D.Gray Man Thread

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Since I'm lazy, I'll just leave this here:

That panel bottom center is the reason why General Tiedoll is one of my favorite characters.

 

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Battle Fantasy – D.Gray Man
D.Gray Man is probably my favorite manga, and one of the manga I believe to be the most underrated in the West. A lot of this is due to a major hiatuses that manga had been forced to take due to author's bad health. Manga is written and drawn by Katsura Hoshino, and is heavily based upon the author's earlier work, the one-shot manga Zone (much like One Piece grew out of the Romance Dawn). Yet it would probably not be wrong to consider it the greatest shounen manga ever. It should probably be noted that Hoshino also created designs for Valvrave the Liberator.

Basic premise of the story is that in a world full of sorrow, Millenium Earl – who is essentially the Devil and probably one of most terrifying antagonists in any manga – allows grieving, despairing individuals to sign a "pact with the devil" in order to revive their loved ones. But this is not actually resurrection: soul of the deceased is called into a metalic skeleton, the akuma (Japanese for a "demon"), which is then used to imprison the soul and use it as a fuel. Akuma then murders the person who called the soul back, and wears its corpse as a disguise until evolving from Level 0 into Level 1.

In essence, Akuma is made of three things: tragedy, despair and hatred, and all these things also very well represent the Earl himself. A person who has experienced tragedy may give into despair, which then leads to them hating God for "causing" the tragedy. And it is in that moment that the Earl appears and offers his contract.

Allen Walker is the Best Protagonist in Manga

Allen Walker is the best protagonist in manga, for many reasons. First and most obvious is that he is one of few shounen protagonists with common sense. Unlike Midoriya from My Hero Academia, Eren …

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Allen Walker is the best protagonist in manga, for many reasons.

First and most obvious is that he is one of few shounen protagonists with common sense. Unlike Midoriya from My Hero Academia, Eren from Attack on Titan, Natsu from Fairy Tail or a slew of other shounen protagonists, he is generally level-headed, practical, and if necessary, underhanded – as can be seen below:

Thoughts on Nea D Campbell

Questions exist about Nea’s personality and his potential hate for humanity. In fact, D.Gray Man Wiki itself claims that Nea hates humans and prefers to act on his own. But even if Nea may ha…

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Questions exist about Nea's personality and his potential hate for humanity. In fact, D.Gray Man Wiki itself claims that Nea hates humans and prefers to act on his own. But even if Nea may hate humans, this does not – regardless of what individuals in the Order may claim – mean that he hates humanity as such and wants to see it destroyed.

In fact, Nea has – few times he had been fully conscious – actually shown kindness or at least care for humans, even those who were technically his enemies. The most obvious example is perhaps when he tried to save the Finders who had been sent to capture him.

 

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