Audience reviews
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EphOn
This anime was literally impossible to watch, it had me for the first 5 episodes, even without watching i loved the aesthetics and that early 2000s feels, but when i did started watching the show i felt that most of the episodes were there to be there, no progression plot wise just episodic with unnecessary comedic scenes and typical “baka” moments that made me want to yeet myself while watching it, the characters i may say some were interesting others extremely uninteresting, almost non of them caught my attention and their backstory were rather cliche or also pretty boring.
The akumas are ugly looking all are the same, not even an ugly but interesting design, just plain “what is that”
The openings are amazing, the animation decent.
I would have loved this anime if i watched it back when…
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Oh my god, if it wasn't for this being part of my childhood, I wouldn't have bothered finishing it, I think I would've legit dropped it.
The first 5-10 episodes or so were hype, I really like the vibe and what it's trying to tell and show us, but oh my god, the following episodes after that up until episode 50ish were some endless rollercoaster filler ride. I was watching, right? and then thought to myself "When will the story start picking up?" because every episode is just the same formula, they go to a new place, new side characters get introduced and ooohhh suddenly there's akuma in this town and then end of the episode. Soooo BORING! although every now and then, new exorcists get introduced, but still... you didn't need to drag the shit out of this because it got repetitive over time…
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This is probably the most underrated show of all time. It's very unique when compared to other shounen anime, too.
You will notice how great, unique and advanced the story is as you progress. At the same time, it succeeds to keep the storyline simple and clean; Innocence and exorcists good, Akuma and Millenium Earl bad, The Heart big important, whoever finds The Heart achieves victory royale. After ridicule events that may occur in this absurd story, there're no plot holes formed and loose ends are ALWAYS tied up. In addition, there're no forced power-ups or friendship power assemblies to do the impossible. In fact, there have been many times where I thought to myself "crap, there's no way these guys make it out". When Allen hits the ground, he hits it HARD. Combined with his selflessness…
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Well, this is probably one of the few anime with too OP main character that I enjoyed watching. It has really enjoyable plot and story.
It has action and awesome fighting scenes
It has developed plot and great solutions.
It does not have harem/Rever harem/ecchi/etc
It does not have weak and pathetic highschool girls
It has great developed relationships between main characters.
It has unique characters and unique powers too. The art isn't really top class, but the second season is really awesome.
All in all, please do give this anime a try. It is probably one of my all time favorite anime!
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“I laughed...
I cried...
I experienced something that changed my life...”
DGM was able to merge all the elements that make a good anime (or a good shonen), a hero with a troubled past and a future even less certain, a supernatural story-based and esoteric, fighting enough intriguing and spectacular to let you glued to your screen, a scenario of sadness, comedy and adventure .
Graphically is quite dynamic and entertaining them that the eye will see something more commercial, they may have reason, I focused on my one and only pleasure. I do not really remember when I started to love the Gothic genre in anime, perhaps through DGM who knows. In any case, I have embraced the concept, the atmosphere created and the development of a relatively cool color palette. This is an art ... Level design…
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hello and welcome to a hungover shitty review.
the author puts forth a lot of good general ideas and concepts. a shounen battle series with exorcists hunting demons who are more like a mixture between machines and former human souls, created by some generic evil fat guy who claims to hate god.
this sort of setting has a lot of potential, so where did it all go wrong? execution. especially the pacing is completely FUBAR. this author may have interesting ideas but has no idea how to express them in an adequate way.
take the first 50 something episodes for instance, more like 50 shades of boredom. literally zero to nothing happens in the main story and the purpose of those 50 episodes was to introduce the viewer to a handful of new one dimenshional characters. we are introduced to the noah…
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I finally finished D.Gray Man, just in time for the summer release of it's sequel. Was it worth the time and effort to catch up? Well, I wouuuuuld like to tell you, but if I do that you won't read the review!
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STORY: 5/10
The concept of D.Gray Man is definitely overdone. It was certainly more unique in it's time, but was still common, even then. Even if it hadn't been overdone so much, it still wouldn't have been too interesting. Humans versus monsters isn't really that captivating. However, one of the big pluses of DGM is that it is much darker than you would expect. There is a LOT of death involved with the series, and it deals with the concepts of pain, loss, and depression rather well. I'll talk about this more…
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Themes surrounding exorcists and demons have been treated in previously in other works, and D.Gray-man revolves around such topic. What makes this anime different, is that it takes the liberty to slightly adjust such theme to match the setting, and also make an arguably more intriguing story. With the recent announcement of the upcoming sequel of D.Gray-man, people may wonder whether this battle shōnen is worth their time, and in this case it is, but only to a certain extent, as several crucial elements of a battle shōnen were executed in a lackluster manner. Not to mention the presence of some very lackluster characters.
~Story~
The story of D.Gray-man revolves around Allen Walker a young boy who enlists in the organization of Exorcists with the purpose of eliminating the akuma that roa…
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I'm going to be honest: don't waste your time with the anime. It does not do the manga ANY justice whatsoever. I happen to be a huge fan of the manga; the art style has always impressed me, the pacing is just right, the humor is done well, and the characters are so well developed and interested. 10/10 in every category.
The anime has none of that.
The animation is lackluster, the filler plots are long, abundant, and dull, and the characters are simplified and just not done well at all (it's difficult to explain, but the depth and fullness of the characters just do not come through like they do in the manga).
The only redeeming quality would have to be the opening themes, and even that is a bit of a stretch (although this probably depends more on one's personal preference).
So basically…
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Ok if I sound biased I don't mean to be but I am reviewing my favorite anime of all time here. So first off is that if you plan to watch the DGM series do not under any circumstances watch the English version. It will kill you. The voices picked for the English version were poorly done. Only Komui's fit him and that was about it. Aside from that the beginning is a little I don't how you would say it but slow and how my sister would put it 'stupid'. Which after watching it for a second time I would have to agree. But once you get used to some of the characters flaws and randomness you can really start to enjoy the show.
A friend of mine tried watching it and could barely get past the first episode because of how she didn't like the akuma and how they acted all robotic. Well trust me and t…
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I'll be honest here. I don't usually go for long running shounens. Since my younger days of pokemon, digimon and yu-gi-oh (back before I'd even heard the term anime and just thought of them as cartoons), the longest anime series I've watched was 50 episodes, and that was only one show and took me forever to finish. High episode counts put me off. I like my stories to have an end. I like my battles not to drag on for five episodes. I like my plot arcs to end before I've had enough of them. When my characters have to get stronger, I like a training montage with the Rocky theme playing, not five episodes of them agonising over what it is that's holding them back, only for them to then repeat that process after the current villain is defeated and the next villain has presented itself. So why d…
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Note: This review has been completely changed and thought over.
To be honest, I was extremely iffy to watch D. Gray-Man. I mean, a series over 100 episodes screams out filler and something more mainstream like Naruto or Bleach. I began to watch it because I already had it and the holidays had come by. With nothing else to do, D. Gray-Man was the better option out of the rest of my anime storage.
This anime is really quite a typical shounen with action, a set enemy and a love interest. It goes more into the dramatic side though. Of course, D. Gray-Man follows the exorcist Allen Walker. It depicts his time at the Dark Order. DGM shows struggles within one's self and such. Once you get to about episode 40+ you are thrown onto a roller coaster of emotional struggle. It's really good, it gets…
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Story - 5
The story was bad to say the least. It was badly paced as most of the time your stuck to seeing something between shonen- anime glued together with a lot of dramatism. And that means that action fight's are predictable and almost seem pointless and the Allen or Lenalle or other guys from the Order cry after almost every fight about something. The story had so much plot-holes that there were more holes then the plot. Also on the end all you get is about the same were this anime started. The last episode everyone is still fighting akuma's and more then 100 episodes passed away already.
Art- 8
It was very good. Nowhere in this anime you can see bad animation and it was 103 episodes long. That's a lot of episodes! Off course it wasn't anything ground braking and akuma's could of bee…
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I started watching this anime because one of my favorite Japanese bands' song was used here. At first, I thought it was mediocre--the art was good, the main characters had nice outfits, a good typical shounen anime...etc. But later, after the slow start, I started to like it more and more. Not only were the characters all developing, they had realistic power growths. Now, I consider this one of the best anime I have ever watched.
The characters were, by far, the best aspect of this anime. They were based on common anime sterotypes--the antisocial humbug (Kanda), the cheerful kid (Lavi), the nice girl everyone likes (Lenalee). However, they weren't just those sterotypes--they were deeper than that. Lavi had his angry moments, Lenalee had arguments, and good ol' Kanda actually showed concer…
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To everyone thinking "Oh, joy. Another cliche shonen anime!", you'll be surprised how different and fresh D.Gray-Man is from most other anime. OK, it starts off slow and has a sort of simple, definitely cliche plotline at the beginning. It seems really boring with simple and boring characters, right? Wrong.
DGM (aka D.Gray-Man. I'll use this from now on - easier to type up) is definitely a more character-driven anime, instead of the usual plot-driven ones. The characters are all real and tangible; they have emotions and they show them. Each of them have different backstories, which are revealed as the story progresses and each of them faces different enemies and situations. Each of them has different abilities that they show as the danger increases and they all play unique and vital roles…
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Hoshino Katsura has created an interesting beast in D.Gray-man. It has a definite whiff of the standard shonen about it, but there's so much unique about the anime that it's easy to forgive that.
For one thing, the stylistic theme of the whole affair can only be described as "surreal". An interesting mixture of clown motifs and religious themes sets this anime immediately apart. The primary villain manages to be simultaneously comically ridiculous, incredibly sinister, and utterly evil, whilst the main supporting villains manage to be extremely likeable characters with a very human side, even whilst doing their master's undeniably evil bidding. The more generic enemies – the Akuma – are consistently creepy enough to maintain interest. I mean seriously. Creepy.
Characters and their abilit…
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D.Gray-man is a shounen/action/adventure anime. It aplies the typical formula: long episode range with 19-20 minute animation, practically endless storyline and a main lead that predominates over all. It plays a lot with religion, this is what actually makes it really interesting.
Like in almost all shounen animes the first episodes seem to be interesting. This is because you don't know anything about the world in which the events are going to take place or about the protagonists of this story. So meet Allen Walker, a 15 year old boy who has the power to see Akumas (means demons, mechanical killing machines is the term aplied in this anime ) and haves an anti-Akuma weapon to free the souls that hold them. This weapon works powered by "Innocence", a misterious susbstance that haves a cubic…
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"Akuma: monsters born from dead souls mistakenly recalled by their loved ones to the living world."
"Exorcists: those who aim to destroy akuma and retrieve the Innocence scattered around the world."
So. At first look D.Gray-man may seem like a typical shonen anime. The main character is probably going to be a hot-head who wants to get stronger and stronger for a certain purpose... usually to protect his friends.
But.
D.Gray-man is not like any shonen anime I've ever seen. In fact, it's got something much more than most.
--STORY-- You may be thinking "Hmm... a guy with a deformed arm... Full Metal Alchemist?"
Well, no, actually.
D.Gray-man's plot may seem like it's going on the same path as FMA at first, but it transforms into something completely different.
I love the plot. At first…
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The D.Gray-man series has a very supernatural, and biblical themed background story that will certainly interest those of you wanting to get away from mecha, ninja, or other typical genres.
The story is set in an industrial Western world with several countries in Europe and Asia featured, to the extent that you could draw a parallel between D Gray Man and Fullmetal Alchemist. Allen Walker, the key character, is intent on becoming an "Exorcist" under an organization called the Black Order that combats the antagonist, the Millennium Earl, who's rotundity and nonchalance that I think at times does not appropriately suit the sinister image of the villain. A good portion of the story revolves around the Black Order's missions to obtain the divine substance know as "Innocence," which grants us…
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When i originally wrote this review (after watching the 72 episodes that had aired at that time), D.Grayman was #42 in "Popularity" on myanimelist.net and a very Popular Manga (#10). The show had a score of 7.8..BUT You might have noticed that the score and popularity you now see is much higher reason being the anime starts off fairly slowly and takes a while to kick into gear and progress the plot. But once its does you just might be a fan...
The Story has a very original plot. When I started this anime I immediately liked the concept of chosen humans + "innocence" = akuma (demon) butt-kicking "Exorcists"! I knew nothing about it but i decided to watch it based on its good animation and I was not disappointed at all. The characters and their uniforms/weapons all look outstanding!
I fou…
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