[Guido]

Around the time the anime was on its thirty-something episodes broadcasts I decided to start my venture with the manga.

Since as of now the anime has adapted the volumes one to five of the manga, I read two chapters a day and on the Krory arc I read up to three chapters a day.

When I finished to the point where the anime stopped adapting the manga I began to pick up a slow pace and since the start of volume six I have been reading one chapter per day. As of today I have concluded with volume nine at the end of chapter 86.

If I keep this rate of one chapter per day, then in about six weeks I'll be catching up with the current chapter releases.

Gosh, the manga is packing with awesome shockers and good pace for character development.

Spoiler:

Nearly all of Japan is at the Earl's control and most of the Akumar are already at level 3.

Presumedly, Linali's Innocence revealed itself to be the Heart.

The reason where the anime stated that the Earl is concerned by Cross due a main reason:
1. He suspects that the traitor Noah gave control of the Old Noah's Ark to Cross Marian.
I now have suspicions to theorize that Marian went missing all of this years with HQ, because he was searching for the place where the Earl makes the Akuma bodies and that quest led him to the Ark.

2. Marian can modified to a thoughtful degree the Akuma to obey him.
Though I suppose that even at the recent chapters the manga has not revealed how he do it.

Tikki's target on the card was Allen; Allen nearly got killed by Tikki's dangerous ability to manipulate the space around him; Allen managed to revive his Innocence when it was thought that Tikki had destroyed it for good.