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Anime Look Back: D.Gray-Man S1 Episode 1-13 Summary

Episode 1: Allen Walker and his golem, Timcampy have recently arrived in London, planning to visit the Black Order Headquarters. Meanwhile, Officers Moore and Charles are investigating a supposedly haunted church. While searching this abandoned building, Moore and Charles are separated due to Allen's "kidnapping" of Moore. After he is handcuffed to a chair, Allen tries to explain his situation to Moore when Charles is suddenly killed. Since Moore was unconscious due to the attack, Allen is suspected of Charles's death. Allen attempts to tell the chief that an Akuma killed Charles and that he would like to help. However, due to the disbelief of the chief, Allen is placed under house arrest while the rest of the police unit investigate the church themselves. During his stay at Moore's home, Allen explains to her about Akuma and later on, he meets Moore's brother-in-law, Marc, who is the Akuma that killed Charles and countless others who visited the church. Upon investigating, Allen finds out that Moore's sister, Claire, is the soul entrapped in the Akuma. The Akuma later kills the police units excluding Moore and later, Allen destroys it by using his anti-Akuma weapon.


Episode 2: Allen finally arrives at the Black Order Headquarters. Due to a misunderstanding, everyone thinks he is an Akuma. Supervisor Komui sends Yu Kanda to confront him and damages his anti-Akuma weapon. Eventually, it is resolved when Komui finds a letter of introduction from Allen's master, Cross Marian. Afterwards, Allen is allowed into the Headquarters and is given a tour by Komui's sister, Lenalee Lee. After getting his arm repaired by Komui, Allen is examined by Hevlaska, an Exorcist who is able to measure his synchronization ratio. In addition, she predicts that Allen will create a powerful "Destroyer of Time" in a dark future. From Komui, Allen learns more about the war between the Earl and the Innocence.


Episode 3: In the Black Order cafeteria, Allen intervenes in a confrontation between Kanda and a Finder, further inflaming Kanda's animosity towards him. Later, Komui sends Allen and Kanda on a mission to recover a fragment of Innocence in the ruins of Martel, a town in southern Italy before it can be taken by the Akuma. There is a legend that a ghost roams Mater, killing anyone who wanders near it. Along the way, Toma, a Finder tells Allen how strange occurrences in history are usually related to the Innocence. Meanwhile, the Finders in Martel have captured two Akuma in barriers, but they are attacked by a third one. When the two Exorcists arrive, Allen runs to fight the third Akuma and to save the surviving Finders, while Kanda rescues two Finders Guzol and Lala, who are protected within a barrier. During Allen's fight, the Akuma evolves to Level 2 and calls himself an Akuma Clown. Kanda refuses to help Allen and leaves with the fragment of Innocence and the two Finders. The episode ends with a stunned Allen being attacked by another version of himself.


Episode 4: Allen realizes that the mirror image of himself is the Level 2 Akuma Clown which has the ability to imitate the looks and powers of anybody it touches. It defeats Allen and, taking the shape of Toma, goes in search of the Innocence. Guzol tells Kanda that he is the Ghost of Martel which is not really a ghost but a moving and singing doll. The Akuma Clown finds Allen and Kanda, but it is too powerful for them to defeat so they escape with Toma into in a secret underground chamber beneath the city. There they find Guzol unconscious and Lala singing and realise that the young girl is actually the doll and the Ghost of Martel.


Episode 5: After the truth about Lala is revealed, she attacks Allen in desperation, but then promises to give him her heart of Innocence after the dying Guzol passes. She tells them the history of Martel, the creation of the dolls, the society's eventual decline and arrival of Guzol as a young boy 500 years later. A conflict arises between Allen and Kanda because Kanda does not want to wait, however the Akuma Clown attacks and mortally wounds both Guzol and Lala, taking the Innocence. Allen's anger at the Akuma Clown transforms his Innocence into new types of weapons, thus initiating the final battle with Allen and Kanda uniting to destroy the Akuma Clown.


Episode 6: On the way back to the Headquarters with the fragment of Innocence from Martel, Allen saves a boy named Jean from an Akuma. Jean's father works in the Black Order Headquarters and Jean is determined in finding and exterminating Akuma. Despite Allen's warnings, Jean heads out with his friend Leo to hunt them down. Allen goes to talk to Jean, but Leo is now an Akuma and he has taken Jean to the murderous Millennium Earl. Allen follows and confronts the Millennium Earl who remembers Allen from the past, and that Allen turned his own father into an Akuma.


Episode 7: Allen explains his tragic past, about how he brought his adoptive father, Mana Walker back from the dead as an Akuma and then had to destroy him, and how he met General Cross Marian, one of the five Generals of the Black Order. Lenalee joins Allen in the cemetery to help destroy the Akuma and help Jean's friend Leo, also an Akuma, to find peace in the nether world.


Episode 8: Komui's latest invention, a robot named Sir Komurin II, is designed to make Exorcists stronger, however it goes out of control after drinking a cup of coffee and starts chasing Allen. Johnny modifies a cleaning robot to combat it without success, and Kanda refuses to help. The robot is eventually stopped and Allen's welcome home party goes ahead. Meanwhile, the Millennium Earl holds a dinner with several strange humans with golden eyes and crosses on their foreheads, one of which is a young girl with spiky dark hair, Road Kamelot.


Episode 9: Allen and Lenalee are sent to investigate a town where the day of October 28 keeps repeating itself. Once there, they see a woman named Miranda Lotto being attacked by an Akuma demanding the location of Innocence. They believe that she is somehow linked to the strange phenomenon of the town. Meanwhile the Millennium Earl sends Road Kamelot to the Rewinding Town to find the Innocence fragment.


Episode 10: Allen and Lenalee resolve to help Miranda and prevent time repeating itself. Miranda tells them about her awkward and unhappy life until she found empathy with an abandoned and unwanted grandfather clock. They then see the clock appear to rewind time during the night. To lift her spirits, Allen and Lenalee tell Miranda stories of their past. Meanwhile Road Kamelot has been watching their every move and hears that the clock is the Innocence. She captures Lenalee and Miranda, revealing to Allen that she is not an Akuma, but one of the Noah Clan.


Episode 11: The realization that Road Kamelot is a human horrifies Allen, who cannot understand why a human and Akuma work together. To prove herself different from regular humans, Road stabs herself with Allen's Innocence, only to recover right in front of him. She stabs Allen in the cursed eye, and tries to kill Miranda, but Allen rescues her, exhausting his energy. When Miranda tries to protect him from Road, the Innocence within her is activated, creating a protective barrier around Miranda, Allen and Lenalee, giving them time to recover. Allen and Lenalee exit the barrier and prepare to fight Road and her three Akuma.


Episode 12: Allen and Lenalee fight for survival against Road and her Akuma. Road knows that Allen became and Exorcist to save the souls of Akuma, so she orders an Akuma to self-destruct. An Akuma who dies this way will never be saved and their soul will be lost forever. Desperately, Allen tries to exorcise the Akuma before it happens, but the Akuma explodes, its soul begging for help. Intrigued at Allen's concern for the Akuma, Road laughs and Allen is unable to bring himself to kill the Noah. Road leaves via a portal, and the Exorcists, along with Miranda, are returned to Miranda's home. Miranda turns off her Innocence after some persuasion by Allen and Lenalee because she knows that the injuries they sustained earlier will reappear. Allen and Lenalee return to headquarters to recover, and Miranda leaves the town, planning to become an Exorcist.


Episode 13: The Millennium Earl pursues his objective of seeking out people in despair who've lost their loved ones to create more Akuma. While recuperating Allen meets Lavi, an experienced Exorcist, and the Black Order begins to use the Bookmen to gather information about the Noah Clan. Allen is unsure about being an Exorcist when it involves killing humans like the Noah, however Lavi explains the significance of wearing the Exorcist uniform. Because Exorcists cannot distinguish disguised Akuma from humans, the uniform is a way to attract Akuma to them and protect humanity. This is dramatically borne out when they are attacked by a group of Akuma who initially seem like normal citizens.


Rating: 8/10(Average)

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