showmystar | D.Gray-man Research

I got a ton of this all over my computer, which I don't use much anymore. May as well compile!

Edinburgh is the town where Allen first met Mana and where chapter 231 occurs. The manga calls it "Edinston" or "Edinstown". Some fans theorize that this is the "correct" name, since D.Gray-man opens with the tagline "In fantasy Victorian England..." Assuming, then, that any town can be made up. But when a monument is so clearly drawn exactly as a real-life monument, I think that's stupid. It's Edinburgh, dammit. Fight me.

Buddhism is everywhere in D.Gray-man. Starbuds' translation notes for ch231 list out the idea in depth, but basically, the Buddhism the series references seems to be the Japanese branch, Shingon (True Words). Helix magic is everywhere, reincarnation and karma everywhere, etc. etc. the Millennium Earl could have been an enlightened bodhisvatta who wanted to bring the entire world to enlightenment/nirvana and free them from the cycle of rebirth through...more suffering??? Thanks, dude.

All of this has happened before theory and how the entire series is one big Rewinding Town; the Bookman's memories include previous timelines, which include technology of the "future". Every time one side loses, everything is reset.

Destroyer of Time theory and how Allen and Nea will end the cycle of the war repeating itself over and over again. All the world's a stage, the Exorcists are actors, and the Earl's scenario is a play they just can't get right. Time to restart dress rehearsal next week.

Nea's way of speaking is very rude and sarcastic. The complete opposite of Mana, basically.