“Exorcists wield Innocence to battle the Earl's Akuma and avert a second Great Flood.”
D.Gray-man
D.Gray-man
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Synopsis
Exorcists wield Innocence to battle the Earl's Akuma and avert a second Great Flood.
Thousands of years ago, there existed those gifted with the power of God. Their mission: to destroy the ominous evils that lurk in the darkness known as "Akuma." Led by the Milenium Earl, Akuma seek to destroy fragments of "Innocence," the only weapons capable of harming the Earl and his army and bring about the Great Flood from a hundred years ago. To prevent this tragedy from happening, the Black Order was formed as an organization dedicated to fighting the Earl. They recruit Exorcists, those with the inherent ability to accomodate Innocence, to fight against the Akuma. In the late 19th century, Allen Walker—a white-haired boy armed with Innocence that takes the form of his entire left arm and a cursed eye that can see Akuma—is sent to the Black Order. There, Allen meets various comrades from the Order—the mercurial Yuu Kanda, the kindhearted Lenalee Lee, and the cheerful yet mysterious Lavi. Despite their different personalities, they have one goal in mind: to bring salvation to the souls of Akuma and prevent the Earl from destroying the world.
What people say
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What 20 readers settled on.
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σ 1.14 · some divergence
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Not enough recommend signal yet
↓ 0.90
Running avg · Mar 2008 → Jul 2022
- 8 “Good idea. Distinctive drawing style. Not a good beginning. Toward the middle and the end it got better. I had dropped it 3 times before I actually came to the part where I could enjoy. The power...”
- 7 “I can't remember if this is one of the cases where the Anime ended prematurely causing me to start reading the manga. But regardless D. Gray Man has lost me over the past few years. Many of the...”
- 10 “D.Gray-man is totally one of my top 10 manga since it has all the things i wanted. It has humor, adventure, horror (a little) and romance(?!) lol The characters are hard to forget. The story plot...”
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A Manga Publication
- Published May 2004 – ongoing
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M0022 catalog