![]() In making the demons known as "Akuma" from D.Gray-man, Hoshino was inspired by the 1973 film, The Exorcist, even though she was afraid of the movie. ![]() ![]() The characters Lavi and Yu Kanda were carried over from two unpublished titles. The main antagonist of Zone, known simply as the Millennium Earl, retains his appearance and name in D.Gray-man while the features of the female protagonist were changed to create the more masculine appearance of D.Gray-man's male protagonist Allen Walker. D.Gray-man and its predecessor Zone share many major concepts, such as the creation of demons known as akuma, the Exorcists' role to eliminate these demons, and the overall plot of both works. Characters are often carried over from unpublished manga Hoshino worked on early in her career. Her most notable work D.Gray-man is greatly influenced by her previous titles. Hoshino has named Takeshi Obata and Osamu Akimoto as inspiring her work. However, the holy war only intensifies when the Earl gathers the Noah Family, superhuman descendants of Noah, who abhor and have the ability to destroy Innocence.īoth sides soon begin their search for the Heart-the most powerful piece of Innocence-which will ensure victory to the side that finds it. The Order's purpose is to put a stop to The Earl of Millennium's plans to destroy humanity with his army of Akuma.Īllen, along with his fellow Exorcists, is able to fight against Akuma using an ancient substance named Innocence, which is the only thing able to destroy them. Set in a fictional 19th century, D.Gray-Man is the story of Allen Walker, who joins an organisation named the Black Order, and becomes an Exorcist. In 2016 the anime was offered a continuation of 13 episodes with the name of D.Gray-Man Hallow. The anime series has been licensed by FUNimation but only showed the first season of the anime series. The series has also been adopted into a episode anime that aired from Octoto Septemin Japan, and two seasons has been released which season two called "Second Stage". In total they published 24 volumes of the series. The manga series got licensed in North America by Viz Media. In total, there are 25 volumes released and 223 chapters, since it's release on Monday 31 May, 2004. Before it was released in Jump Square, few chapters had been released in Akamaru Jump. The series was initial released every monday of the week in the magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump but has been placed to the monthly magazine because of Hoshino's health issues which the series had to go a lot of times on hiatus evenly sometimes for a long time. D.Gray-man (ディー・グレイマン, Dī Gureiman) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Katsura Hoshino, published by Shueisha and currently appearing in the quarterly magazine Jump SQ Crown a special issue of Jump Square.
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