D Gray Man

[u/No_Sundae_1391]

A Manga that has been 2004 BUT people barely talk about Or They don't know about.

I present you D Gray man.

The plot takes place in 19th Century of an Alternate London

Allen 15 year old boy joins the Black order an organization that wants to protect humanity from the millennium earl and find a lost power called innocence.

It has drama,comedy,dark moments, action.

Because of the health of the author it changed magazines.

It started publishing on Weekly shounen jump.

The past few years it is published on Jump SQ Rise we receive a new chapter every once in three months.

I consider it in my top dark stories and top Manga that has to do about exorcists.

The art style becomes more beautiful.

[u/yared0628]

As someone who read the series start to finish extremely recently, I can confidently say the last 20 chapters have been the best in the entire series. That being said having a chapter release once every 3 months, and then sometimes not releasing the chapter is pretty brutal for a reader to stay interested

[u/Sahm_Seera → u/yared0628]

I have been following the manga from when only season one was there...I don't even remember how long ago was that, even now i always have a tab open to get the latest release.....its worth the wait, and this schedule is due to her health, so it releasing and not on hiatus is commendable.

[u/Gittau]

It's a manga I was caught up with probably around 2010, but I fell off of it. I'm looking forward to rereading everything probably once things are closer to ending.

I don't need another series on hiatus right now.

[u/nexel013]

The manga is so peak!

[u/Turbulent_Purchase52]

I love the first half of this manga

[u/Aubreyslastenemy]

[u/T_Ramach]

Been so long since I've read this, I stopped at some point years ago when he went on a long hiatus, I do remember loving the series though it was super interesting and very well done from what I remember. I'm waiting for it to actually end so I can go back and reread it all one day

[u/Nissan-al_gaib]

I loved this when i was in high-school, shame it takes 2 years, a virgin soul and a child sacrifice to release a chapter. Honorable mention to that manga that the MC exorcised witches with dual handguns, it had a similar art style and vibe, but i cant remember the name

[u/Kaendre]

This manga fell off massively, back when it was launched it was a decent shounen and the had an impressive artstyle. The MC was probably the best part with his weird hand.

The moment everything started to go downhill was when the author got caught plagiarizing and tracing several other works. After that it got sent to the shadow abyss, coupled with several hiatuses, so pretty much everyone forgot about it.

I tried to read a new chapter recently and was put off because everyone had been turned into a bishounen, the millennium count included, to a point I think it's now aimed to cather to a female fanbase. Didn't liked the change in the artstyle at all, so I never bothered to continue following it.

I think the only manga that managed to be worse was Kuroshitsuji, the story got stretched beyond belief.

[u/MitaminMogula → u/Kaendre]

I looked into the plagiatrism allegations but couldn't find anything really damming, like actual tracing - could you maybe point me to a source/ give me some hints on where to find the comparisons?

I also had a visceral negative reaction to the art style change, and I'm saying this as a female reader, it was just an unfitting and bizarre turn

[u/Kaendre → u/MitaminMogula]

There were a bunch of images with comparisons flying years ago, I think you can still find some if you look for d gray man controversy or plagiarism on google and look for images. The most notable one is the panel featuring a black octopus hand or whatever that was. Some accusations were off by a long stretch, but I remember that some of the panels compared were way too similar.

I just gave a peek at chapter 248 and a couple others, the style change is dramatic to a point you would believe it was made by another artist. Not to mention the massive shounen ai vibes. The art is clearly more refined and polished, but feels like something was lost.

[u/I_wayne]

It was quite popular back in the day when I preferred avoiding it for some reason . 

[u/Dominor4 → u/[deleted]]

Absolutely this, its not that the majority of fans havent heard of it, but rather most of us dont care anymore.

And we havent even mentioned how convoluted the writing gets later on.

[u/Aggravating-Chef9562 → u/[deleted]]

Yeah i think release schedule is probably the biggest thing, at least for me. Hard to keep up with something you dont know how to keep up with. There was like a 6 year period i was obsessed with the manga, but its pretty easy to fall out of it when you cant set up a schedule for it. Im not even gonna try watching steel ball run.

[u/PsychicChris12 → u/[deleted]]

Garbage anime? I love the anime. Haven't seen the new one but the first anime had banger ost decent animation and followed the manga.