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Fans of other goth style animes will be magnetically drawn to D.Gray-Man. Less notable in the anime, most of the scenes took place in the manga were during the night-time which emphasized the dark themes and settings. The chapters themselves being numbered ‘1st night’, ‘2nd night’ and so forth.

The art of the anime is crisp and anatomically correct (relative to other animes anyway =P and always an important consideration). The manga is beautiful to say the least, the gothic style drawings rich, poignant and clean (assuming there isn’t an akuma to be defeated, the action scenes are quite chaotic).

Rating

  8 (good)

Sound

Opening Themes:

INNOCENT SORROW - abingdon boys school

Closing Themes:

SNOW KISS - NIRGILIS

Pride Of Tomorrow - JUNE

The most notable of these tie-ups being ‘INNOCENT SORROW’ performed by abingdon boys school, led by Nishikawa Takanori, more notably known as ‘T.M.Revolution’, a veteran to music and anime tie-ups alike.

‘SNOW KISS’ is a favourite of mine, the song having an air of mystery as well as coolness that I personally loved. I also loved the first scene of the closing sequence depicting the trio, the Millennium Earl, Allen & Marian Cross, probably the most significant characters of D.Gray-Man back to back in top hats.

A decent line-up for the opening and closing songs. Voice acting adequately reflects the characters featured, nothing surprising and not much that stands out from the crowd.

Rating

  7 (above average)

Fun

The anime adaptation of the manga disappointed me, it felt as though all the peculiarities that made the D.Gray-Man manga unique were smoothed out for the anime. I guess anime is a watered down version of the manga so to speak, a reasonable initiative by the producers of the anime, as to open D.Gray-Man to a wider audience, otherwise it may have been too dark or gruesome for younger viewers.

Like most animes, I recommend reading the manga wherever possible. Nevertheless, D.Gray-Man the anime is a solid watch, there’s plenty of action to be had and a little space to be bored as you learn about the world of the exorcists..

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