D.Gray-man, Volume 01
Set in a fictional end of the 19th century England, the story revolves around a teenage boy named Allen Walker who is cursed with a cross mark on his hand that turns his arm into an enormous weapon, which he uses to hunt down and kill akumas. An akuma, generated by a 1,000-year-old phantom, is...
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Set in a fictional end of the 19th century England, the story revolves around a teenage boy named Allen Walker who is cursed with a cross mark on his hand that turns his arm into an enormous weapon, which he uses to hunt down and kill akumas. An akuma, generated by a 1,000-year-old phantom, is implanted into a human's soul during a moment of devastation and despair. The phantom uses the demons to then carry out his goal: destroy all humankind.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781421506234 (1421506238)
Publish date: May 2nd 2006
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC
Pages no: 208
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Young Adult,
Horror,
Action,
Sequential Art,
Graphic Novels,
Comics,
Manga,
Shonen,
Supernatural,
Comics Manga
Series: D.Gray-man (#1)
Ah yes, I still love this series, I know I saw about 50 episodes of it long time ago, and also read some volumes of the manga, but I never finished. This was just so good. Happy to see Allen again. I decided to re-read this one, I didn’t really want to start a big book right before my vacation, and ...
One of those shounen you just know you are going to read more than one volume. It starts already with some action, when two cops enter a church who is supposed to be haunted. The younger cop meets Allen Walker, a boy exorcist. Like most shounen I´ve read so far, he is likeable, and only 15-years-old...
Simply not for me. The story, the characters, the setting, the art... None of it enough to get me even vaguely interested. It's not terrible (hence two stars instead of one) but neither was it good enough to get me to do more than reluctantly drag myself through the first volume.
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