Saturday, September 5, 2009

D.Gray-Man [Chapter 187]

Reviewed by JuliaAerides


"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. Allen Walker has been cursed with an anti-Akuma weapon "Innocence", a substance that allows him to kill Akuma and fight the Earl in his left arm and an eye that sees the former soul of the Akuma since his youth. 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."-adapted from wikipedia

So~~after what? 5 month? DGM has kindly provided a sweetener to its fans (me~!!)who were rather piss at the series of unexplained hiatus - well at least until it returns in November as a monthly release.

Okay. *speechless* All I can say is that (a)exorsist are being attacked left right and centre (b)wow their new uniform kinda sucked (c)Allen has gained an awesome new attack (d)It has no direct link to the previous chapter...just when we're about to know more about Kanda

From the first few pages~We know more about our Noahs than ever before! Really shocking! I'm also surprised that the Earl is a Noah - I always thought that the Noahs served the Earl...

This being us to questions as I thought that Road would be the 1st disciple as they call her the First Child~~Apparently I was wrong. On top of the miraculous pace it is going at, the Noah's seems to have gain an ability to appear out of thin air.

About the 3rd Exorcists...They're quite disappointing after their rather grand entrance to the Order - proclaiming that they could help the exorcist in the war. Seems that even if they could consume many akuma with one attack they are powerless against the Noah.

Anyway, the most surprising news is that they are "born" from something called Alma Karma and that they too can turn into this thing to give "birth" to other 3rd exorcists. Talk about cannibalism. And for some unknowed reason the Earl wants it.

To wrap things up, this manga is very jaw-dropping with many new revelations.

Verdict: 8.9


Additional Review by Kuro-hime

This manga has been in hiatus for too long. And when the new chapter has been published, many fans rushed to read it. In order to please the fans, the chapter is 50 page long.

However, I felt that chapter 187 is very dissappointing. WHY?

1. The art work became more messier & harder to read

2. The Noah looked alike while the characters no longer looked like what they used too. It seems that the characters have morphed.

3. It is actually quite a boring chapter.

In this chapter, the Noahs were unveiled. Isn't that suppose to be exciting? In any D.gray-man fan mind, Noahs are strong, mysterious and maybe even good looking. But when the Noahs was really unveiled, it felt insignificant and nothing special. So that's slightly boring as the characters looked like a photocopy of each other.

And about the exorcists, their new uniform sucked. I think this is the worst uniform design ever. Not only that, the mysterious 3rd exorcist turned out to be lame weaklings. And it also seem the exorcists are losing this battle.

Another thing that made this chapter dissappointing is that this chapter did NOT continue the last chapter. That's quite frusfrating to all Kanda fans. I'm sure all the Kanda fans are asking, "WHAT HAPPENED TO KANDA? WHAT IS HIS SECRET PAST?"

Overall, this anime is just dissappointing and if Hoshino Katsura wants to keep her fans, she should do something. This is not one of Hoshino best works.
Overall, I rate it 2 stars out of 5