introduction

you the best of both worlds...

D.Gray-man is a manga serialized in Weekly Shounen Jump, and is authorized by Hoshino Katsura, serialized in Weekly Shounen Jump, which obviously makes the series belong to the shounen genre despite some people might think that the art style is too girly. It has been adaptated into an anime divided in two seasons, and also has a sort of "extension" or side story written as a novel by Kizaki Kaya and Hoshino herself.

The series tells about the battle between the Noah Family led by The Millenium Earl, and the Black Order (Kuro no Kyoudan). The Millenium Earl aims to bring destruction to the world, and creates an army that consists of Akuma – weapons created from souls and body of humans with tragedy and despair. The Order tries to protect the World with the help of Exorcists, gifted with the ability to use Innocence–a divine substance created in ages past to combat the Earl and his minions. Once an Innocence fragment is found to be compatible to a particular user, it can become a weapon or tool for the user.

Our protagonist Allen Walker is a boy born with Innocence on his left arm. After turning his beloved foster parent, Mana Walker, into an akuma, his Innocence activated for the first time and exorcised the akuma. Mana's rage left a curse upon Allen's left eye which made him able to detect akumas. Allen was then found by Cross Marian, a General from the Black Order. He told Allen about Innocence, the Earl, exorcists and so on. Afterwards, Allen was convinced to be an exorcist. He went to the Black Order's headquarters as told by his master. (...)