Liveblog: D. Gray-Man

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I accidentally thought about D. Gray-Man. 36 hours later all I've been able to think about is some of the things I loved about this series, so here I am again. Much to my surprise, it hasn't been abandoned, it's still currently ongoing. So I'll liveblog it and in the future I'll have one more thing to read and remember how good it was.


Currently: Caught up to 251 and confused

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Kanda, Allen, and a Finder jump onto a speeding locomotive and crawl inside. They flash their Black Order badges and are immediately given a cabin. The Rose Cross symbol is recognized all throughout the New World Alliance. The Finder introduces himself, but we are not going to be overly concerned about his name, because this is D. Gray-Man, and there is no point getting to know tertiary cast members.

There's a legend in their reading material about a ghost in the town of Mater. Kanda explains (VERY reluctantly) that Innocence out in the wild tends to take on different forms, but usually result in weird shit. So the Order's policy is, "Wherever there are a mysterious phenomenon, there's an Innocence."

The real story is that the people of Mater were big into puppetry because their lives were so shitty that even puppets could improve it. So they created these singing and dancing dolls, which remained after the people moved away. It's been 500 years, so there's no way any of those dolls could be functioning unless Innocence was involved.