Question: What is going on?

[darkithil.livejournal.com]

Well, I haven't read the manga for a year or maybe more (from the time Cross went missing) – sadly DGM seemed to become more and more complicated, introducing many new characters that were clearly not meant to exist from the very beginning, including a lot of fancy artifacts and generally increasing the amount of cracks in the whole plot line.

But today something hit me to read the last chapter and ... yeah, I couldn't understand a thing. So, can anyone brief me on what is going on, please? And what happened to Lavi? Where is he? And is Yuu truly dead? And who is the main enemy anyway?

I'm on the verge of losing all interest in the DGM manga, come on people, please, you have to make me try and see the reason – the light! – in what was going on recently.

Comments

[eien-ren.livejournal.com]

I'm going to be very unhappyif Kanda comes back. He's my favorite character but the way he died was so beautifully tragic that nothing he can do after that will be able to justify his return.
Also he has no more purpose to live. He would be useless and I think, just be there to make the fangirls happy. It would destroy his character.

As for 'not seeing him die' I'm not trying to be a smartass here but, I think we are so used to seeing 'dead' characters revived that our very idea of 'dead' has changed.
We saw him completely shattered, lean against the wall and close his eyes. Then we saw the image of that lotus flower fade away. I think in any other genre that would be unquestionably dead. I blame Kubo.

[riot-of-flowers.livejournal.com]

Hoshino said he is coming back or so it seems.

I would be upset if he died not due fangirl issues but because he did so many things no one else did and we haven't had an explanation for them yet like why he is the only exorcist who was able to kill a noah and everyone else, Allen included, failed to do so, as well as why he seems to be the only one who switch the noah on and off with his katana.

But it was mentioned here or at exorcists' order that Hoshino clearly said he is coming back and probably with a perm like Lila from Futurama

*hugs*

[eien-ren.livejournal.com]

That's because he was the only one who hold out long enough to allow his innocence to melt. Also the only one effective enough t think of it.

I have a lot for respect for Hoshino because of the way she portrays the sadness and futility of war ( Not like where there was an 'epic war' that everyone survived) I thought she had a lot of guts to stick to that and kill of characters I think I'll lose some respect fro her if she brings any of them back.

[riot-of-flowers.livejournal.com]

Perhaps it will be for the best and Kanda will die soon afterwards he fulfills his mission in the manga. He seems to be alive only to switch Allen on and off his Noah mode. Perhaps he will be in the very end only, freeing Allen or something, not showing up every now and then.

*hugs*

[sakanagi.livejournal.com]

Bad luck, sorry. Hoshino's already said "I drew/wrote with the intention of having Kanda come back later." So at the time the comic was written, Hoshino can't have intended for Kanda to be dead. It's unlikely she would change her mind later on.

[riot-of-flowers.livejournal.com]

Here: http://community.livejournal.com/exorcists_order/167037.html

She also talked about Kanda's future in the series (translated by saoru):

ジャンフェストークショーバレ

星野先生｢神田は今後帰ってくるつもりでかきました｣
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Hoshino-sensei: "I drew/wrote with the intention of having Kanda come back later."



He is coming back with that perm for granted now. No beautiful death for him, just living with the grudge he couldn't save Alma at all and hold grudges or something.

*hugs*

[darkithil.livejournal.com]

Oh, I have to agree with you. I just read the parts of the manga where Kanda died, and it was quite heartbreakingly touching... sigh. For that image to be destroyed by the revival would be terrible.

And I blame not only Kubo. Hoshino revived them once when they were destroyed (downloaded/uploaded/whatever) with the Arc. Also that person, whoever it is, that is responsible for all the Naruto mess - there the characters are coming back alive like crazy, and it makes me sorry I started watching it in the first place, 5 years ago.