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God it's so funny that we spent all this time and energy after 252 theorizing about how to make the (present) Allen vs (present) Lavi age timeline work, and Hoshino's answer for us was just Several Years Of Orb

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HEY WAIT, that was technically a Lavi appearance!!

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The new dgm is. whoa

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Ohh and I just realized. The reveal of how Nea really implanted his memories in Past!Allen is a direct reversal of what we were previously led to believe.

Until 252, all we knew about the memory implanting was this scene, which we thought was between Nea and Pasta, not Nea and the OG Bookman Junior like we now know it is.

For like a decade, the concept of Allen having Nea's memories implanted was entirely associated with this image of "Past Allen" standing over a slumped, dying Nea. But that's not what happened! We now have a brand new single panel of flashback showing us the real memory implanting scene, and it's a very alive Nea standing over (and then kneeling in front of) a slumped, dying Allen. It's the exact same imagery in reverse.

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It's a small detail amidst the craziness that is the rest of 252, but I'm losing my absolute mind at the fact that Past Allen was apparently soldier.

We just had it confirmed that our protagonist, our child soldier protagonist, had a whole previous life that he lived and completely forgot about. He had a whole first life where, until he was at least an older teenager, he had nothing to do with the inescapable holy war that's taken over his existence the second time around. He was just some kid with no connection to the battle between the Noah and the Black Order.

But what was he instead? Was he free to actually have a childhood in this other life?

Nope! He was just a normal soldier in some non-spiritual, completely mundane war, and he would have died in battle if Nea hadn't swept in and drafted him into the holy war instead. There is no life in which the young Allen is not a soldier.

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D.Gray-man 252.

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I cannot believe I've been reading D.gray-man for all these years and it JUST now hit me that Caterina's full name—Caterina Eve Campbell—is a fucking Adam and Eve reference. The Millennium Earl's Noah name is Adam. It's right there.

And Caterina raises the two kids "Adam" becomes as her own children. Adam and Eve have two sons, and one of them kills the other one when they grow up. Mana and Nea are fucking Cain and Abel.

Local woman reads the catholicism manga, is shocked to discover it contains catholicism.

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For a third possibility to add to your list: maybe Lavi was born a few years before Prev!Junior died and Allen was reset, and the "birth" in "birth of the new junior" is a misnomer. If "birth" here refers to another kind of awakening/choosing that took places a few years after Lavi was actually born, that could help the timeline work more smoothly?

I want to talk about this page in particular because the implications here are so riveting.

Lavi is currently 19. Allen is believed to be 16.

Which means that either

The Bookmen are lying

Bookman Jr. did die then and Allen either didn't age the first few years or his age got fucked up multiple times before he met Mana

The first seems highly improbable at this point tbh. If the Bookmen were planning to make Allen take the poison to make him remember his past then lying about when Past!Junior (presumably) died seems counterintuitive and would only make Allen mistrust them more once he was in full possession of his memories.

It doesn't seem like Allen de-aged to an infant. He says his earliest memories are from when he was in the circus. Even if he did age back to an infant, he would've needed caretakers and nothing in the story suggests he had any.

(Note how little Allen doesn't have his Innocence in the last panel. What the fuck does this mean Hoshino.)

Allen looks perhaps 4-5 in both of these panels. If Past!Junior died over 19 years ago and Allen aged linearly since then, then he would have to be 23+ by now. Even considering the possibility that he aged back to an infant, he he should be 19+ by now and he looks barely over 17.

We can assume that he must've aged in a somewhat even fashion once he joined the circus because otherwise the performers would've commented on it at some point of time.

What happened in the years between Junior dying and little Allen getting into the circus? Was he in a child's body till he acquired his Innocence? How did he even acquire his Innocence in the first place?

There's also a final possibility that came to me while I was writing this post— Lavi was born while Past!Junior was still alive. He was born with the 'mark' because Past!Junior was no longer fit to be a Junior. I genuinely have no idea how Hoshino will explain this. Will it be some sort of corruption? Memory loss? Chronic illness?

All of them seem equally unlikely options at this point. But so did the possibility of Allen and Bookman Jr. being different people before this chapter :)

Either ways, this was a very intriguing chapter and I'm looking forward to whatever Hoshino has in store for us.

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It's genuinely going to be so hard to get out of the habit of calling the former Bookman Junior "Pasta"

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Finished the latest dgm chapter and ohhh my god. Holy shit

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Hey good news! Turns out the lamb you were raising for the slaughter found out you raised it just to die and be consumed, and it's decided it loves you anyway 🥰.

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Froi Tiedoll, The Joy of Painting

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I went looking for D.Gray-man opening 3 on youtube earlier and couldn't find any versions that weren't covers or weird filters. I'm assuming someone got fussy about copyright and had all the good uploads taken down, so I figured I'd put this up for anyone that wants a decent copy of it on hand.

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Lmao apparently the dub was released in 2017 and I just somehow never found out about it

THEY FINISHED THE D.GRAY-MAN DUB????

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THEY FINISHED THE D.GRAY-MAN DUB????

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BEHOLD, The most mysterious character in all of D.Gray-man: