D. Gray-Man, Volume 2 »

Born in 1980, Shiga Prefecture native Katsura Hoshino's hit manga series D.Gray-man has been serialized in Weekly SHONEN JUMP since 2004. Her first series, Continue, first appeared in WEEKLY SHONEN JUMP in 2003. She adores her cat Coro.

Set in a fictional end of the 19th century England, the story revolves around a teenage boy named Allen Walker who is cursed with a cross mark on his hand that turns his arm into an enormous weapon, which he uses to hunt down and kill akumas. An akuma, generated by a 1,000-year-old phantom, is implanted into a human's soul during a moment of devastation and despair. The phantom uses the demons to then carry out his goal: destroy all humankind.