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D.Gray-man (ディーグレイマン, Dī Gureiman?) is an ongoing Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Katsura Hoshino. It was first serialized in 2004 in Weekly Shōnen Jump, published by Shueisha under their Jump Comics imprint and currently fourteen volumes have been released. There is also a novel series called Reverse, authored by Kaya Kizaki, that tells the characters' backgrounds. As of May 6, 2008, Viz Media has released the first nine volumes in the United States. The anime series began airing on October 3, 2006 in Japan and is still ongoing.

Many characters and their designs were adapted from some of Katsura Hoshino's previous works and drafts, such as Zone, Book-man, and Continue, and her assistants. Earlier titles considered for the manga were Dolls, Chronoa, and Zone.

Plot

Set during the end of a nineteenth century on a fictional Earth, D.Gray-man mostly centers around 15-year-old Allen Walker, who is gifted with the ability to control a weaponized form of a divine substance from ages past, called Innocence, and becomes an Exorcist of the Black Order. This secretive organization aims to stop the plan set in motion by the Millennium Earl to destroy all life on Earth, thus 'cleansing' it. But the Earl has raised an army of Akuma, created by taking advantage of grief over a loved one's death, and summoned the direct descendants of Noah himself, the 13-strong Noah family, to aid him in his second attempt. Because of the Akuma's ability to wear a human's skin, they are nearly undetectable by any human. Allen proves to be a powerful asset as his 'cursed' left eye is able to detect the Akuma. But soon, this battle nearly turns into a race to collect the 109 Innocence fragments, scattered since the Great Flood of Noah, as the search to find the most powerful Innocence the 'Great Heart' ensues.

Anime adaptation

As of October 3rd, 2006 an anime adaptation of D.Gray-man, directed by Nabeshima Osamu, has been released and is ongoing. As of 2008, it consists of more than eighty episodes made-up of either made-up episodes or adaptions of the manga or novels run on TV Tokyo in Japan and Arts Central in Singapore.[10]

The first 51 episodes of the anime series are licensed for an English language release by Funimation, the first release is set at the beginning of 2009..

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