D. Gray Man, Tome 16 Next Stage

D.Gray-man #16

by Katsura Hoshino

L’Akuma de niveau 4 continue de semer la mort dans les couloirs de la Congrégation et son objectif fi nal semble être Komui… Mais voilà que Lenalee se résout à se faire implanter une Innocence dans le corps ! À l’aide de ses nouveaux pouvoirs, elle vient prêter main-forte à Allen qui mène une lutte acharnée.L’heure de la contre-offensive a enfi n sonné !!

Genres: Manga, Fantasy, Shonen, Horror, Graphic Novels, Comics, Fiction

192 pages, Paperback

First published September 4, 2008

About the author

星野 桂

Katsura Hoshino ((星野 桂 Hoshino Katsura) was born on April 21, 1980, in Shiga Prefecture, Japan, as the younger of fraternal twin girls and the second of three children. She drew her first manga at twenty-one. In 1998, Hoshino moved to Tokyo. She dreamed of bringing her mother to the city and was able to in 2006.

She made her debut with her comics in July 2003 with the publication of her first manga series Continue and is known for her work, D.Gray-man, which began serialization in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump in May 2004.

Reviews

[Dxdnelion · Rating 5 out of 5]

OK BUT THE COVER??? HOW DARE YOU DO THIS TO ME. Ugly crying. This volumes just too much, it exhausting.

[Thelma · Rating 5 out of 5]

I was... Not calm for most of this. Also : fuck that cover. It has no right to hurt me so.
So I liked that we got to breath a little bit at the end. I needed that breather. I need the moments of bonding.

[Greg · Rating 4 out of 5]

4/5 Once again things slow down a little bit as The Order packs up to relocate after the attack on headquarters. Some confusing side chapter with the Earl and The Noah but mostly just a light volume of antics by the crew. Well except the first couple chapters that finish up the attack. Nice cover displaying the Science Department and Komui. This is also where the 2006-2008 anime ended with episode 103.

Read 11/4/20

[Cornerofmadness · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is easily one of the best volumes in a long time. Kanda and Lavi are trying to do battle with a level 4 akuma without their innocence while Allen is being almost puppeteered by his innocence thanks to his injuries. The akuma wants to kill Komui who is trying to evacuate the base and save as many as he can.

Lenalee finally becomes the strong character she started out as before she reverted to the simpering manga girl type. Her innocence evolves into a cool new form which sadly takes the shape of high heels…I would like to see Hoshino have to do everything Lenalee is supposed to in spike heels, just saying. At least Lenalee is fighting again and saving the day instead of sitting in the corner crying like she has for so long.

The final chapter which I thought was going to be a humorous blow off chapter wasn’t. You’ll see what I mean when you get there.

[Mary · Rating 3 out of 5]

Hmmm I cannot deny that the men in here are pretty to look at:) I like all of them, but recently I REALLY like Komui. He is so serious and stuff in this volume and I liked this side to him. I want to see more of this Komui sometime.

His voice actor looks JUST LIKE HIM:

[Pixie P · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love the comic relief at the end of so much tension, and the Matron (Head Nurse) is such an awesome character!

I am really curious about Noise Marie and Miranda's relationship. Are they just close friends or...? Hmm...

[Samantha wickedshizuku Tolleson · Rating 4 out of 5]

This volume starts off with Chapters 150-160.

I'll write more when my editing mode hits.
Happy Readings!
Fly my Pretties! Fly!

[K.S. Trenten · Rating 4 out of 5]

A lot of the omake didn’t appeal to me, but I love the horror comic arc with the vampire zombie bite, a welcome relief from the tension of fighting the Level 4 akuma. It was great to see Lenalee power up with a new Innocence, determined to protect her brother. It was also great to see Lavi and Kanda backing up Allen in the battle with Lenalee coming to back them all up. I especially enjoyed the interlude with Minister Kamelot, how he dotes on Road, flirts with Tyki in a goofy way, yet he’s terrifyingly effective in starting up a war. I’m left wondering about Tyki in all his elegant beauty, charming everyone, how he made a comeback from the state he was in to his normal sardonic self. The Millennium Earl showed a mysterious, almost sympathetic side along with something like ambiguity when it comes to Allen. This suggests there’s a lot more to the Earl and his plan than we’ve seen. Why do akuma and Noah hate Innocence so much? What are akuma truly for? All of these are interesting questions raised, right before distraction took us screaming and laughing into the next arc. At last Krory is waking, getting some attention, calling for Allen and Lavi, the ones who motivated him during his last battle. What will happen next? I’m eager to find out.

[Alexis Hubsky · Rating 4 out of 5]

Character 4| Setting 5| Plot 4| Art 4| Enjoyment 4

Rating: 4.2

I really liked the comradrie of this novel, and it really felt some great beautiful things from Lenalee this chapter, especially when she was like reality is just a bad dream, and she wishes she was back just living with overbearing Komui. It really kind of yells at that these kids are soldiers with trauma! And Lenalee and Allen specifically are CHILDREN. Lenalee being forced to stay at the order and Allen kept away from it just with Cross being his guardian. It just makes me want to scream, they deserve peace. Everyone here deserves it.

We also got to see the Noah play acting being nobles. I thought it was interesting to see the Earl not yellow.

This volume was good, and then the end got so dumb. I hate the zombie arc, I've read it before once was enough this part just feels like it was put in there because Hoshino had a deadline and they needed to bullshit. So not too excited to continue to vol. 17 : (

[Zoë · Rating 3 out of 5]

There was a little too much going on in this one for me - a bit hard to keep up with.

The battle against the level 4 Akuma is finished, with our heros winning the day, and Lenalee finally getting her badass moment I was hoping for. Then a rather confusing aside with the Noahs, who apparently masquerade as a high society family(?), the Earl has a human disguise(?), and a new member, Sheril, is introduced, and swiftly starts a human war.

Finally the volume ends with another one of Komui's hair-brained inventions on the verge of destroying the Order.

A few too many plotlines in this one - it was hard to keep track of where the story is going.

[Scott Lee · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lenalee goes looking for a fight with a level four Akuma as the summary says and the resulting battle at headquarters immediately following the attack tears the place apart even further. Lenalee regains her innocence and levels-up and she and Walker take down the level four in the end. Then in the aftermath the Black Order decides to move headquarters as a result of the attack and resultant near destruction of the castle, but a science experiment gone wrong interferes with moving day...

[Lissa · Rating 3 out of 5]

I… didn’t understand this book. It started out ok, but then there’s a hair tonic and bookman’s got rabbit ears and Allen had a growth spurt and sometimes his hair is short and sometimes it’s in a ponytail (suits him) and then there’s a zombie virus Komui created. Plus the side story of a human-form earl and Tykki and Road, I’m confused. The majority of it felt like a filler episode in the anime. It interrupted the flow. It’s like I skipped a book.

[Kirsten Simkiss · Rating 4 out of 5]

This one is definitely an improvement for me over the last book. Things are finally starting to recover and things are trying to get back to normal - though normal is never quite normal enough, considering Komui's weird experiments. This is definitely a cute volume.

[David · Rating 5 out of 5]

ENFIN ! Lenalee revient au combat et l'histoire prends un rythme beaucoup plus exaltant.
Le combat ne traine pas en longueur pour qu'on puisse traiter par la suite de sujets beaucoup plus passionnants.

[Saija Unique · Rating 5 out of 5]

Okay, so Lanalee got her powers back. which honestly I'm happy about because I found her to be extremely whiny these last few volumes. So, hopefully, this is a step in the right direction for her. I still love Allen, I love how far he has come, and the general Cross is actually super cool!

[Meredith Katz · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good stuff. FINALLY Lenalee is back in the action and the resulting fight is extremely good. The touching scene if grief and loss is then of course followed up by a zombie virus but things were just like that in the 2000s.

[Mauricio Portillo · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this one and Lenalee looks so determined

[Alyssa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Mayhaps Allen's long hair was the best thing about this volume.

[Daniel · Rating 2 out of 5]

This series has just been getting less and less interesting from book 12...

[Kaitlyn]

4/5

[thi · Rating 4 out of 5]

I’m crying, I’m crying then it goes into a zombie crisis filler(?) arc

[Al Capwned · Rating 3 out of 5]

I literally got dizzy after reading so many D.Gray-man volumes all at once. Definitely not a big fan after all, although there are some pretty cool moments.

[The Reading Ghost · Rating 5 out of 5]

4.75 ⭐

[lobelyys · Rating 4 out of 5]

the beginning was crazy good, and that ending was way too funny, luckily we have some fun times with the characters, they deserve some time for themselves

[Sedna Dragon · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a good volume which focused upon lieanlee and started to unravel the mystery behind Allen and the Earl.

[Katie D · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read vol 16-20

[Spudpuppy]

they finally gave my diva lenalee something to do thank GOD

[Natilin Alpaca Saurio · Rating 5 out of 5]

El final está vez si me gustó, es como un respiro cómico y tranquilo después de la vorágine emocional que fueron los tomos anteriores(y la primera parte de este tomo)

Fue interesante ver como se maneja el conde y los noe en verdad entre la nobleza/la vida humana normal. Quiero saber más sobre eso

Alguien más notó las marcas que se salieron en los tobillos a Lenalee? Eso no son las marcas de los Noe? Ummm

P.s. allen con pelo corto, soy simp.
Kanda y Lavi chiquito 💗😭💗💔💘💞💗 mi corazón ahhh.
Y por ultimo pero menos importante soy fan de Miranda, amemos a la suicida XD. Ok no, pero no puedo no quererla jaja.
Ahhh todos los personajes son muy carismáticos, los nuevos y los viejos, todo tienen algo que hace que los queramos proteger y amar uwu(excepto al viejo fruto, que le den a ese)

Creo que ya es todo, bye.

[Michelle Kobus · Rating 5 out of 5]

This volume is really seperated into two halves. The first half finishes up the attack on the Black Order HQ and the defeat of the level 4 akuma and is very emotional.

The second half deals with the aftermath, but is a lot more lighthearted. Staff is clearing out of the old HQ, while the Science Division also tests new serums on the Excorcists, such as giving Allen an instant ponytail (which is hot!), while reducing Lavi and Kanda to child-size akuma killers. Probably my favorite installment; or one of them, anyway.

[Maëva Catalano · Rating 4 out of 5]

j'ai beaucoup aimé cet opus centré sur la section scientifiques, ceux "qui travaillent derrière les héros" et qui visent à aider les exorcistes dans leurs combats. les adieux à Tap étaient déchirants. Un nouveau genre d'innocence apparait ce qui promet une belle évolution. j'ai adoré voir le coté "humain" des noé vivre en famille comme si de rien n'était! Enfin le final est hilarant entre un mauvais walking dead ou une parodie de zombie qui annonce un début de prochain tome réussi avec une belle tranche de rire pour nous faire oublier les récents drames passés!