I read all of whats out the other day and I like it. I was surprised by the range of emotions captured by the story and fell in love with the characters. What does everybody else think about it?
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Mag!1r4nmzgoJE2004-12-24 7:59
It's probably my favourite manga at the moment, along with 20th Century Boys. I really think the quality lies in the scenario and premise more than the characters, though - I'm usually pretty tolerant of characters and Gantz has a lot of people that I want to stab until they die. (lol katou)
That said, I think they're getting more likeable now, even if we aren't getting much development on some of them. I'm like, the only Tae fan I know, though.
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Anonymous2004-12-24 9:02 (sage)
too much panting,pointless pages which could be skipped over
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HowiePoof !HG6fkGXhas2004-12-24 12:44
>too much panting,pointless pages which could be skipped over
haha, I'll give you that ^_^ Personally, I think there are too many naked girl splash pages, but thats just me ^_^;
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Anonymous2004-12-24 14:07
a cool series, but the fastest read ever. i wait months and catch up on the chapters i've missed in 15 minutes.
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Pierson2004-12-24 16:57
I got a torrrent of all 185 chapters and cleared them in about two hours. Awesome series but by God it's slow. I'm just going to wait until 300 is released and then read them in batches to avoid watching a single chapter cover about five minutes of action/talking/heavy breathing.
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The(no)One2004-12-24 17:12
Characters there have shortest life span EVER. Too bad, I actually liked some of them.
Damn, anyone else wants Sadako back?
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Anonymous2004-12-24 17:49
Not as much as Dog. :(
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Anonymous2004-12-24 18:09
DOG DIED? That sucks.
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Pierson2004-12-24 19:12
We're not sure. It's assumed so, since he never appears in anything past the Buddha mission.
And plus now we have that damned Panda.
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Anonymous2004-12-24 22:16
Is is me or was that a Lara Croft lookalike in the crazy buddha mission?
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Anonymous2004-12-24 22:43
Lara Craft was in the buddha mission. I miss the dog, he was a perv, but he was cute. I'm glad they didn't show his death if he did die. Hoi Hoi is no substitute... besides, he's on Izumi's side =P
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Anonymous2004-12-25 1:31
Well I like where they are going now that ch185 is out... Oh the posibilites!
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Anonymous2004-12-26 2:07 (sage)
GANTZ is garbage. Anything by Hiroya Oku is, by default, utter shit. Shitty art, shitty story, shitty pacing.
but objectively, gantz anime vs gantz manga... the anime is weaker(but that is usually the case)
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Anonymous2004-12-26 14:55 (sage)
>>16
No, I've probably just read a lot more manga than you. It's not the worst art but it's far from good. About the only interesting thing in his more recent manga is the background CG, and even that is used to poor effect.
Frankly, the only claim to fame Oku ever had were those blur lines on some shaking tits in his debut manga. That's it.
But my biggest pet peeve is like >>16 mentioned. Needing one chapter to watch some whiny idiot run around a couple corners is bad. Horribly bad. In fact, the worst I've ever seen.
If you don't believe me, go visit manganews.net and randomly start reading series. Once you get to a few dozen (or a couple hundred) series, you'll see what GANTZ for what it is: total and utter tripe.
I like Gantz, but it is disapointing at times. It is no where near as good as say Berserk or Hellsing. The CG backgrounds are intersting, but also sometimes look rushed. The artist's obession with huge tits is almost getting annoying and immature. Those chapter breaks are kinda fun, but also getting kinda cliche and bland. Then again the cute as hell and rather flat (and all too young looking) Tae is quite the exception.
Sometimes the sex and gore seems excessive, but usually I think it's rather well paced and realistic. Well, as realistic as you get in a world like this. Hell, this kinda reminds me of a reality series, but.. you know.. without the suck and a whole lot of freaky sci fi action.
As for the story pace itself, yeah, sometimes he does drag it out. Then again this is typical of many weekly manga.
Oh and the dog molests the chick, not rapes her.
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Random Anonymous Fucktard!ErY2TknG0w2004-12-26 22:19 (sage)
Naruto already is a bad exaple of dragging, and GANTZ vastly trumps Naruto. I'd be curious if anyone can think of a worse example than GANTZ for nothing happening both story- and chapter-wise.
Honest question too. If there is anything worse I'd read it solely out of morbid fascination.
If I recall things actually happened in her chapters. But she sure could drag on a series for an insane number of volumes... --
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Jabu2004-12-27 10:52
The thing about GANTZ is that it's awesome to read when you can go through a dozen volumes at once. Preferably free of charge. If you have to read it one chapter at a time, it'll seem horribly slow-moving.
But the story itself is fantastic, the art is great and the entertainment value is through the roof. If it wasn't a weekly manga, it'd be one of the best I've read.
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theblakeman2004-12-30 0:35
Personally I find that the pacing in GANTZ is just fine- it has gotten slower recently but the point of the story is to not progress quickly, it's meant to be a mystery as to what GANTZ is and what it does. In 185 it is picking up again with the story, but I think what makes the manga great is the characters, they are far more interesting than a lot of manga characters I have seen.
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Anonymous2004-12-31 18:32
GANTZ is great because the story is like a mishmash of a 13 year old boy's random daydreams, ninjas, bewbies, dinosaurs, and vampires, all in the same story, and it somehow works (well if you don't think to hard about it). The only problem is the dragonball Z pacing in certain places.
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Anonymous2005-01-01 1:22
The violence and sex add to the realism. You can't go on alien hunts with hot chicks and not have sex and violence.
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Anonymous2005-01-02 1:48
I lost my link to latest gantz relases. Anybody have the page? I think blacksphereintheroom linked to it?
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Anonymous2005-01-03 10:11
>>28
Lol. And it adds MATURITY! The manga is instantly more mature when it has sex and violence in it!
Hey mister, you sound a lot like the videogame industry! Wanna job?
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Anonymous2005-01-04 11:58
GANTS ｷﾀ━━━━━━（゜∀゜）━━━━━━!!!!
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Anonymous2005-01-04 17:40
ガンツおもすれーかったけど最近はだれてるかも
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Anonymous2005-01-05 5:04 (sage)
I love gantz!
I love usa!
thank
dog r.i.p
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Anonymous2005-01-07 17:29
I just read chapters 1-165 in one go and now I'll have to wait another year! woe is me
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nomsg2005-01-19 3:38
chapter 187 was horrible.
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Anonymous2005-02-17 13:35
黄レンジャイ
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Anonymous2005-02-17 15:32
日本語しゃべれ
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Anonymous2005-02-26 17:06
I cried when Lara Croft died...
She had some sweet-ass titties... ;_;
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Anonymous2005-02-26 22:37
Who didn't see that coming?
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Anonymous2005-02-27 23:42
Welcome to world4chan, where your opinions matter. Really.
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Anonymous2005-03-02 10:07
ONI alien!!!!
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Anonymous2005-03-22 10:28
I'm wondering a bit about where the whole thing is going. Vampires? Dinosaurs? RINGWRAITHS? Even if it looks like he's running out of ideas, at least it is keeping the story interesting. The fights seem to be more about higlighting characters and emotions than battles (despite the DBZ feel at some points). The tension and desparation are always there, so it keeps the reader interested in what's going to happen next. The pacing may be off at points, the plot a bit convoluted at points, but it's all serving to tell the story of Kurono and his companions. If you expect everything you read, watch, or hear to be an inspriational masterpiece, you'll just be disapointed. I think Gantz is trying to use some cool ideas (fighting dinos and ringwraits? sweeet!) to show the development of people in desparate situations. And it does that fairly well.
Compare with Berserk. Berserk has better character development, plot, art, style, pacing, ideas, originality, and themes, but Berserk is a real masterpiece. Gantz is enjoyable to read, and has just enough depth to be more than an excuse for sex and violence. It has it's merrits, and like all art, those merrits don't appeal to everybody. No need to read it if you don't like it. Meanwhile, the rest of us will have something enjoyable to read once in a while, and maybe just a little something to think about as a result.
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Anonymous2005-03-22 23:51
You had me until the end.
and maybe just a little something to think about as a result.
Until this. Gyahahaha.
There's deep philosophy in there, maaaaaan! Here, pass the toke!
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Anonymous2005-03-24 9:35
It annoys me when people think a work has to be knee-deep in philosophical musing to have any depth at all. Good stories have theme and mood, and may touch on deeper things.
about your pain, i dont feel it but i should. When I saw how the dojo mission ended i fucking punched the wall.
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Anonymous2005-06-10 18:21
Anyone read the 203 raw?
Countryside General shoulder blocking whatshisface into the car was awesome :>
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Anonymous2005-06-22 1:37
>>53
hahaha main character wimpy... maybe at the start, but he quickly becomes super fucking hardcore
that first battle is a stroll in a field of daisies compared to pretty much all of the others
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Anonymous2005-06-22 23:34
yes, shape shifting demons turn into women and make u fuck them and when u inseminate them they crawl up into your ass and transform into an elephant bursting your body in the process.
205 raw was very cool. Especially that final shoulder block *orgasm*
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Anonymous2005-10-19 7:11
lol anyone still reading? katou's coming back yay
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granle2005-10-25 10:36
oh god gantz kicked ass.. yes its alittle slow but i didnt find it tedious... but the tits were.... i mean i like em but we dont needhooge tits bursting from almost every female chest. aside from that gantz kicked ass but if you want more kickasssness and less well laying around read "arm of kannon" i have the texts i just cant find torrents for the new ones. anyway to restate my point gantz kicks the aass of most manga!
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Anonymous2005-11-09 12:46
What episode of the anime starts to go differently from the manga?
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Anonymous2005-11-14 6:16
Dunno which exactly.. but after the Dojo event things turns out different. So i'd say around episode 20.. maybe.
Im a little dissapointed in the mangaka(spelling?) actually. The earlier chapters where you get to se Kei at school and his daily life outside of Gantz are chapters i go back and read again.
And it'll be fairly interesting to see how Kei reacts when he has to fight his brother(I guess it'll come to that eventually).
He'll not leave Katou and the others on their own, at least he changed that much.
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Anonymous2005-11-23 13:18
I think that the manga is going to be going back to the old feel again soon. With the recent devlopments in the newer chapters, it seems like we may get to see some of the ols relationships that were litteraly "cut short".