D.Gray-man HALLOW Rewatch - Episode 07

**F.Irst-Timer, subbed**

- Did we really need two and a half minutes recap?

- [Shimmering sky!](https://i.imgur.com/8QbtXS4.png)

- [Wait what–](https://i.imgur.com/IiZUMZJ.png)

- [Oh shit](https://i.imgur.com/QC75tqL.png), is [this implying Alma’s original](https://i.imgur.com/eXgSWEG.png) was the blonde woman in *Kanda’s* original’s memory? [](#gasp)

- [They were going to *make* him one…](https://i.imgur.com/i1zXVv2.png) [](#kumikolook)

- [Oh damn, Kanda’s blood healed Marie’s injury?!](https://i.imgur.com/3ZFg1ul.png) [](#flyingbunsofdoom)

- [There’s a Marie “sore demo”!](https://files.catbox.moe/wvbesa.mp4)

- [Right after Kanda decided he was going to get Alma and run away with him…](https://i.imgur.com/lIjlFgy.png) [](#sadholo)

- [God, this is so awful…](https://i.imgur.com/DNlK8zY.png) [](#crumblingdespair)

- [Damn, so Fo was under orders to *not* protect Bak’s parents…](https://i.imgur.com/fghObwn.png) No wonder she didn’t respond when Bak was begging for her to let him through. [](#sadholo)

- [*Wow*.](https://i.imgur.com/lSKh8cV.png)

- [Alma’s looking a lot like a Fallen One…](https://i.imgur.com/y4SO2oC.png) [](#emiliaohdear)

- [The light is the Akuma virus?](https://i.imgur.com/E8qSk3x.png) But everyone there… [](#panic)

- [Fuck…](https://i.imgur.com/quRi4vt.png)[](#forgotkeys)

**07: The Truth about a Sterile Flower**

* Alma remembers a blond man in the same lotus field?
* Did Mugen just TELEPORT to Yu's hand?
* Right when Yu thinks about slaughtering everyone in the lab, he finds Marie? And accidentally heals him with his blood?
* I didn't expect Bak and For's relationship to have a hurdle like _this_
* Alma synchronized out of a desire to avoid Yu's death?
* A MARIE SOREDEMO! WE HAVE A MARIE SOREDEMO! [](#happyclap)
* Marie's words make Yu realize Alma's lonely situation?
* For both their sakes, I wish Yu HAD been able to grab Alma and escape together
* "as long as I'm with him" [](#akkotears)
* Alma killed them all!? Even Edgar?
* Alma is trying to kill Yu? Because he found out about their "original bodies"?
* "As long as we're alive, humans will never repent" [](#sadholo)
* So Alma wanted to die together, but Yu decides to fight to stay alive so he can search for "her"?
* ... just adding to Alma's trauma there
* So Tui let Renny escape, and had For promise not to fight back, no matter what happens?
* "survive and tell the next generation about this mistake" But then Renny establishes the THIRDs ... [](#kyonfacepalm)
* RIP Tui and Edgar
* Allen is sympathizing with Kanda wanting his past to remain secret?
* AHA! take that, Wisely!
* They're all wrapped up in pipes?
* "love and tragedy created by the Order's disgusting act" For once, the Earl isn't wrong
* Alma's gonna become an Akuma? While still alive?
* RIP North American base?
* Oh Link has Timcanpy with him?
* Yu and Alma reunite! ... But Alma's an Akuma now [](#bruh)

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**First time ENG dub reactions:**

* transferring brains from "disabled" Exorcists into "healthy bodies" then suppressing their memories is kinda fucked up
* "as long as we're still alive, the humans will never _leave us alone_" (dub) instead of "never repent"
* dub has Renny say everyone is "injured" instead of "prepared for the worst"
* "I'm just playing the game by the rules you guys created" (dub)
* Earl "the Order's cold ambition to win the war" (dub) vs. "disgusting act" (sub)
* "his hatred is converting into Dark Matter" (dub) vs. converting into energy FOR the Dark Matter (egg fragment) implanted within
* OH COME ON Alma should NOT know the name "Kanda", he was only "Yu" back then. "Kanda" came later, after he became an official Exorcist and Tiedoll's disciple

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**Manga Comparison Corner:**

* This consists of the last few pages of 192, all of 193 (and bonus 193.5 only in volume 20) and 194, then the first 8 pages of 195.
* When Marie asks "what should I call you?" Yu has "mixed feelings" on being called "Yu".
* When Tui told For not to intervene, she says everyone in the lab agrees on this.
* LOL in the manga Allen is like "what happened to that incredibly short temper of yours?" to Kanda.
* Not many differences to note today, pretty faithful.

Rewatcher

Sub

You know we are in for a padding when they recap for over 2 mins.

Leville of course is the main hand behind all of this, everything links back to him and his pre Nazi crap, it's basically his families motto after all with how they made Hel.

Thank god Marie was spared having to go through Kanda/Alma's experience.

Kanda's original form apparently was some blond guy that looked like the Excorist with Suman, think the one with the massive sword.

Young Renny and Tui crying over Kanda, you really would expect Renny to know better, but 9 years is a long time, more losses in the order. Failed shit and Levillie being Leville likely helped toinfluence her to oversee the Third's.

\[DGM\]>!If zu's question to Leville later is anything to go by, you wonder if he and Renny had something else in mind for them? Or if they wanted them embedded within the Noah ranks!<).

Spirit awakens that shocks Kanda enough to get up again. Oh and gives it the innocence their original body had.

Young Kanda comes across Marie, and decides to say hi to the Scientists that put him to sleep.

Bak tries to get into the section, but For says no. and she ain't going to like Bak try and mess with her.

Wow, a touch of Kand's blood and the wound heals like magic. If Kanda was so... Kanda, he could sell this for billions or give a jar of donation every now and then, that would let the Order restore Excorists in a blink of an eye for most injuries.

Dr Edgar is on the prowl, and he finds what he might be looking for.

Oh damm, spoke too soon, closes the wound but not instant recovery, still the fact a bit of Kanda's blood can close a wound up like that is something.

Well Yu, let him know your name if you don't want to be called kid.

And he now just wants Alama, fuck the order and the war, understandable with everything that's been happening and what they did to them.

Look, it's a feast of crows that even GRM would be proud of.

Dr Edgar decided to try and pose with Alma's wing, but he slipped on the blood and got himself paled by it the klutz. always felt like he was the try too hard to be nice guy, can't we all get along without reading the room.

Alma's happy to see you Yu, but you have to die because.

that sends Marie flying down the stairs with Kanda, while Alma digs out their experience fully.

All alone, waiting and waiting for someone to wake up, talking loud, reading and more. only to find that they weren't their original form, memories so the scientists, even nice guy tm Edgar had to die.

For seeing the sights of it all. As Alma does some reconstruction of his body, but that damm regen shit keeps getting in the way.

Marie gets implaed, and this is enough for Kanda to embrace Alma. for once, showing empathy knowing Alma's not at fault here, that humans tampered with nature and it's fucked them up massively.

Alma's 100% on the ball here.

Kanda, wants to live so activates his innocence to kill Alma.

When For's this calm, this quiet and upset. You know things have truly gotten bad to tamper her attitude.

You had one job Renny, one thing Tui told you to do and you now are basically pulling a Akagi in repeating their mistakes.

... yep, they were in their own ways Fou, them and Leville the a hole.

Allen's seen quite enough and decides to go all one man punch.

That sends Wisley right into breakdown mode harder than the twats that get beaten at the arcade.

The party is truly getting started now with Alma Karma activating fully at last.

Alma nuke activated, that takes the pyramid apart. Tewaku getting cagey on vision she sees to Two Mole.

Woops, there goes a scientist thanks to Halo Alma stepping on their neck.

Said it before and will again, the order is fucked up. This isn't concerned whether they could not thinking whether they should levels, this is throwing all instinct,s human ethics out the window, trying the same result over and over again, hoping to get lucky.

It's not just inhumane, but it's pure idicoy that they keep being in the same loop with these things and expecting a different outcome. When simple logic, perception and common sense would lead them down better paths.

**First Timer (for Hallow), Sub**


Renny really saw all this happen and decided to continue the experiments anyway despite Twi wanting her to prevent any of that ever happening again. But yeah Alma and Kanda's story is messed up for a reason, Alma's hatred grows beyond what even he can really control and he just goes haywire and tries to die with Kanda only for Kanda to turn on him, because he actually wanted to live. Alma never really had a chance and thanks to Earl showing up again he gets him back and turns him into an Akuma.


But just as he awakens so does Kanda, ready for the confrontation.


[Spoilers]>!You know the whole Alma thing does lead to interesting questions about Kanda's sexuality considering that Alma was Kanda's female lover from the past!<

**D.Flashback-in-a-Flashback-man**

A lot may have changed between the adaptations, but at least you can depend on the recaps being more or less the same.

Now we get the other end of things, Alma's own suffering under the nicer looking facade he tries to put on. If Kanda thought he was having a rough time, Alma's not that different, he was just not showing it, keeping it all bottled in, until it broke loose.

In better notes, I like that the Kanda/Marie bond started here, Marie really is the nice big bro at the Order, and I appreciate that the Changs ordered Fo to stay out. Having her fight to protect Epstein and co. from their victims would be its own kind of hell.

>1) How fucked up is the Black Order? Are their acts justifiable?

Everything can be justified when the human race is on the line, but at some point, you have to wonder which humanity are you protecting, the bodies or the spirits.

>2) Should Renny have known better than to create the Thirds?

She comes from a long line of abusing kids while sipping wine with Hitler, and she's not gonna disappoint.

###First Timer

* Yes Kanda use the sword to murder everyone in Kill Bill-esque sequence with zero emotional weight behind it. ~~Try to guess what I watched yesterday.~~

* OK I guess Marie and Bak are getting acquitted but For is toasted.

* Can't tell if it's the story itself or it's the anime's fault but the Kanda and Alma scene certainly lacks emotional weight.

         [](#kaguyasigh)

* Hey don't try to make the hot lady that tortures children cool before she dies.

* Oh the hot lady and the guy I kept expecting to start talking in Sugita's voice were Bak's parents. Now it all makes sense.

         [](#maxshock)

* Allen cares about your privacy.

         [](#nichijouthumbs)

* Muppet Road.

         [](#azusalaugh)

* The creep that preys on lonely kids in dark places talking shit about the priests that exploit kids for the "greater good". What a battle.

* Does he count as level 5?

* Kanda is here to kick some ass.

         [](#grandhype)