D.Gray-man

D.Gray-man follows the adventures of 15-year-old Allen Walker,whose other side arm can transform into a gigantic hook and obliterate Akuma, evolving machines created by the Millennium Earl to help him destroy humanity. As ordered by his master General Cross Marian, Allen becomes an Exorcist, people who can destroy Akuma, for the Black Order, an organization attempting to stop the Earl.

He ends up an influential possession for the Order resulting from the fact that he would be able to locate camouflaged akuma with his left eye. Allen is sent to recover pieces of Innocence, a substance that gives the Exorcists the ability to destroy Akuma. The Earl decides to call together the Noah Family, superhuman descendants of Noah who can destroy Innocence. Both sides start the search for the Heart, the most powerful piece of Innocence that will assure victory to the side that finds it.

During his search, the Earl begins killing the Generals, the Order's most powerful Exorcists. To ensure them, the Order endeavors to carry the Generals back to central station, and Allen and three other Exorcists are sent to search for the missing General Cross.At the same time as the inquiry, Allen and Lenalee Lee are nearly killed and saved by their Innocence, leading the Earl and Bookman and his apprentice Lavi, who are chronicling the war, to believe one of them possesses the Great Heart. Meanwhile, the Order learns that the 14th; a Noah that betrayed and was killed by the Earl, implanted his memories into Allen. The memories will erode Allen away until he becomes the 14th. This leads the Order to believe that Allen may betray them.

D.Gray-man is an ongoing Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Katsura Hoshino. The manga began serialization in 2004 in the Weekly Shonen Jump magazine, published by Shueisha under their Jump Comics imprint, and to date, 22 collected volumes have been released. It made the transition from weekly to monthly series in November 2009, when it began serialization in Jump Square.

There is also a spin-off novel series titled D.Gray-man Reverse, authored by Kaya Kizaki, that explores the history of various characters. As of May 4, 2010, Viz Media has released the first nineteen volumes in the United States. The manga has also been adapted into a 103 episode anime series that aired from October 3, 2006 to September 30, 2008 in Japan. The anime is licensed by Funimation Entertainment in North America.