A Short Summary: Gantz Review

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-Brutal
-Mature
-Good main character
-Decent side characters
-Interesting villains / monsters
-Interesting and original idea
-Art is very very good
-Monthly release of chapters which is a minus
-Recommended for brutal manga fans

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Gantz 376: Super alien calls for Kurono Kei

Recap of Gantz chapter 376: A challenge from the defeated

One of American soldiers is smashed against the wall by the other world's hero.

These fights are in fact filmed and people around the world are watching it, terrified. Now it's time for another of Earth's fighters to go against the other world's hero. This guy is quickly defeated and it seems for a while that this alien is going on a rampage - One guy even says that his motion defies all logic.

Kaze Daizaemon watches all this, but he luckily is getting transferred back to the earth at the same time.

The fighting still continues on the space station, this seemingly invincible alien is beating americans one on one, so that Americans finally decide to take him on together. Scene turns quickly back to earth where people are still watching and then back to space station: the alien has defeated the whole american team.

Suddenly, the other world's hero speaks: He says "Kurono.. Kurono Kei, come and face me"

Kurono, back on earth is watching and probably thinking, "what the hell?"

Comments and Predictions

A decent chapter: nothing really happened. Kaze got sent back to earth, the "super alien" who came from where? Seems to overpower earth's fighters. The only surprise really was that he wants to fight against Kurono Kei.

It's hard to think what will happen next - it would be just plain stupid for Kurono to go there to fight this alien. Gantz should really be going towards ending, so I'm wondering what is the point of all these happenings that are going on currently.

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Gantz Review, blood and flying bodyparts

Gantz is about a boy named Kurono Kei. In the beginning of the story he falls in front of a train trying to save a man and dies by being run over. After that he wakes up in a room where there is a weird big ball and a bunch of other people. Soon the ball tells them that their lives have ended. The weird black ball (which has a man inside!) gives them a target, suit and a lots of weapons. Now the plot is starting to make a bit sense, but questions still remain. Shortly after that they are transferred to an unknown, deserted city: obviously they have to hunt down the target.

Art of Gantz is brutal. It has maybe the most graphic content I have ever seen in any manga. This is also what makes Gantz so unique and interesting. It's pretty simple, Gantz has something that others don't and it's plot is one of the better ones. Art is very good and detailed and as I said before you will be seeing a lots of blood, flying body parts and severed heads.If you've read all the chapters released so far you will most likely have seen all the possible ways to die for a human.

Characters are pretty likeable in the series and it tends to show the darker side of the people, which is understandable regarding the nature of the story. Main character as well as side characters are pretty well designed and differ from each other just enough. Gantz has also managed to put up some interesting character development and development in the span of several hundred chapters so that certainly deserves some praise.

As for the story I think it really depends on the reader whether it's important or not. Some people may be interested in the brutal aspect of the story, but I have to admit that it has it's good sides as well. There are enough mysteries present as why does everything actually happen and why are the people being sent to fight against powerful aliens and that is what interested me enough to prowl through hundreds of chapters.

All in all Gantz is a very good read if you want something with mystery and blood (and some sex).It's been like a couple of years but I still remember how I liked for once that I had not enocountered anything as graphical before so it was sort of a new experience for me. I could say that Gantz is essentially succeeding in every part that I evaluate in my reviews, so I could say that it's certainly recommended if you are not afraid of some brutal content.

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