D.Gray-man

This story is a mess. What is even happening anymore? The author likes to barely explain anything and most of the chapters draw things out so much that the events completely lose their meaning.

I...forgot everything that ever happened in this manga...

Me too. I guess a re-read will be necessary at some point. X)

I...forgot everything that ever happened in this manga...

Is Johnny the heart then? 

nah that's impossible

johny don't have innocence

maybe it's allen's or lenalee's innocence (my guess is lenalee)

Is Johnny the heart then? 

Adoro y agradezco mucho que Last Heaven Fansub se esté dando la tarea de traducir este enigmático y cautivador manga que poco a poco nos va mostrando todo su encanto. Es una lástima que sea tan breve y trimestral, pero así se goza más. Saludos .

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Chapter 224 was like...2 pages

Eh it'll be okay. We'll get like 3 or 4 more chapters since it's quarterly.

New chapter coming this spring!

Chapter 224 was like...2 pages

New chapter coming this spring!

It's a very confusing plot that's only exacerbated by the infrequent updates... Here's how I see it.  (Obviously, this will contain serious spoilers)

Spoiler

 The Millennium Earl was around for a long long time, eventually he got tired of living as he was, so he split himself into two:  Mana & Nea.  Those two were raised human(By the Campbells, whose mansion is seen in the more recent chapters), possibly with no memories or partial memories of what/who they were.  During this time, they met and befriended Cross (I believe he was a cousin or something?).  
 
~Time-skip
 
Mana, Nea, and Cross have grown up.  Mana and Nea start to remember who they were. Both of them want to become the Earl again.  However, in order to do that, one has to absorb the other.  I guess Mana took control of the Noah family during this time, Nea tried to stop him so he could become the Earl, while Cross tried to stop Mana in order to save the world.  This might imply that other exorcists were aware of Nea and also helping him.
 
Nea attempts a revolt, during which he damages the other Noahs (since he is half of the Earl, he is able to cause damage to the memories themselves, which is why other Noahs don't remember the events),  Mana finally tries to absorb Nea, and Nea gets injured during these events.  Nea either injures Mana back, or Mana is traumatized after seriously wounding Nea (who he loves most, since Nea is half of him).  It leaves him with a bit(ha) of a split personality.
 
Nea is dying of his injuries on the run from Mana.  Allen (older version) appears. It's unknown at that point just who Allen (older) was to Mana/Nea, but it's possible he could have been an exorcist, that would explain why Red (later named Allen) already had innocence.  Allen (older) agrees to become a Host for Nea's memories.
 
Cross appears before Allen and Nea (Allen-Nea?), Nea tells Cross to watch over Mana (until Nea returns to finish him?) and mentions that Allen will return to be beside Mana (since Alan will have his Dark Matter, which is attracted to the Earl/Mana).
 
Sometime after this, Allen (older) is either de-aged by a combination of Dark Matter/Innocence OR he dies (we see a grave for him at some point, which is strange since exorcists don't usually get graves like that) and is later reborn as a younger Red, either way, Red-Allen has no memories of Mana/Nea or his former life.
 
 
~Time skip
 
Now, Red-Allen is a child abandoned because of his Innocence.  He starts working at a circus.  Mana-clown appears.  Now, Mana and Red were probably drawn together by their Dark Matter.  They recognized each other as "family".  Mana adopts Red and names him after the dog, Allen. This is where the relationship gets confusing, were Mana, Allen, Nea, and Cross all friends? How did Mana know the name Allen? or did Mana get the name from Nea's memories that he'd absorbed?  Regardless, the dog was named Allen, which implies Mana had some knowledge of events taking place around Nea's "death", or that Allen held a special role to both Nea and Mana.
 
Mana is obviously mentally unstable, which Allen admits readily.  Mana gets killed(?). He either faked his death, recovered from his Noah abilities off-screen where Allen didn't see, OR Allen's memories have been tampered with on this point.  Allen's memories may have been merging with Nea's concerning stuff about Mana.  Allen sits by Mana's grave and the Earl-Mana appears.  Did the Earl recognize Allen? or have any memories of being Mana?  Allen tries to resurrect Mana, which doesn't work. Allen's innocence activates, which pisses off the Earl.  Allen's Innocence defeats the Akuma and he gets cursed.  Later, he adopts the mannerisms of Clown/Mana as a coping mechanism (or perhaps he absorbed part of Mana?)
 
Honestly, the only proof we have of these events are the memories of Cross, since Allen's memories can't be trusted.  Mana as a clown, Allen the dog, older Allen, and Red/Allen all existed.  However, Red/Allen's memories that aren't corroborated by Cross are all suspect.
 
The curse is also suspicious.  Did the Akuma really give the curse to Allen? or was it the Earl?  There shouldn't have been a soul in that Akuma to begin with, since Mana wasn't dead.  Maybe Allen was cursed because the summoning failed? or maybe when he defeated the lv 0, he absorbed/activated dark matter from it. 
 
Then the growing dark matter affected his eye and it leveled up.... but Hoshino hasn't brought up the new again in a long time.  It's almost like the curse isn't relevant anymore.... even though it implied at one point that Mana's soul was inside Allen.  So, was the consciousness of the Earl linked to Allen through the cursed eye (and that's why he can see souls of Akuma), or was it a fragment of the growing power of Nea?
 
~Time Skip again
 
Allen grows up and becomes an exorcist, Nea begins to take over.  Nea hints that Allen agreed to this, and says that Allen's body should be much older than it is (thus there was a rebirth or de-aging somewhere).  Apocryphos appears and desperately wants to absorb Allen.  If the original Allen had the heart, it would explain why it wasn't found for 30 years, it's possible the dark matter would hide it. Apocryphos said that the Heart loved Allen, which could mean anything tbh.  Lenalee, Cross, and Original Allen could all qualify as people who "loved" Allen, particularly if the current Allen is the original's son or something. 
 
Also, Apocryphos has been known to affect memories, Allen and Mana have both had memory issues at some point. Coincidence?  The behavior of the Earl and Apocryphos are also similar, they both want to protect/absorb Nea and Allen, respectively.
 
Correct me if I'm wrong on any of that.

Wow. I spent way too much time on this... However, this was one of the first animes I ever watched, so I was very happy when the manga version was continued.
 
TL;DR
Unfortunately, until we know more about the original Allen, there's very little we can determine about their relationship.  Luckily, it seems that's what this entire arc is about.... too bad it might take years to finish it.

With batoto problem yesterday I was too late, I was so focused reading it I didn't noticed the missing chapters here, reading all the missing ones makes it much more clearer, still thank you for the explanation XD

Edit: Pretty nice summary, and hopefully the author will gives us light of Allen? past from a more reliable source

Spoiler

Am I the only one confused with all the Mana-Allen-Earl-Nea thing, I don't get it anymore, is the clown Mana even real? That flashback got me really confused

It's a very confusing plot that's only exacerbated by the infrequent updates... Here's how I see it.  (Obviously, this will contain serious spoilers)

Wow. I spent way too much time on this... However, this was one of the first animes I ever watched, so I was very happy when the manga version was continued.

TL;DR

Unfortunately, until we know more about the original Allen, there's very little we can determine about their relationship.  Luckily, it seems that's what this entire arc is about.... too bad it might take years to finish it.

is this gonna be the last arc?

I don't know if it's officially so, but seems likely, especially considering Hoshino's health issues it just probably isn't a very good idea to keep going endlessly like some other shônen series have. A lot of the fundamental questions in D.Gray-Man are also finally getting addressed which makes one think the end is getting close. However, with this release pace, it will still probably take a couple of years, so in a way we still definetely have a long way to go. ; )

I for one kept thinking after the discontinuation flag came up, that I wish Hoshino could at least write the rest out in novel form and publish that online or something. This is so much better than even that, so I'm quite content. ^^

is this gonna be the last arc?

This is not at all what I wanted when I said I wanted to know what happened to my bby...

Interesting chapter. See you all next year for the next one! XD

Wait... did the new girl (Cornelia was it?) in chapt 222 just confirm

Spoiler

Lavi is dead?!? No PLEASE no TT^TT LAVIIIIIII!!!!

 

Other than that....ergh.....had goosebumps reading this chapter....another great one! Thanks for the translations!!

Wait... did the new girl (Cornelia was it?) in chapt 222 just confirm

Spoiler

Lavi is dead?!? No PLEASE no TT^TT LAVIIIIIII!!!!

 

Other than that....ergh.....had goosebumps reading this chapter....another great one! Thanks for the translations!!

Seriously, I'm so lost here. 3 months for a 30-pages chapter that didn't explained anything and only made me cry (poor Allen i-i)

My heart can't take it

Man I've waited awhile. So good to see a new chapter. Thanks!

Wait... did the new girl (Cornelia was it?) in chapt 222 just confirm

Other than that....ergh.....had goosebumps reading this chapter....another great one! Thanks for the translations!!

Wait what? New anime?

Yup, D.Gray-man Hallow, scheduled for this July!

Oops, this is my first time uploading to batoto. I forgot to merge two pages, so I'm going to reupload. Hopefully, we can start doing dgm regularly! or as regularly as a quarterly release can go.