Things are moving along well for the new D.Gray-Man series that’s working to continue the storyline from the original anime series and now some new details have surfaced. The series has gotten a formal summer 2016 schedule with its July premiere and will be titled D.Gray-Man Hallow. Additionally, it has also had the formalized staff and cast revealed. The series will be directed by Yoshiharu Ashino based on scripts from Michiko Yokote, Tatsuto Higuchi and Kenichi Yamashita. Yosouke Kabashima is on board with the chief animation director and character designer with it all being animated at TMS Entertainment.
The main cast includes:
- Takuya Satou as Yuu Kanda
- Natsuki Hanae as Lavi
- Ai Kakuma as Lenalee Lee
- Yutaka Aoyama as Earl Millenium
- Masakazu Nishida as Tyki Mikk
- Yui Kondou as Road Kamelot
- Soichiro Hoshi as Wisely
- Ryouta Asari as Alma Karma
With the original series back in 2006 that ran for 103 episodes, only the first half of it was licensed and released in North America by FUNimation. Which will make this interesting going forward if FUNimation tackles the simulcast and it is a sequel as to whether the option on the missing half will be exercised and if we’ll get a new re-release of what was previously brought out.
The series is based on the manga from Katsura Hoshino that began in 2004. It originally kicked off in Shounen Jump and then moved to Jump SQ back in 2009. It’s currently up to 24 volumes total, which Viz Media has released in North America in full.
Plot concept: Toward the end of the 19th century, Allen Walker officially joins the organization of Exorcists that destroys the beings known as Akuma—mechanic weapons made by the Millennium Earl with the suffering souls of the dead. Allen has both a cursed eye and an anti-Akuma weapon as an arm, bearing the power of “Innocence,” a gift given to him as an apostle of God. Allen, along with his fellow Exorcists, must put a stop to the Millennium Earl’s ultimate plot that could lead to the destruction of the world and all who live on it.
[Source: Comic Natalie]
