit, I am EXCITED. Regardless, all in all, this was actually a really wonderful chapter and I am very glad to see that the manga is updating again, I appreciate both so much. :)

So basically: I'M FISTBUMPING LIKE MOFO, YEAH SON. \o/

[murasaki-mary.livejournal.com]

I Eat Manga's translation is somewhat inaccurate though. :/

[kayter.livejournal.com]

Please DO read Saoru's translation
http://mangahelpers.com/t/nagumo/releases/17253
You will get a lot of things straight, the one at Onemanga is really confusing and misleading. You'll get it aaaaaall wrong

[sky]

Thank you for the endorsement, but that's Nagumo's translation. XD; Mine's over here if anyone still cares at this point. There will be a scanlation out with it pretty soon.

[silvrguillotine.livejournal.com]

Pretty much here to go "Hell yes I love this chapter." Disappointed that the I Eat Manga scanlation is apparently incorrect, but them's the brakes. And hey, other translations!

[artificialluck.livejournal.com]

Oh my god I'm strangely attracted to the Earl what

[symbolism-egg.livejournal.com]

HE'S HOT

I'm not sure why.

thank you

[(Anonymous)]

ily people/persons for posting a translation that doesn't leave my head spinning <3 i love this new chapter a hella lot more then i did five minutes ago xD the new art's my only real problem now, the pretty kills my eyes >.>

[kayter.livejournal.com]

[bottom] D.Gray-Man Continues in the January Issue

Ok, english might not be my native languague. But I'm pretty sure I got that one right. Did I miss something?

[symbolism-egg.livejournal.com]

It's the January issue, but it comes out in early December. Japanese monthlies are released this way, for some reason.

[may-unleashed.livejournal.com]

Ok, to be honest, I am not sure what to think of this chapter.

Is it only me who finds it weird? I mean, suddenly everything is so WHITE and the lack of ambivalence and darkness in the environment are throwing me off.

The artwork has changed, of course, but I feel like some obscure part of DGM has been lost. I would have loved this chapter, God knows I am biased towards Kanda and that getting his background story is a dream come true.

But but but...mixing the telling of his story with this weird and stupid-like funny scenes really killed the mood. Example: Jhonny throws up by the sheer shock of learning that Kanda had to nearly-kill his friend/test-parner, but the way they mix it with Peck's funny and disgusted reaction, and with the general flailing of arms and chibi forms....

I don't know, it doesn't make sense. I remember when in the past they told us part of Lavi's backstory, about the 49 names and the whole inside-the-Ark episodes. Those episodes were superb, so dark and the tension was excellent to unfold the story.

But here...here we have the antics of the scientist novices, Cyril and his odd faces, and the Earl going from human to monster to chiken? hen?, with hearts and sparkles flying around. What the hell? Why couldn't they tell Kanda's story in a more sober way?

*grieves*

In a more serious note: It's true that the translated version in OneManga is very very confusing. It's much better to download/read the one in MangaHelpers or MangaShare.

In a nutshell, I'm still cringing with the conclusion of this chapter. May I get the facts listed down here? So you guys can correct me whether I got things straight or not:

Kanda and Alma were the successful test subjects for the Second Exorcists, until Alma went on a killing rampage.

Kanda was ordered to kill Alma, in order to stop the massacre. It was not simply killing your then-only-friend with one blow, but he had to keep mutilating him until the regeneration stopped working.

Kanda was left to believe -as many others- that Alma was truly dead.

Alma used to call Kanda, "Yuu", because we saw in the flashbacks that Kanda himself gave his first name when they met. No wonder he doesn't want anyone calling him Yuu!!!! The painful memories, goodness....

I still wonder about how all this is related to the lotus...

AND the Earl and Noahs have brought Kanda down to Alma's laboratory expecting..what? That also Kanda will go on a killing rampage, thus turning Kanda against the Order?

>_< It will kill me to wait for the next issue....the fandom needs fiction then!!

[ntlmnkys.livejournal.com]

yes you are right....those chibi scenes totally throws me off. It is so ridicules that the mood was so dark and serious, and suddenly they just throw in all those trying to be funny moments....I DON'T FREAKING GET IT!
I can't believe Hoshino is still making these major mistakes after almost 200 chapters. Hopefully everything is more organized and make sense in the anime. (if there's one)

[(Anonymous)]

did anyone else notice the quotations around "love" and "tradegy" on pg 29. and earlier in the story when allen was fighting the earl he said allen had "hatred" in his eyes, and when the ark was stolen lulu bell said what is this? "anger"? am i missing something, like..is there a point to the quotations or am i just crazy lmao

[sky]

Oh Japanese quotation marks, lol. It's a little hard to explain why they use them there, but it doesn't really mean the same thing as in English (i.e. there's no connotation of the words being lies, or not-quite-true, or 'so-called' or anything like that). You can pretty much just think of it as adding extra emphasis to those words, setting them apart because they're important.

[superstition.livejournal.com]

tbh as exciting as kanda's backstory was, i was more excited about cyril's powers and his extremely creep face that made me squeal in delight. i love that noah sfm :|

[saave.livejournal.com]

makes one wonder if the powers work on exorcists. Given the innocence is parasitic in allen but no so in say, lavi, for example...

Aaa I love Cyril.