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Gantz

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Synonyms: Gantz/Osaka
Japanese: GANTZ
English: Gantz
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Type: Manga
Volumes: 37
Chapters: 383
Status: Finished
Published: Jul 13, 2000 to Jun 20, 2013
Genres: Action Action, Drama Drama, Horror Horror, Sci-Fi Sci-Fi, Supernatural Supernatural
Themes: Gore Gore, Psychological Psychological, Survival Survival
Demographic: Seinen Seinen
Serialization: Young Jump
Authors: Oku, Hiroya (Story & Art)

Statistics

Score: 8.081 (scored by 119773119,773 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #6372
2 based on the top manga page. Please note that 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #30
Members: 249,283
Favorites: 18,809

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8.08
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Chapters: /383

Synopsis

Lonely high school student Kei Kurono isolates himself out of a growing cynicism toward his fellow man and the cruelty they are capable of enacting. One day, while waiting to take the subway to school, Kei's classmate Masaru Katou leaps onto the tracks in an effort to save a drunk man. Driven by an uncharacteristic desire to rescue someone else, Kei follows Katou down into danger. While successful in saving him, the two boys are killed by the train.

Kei wakes up beside Katou in an apartment full of strangers and furnished by a giant black orb with a glass-like outer surface. After finding out that everyone in the room has recently died, words appear on the black ball tasking them with killing a strange creature. The ball equips Kei and the others with power suits and mysterious guns before sending them off to collect this bizarre bounty.

Although Kei discovers the mission to be far more deadly than originally suspected, he manages to survive. He is teleported back to the apartment where he and the other survivors are rewarded point values according to their actions in battle by the black sphere, which a fellow survivor says is called "Gantz." Despite his death earlier that day, Kei is granted the ability to return to his daily life with one condition: he can be uprooted from his day at any time and summoned back to the apartment, where Gantz will task him and other recently deceased with the assassination of another target.

While Katou dreads the inevitable return to Gantz, Kei finds himself living for the sole purpose of carrying out these missions. Thriving in the heat of battle and learning to care about himself and his comrades, Kei faces escalating monstrous threats that begin to bleed out into his normal life outside of Gantz.

[Written by MAL Rewrite]

Background

Gantz was published in English by Dark Horse Comics from June 25, 2008, to November 17, 2015, and as omnibuses from September 4, 2018 to July 4, 2023. It was also released in Czech by CREW from January 13, 2013, to January 16, 2024; and in Spanish by Panini Comics from September 16, 2015, to September 19, 2018.

The series was adapted into two live-action movies released in Japan on January 29, 2011, and April 23, 2011, respectively. A TV movie titled Another Gantz aired before the second film was released and is an alternate telling of the first film.

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Reviews

Jul 12, 2025
Gantz is a manga that nonchalantly conveys its own sense of aesthetics in a way that makes the horror design, thriller-like dread, charming application of "rule of cool" and sense of humor feel cohesive when put together (especially at the initial arcs centered around the survival aspect of the manga), even if it gradually falls off drastically from such a good start. In the beginning arcs, the survival perspective it takes to tell the action-oriented story of the manga are very good and though it progressively loses steam of what made it so constantly engaging after certain point in favor of something that can be ...
Nov 24, 2024
Mixed Feelings
I was actually able to finish this longer manga which, says something about it's appeal. First off, the art is amazing, definitely a highlight. The story, meanders a bit. Starts off really good, kind of takes a dip with it killing off some of the better characters and being a bit repetitive. The ending, is fairly satisfying, though I was hoping for a bit more. All in all, it's a flawed manga with some highlights that are pretty notable. I think it's a pretty divisive manga, as some people will love, and others will hate it, and of course you'll have people like me who ...
May 5, 2024
Well-writtenWell-written
Gantz is the most overrated trash manga to grace human existence and anyone who considers it a literary masterpiece is a genuine incel that you need to watch out for. Here's why -

Right from the start of the manga its extremely obvious that the author is writing the manga as if its his own fetish journal. Sexualizing high schoolers isn't a new thing about Japanese mangaka but in the very first chapters there are so many unnecessary sexual scenes and fetishization that really kills the mood, especially when you realize that the sexual scenes are with a character still in her high school.

It ...

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