D.Gray-man (Manga)

is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Katsura Hoshino, published by Shueisha and currently appearing in the monthly magazine Jump Square. 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. Before it was released in Jump Square, few chapters had been released in Akamaru Jump. In total, there are 23 volumes released and 215 chapters, since it's release on Monday 31 May, 2004. The manga series got licensed in North America by Viz Media. In total they published 22 volumes of the series which volume 23 will come out December 6, 2012 this year.

The series has also been adopted into a episode anime that aired from October 3, 2006 to September 30, 2008 in Japan, and two seasons has been released which season two called "Second Stage". The anime series has been licensed by FUNimation but only showed the first season of the anime series.

Plot
Allen Walker a 16-year old kid whose left arm can transform into a monstrous claw and destroy Akuma, evolving machines created by The Earl of Millennium to help him destroy humanity. He got trained by one of the Black Order generals Cross Marian which he told him that he can become an Exorcist, humans who can destroy Akuma, for the Black Order, an organization attempting to stop the Earl. Allen became a powerful asset for the organization because he can detect disguised Akuma's with his Cursed Eye. The Earl decided to gather the Noah Family superhuman descendants of Noah who can destroy Innocence. Both side start to make their search for the Heart the most powerful piece of Innocence that will ensure victory to the side that finds it. As soon, the Order finds out that Allen is to succeed Nea Walker a Noah that betrayed and was killed by the Earl, as the 14th Noah. This leads the Order to suspect that Allen might betray them, and he is eventually confined. The Noah frees him to rescue Allen from the Apocryphos, a sentient Innocence that guards the Heart, causing the Order to revoke Allen's rights as an Exorcist and treat him as a Noah.

Trivia

 * Fans claiming that "D.Gray-man" full name is "Devil" or "Demon Gray-man". The name D.Gray-man is a reference to Allen Walker, the main protagonist of the entire series due to his white or grey hair, demonic hand and eye.