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JUST RUN AND DON'T COMMIT THAT MISTAKE!

This is LITERALLY the worst manga I've ever read. It just take 3 chapters for you to know how bad this manga is, but I'm not the smartest person in the world, so I kept reading and it was just getting worse!

The story is about SOMETHING, I'm still trying to figure it out. But we have a boy who is fanatic about Papico, a porn actress with bigger breasts than a hentai character, and jerks off every single day watching one of her movies. Oh, he also wants to be a director but that doesn't matter at all! Well, ... he meets her by the end of the first chapter and they start one of the most bizarre relationships I've ever seen. The worst part about these "characters" (if I can use this word to describe them) is that they are NOTHING alike a human being! They act like anything but a proper human being, the scenes by the restaurant and the bath made me regret learning how to read. So, I think this manga is about their relationship, which is terribly written and doesn't have proper development at all.

The art may look pretty at the beginning, but it's nothing special. Actually, it gets even worse, since the author uses a computer to repeat THE SAME DRAWING over and over again! He didn't even tried a different angle or composition, it's literally the same picture copied and pasted. And it's not even beautiful, I honestly don't know why people think Oku's art is that great, it may be good, but nothing special.

But the worst part must be the author referencing his other works throughout the manga. He makes his characters say: "Hey, have you ever read Gantz or Inuyashiki? IT'S REALLY GREAT!". This scene insulted me as a thinking creature, it's one of the most shameful things I've ever seen...

So, plot? There isn't any;
Characters? Terrible, they act like the author wants them to act, not like people would act in those situations. In fact, they just REACT to things happening around them, and not even this they do it properly;
Narrative? Horribly written, there is neither sense of progression nor evolution between the "characters";
Antagonist? THERE ISN'T ANY.

If you really hate yourself and wants to make your soul feel violated, this is the manga for you!

This review will be written in English and Portuguese [PT-BR]
Essa resenha será escrita em inglês e em português [PT-BR]
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A premissa desperdiçada em Gigant

Gigant é uma obra particularmente difícil de falar sobre, principalmente por conta de seu autor, Hiroya Oku, desenhista e roteirista da manga Gantz, que é uma das obras mais impactantes que li, e com isso, fui com certa expectativa para Gigant... No fim, posso dizer que essa obra me decepcionou em vários níveis, mostrando o quão patético Oku consegue ser.

Uma boa premissa, uma péssima execução
Essa obra, assim como todas desse autor, possui uma premissa extremamente interessante, onde mistura misticismo, sci-fi e sobrenatural, apostando ... principalmente na construção de universo, para prender os leitores, e isso não foi diferente aqui. Gigant possui uma premissa muito intrigante, onde existe todo um mistério em torno de um relógio estranho, que faz seu hospedeiro crescer seu tamanho físico, dando “super poderes” a quem o porta, isso por si só é algo que chama atenção, ainda mais quando vemos que existe bem mais coisas por de traz desse equipamento, e isso me prendeu até o terceiro ou quarto volume, mas acabou que essa premissa por si só não se mostrou tão interessante no fim, e muito disso vem dos péssimos personagens que interagem com essa premissa, mas falarei disso mais à frente. Então podemos dizer que essa obra possui sim os mesmos aspectos que chamam atenção em Gantz e Inuyashiki, sua atmosfera misteriosa, seus elementos sobrenaturais e o estranho fetiche do autor por UFOS e mulheres gigantes, mas isso por si só não serviu para cativar minha leitura até o fim dessa obra, e no final, muitos elementos apresentados foram descartados ou simplesmente esquecidos pelo mangá, pontos esses que só fazem esse universo não ter logica narrativa alguma e parecer muito pobre em vários aspectos. O mangá possui um mundo vazio, sem vida e sem nenhum senso de proximidade, muito disso também vem por conta de sua arte.

O ápice da preguiça artística
Assim como em suas outras obras, o autor utiliza muito do 3d em suas composições de cenários, objetos e personagens, o que eu realmente não entendo é como isso ficou tão ruim aqui, se comparado com Gantz por exemplo. Todas as cenas que o autor utiliza essa técnica, tudo fica muito artificial e se afasta muito do traço feito à mão, então vemos claramente cenários feitos em um ambiente 3d, e personagens 2d inseridos ali na cena, sem nenhuma preocupação em mesclar as camadas para parecer algo mais natural. Em muitas vezes, até mesmo o senso de espaço e perspectiva é totalmente perdido, tendo cenários com um ponto de fuga, e os personagens com outros completamente diferentes, criando um incomodo muito grande na leitura, principalmente para aqueles que são mais atentos a esses aspectos mais técnicos da arte. Infelizmente o problema da arte desse mangá não se limita a apenas as cenas pré-renderizadas em 3d, mas também na arte 2d, principalmente na anatomia da Chiho, cara, é muito bizarro ver a anatomia dessa personagem, nada ali faz sentido, parece que todo seu corpo é desenhado com o único e exclusivo proposito para chocar mesmo, seus peitos bizarramente enormes, que contrasta muito com seu corpo magro e sua anatomia no geral, que claramente foi desenhado apenas para chamar a atenção dos leitores, para que compre essa obra e veja qual será a nova bizarrice dessa vez... E bem... Quem dera esse fosse o único problema. Parece que o autor fugiu de algumas aulas de perspectiva realmente, principalmente quando desenha personagens de perfil, é muito estranho como parece que o crânio dos personagens é diminuído quando desenhados em perfil, e não sei se era a intenção de fato, pois ficou muito estanho, ou mesmo olhando para a parte mais básica do mangá, como os enquadramentos e takes, onde basicamente temos cenas que só buscam enfatizar o corpo de alguma personagem, e sem de fato trabalhar para tornar uma cena mais dramática, ou emocionante, toda o senso dramático desse mangá é muito ruim, assim como seu senso de ação. No geral, a arte dessa mangá é muito insuficiente, ainda mais sabendo da habilidade artística do autor.

Personagens rasos e desinteressantes
A construção de personagens desse mangá é péssima, e como basicamente só temos dois personagens principais na obra, no caso Chiho e Rei, isso deveria ser a parte mais “fácil” de fazer, pois temos apenas dois personagens para construir e desenvolver suas relações, mas até nisso o autor consegue falhar miseravelmente. Falando um pouco mais do Rei, de longe o personagem mais mal escrito desse mangá, Rei é basicamente um colegial completamente desinteressante, sem nenhum proposito de vida claro, sem nenhum conflito interno ou externo, apenas um adolescente normal, que propositalmente nos causa um pouco de raiva e dó ao mesmo tempo, pois claramente Rei foi escrito para ser aquele personagem fraco, emotivo, que nunca toma a dianteira sobre nenhum aspecto de sua vida. No começo, achava que veríamos seu crescimento ao longo do mangá, se tornando uma pessoa forte, que visa proteger Chiho, enfim, esperava que existisse um arco narrativo clássico do personagem fraco que fica forte, seja mentalmente ou fisicamente, mas Rei é literalmente o mesmo do começo ao fim da obra, nem mesmo passando pelas maiores atrocidades que a humanidade já presenciou, como a chegada de Satanás na terra, faz com que ele mude de alguma forma, sei lá, pelo menos demonstrar alguma reação pelas milhões de morte que ocorrem na obra, mas a única coisa que Rei faz é chorar incansavelmente e agir como uma criança mimada (a cena do restaurante é simplesmente ridícula). E no alto de seu fracasso, Rei conhece uma triz porn0 na qual era superfã, e após uma construção de relação inexistente, Rei e essa atriz começam a namorar.
Falando agora um pouco mais da Chiyo, ela é a que mais se aproxima de ter um mínimo de profundida narrativa nesse mangá. De início, vemos que Chiyo sofreu muito com a perda de seu pai, e que a partir isso, ela tomou alguns rumos considerados errados em sua vida, como o fato de fazer parte da indústria pornográfica por exemplo, fora toda a relação conturbada com sua família, onde sua mãe, mesmo desprezando a profissão de sua filha, a explora financeiramente, e mesmo se incomodando com isso, Chiyo sempre a ajuda, mostrando uma bondade muito grande que é intrínseco a personagem. Chiyo também não possui um arco narrativo muito bem estipulado em “tempo de tela” no mangá, ela é sim muito mais crível que Rei, onde os fatos que vão acontecendo ao longo do tempo, a afetam de maneira positiva ou negativa, mudando suas ações e a fazendo tomar a dianteira da unidade de ação e movimentar os eventos da história, e isso é sim bem legal, mas no fim, ela poderia sim ser melhor aproveitada na obra, principalmente no tocante a construção de sua relação com Rei, e todos os dilemas que essa relação traz, enfim, no final, ambos os personagens são mal desenvolvidos ao longo da obra, me fazendo perguntar o porquê li isso até o final.

Em resumo, essa obra reúne tudo o que o fã de Oku vai gostar, putaria, sci-fi, zangue zorando na tela, mas em compensação traz um péssimo plot, personagens mal desenvolvidos e uma premissa desperdiçada, mas ao final, ainda é uma obra que minimamente se difere das merdas que vemos por aí.
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[English]

The premise wasted on Gigant
Gigant is a particularly difficult work to talk about, mainly because of its author, Hiroya Oku, designer and screenwriter of the manga Gantz, which is one of the most impactful works I have read, and with that, I was with some expectation for Gigant... In the end, I can say that this work has disappointed me on several levels, showing how pathetic Oku can be.

A good premise, a bad execution
This work, like all other works of this author, has an extremely interesting premise, where it mixes mysticism, science fiction and supernatural, betting mainly on the construction of the universe, to arrest its readers, and this was no different here. Gigant has a very intriguing premise, where there is a whole mystery surrounding a strange clock, which makes its host grow its physical size, giving "super powers" to those who behave it, this in itself is something that catches the eye, especially when one sees that there are many more things behind this equipment, and this has kept me entertained until the third or fourth volume, but I realized that this premise alone didn't seem so interesting in the end, and a lot of it comes from the characters that interact with that premise, but I'll talk about it later. So we can say that this work does have the same aspects that draw attention in Gantz and Inuyashiki, its mysterious atmosphere, its supernatural elements and the author's strange fetish for UFOs and giant women, but that alone did not captivate my reading until the end of this work, and in the end, many elements presented were discarded or simply forgotten by the manga, points that only make this universe have no narrative logic and seem very poor in several aspects. The manga has an empty world, lifeless and without any sense of closeness, much of this also comes from its art.

The height of artistic laziness
As in other works, the author uses a lot of 3d art in his sets, objects and characters, which I really don't understand how it got so bad here, compared to Gantz for example. The scenes that the author uses this technique, everything is very unnatural, compared to the the handmade trace, we see sharp scenes made in a 3d environment, and 2d characters inserted there in the scene without the worry of making the blending of the layers more natural. In different cases, even the notion of spacing are completely lost, having scenarios with different vanishing points, and characters with completely different points of view , especially for those who are more attentive to the technical aspects of the art.
Unfortunately, the problem with the art of this manga is not limited to just the pre-rendered 3d scenes, but also the 2d art, especially Chiho's anatomy, man, it's very bizarre to see this character's anatomy, nothing there makes sense, it seems that her entire body is designed with the sole and exclusive purpose of shocking, her bizarrely huge breasts, which contrast a lot with her thin body and her anatomy in general, which clearly was designed just to draw the attention of readers, so that you buy this work and look what the new weirdness will be this time... And well... I wish that was the only problem.
It seems that the author ran away from some perspective classes really, especially when drawing characters in profile, it's very strange how it seems that the skull of the characters is reduced when drawn in profile, and I don't know if that was the intention in fact, because it was very strange. Or even looking at the most basic part of the manga, such as framing and takes, where basically we have scenes that only seek to emphasize the body of some character, and without actually working to make a scene more dramatic, or exciting, the drama of this manga is very bad, as is its sense of action. Overall, the art of this manga is very insufficient, even more knowing the artistic skill of the author.

Flat and uninteresting characters
The character building of this manga is terrible, and as we basically only have two main characters in the work, Chiho and Rei, this should be the “easiest” part to do, as we only have two characters to build and develop their relationships with, but even in this the author fails miserably. Speaking a little more about Rei, by far the most poorly written character in this manga, Rei is basically a completely uninteresting high schooler with no clear life purpose, no internal or external conflict, just a normal teenager, who purposely causes a bit of anger and pity in the readers, because Rei was written to be a weak, emotional character who never takes the lead in his life's decisions. At first, I thought we would see him grow over the course of the manga, becoming a strong person, who aims to protect Chiho, anyway, I expected there to be a classic narrative arc of the weak character who gets strong, either mentally or physically, but Rei is literally the even from the beginning to the end of the work, not even going through the greatest atrocities that humanity has ever witnessed, such as the arrival of Satan on earth, makes him change in some way, at least show some reaction to the millions of death that occur in the work, but the only thing Rei does is cry tirelessly and act like a spoiled child (the restaurant scene is just ridiculous). And on top of his failure, Rei meets a porn star in which he was a super fan, and after building a non-existent relationship, Rei and this actress start dating.
Talking now a little more about Chiyo, she is the one that comes closest to having a minimum of in-depth narrative in this manga. At first, we see that Chiyo suffered a lot from the loss of her father, and that from then on, she took some directions considered wrong in her life, such as being part of the pornographic industry, for example, apart from all the troubled relationship with her family, where her mother, despite despising her daughter's profession, exploits her financially, and even if she is bothered by it, Chiyo always helps her, showing a great kindness that is intrinsic to the character. Chiyo also doesn't have a very well stipulated narrative arc in "screen time" in the manga, she is much more believable than Rei, where the facts that happen over time affect her in a positive or negative way, changing her actions. and making her take the lead in the action unit and move the events of the story, and that's really cool, but in the end, she could be better used in the work, especially regarding the construction of her relationship with Rei, and all the dilemmas that this relationship brings, finally, in the end, both characters are poorly developed throughout the work, making me wonder why I read this until the end.
In summary, this work brings together everything that the Oku fan will like, bitching, sci-fi, blood roaming on the screen, but on the other hand, it brings a bad plot, poorly developed characters and a wasted premise, but in the end, it's still a work that differs minimally from the shits we see out there.

Do not read this. It's straight up CP. The MC is 16, the pornstar looks and considering they are out of school most likely 18+
And due to sex scenes its very wrong. Its a manga containing sex scenes involving a minor.
There isn't much that can be said about this but its extremely wrong, while yes the age of concent could be less in the writers country its definitely not in most other countries. MAYBE if your countries age of concent is at least 16 then it may be a good read.. (possibly, i haven't read much) but if not you can get in deep shit ... for looking at sex scenes involving a minor

The short review is that this is a story about a porn actress who has the ability drastically increase her physical size to gigantic levels combined with Tokyo getting hit by a number of disasters of the natural or unnatural variety. You will like it if you enjoy an author's attempt to visualize the largest breasts of all time, but also don't mind reading a story with more holes than the female lead.

In greater detail:
Since this story is by Oku Hiroya, you're know what you're in for. Violence, guts, death, gore, nudity, sci-fi and action. That's all fine and dandy, after all ... if you're scared of a few beheadings in media in this day and age, you probably haven't looked at the world very closely. The problem here is the methods in which the story is advanced or told. McGuffin-level coincidences are forced to accelerate things along to the reason everyone picked this up in the first place, and there are large sections of story where very few words are spoken at all. I know we're supposed to be shown, not told, but some talking would be useful sometimes.

The art is the best aspect of this manga and is fairly well done. Oku has had a lot of practice at this sort of thing and there's the usual imaginative evils for the good guys to clash with. If you've made it this far, you probably already know there's at least two big reasons you're reading this manga.

There are two main characters, the male and female leads.

Our male lead, Rei, has no special abilities short of being a nice guy in the right place at the right time. He has done and appears capable of nothing noteworthy. So far, he could be replaced by an emotionally supportive dildo and it very nearly wouldn't change the story.

The female lead, the one you're all here fore, is Papico the porn star. She is designed to be every male's dream woman: Incredibly beautiful, desirable, emotionally needy, wanting to please her man, but yet also ready to be a super buttkicking badass at a moment's notice. What can't she be?!

That's it. The male acts so you want to be him, and the female acts so you want to get with her.

It wasn't as unenjoyable as it could have been, to be honest. You can really blaze through it because there's so many pages without any words on them, unless you want to take an extremely close look at body parts, both attached and unattached.

Overall, you know what you're going to get. There is no secret awesome sci-fi story here that's being overshadowed by giant round flesh orbs, so no need to pretend otherwise.

(review untile chapter 29)
Gigant is a story all about... Nah, let's not do that! If you are looking for a nice art that could combine 3D CGI real-time pictures from google Maps maybe even with a hand drawing Illustrated in nice-looking frames mostly advertising for "Apple" phones and monitors it is for you. but don't come here from Inuyashiki (same author) it's nothing compared to it. At least Inuyashiki was grounded to a certain extent, I haven't read the manga tbh but I watched the anime, however, Gigant it's not even trolling to be funny. now I reached chapter 29 which is the ... furthest I can go with no story.

In a nutshell: if you wanna story it's not for you, wanna comedy it's not for you if you wanna hentai it's not for you nor gore neither anything.

JUST THE ART AND ONLY IF YOU LIKE A HYBRID METHOED.

I may seem frustrated because I am. Inuyashiki wasn't great for me I gave it (score 6) but I expected something no less than that which could be my mistake.

So I got into this story because I like giant women plain and simple and wanted to see some badass giantess action. In a sense I got what I came here for. But then, there doesn't have to be 60 chapters of a nothing plot to tell this story.

Right away you'll notice the art is lazy. All of the backgrounds are seemingly photographed, digitized, and repeated over and over through the story. The characters emotions are portrayed nicely and the action is satisfying, but there is no real sense of an overarching world or society. Which is a problem when buildings are getting knocked down ... and you don't give a damn.

The characters start out promising, with their own desires, relationships and hardships. But once the sci-fi premise kicks in, all sense of character growth is eschewed in favor of plenty of gore and unreal circumstances. Basically, you'll stop caring about anything any of the characters say after about ch. 20, or even earlier.

The plot of this manga is beyond ridiculous- not only do we have to suspend our disbelief for the relationship between our two protagonists, but we also have to assume that the antagonists are all willing to go to the lengths they do against the people of Tokyo, without rhyme or reason. The manga also sees no reason to explain the ridiculous phenomena's happening throughout the story, or even dangle a hint of a mystery to keep us interested. We just have to assume that the world is batshit crazy and go along with it.

This isn't to say that enjoyment isn't to be had here- if you really want to see some kaiju vs giant woman action this manga will deliver. Just check your expectations if you want any type of human drama or comprehensible storyline.

This book, even glancing at it from the start, is an absurd book. In some ways, its absurdity - in the plot, conversation, and elsewhere - is to great comedic effect, but I can't imagine reading past the first volume. If you want a weird book to laugh at, have at it, but I'd rather spend my time on a book that goes somewhere. If anything, I think the book would be better off focusing wholely on the romance, but it seems to simulaniously build the sci-fi element, which I don't think meshes very well, at least in its execution. It could be a good ... idea, but in actuality it lacks.