D. Gray-Man

Currently there are two season for D. Gray Man series:
Season 1 : 1 - 52 episodes (licensed by Funimation)
Season 2 : 53 - ongoing episodes

Title: D.Gray-man
Type: TV Series, unknown number of episodes
Year: 03.10.2006 till ongoing
Categories: Action, Adventure, Demons, Magic, Shounen, Super Power - similar
Producers: Dentsu, TMS Entertainment, TV Tokyo, Aniplex, XEBEC
Resources: Official page, ANN, AnimeNFO

Synopsis: The story takes place in a world looks like the 19th century Europe. Akuma, monsters born from dead souls mistakenly recalled by their loved ones to the living world, are the weapons of the Millennium Earl, who is intent on the destruction of the world. On the other hand, there is people stand up to the Earl. They're exorcists of Dark Religious Organization. They fight against the Earl with innocence. The innocence is a divine substance scattered around the world as various forms, and it makes strange phenomena. However, once it is used by an exorcist, it becomes a powerful weapon against AKUMA. Allen Walker has been cursed with an anti-Akuma weapon as his left arm and an eye that sees the former soul of the Akuma since his youth. He is also one of the few who contain "Innocence", a substance that allows him to kill Akuma and fight the Earl. With these powers, he joins the Black Priest Organization as an Exorcist and sets out with other Exorcists to stop the Earl's attempts to annihilate the human race.

I'd been following this anime since the beginning till now. I would say it's a must-watch series if you like Claymore, Vampire Knight and Rosario to Vampire. All about akuma aka monsters.

My personal reviews

Animation - 3.5 / 5

The drawing style for D. Gray Man are similar to Claymore but with a lower quality. It looks like a kinda-old series if you first attempt to watch due to it's blur-ish type of colouring. However, the combination works fine as all the characters and monsters are well drawn. The Earl smile can really creep yourself out. There's still rooms for improvement.

Sound - 3.5 / 5

The opening and ending music theme for both season are equally good and suits the anime well. The sound effects and background music works pretty well too. Besides that, the character voice are typical but suited the whole scenes.

Story - 4 / 5

Though it's a bit of fantasy-like series, I still like it pretty much. Even though, since the beginning till now, what they do were just to fight Akuma at different level, the story starts to get interesting when they started to battle with Noah clans at later episodes.

Characters - 4 / 5

Allen Walker, the gray haired boy, as the main character can really make the whole story interesting. Imagine someone who is very young and capable to do what an expert can do. He is one that is out of expectation. He is cool yet gentle. Where as Lenalee, she, a pretty green haired lady, make changes to the story as the series move on. Both of them made a perfect combination to which you will probably like both of them pretty much.

Enjoyment - 4 / 5

Even though the colouring could be dull at times, I enjoy this series a lot and still following it. It's a very interesting series to watch and suited my genre most. It filled with comedy and horror at the same time.