D.Gray-Man

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D.Gray-Man is a fairly decent Animu in the Dragon Ball Z/Bleach, style genre of fighting just for fighting's sake because it doesn't fall into the trappings of this variety in that it doesn't represent strength as a number that can be gotten to through extensive training and treats a fight like a Pokemon battle with powered up forms and evolutions. D.Gray-Man tries to focus on having well rounded characters with realistic expectations, pasts and goals that will have you seeing the humanity in the villians as well as the darkness and evil that exists in the heroes.

The core plot is that both sides are playing out the Uncreation Event of the flood that happened early in the Bible with Noah and his building of the ark. One side represents G-D's judgment that man is too wicked and because of all the rampent mating with Angels and producing half-breed Angel/Human Nephilim babies, gambling and an overabundance of tentacle porn man should be destroyed. The other side represents G-D's compassion that man should be saved and allowed to begin again at a stone age level so he can reinvent the Internets, recreate Scheizer porn and end up exactly where he was when G-D got pissed off.

Plot

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The first 15 or so episodes serve to to introduce the main characters and explain the plot mechanics in a villian of the week exposition style. Alan Walker is the Pretty boy hero/main character. GOTIS Lenalee is the girl everyone wants to Fuck. Yu Kanda is the asshole and rival of Alan. Komui Lee is Lenalee's brother and obligatory story pervert that has sister issues that border on wincest.

In the first episode you are introduced to Alan Walker and it is explained that he is an exorcist for the Black Order, which is analogues to tge Catholic Church. These exorcists use devine weapons called innocence to destroy these demons which are later revealed to be mechanical creation designed to mock G-D in HIS creation of man by stealing the soul from someone who recently died, by having someone close to them call them back, and using it to bring life to the akuma.

In later episodes, when Alan is ordered to track down his old mentor, Cross, you are started to be introduced to the Clan Of Noah who are tge transmigrated souls of the 12 followers/family of Noah who were trapped with him on the Arc and hold a grudge against G-D for destroying Earth 1.0 and letting tgem survive. In few words, they serve as an Uber Mensche because when a Noah soul transmigrates to a human, they acquire powers that a more advanced than any human with regards to strength, intelligence and psychic powers.

The plot as a whole borrows heavily from tge Jewish myth of the Lamed Vov or the 36 which states that as long as their are 36 rightous men on the Earth G-D will not destroy it. It also borrows heavily from the Chinese story the Water Margin and the 108 Stars Of Destiny in tgat their are 108 innocence pieces but their is a special 109 piece that is the master piece and as long as it exists all innocence can be recreated but by destroying it, all 108 innocence are destroyed.

The first story Ark of the Anime ends when the Black Order successfully steals Noah's Arc and Alan discovers that he is the transmigration of the 14th Noah, Nea Campbell]] who is referred to as the Traitor and has some secret plan that only Alan's former mento, Cross knows about.