The upcoming summer series D.Gray-Man Hallow is certainly generating some excitement as a lot of fans never thought we’d get to see more of this show put into anime form again. After the first tease from Jump Square’s newest issue surfaced online last week that the series will debut on July 4th, 2016, the full issue is out and it’s also revealed that the show will be set as a thirteen episode season. Owing to the source material, there’s definitely a chance that there could be another cour in production as well that we might hear an announcement for later on in it as it’s hard to imagine they’d revive this long-running property just for this single cour. The new 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 announced main cast includes Ayumu Murase as Allen Walker, 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, Noriaki Sugiyama as Aleister Crowley III, Ami Koshimizu as Miranda Lotto, Houchuu Ootsuka as Bookman, Go Inoue as Komui Lee, Tomokazu Sugita as Reever Wenhamm, Mitsuhiro Ichiki as Johnny Gill, Tooru Ookawa as Malcolm C. Rouvelier, Takuya Eguchi as Madarao, Soma Saito as Tokusa and Rie Suegara as Tewaku.
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.
