D.Gray-man

D.Gray-man (ディー. グレイマン) is a shōnen Manga of Hoshino Katsura prépublié in the magazine Weekly Shonen Jump since 2004. 12 volumes for the moment left to the Japan. The series was acquired for a French publication by Glénat. The first volume left in September 2006.

The manga is adapted in Anime since the October 3rd 2006 for TV Tōkyō (producer-diffuser) and TV Setouchi (first diffuser) by TMS Entertainment, under the direction of Osamu Nabeshima.

Short summary of the history

Towards the end of one 19th century imaginary and particularly Gothic, the young person Allen Walker is a Exorciste pertaining to a special order created by the the Vatican. The goal of this kind is to face and eliminate from the demons called Akuma, like that which created them, the Count Millénaire, of which the goal is to destroy the world. To conclude this combat, the exorcists lay out each one of an Innocence, left fantastic personal weapon.

Innocences

Innocences are anti-akumas weapons. They were created 7000 years ago. They were used to overcome first once the Count Millénaire, but in spite of this victory, the Earth paid heavy a tribe, this episode at summer named in the Bible, the Déluge. So that an innocence functions, it is necessary that it is in possession of a compatible person. There exist several types of innocence, but rarest is that of symbiotic type, i.e. innocence belongs to the body of its user.
(Allen Walker has one of the symbiotic type of them)

Exorcists

Also called black priests, they hold innocences to fight the akumas. On the ground, they can communicate between them or with their base with small flying radios called Golem. The exorcists are recognizable by their long black clothes and their crucifix bent on the chest.

Akumas

( demon in Japanese)

These are hearts of late that the Count Millénaire imprisoned in the body of a close relation of the victim to make his puppet of it.

The akumas are of human appearance, but can change into weapons for the combat.

They become also stronger and more intelligent while killing out of the human ones: it is said whereas they evolve/move.

Currently, 3 levels are known:

  • Level 1: the akuma with the shape of an enormous roughcast ball of guns with an human face in the center. They are completely deprived of conscience. Their attack is summarized with shootings of poisoned shells.
  • Level 2: the akuma gains an appearance and a capacity which are clean for him. It also starts to test feelings, particularly of the joy at the time of the engagements. To evolve/move on this level, the heart of the akuma must be corrupted.
  • Level 3: the akuma always has a clean appearance but is distinguished from levels 2 by the presence of a black carapace on their body. They can also devour akumas of lower levels and assimilate their capacities.

They can be destroyed in 2 ways:

  • by an Innocence: the imprisoned heart is then released.

  • by self-destruction on order of the Count Millénaire or a family member Noah: the imprisoned heart is then destroyed.

Characters

internal Article: List of the characters in D.Gray-man

The manga

List volumes

French publications

Editor: Glénat Format: 180 mm X 115 mm

  • Volume 1: left on Wednesday, September 6, 2006, 208 pages

  • Volume 2: left on Wednesday, November 8, 2006, 192 pages
  • Volume 3: left on Wednesday, February 14, 2007, 208 pages
  • Volume 4: left on Wednesday, April 4, 2007, 192 pages
  • Volume 5: left on Wednesday, June 20, 2007, 192 pages
  • Volume 6: left on Wednesday, August 22, 2007, 192 pages
  • Volume 7: exit envisaged on Wednesday, November 7, 2007,
  • Volume 8: exit envisaged on Wednesday, January 9, 2008,
  • Volume 9: No coming out date envisaged

Animates

In France, no editor acquired the license for the series.

In the episodes in themselves, one can note that several things were modified, or whereas episodes were straightforwardly invented. But the episodes remain faithful to the history of the manga.

Staff

  • Author: Katsura Hoshino
  • Scenario: Reiko Yoshida
  • Directing: Nabeshima Osamu
  • Designer characters and Director as a chief of animation: Morioka Hideyuki
  • Directing of art: Koga Toru
  • Director of the photography: Tsuchida Eiji
  • Music: Wada Kaoru

  • Studio: TMS Diffusion Entertainment

  • : TV Tokyo

Information

  • Many episodes: 64
  • Lasted: 25 minutes
  • Kind: Action

List episodes

  1. the Boy who drives out Akuma
  2. Congrégation of the Shade
  3. the Phantom of Mateel
  4. the Wise one of the Earth and the Aria of the Night sky
  5. Chante me a Lullaby
  6. That which shouts with the wolves
  7. the Tomb stone of the Memory
  8. sinks It business of the destruction of the religious organization of the shade?!
  9. the City which rewinds
  10. the Innocence of Malchanceuse
  11. the Feelings of Miranda Lotto
  12. And in the City falls Snow…
  13. With my Coat
  14. the Sheet from resurrection
  15. the End of the Storm
  16. the Thousand-year-old Fencer
  17. the Pride of the Fencers
  18. the Love of Lenalee
  19. the Vampire of the Castle dilapidated
  20. Good luck, Grand Exorcist
  21. the Attack of Crowley
  22. the Truth of Eliade
  23. the Vampire which I liked
  24. the Voyage of Krory
  25. the Chains of the General
  26. the beginning of the End
  27. My Master, the General Cross-country race
  28. Krory, the exorcist
  29. the person who sells hearts (1st part)
  30. the person who sells hearts (2nd part)
  31. Miranda is lost
  32. the mysterious ghost ship
  33. the village where the witch (1st part) saw
  34. the village where the witch (2nd part) saw
  35. the exorcist who carries the wind
  36. the book of the darkness

Internal bonds

  • Weekly Shonen Jump
  • Hoshino Katsura

External bonds

  • Bond towards the page of D.Gray-man of the magazine Weekly Shonen Jump
  • Site of the editor Glénat

Simple: D.Gray-man

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