D G R A Y M A N P L O T
Set during the end of a fictional nineteenth century on Earth, D.Gray-man mostly centers around 15-year-old Allen Walker. In his childhood Allen was abandoned by his parents due to a 'deformed' left arm and was adopted by a travelling clown called Mana Walker. At some moment Mana died and Allen was approached by a person named Millennium Earl, who offered to revive Mana. The Earl revives him but Mana reappears as a machine called an akuma (アクマ, lit. demon?) that is ordered by the Millennium Earl to kill him and take on his skin, as akuma do. During that moment Allen is gifted with the ability to control his left hand and turn it into an anti-akuma weapon because of a substance called Innocence is embedded in it and against his will, kills Mana. Before Mana dies, he curses Allen's left eye, which later gives him the ability to see the souls of akuma. After that Allen discovers that the Millennium Earl tries to trick those who have lost loved ones to turn their dead souls into akuma and decides to train himself in order to stop him. Soon after this he becomes the apprentice of general Cross, an Exorcist of the Black Order, a secretive organization which aims to stop the plan set in motion by the Millennium Earl and to save the souls trapped as akuma. However, the Earl has raised an army of akuma, created by taking advantage of grief over one's misfortune, and summons the direct descendants of Noah himself, the Noah Clan, to aid him in his second attempt. Because of the akuma's ability to wear a human's skin, they are nearly undetectable by any human. Allen proves to be a powerful asset as his 'cursed' left eye is able to detect the trapped souls within an akuma. Other Exorcist commonly assisting him are Yu Kanda, Lenalee Lee, and Lavi.
D G R A Y M A N T E R M S
Exorcists (エクソシスト, Ekusoshisuto?), also known as "Accomodators", are chosen by each piece of the divine substance Innocence (イノセンス, Inosensu?). This allows them to control it in its weaponized form the anti-akuma weapon. Their job includes defeating the akuma and searching the world for the scattered Innocence. They receive daily orders from the chief, although they are normally placed under one of the General's command. With Allen joining the Order, there were nineteen Exorcists. Since then, seven have died and three joined, creating a total of fifteen living Exorcists. The Innocence grants each Exorcist a unique, supernatural ability. They are usually categorized into two types of Exorcists, depending on the form their anti-akuma weapon takes and how they are invoked. An equipment-type Exorcist controls an Innocence that is "restrained" by a weapon form. Parasite-type Exorcists are a rare type of Exorcists who control the Innocence in an unaltered form with their bodies. When invoked their weapon usually appears as a human body part, but is actually composed of a different cellular structure. The parasite-type Exorcists can manipulate their weapon through emotion. Because the Innocence is not physically in contact with its Equipment-type Accomodator, the Exorcist cannot control the weapon as well as a Parasitic-type can. There is a third type of Exorcist, the Crystal-type. Lenalee Lee is the only known member of this group. The Innocence takes a metallic form created from the Exorcist's blood. Although the Innocence can be controlled through emotions like a parasite-type, no part of the user's body is altered. Instead the Innocence resides in the crystals making up the metallic substance. In addition to those Exorcists chosen by an Innocence, there are Exorcists referred to as Second Exorcists and Third Exorcists. The Second Exorcists were created nine years ago as part of the Synthetic Disciple Project Central forced upon the Chan and Epstein families. Yu Kanda is the only known member of this group. Led by Renee Epstein, the Order starts another project to create Third Exorcists. The Third Exorcists are engineered to be half akuma and are able to destroy akuma through a type of cannibalism. Unlike the Second Exorcists, they have an adverse reaction to Innocence.
Generals
Generals are immensely powerful Exorcists whose synchronization rate with their Innocence has exceeded one-hundred percent. They do not take orders from the chief, instead taking orders from the Grand Generals, who are ranked even higher. In the beginning of the series, there are five Generals: Cross Marian, Kevin Yeegar, Froi Tiedoll, Cloud Nyne, and Winters Zokalo. Every Exorcist is placed under the command of a General. It is a General's job to find and recruit new Exorcists. Because of this, each General carries several pieces of Innocence and they are often away traveling for long periods of time. When the Earl begins his search for the Great Heart of the Innocence, he attacks the General thinking they are the best candidates. This leads to the death of the oldest and most experienced General Kevin Yeegar. After his death, teams of Exorcists are sent to protect the Generals and bring them back to headquarters. Cloud Nyne and Winters Zokalo return, but Cross Marian and Froi Tiedoll continue their missions with the aid of their Exorcist teams. During a mission to bring Cross to headquarters, Allen exceeds the one-hundred percent synchronization rate with his Innocence; although the Generals are aware of this, Allen does not become a General. Eventually, Tiedoll and Cross return to headquarters. Cross Marian is no longer the accomadator for his Innocence and, subsequently, a General and has disappeared.
Akuma
Akuma (アクマ?, lit. demon) take up the majority of the Earl's army and serve as the "foot soldiers". When one is mourning for a lost relative or friend, the Earl appears offering to resurrect that member for them. However, the raised soul becomes the power source for the Earl's weapon and must obey his orders. In contrast, an akuma "converted" by Cross can resist orders from the Earl. Akuma "wear" the skin of the one who resurrected them. They use this to blend in, as Exorcists cannot tell akuma from human with the exception of Allen. The akuma share a metal core made of dark matter that resembles a simplified human skeleton. Their blood also contains a blood virus, which rapidly travels through the victim's body, marking it with pentacles. The virus can be spread by blood bullets of a high caliber shot by the level one akuma. Eventually, the body crumbles into dust and gives off a poisonous gas. The akuma also evolve into higher levels, gaining strength as they do so, with level four being the highest seen so far. Each level akuma becomes more humanoid than the level before it.[89] As its evolution continues, the embedded soul deteriorates. An akuma-producing plant, referred to as an "egg", is required to create akuma. The egg is badly damaged and a new one is being created. There is a special significance to the evolution of an akuma. If destroyed by a force other than Innocence, the soul is consumed by dark matter and is destroyed.
The Noah Family
The Noah Family (ノアの一族, Noa no ichizoku?) consists of thirteen human descendants of Noah who have inherited his genes.[55][56] A Noah can be identified by a gray skin tone, yellow/gold eyes, and a horizontal line of seven cross-shaped stigmata referred to as holy marks. Like akuma creatures, they base their powers off dark matter, the opposite of Innocence, and as such are vulnerable to Innocence.[57] The Noah share an inborn drive to kill Exorcists, but otherwise possess unique will and mindsets. "Carved" on their genes is a memory of Noah different from any member in their generation and possess a supernatural ability.[56] They claim to be immortal, but this is proven to be an exaggeration after Yu Kanda kills the Noah Skin Bolic.
Set during the end of a fictional nineteenth century on Earth, D.Gray-man mostly centers around 15-year-old Allen Walker. In his childhood Allen was abandoned by his parents due to a 'deformed' left arm and was adopted by a travelling clown called Mana Walker. At some moment Mana died and Allen was approached by a person named Millennium Earl, who offered to revive Mana. The Earl revives him but Mana reappears as a machine called an akuma (アクマ, lit. demon?) that is ordered by the Millennium Earl to kill him and take on his skin, as akuma do. During that moment Allen is gifted with the ability to control his left hand and turn it into an anti-akuma weapon because of a substance called Innocence is embedded in it and against his will, kills Mana. Before Mana dies, he curses Allen's left eye, which later gives him the ability to see the souls of akuma. After that Allen discovers that the Millennium Earl tries to trick those who have lost loved ones to turn their dead souls into akuma and decides to train himself in order to stop him. Soon after this he becomes the apprentice of general Cross, an Exorcist of the Black Order, a secretive organization which aims to stop the plan set in motion by the Millennium Earl and to save the souls trapped as akuma. However, the Earl has raised an army of akuma, created by taking advantage of grief over one's misfortune, and summons the direct descendants of Noah himself, the Noah Clan, to aid him in his second attempt. Because of the akuma's ability to wear a human's skin, they are nearly undetectable by any human. Allen proves to be a powerful asset as his 'cursed' left eye is able to detect the trapped souls within an akuma. Other Exorcist commonly assisting him are Yu Kanda, Lenalee Lee, and Lavi.
D G R A Y M A N T E R M S
Exorcists (エクソシスト, Ekusoshisuto?), also known as "Accomodators", are chosen by each piece of the divine substance Innocence (イノセンス, Inosensu?). This allows them to control it in its weaponized form the anti-akuma weapon. Their job includes defeating the akuma and searching the world for the scattered Innocence. They receive daily orders from the chief, although they are normally placed under one of the General's command. With Allen joining the Order, there were nineteen Exorcists. Since then, seven have died and three joined, creating a total of fifteen living Exorcists. The Innocence grants each Exorcist a unique, supernatural ability. They are usually categorized into two types of Exorcists, depending on the form their anti-akuma weapon takes and how they are invoked. An equipment-type Exorcist controls an Innocence that is "restrained" by a weapon form. Parasite-type Exorcists are a rare type of Exorcists who control the Innocence in an unaltered form with their bodies. When invoked their weapon usually appears as a human body part, but is actually composed of a different cellular structure. The parasite-type Exorcists can manipulate their weapon through emotion. Because the Innocence is not physically in contact with its Equipment-type Accomodator, the Exorcist cannot control the weapon as well as a Parasitic-type can. There is a third type of Exorcist, the Crystal-type. Lenalee Lee is the only known member of this group. The Innocence takes a metallic form created from the Exorcist's blood. Although the Innocence can be controlled through emotions like a parasite-type, no part of the user's body is altered. Instead the Innocence resides in the crystals making up the metallic substance. In addition to those Exorcists chosen by an Innocence, there are Exorcists referred to as Second Exorcists and Third Exorcists. The Second Exorcists were created nine years ago as part of the Synthetic Disciple Project Central forced upon the Chan and Epstein families. Yu Kanda is the only known member of this group. Led by Renee Epstein, the Order starts another project to create Third Exorcists. The Third Exorcists are engineered to be half akuma and are able to destroy akuma through a type of cannibalism. Unlike the Second Exorcists, they have an adverse reaction to Innocence.
Generals
Generals are immensely powerful Exorcists whose synchronization rate with their Innocence has exceeded one-hundred percent. They do not take orders from the chief, instead taking orders from the Grand Generals, who are ranked even higher. In the beginning of the series, there are five Generals: Cross Marian, Kevin Yeegar, Froi Tiedoll, Cloud Nyne, and Winters Zokalo. Every Exorcist is placed under the command of a General. It is a General's job to find and recruit new Exorcists. Because of this, each General carries several pieces of Innocence and they are often away traveling for long periods of time. When the Earl begins his search for the Great Heart of the Innocence, he attacks the General thinking they are the best candidates. This leads to the death of the oldest and most experienced General Kevin Yeegar. After his death, teams of Exorcists are sent to protect the Generals and bring them back to headquarters. Cloud Nyne and Winters Zokalo return, but Cross Marian and Froi Tiedoll continue their missions with the aid of their Exorcist teams. During a mission to bring Cross to headquarters, Allen exceeds the one-hundred percent synchronization rate with his Innocence; although the Generals are aware of this, Allen does not become a General. Eventually, Tiedoll and Cross return to headquarters. Cross Marian is no longer the accomadator for his Innocence and, subsequently, a General and has disappeared.
Akuma
Akuma (アクマ?, lit. demon) take up the majority of the Earl's army and serve as the "foot soldiers". When one is mourning for a lost relative or friend, the Earl appears offering to resurrect that member for them. However, the raised soul becomes the power source for the Earl's weapon and must obey his orders. In contrast, an akuma "converted" by Cross can resist orders from the Earl. Akuma "wear" the skin of the one who resurrected them. They use this to blend in, as Exorcists cannot tell akuma from human with the exception of Allen. The akuma share a metal core made of dark matter that resembles a simplified human skeleton. Their blood also contains a blood virus, which rapidly travels through the victim's body, marking it with pentacles. The virus can be spread by blood bullets of a high caliber shot by the level one akuma. Eventually, the body crumbles into dust and gives off a poisonous gas. The akuma also evolve into higher levels, gaining strength as they do so, with level four being the highest seen so far. Each level akuma becomes more humanoid than the level before it.[89] As its evolution continues, the embedded soul deteriorates. An akuma-producing plant, referred to as an "egg", is required to create akuma. The egg is badly damaged and a new one is being created. There is a special significance to the evolution of an akuma. If destroyed by a force other than Innocence, the soul is consumed by dark matter and is destroyed.
The Noah Family
The Noah Family (ノアの一族, Noa no ichizoku?) consists of thirteen human descendants of Noah who have inherited his genes.[55][56] A Noah can be identified by a gray skin tone, yellow/gold eyes, and a horizontal line of seven cross-shaped stigmata referred to as holy marks. Like akuma creatures, they base their powers off dark matter, the opposite of Innocence, and as such are vulnerable to Innocence.[57] The Noah share an inborn drive to kill Exorcists, but otherwise possess unique will and mindsets. "Carved" on their genes is a memory of Noah different from any member in their generation and possess a supernatural ability.[56] They claim to be immortal, but this is proven to be an exaggeration after Yu Kanda kills the Noah Skin Bolic.
