Gantz

Kenpuu Denki Berserk addpermalink

Blood.Gore.Unfairness. both are packed with those ,and will leave you depressed for a rather long time.
both are a must see 

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Black Lagoon addpermalink

ACTION ACTION ACTION ACTTIOOOOOONN!!!! both of these are jampacked with enough action to leave you wanting more and more and more.....very addicting. gantz is a little on the ecchi side though 

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Gantz and Red Garden have very similar plots albeit a little more different, They both feature peope who have died and are given another chance to live if they defeat certain monsters. However, if they die, they die forever. 

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Red Garden is Gantz for the girls! Really, it is a girly verson of the manly Gantz. Both of these series are a lot alike, and go well together! I think Red Garded is the spiritual sequel to Ganzt, done with a female touch. Both series feature people who just died (2 people in Gantz, 4 in Red Garden) who are forced to fight monsters or aliens to survive. If they can survive, they can return to their normal lives, otherise they're really dead this time. Gantz features a large cast of people who just died, and people drop like flies, while Red Garden is mostly just made up of the 4 girls, until you get towards the end. Both of these anime series are mature, dark, series with some focus on the "mystery" behind what happened to these people. Both series are by Studio Gonzo, and have english dubs by ADV studio/Amusement Park Media. Both have great opening music, from a genre of music that anime series normally don't use (a semi jazz song in Red Garden, and a rap song in Gantz), but the songs manage to capture the spirits of the shows completely. Plus their music just owns!

There are some differences though. Like Red Garden is more of a drama, with some action, while  Gantz is more of an action series.  Gantz has sex scenes, more blood, and lots more gore. While Red Garden has no sex scenes, and less blood and gore (but still very mature). Gantz is based off a still running manga, while Red Garden is an original anime, which Gonzo later ran a manga series based off of it. 

If you like Gantz, you will like Red Garden, and vice-versa! Give these anime series a try! They are both very unique and very good! read more 

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High school students die and get back to life to fight against creatures they know very little about it. Gantz is seinen, while Red Garden feels more josei. 

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Both shows are in a survival game of death setting with charters who have died 

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Terra Formars addpermalink

Waifus, aliens and fight for better tomorrow. Did I mention waifus? You'll like them. 

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Devil Survivor 2 The Animation addpermalink

Two friends have a railway accident and they are brought back to life. And weird things will happen.  

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Anime: Danganronpa: Kibou no Gakuen to Zetsubou no Koukousei The Animation

Danganronpa: Kibou no Gakuen to Zetsubou no Koukousei The Animation addpermalink

Similar theme: Action, gore, blood, killing, and a mystery element too.

A mysterious entity brings together a wide variety of people. They  are forced to play a game. Battle for survival is on the line.  

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Anime: Gyakkyou Burai Kaiji: Ultimate Survivor

Gyakkyou Burai Kaiji: Ultimate Survivor addpermalink

Both are very negative and depressing animes. The main protagonist in both animes are normal ordinary individuals who become leaders and always find a way to survive.  

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Inuyashiki addpermalink

Both anime are adaptations from manga that have been made by the same mangaka Oku, Hiroya. Both anime feature "out of this world" power that the main characters get. Similar style of weapons. 

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Claymore addpermalink

In Gantz you also see a group of people fighting ferocious aliens (well this time without any known reason, the aliens are actualy peacefull until someone attack them).

Most important of all you get to see how the main character fights until he reaches his limits and tries to become even stronger, faster ... 

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Bus Gamer addpermalink

This show is exactly like gantz "arena".
The only small diffrence is the teams are fixed before the battles start, they fight other teams and not aliens, also they have to get weapons themselves.

To make it short, Bus Gamer is the realistic (real life) version of Gantz.

The reward in Bus Gamer is cash and not points ...
Anyways but animes are damn short, so you will maybe want to read the manga when you finished the series to see what happens after that. :( 

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Sword Art Online addpermalink

Both involve characters being forced into a game without any escape and death in the game means death in real life. However Gantz is set in the real world whereas SAO is set in a virtual world. 

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Akame ga Kill! addpermalink

Although the main theme in both anime is absolutely different, the one  important thing make a huge similarity - overloading amount of BLOOD, GORE, DEATH and true (not like in ShinNoKyo) using of trope EVERYONE CAN DIE. So if you bored from wacky, childish animes and bulletproof main characters, you will be entertained by both of this series! 

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Higurashi no Naku Koro ni addpermalink

Both are violent, bloody series that show the dark side of humanity in an unflinching manner. 

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Anime: 100-man no Inochi no Ue ni Ore wa Tatteiru

100-man no Inochi no Ue ni Ore wa Tatteiru addpermalink

#reincarnation 

#with special quest/mission fulfillment requirement to revive back into real world

#death awaits failure of quest/mission

#teamwork

#real death

#gore

#main character with delusion of grandeur and main character syndrome

#main character with selfish trait

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Speed Grapher addpermalink

Dark and gritty with a fair amount of violence, as well as genetic mutations/evolutions in humans/robots that may give them monstrous qualities. Speed Grapher is more about corruption and vice, while Gantz is about violence begetting violence, but a fan of one series is likely to enjoy the other. 

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Similar sci-fi feel with a lot of gore and nice looking guns. 

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Angel Beats! addpermalink

Both are stuck inside of a game and confused if they really are dead or alive. They have to battle there way out by playing along with the game.  

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Jigokuraku addpermalink

In both anime, characters are transported into another place where they have the goal of earning their freedom/life back. In Gantz, they have to earn points which can later be exchanged for rewards and in Jigokuraku they need to find the Elixir of Life. They are also fighting for survival with unknown deadly creatures which resemble deities.  

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Anime: Subarashiki Kono Sekai The Animation

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Both shows involve players completing post-death games within a confined area, and with a time limit. The games are not all what they seem to be. Gantz is the more intense show, as all the missions involve eliminating a target, and there is gratuitous violence. The World Ends with You (Subarashiki Kono Sekai) places more emphasis on modern Tokyo culture, and enemies dissolve when they're defeated. 

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Shigurui addpermalink

If you like violence, blood, and gore that comes with martial art, then this is one for you. 

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Blue Gender addpermalink

I can't quite put my finger on why Blue Gender reminds me of Gantz. It may be the characters, the style, the adult-orientedness, the sci-fi, the constant fighting, etc... In general, both anime "feel" the same.

Warning about Gantz though...has nudity and sex in it...I just skipped through the parts though and it was fine. 

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Kiseijuu: Sei no Kakuritsu addpermalink

In both animes the mc's starts out as an wimpy kid kinda, while as the show carries on they become more badass and gain a lil bit of personality change. They are also about aliens..giving them a similar atmosphere.
 

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Zetman addpermalink

Character models, gory themes and even the odd ed music is certainly nostalgic of gantz.  

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Blood-C addpermalink

Both essentially feature the same episodic development for the majority of the anime: school life moments -> monsters appear -> extras get dismembered in a veritable fountain of blood, splatter and gore for half the episode -> main characters finally decide to fight monster and win within a few minutes -> wash rinse repeat. Blood-C has a somewhat more sensible ending, not necessarily better though. 

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Monster addpermalink

Both of these animes presents many forms of human reactions to psycological violence. 

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Basilisk: Kouga Ninpou Chou addpermalink

intense action and lots of people killing and dying left and right 

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