Shounen Manga Book Club discussion

Here is where we discuss D.Gray-Man. We're reading the first 3 volumes, though you don't have to read all 3. Remember to label all spoilers. Also, feel free to add any discussion questions, so long as they're appropriate.

Love this series. Love it!

Though, I will admit, the art is terrible until about book five.

I have volume 1 requested at my library. Hopefully the person who has it turns it in on time (April 5).

i loved it! i watched the anime of it, unfortunately it ends at 104th episode. after that i couldn't stand it in black and white, so i've read just volume 1 and 2.

Black and white?

i liked the anime, not the manga that's the important :)

Sára wrote: "i liked the anime, not the manga that's the important :)"

Manga is so much better than the anime. The anime really screwed with the timeline. The hospital episode and the witch episodes were from the novels and took place before Allen made it to the Order (Witch arc is why Kanda's hurt and ticked off when Allen first arrives). The manga also goes on further than the anime, and by about book 10, the art is a lot better than the anime's.

I need to watch or read this one! It is one shounen that is so popular but I haven't got to it

Harshini WatchMeRead wrote: "I need to watch or read this one! It is one shounen that is so popular but I haven't got to it"

Is it really popular? I go to quite a few cons, but I never see too many DGM cosplayers. Maybe one or two, if I'm lucky. I never see too much about it online either. O.o

not here, in my country it's really popular :)

I have the second and third volumes from my library, but I'm still waiting on the first volume.

Selena I think it is very popular, it is on so many top 100 anime lists. People vote for it a lot!

Wickedshizuku wrote: "This is one of the glazed over mangas out there due to the mangaka. Supposedly she had some sever health issues a few years back leading her editors to have little faith that she could make deadlin..."

Hoshino-sensei broke her arm every few months, I swear. XD So many hiatuses. That's why it got switched to monthly. And I think the anime ended because they were running out of source material.

Haha! That sounds like an awful lot of arm breaks! Is the manga still on-going?

Arthritis :(

Wickedshizuku wrote: "It had a release last December, but nothing since then. Rumor mill says that she has arthritis."

I haven't heard that one, but that's probably a better explanation than she's a super klutz. O.o

Okay, so I got tired of waiting for the person at the library to turn it in (it's now overdue), so I read volume 1 on my manga app on my Kindle.

It still feels like a typical shounen action series, but I did like it. The concept is interesting, and I can't say too much about originality since I haven't read too much shounen, though it did feel a little like Bleach. I've come to the conclusion that I can't form too much of an opinion until I read the next few volumes. Volume 1 (as is the usual) was an introductory volume so the good stuff won't happen until the next volumes.

That is how most first volumes are, except some shounen first volumes are too funny. the humour makes up for the nothing complex going on

Resurrecting a dead thread, but very important for DGM fans. :)

I need to ask you guys a favor.

I recently contacted the publisher Viz about whether they had plans to release the D.Gray-Man Reverse light novel series in the US (they publish the manga).

Alas, they said they didn't have any plans at the moment, but that they'd take my message into consideration. And it wasn't a form letter response, which makes me respect Viz a heck of a lot.

Which leads me to my request...

Anyone who would be interested in getting the D.Gray-Man light novels released in the US, please contact Viz here letting them know that you'd like the D.Gray-Man novels released in the US. :)

Thanks guys!

Awesome! Thanks for mentioning.

So I'm rereading this series because I'm impatient for the manga to continue, and really want to talk about it. It was a trip, reading the first volume again after more than a decade.

And now I have to wonder how much Hoshino planned from the getgo and how much was made up as she went because most of the characters from volume 1 are never mentioned again (I'm looking at you, grand generals) and the thing central to Allen's back story makes no sense with the stuff coming out now.

I still love this series though, even if the first few volumes make no sense lol

So I'm through volume 20 as well as finally getting around to watching Hallow and am starting to see a few patterns...

Does anyone else notice that when (view spoiler)[the 14th starts taking control, a version of Mana shows up and seems to pull Allen out of it? (hide spoiler)]

I'm starting to suspect that Allen's curse might actually be (view spoiler)[a piece of "Mana's" soul that was put into the Akuma Allen created. (hide spoiler)] Since we know as of volume 25 that (view spoiler)[the Earl and Mana are the same person. (hide spoiler)]

Is anyone still following DGM? Because I really wanna talk DGM theories but no one I know follows it anymore. T_T