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Type: Manga
Volumes: Unknown
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Status: Publishing
Published: Oct 2000 to ?
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SynopsisGantz tells the story of a teenager named Kei Kurono who dies in a train accident and becomes part of a semi-posthumous "game" in which he and several other recently deceased people are forced to hunt down and kill aliens. The missions in which they embark upon are often dangerous. Many die--again--on each mission, but they are replaced by others in the same manner as Kei Kurono's appearance.
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Related MangaAdaptation: Gantz, Gantz - Second Stage
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Both follow the same concept of people being forced into a death game. Both are very graphic and gory with interesting story and characters, GANTZ is a little more supernatural with more nudity as well but above all both are very similar.
If you enjoy blood, gore, action, sex, and lots and lots of death then these are the perfect series for you to check out.
Both incredibly graphic and gory manga, with the concept of deadly survival games with a lot of killing involved. Whereas Gantz goes for the sci-fi approach, Battle Royale goes for realism. ^_^
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Good drawing, good story line. Similar to Gantz, they get teleported to a different world and have to fight unknown monsters
Same basis about being called to a different world where you have to fight monsters to survive. The only main difference is that Psyren is Shounen while Gantz is Seinen so obviously the graphics will be different.
I think of Psyren as the shonen-version of Gantz.
both series involve a "game" with real lives at stake set up by some mysterious person while the main character tries to beat the game for their freedom or other goals.
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Oct 29, 2007237 of ? chapters read 51 of 68 people found this review helpful Review of Phase 1
Gantz is a Seinen, Sci-fi, Psychological, Action, Adventure about an ordinary teenager Kei Kurono and his friend who are unfortunate to have somehow survived an accident. Now he and others are forced into gory, semi-posthumous, battles of survival. ^_^
The story of Gantz is split up into two Phases and here I will talk about the 1st Phase, which is split up into missions. The missions are basically about people forced to kill unkn...own beings, for no given reason except to survive. Sure it doesn’t sound like much but it’s during these missions that the story comes to life, with plenty of action that's easy to visualize. The best thing about the missions is how well some of the main characters develop, through struggles and hardships and how believable they act in such an unbelievable story. The time between the missions is spent mostly developing the current characters and introducing new ones.
Throughout Phase 1, the characters could be considered one of the best aspects of the manga but there are only a few notable ones in the story (most of them appear beyond the anime story). Out of those few the one that truly stands out, has to be the most badass teenage character ever, Kei Kurono. Seeing him develop from a worthless kid to no.1 Gantzer is the best experience from this manga. The real problem is just how easily the characters can be killed off at any given moment and there are missions that are hugely affected by this.
At least it doesn’t completely affect the overall enjoyment of the manga and it is the artwork that contributes a lot to this. Gantz is made up of a combination between hand-drawn art and CG that gives this manga a lavish and unique look, to suit its sci-fi theme. Of course there’s a huge amount of gore, nudity and senseless violence that will make you wonder; what is going on inside this mangaka’s head?
Overall Gantz (Phase 1) achieved its goal of being one of the most violent and gory manga around, on the other hand it somewhat managed to be hugely entertaining. It also managed to develop some of the characters so well but in order to get them into the story it required, an unnecessarily long, string of violence and deaths. One thing that definitely needs to be done, is for all the unexplained to be explained in Gantz (Phase 2).
Some may be turned of by this mangaka’s obsession over gore and boobs however if you’re able to overlook it, then you’ll surely enjoy this manga. ^_^
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Jun 27, 2008274 of ? chapters read 24 of 33 people found this review helpful A Japanese teenager waits at a train station, reading a trashy magazine featuring an idol enticing the reader with her big boobs. An elderly lady approaches the teenager, asking for directions. The teenager quickly mumbles a non-informative reply while thinking to himself what an annoyance the lady is, why should he give a shit about her? Oh look, a drunken tramp just fell onto the tracks and no one is going to help. Why should they? It’s none of their business, just look away and pre...tend you didn’t see it happen.
This is Gantz. Hiroya Oku's exploitative, violent and cynical depiction of the Japanese and their behaviour when confronted with moralistic situations. There's also a bunch of ever-increasingly ludicrous battle royales with aliens and vampires that destroy various parts of Tokyo and other cities, but that all comes later.
Back to that train station and that teenager: Kei Kurono. Instantly unlikeable, but oh so real. You either know kids like him, or you recognise your own traits in his character. You'll probably be lying to yourself if you don’t see yourself in some of these characters, its human nature to recoil from awkward situations. Gantz seems to gain great pleasure from thrusting its many random characters into awkward situations, sometimes involving nudity, usually violence, usually spontaneously.
Gantz is about a room somewhere with a black ball and a very infantile presence who gives out childish nicknames to unfortunately-recently-dead and usually unwilling participants in a 'game' that requires them to kill aliens in a kind of real-life recreation of a First Person Shooter. The brilliance is in the mystery and its ridiculousness.
People die and are transported to the room to pick up their suits and weapons, and if they survive the subsequent battle they're free to wander off and return to their lives...until they're transported back to the room for another battle, and so on until either they reach 100 points and are released from the game, or they die for real. Author Oku continually ups the stakes, regularly throwing bigger obstacles in characters' paths, and it becomes a case of “can he top this?” The answer is always: "yes he bloody well can!”
There is a massacre in Shinjuku, Tokyo that beggar’s belief in its astounding ambition to shock the reader with its scope, creativity and viciousness. Once I read this sequence, I knew any anime adaptation would either fail completely at bringing to motion what this manga gets away with, or it would follow it faithfully and probably be banned/censored. Obviously at the time of writing this review, the answer is the former, there aren’t many anime studios in the world that are as crazy as Oku.
The art of the manga is economical and precise; computer aided graphics help keep the locales detailed. The costumes, props and weapons design is a nice deviation from the typical 'dress the characters in black leather' trend that The Matrix seemingly rejuvenated in entertainment media. Kudos to Oku for using his imagination and not dragging the manga down with anything generic. It’s one of his many traits, taking existing ideas that are ripe for generic rip-off but putting his own spin on them. In this case the battle suits are humiliatingly tight, and regularly attract scorn and mockery from bystanders.
The action sequences in this manga are some of the best I've ever read. Oku has a real eye for framing the action from the right angles and positions. His action pay-offs always bring a smile to the face, the audacity and enormity of what occurs on the page, is a sight to behold. The destruction to urban property gets exponentially bigger throughout the manga, no structure or vehicle is left spared. My review is intentionally vague to save the surprises for the reader, but if you like guns, swords, urban environments chopped, sliced and blown up to bits, then you're going to have a blast with Gantz.
The ideas in Gantz are to do with the narcissistic state of 21st century living, the materialism of the masses, human relations in the face of ever disturbing circumstances. There is almost a Hitchcockian vibe in the way ordinary people are pushed into extraordinary situations and thrash around desperately trying to get out of them. The great mystery of Gantz is a sci-fi conspiracy that is always just bubbling under the surface. In the forefront of the story is the cast of lowlifes and nobodies. School kids, street punks, idols, yakuza, tourists, businessmen, random passersbys, random aliens and vampires.
Would you jump onto the tracks and drag the drunken tramp back onto the platform? Oku's humorous retort to that is a train decapitating your head for your troubles. Welcome to Gantz. read more
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Jul 24, 2008276 of ? chapters read 10 of 14 people found this review helpful I'm going to make this short and simple. Gantz is quite questionable and confusing, because it doesn't make sense at all until you keep progressing throughout the story. Gantz is basically a black ball who chooses who he wants to fight for him. The series is not completed therefore many questions are yet to be answered. When the characters die in the anime, the chosen people appear in front of a black ball given a task to assassinate a certain type of alien/leader. They use futuristic motorcycl...es, to swords, to extreme never- before - seen guns. The setting of this manga is like a video game and for every monster you kill the more points you get and the main goal of Gantz is to get 100 points. If they do not complete their task, they lose all their points, or they are all killed. Kurono Kei is the main character and he's selfish and looks down on everybody. Throughout the series he changes and you''ll see him change through drastic experiences. This manga is quite thrilling. The story is intense and makes you want to continue reading on all day. The art is quite interesting and gorey. It has all the elements you could want in a manga. The love stories, action, comedy. The only downfall of this is the way some characters act. If someone were to pop in front of you with a knife with blood covered all over them, you wouldn't just stand there and be like ''Hey why do you look like you want to kill me'' and let them kill you without wanting to avoid the person. Some characters act illogical and seem to have zero common sense. To wrap it up this manga has more to offer then what is written in this review. I suggest you read a volume to figure out whether you would like to continue or not to. I give this manga a 10 read more
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