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Gantz  
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Description
Somewhere in Tokyo, there is a room. In that room is a black sphere. Periodically, people who should otherwise have died are transferred to the room. There, the sphere gives them special suits and weapons, and sends them out on a mission to kill aliens here on Earth. While these missions take place, the rest of the world is largely oblivious to them. These missions are lethal--few participants survive them. The sphere calls the shots, and it's not the slightest bit nice. Its name... Gantz.

Type
Manga

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Associated Names
Гантз
ガンツ
杀戮都市
간츠

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Latest Release(s)
c.381 by Utopia Scanlations (10d ago)
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c.380 by Utopia Scanlations (39d ago)
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Status in Country of Origin
36 Volumes (Ongoing)

Completely Scanlated?
No

Anime Start/End Chapter
Starts at Vol 1, Chap 1
Ends at Vol 8, Chap 91

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Forum
118 topics, 1278 posts
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User Rating
Average: 8.4 / 10.0 (1869 votes)
Bayesian Average: 8.37 / 10.0
10
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Last Updated
May 13th 2013, 7:21am PST

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Author(s)

Artist(s)

Year
2000

Original Publisher

Serialized In (magazine)
Weekly Young Jump (Shueisha)

Licensed (in English)
Yes

English Publisher
Dark Horse (26 Volumes - Ongoing)

Activity Stats (vs. other series)
Weekly Pos #271 decreased(-13)
Monthly Pos #118 decreased(-65)
3 Month Pos #53 increased(+25)
6 Month Pos #63 decreased(-1)

List Stats
On 6666 reading lists
On 947 wish lists
On 289 unfinished lists
On 374 custom lists

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Forum Posts
Gantz Creator Oku: Manga to 'Reach Its Final Chapter Soon' 1 days, 8 hours, 53 minutes ago
Live-Action Gantz Films 300 days, 2 hours, 56 minutes ago
How close is Gantz to completion? 333 days, 20 hours, 32 minutes ago
Gantz/Minus and Gantz/EXA 420 days, 22 hours, 39 minutes ago
art style 434 days, 16 hours, 35 minutes ago

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just in case you missed it...   
Rating: 10.0 / 10.0
by mercio
January 23rd, 2013, 5:32pm
Adult
Drama
Horror
Psychological
Seinen
Tragedy

Alien/s
Fanservice
Gore
Play or Die Situation
Violence

So kid's, Stay away from this manga! Otherwise you'll end up writing a dumb*** comment about why this manga is so violent and you hate violence and you love peace and you're a defender of justice and everyone that read this manga is the spawn of Satan and eat human liver for breakfast. N O B O D Y C A R E S.
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Graphic, Violent and sometimes Good   
Rating: 8.5 / 10.0
by MangaGhost
December 11th, 2010, 8:53am
Its good but it also has its share of weaknesses. I think the story starts out really strong. Its mysterious because no one has a clue what's going on at first, with fatal consequences. It has elements of horror in the beginning because the characters never know the whole situation that they are going to get thrown into, they are powerless against Gantz and its machinations so there's a good feeling of being trapped, and anyone can die. There are alot of bad people in this series, some are supposed to be on the "good guys" side, which sometimes makes it more disturbing than what they are supposed to be fighting. On top of that, one of the main leads starts off as kind of a selfish jerk, who slowly evolves over time. All of this is decent.

Unfortunately, there are weaknesses, some plot holes, and a few things that never get explained as the series moves on. A few times, it felt like the author was stretching for ideas and some of it became filler. The story started out small but has ramped up relatively quickly, arc after arc to mega-scale confrontations. The result is that some of the character development, plot and romance aspects have taken a back seat. This is unfortunate because its become a bit shallow, and lost some of the atmosphere it had in the beginning.

Another criticism that other reviewers have made and I agree with is the artwork. The characters look good and the art style has matured in contrast to early Gantz and certainly since the mangaka's earlier work Hen. However, the backgrounds are sometimes terrible. Its obvious that some are photos that have been run thru some Photoshop-type filter and it doesn't match the artwork well.

I still like Gantz and I am sticking with it, hoping that the writing will turn its focus back on the characters and resolve some of the many issues that have been left hanging.

... Last updated on December 11th, 2010, 8:57am
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REAL good stuff   
Rating: 9.0 / 10.0
by Bloodfall
January 22nd, 2010, 12:31pm
If you're old enought to understand the depth of the history, this IS one of the best mangas you'll ever find.
The characters are not noble, they are not super heroes, they are not correct. They are HUMANS, with all its dirtyness.

The character development, the plot, the art. Everything is real good.

Ps: If you feel ofended seeing boobs and gore, don't read it.
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Readers?? What's that??   
Rating: 9.0 / 10.0
by fahmedbd
October 22nd, 2012, 12:21am
Seriously. This manga does NOT give a toss about us. Yes, us meaning the readers. It'll just do what it wants, when it wants and doesn't at all care about how we might feel about it. That's what I love and hate most about this manga. Its topsy turvy chain of events. But hey not everyday that I get to enjoy a story where things get a lot of build up, only to be thrown back at my face and the end result being me wanting more!!
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A really good read   
Rating: N/A
by alpholimt
May 4th, 2012, 8:47pm
Can I just say that this is one of the best action mangas Ive ever read. This is coming from a person who mostly likes romantic shoujo.yeaaaahh. Can you believe that? I went from reading stuff like Kimi ni Todoke to Gantz. Tells you just how good this manga is.
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Gantz=Men In Black   
Rating: N/A
by AiFever
October 26th, 2010, 6:51pm
to all the people saying gantz is uninteresting, try reading all the new chapters now that there out in succession. it may have just seemed that way since months would go by before a new chapter was released and a lot of those chapters were just 20 pages of nothing, leaving u sitting for another month until something happened......thats why i just kinda let gantz slip from my mind for some months, looked at it today and had like over 10 chapters to read in a row, really makes a diff.

... Last updated on October 26th, 2010, 6:55pm
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slowely dying off...   
Rating: 7.0 / 10.0
by maxx1223
May 30th, 2008, 10:03pm
When this series started, it was coherent enough, plot moved decently, and had enough twists and turns to make it interesting. For the past 60 chapters though, its just slacked off into a chapter of enemy introduction, round 1, round 2, repeat until enemy dead or morphs into something stronger. This has kept up for so many chapters that the entire comic has pretty much lost its roots in any sort of character development and has pretty much deteriorated into a boob/gore fest. Really wish the author would move the story along at this point, the only reason im still looking at this is because i've read this far, and would like to see some resolution to ... something .. anything.. would be nice really at this point.


Oh, i had rated this a 9 at one point, and its just slowly dropped to here enough that i felt the need to make a comment about its degrade.

... Last updated on May 30th, 2008, 10:04pm
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The first 100 chapters or so have to be sloughed through.   
Rating: 8.0 / 10.0
by enaikelt
January 31st, 2012, 11:58pm
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So in the first... half... or so of Gantz, the one thing that comes to mind when is "Holy cow, the protagonist is a pervert!" And he is... and not in the comedic played-for-laughs way, either. And could the girl he likes be any more useless? Masaru is really the only decent person in this bit.

However, lots of Character Development happens around, say,chapter 140 or so, and Kurono graduates from being a total butthead to... maybe about 20% butthead. You really begin enjoying the story around this point. Before, it was just an 'okay' manga, with great action and a shallowness rating of 10, but around here, the protagonists kick butt and take names, and it's amazing.

Unfortunately, it later devolves into this really strange alien-invasion story (not like it wasn't one in the first place, so I don't feel like I'm really spoiling anything), and some of the fights are truly interminable. The sheer scale of it makes it hard to tell what's going on. Toward the end of about 300 chapters, you start wishing it would be over already.

To sum it up, in the first 100 chapters, the main characters mostly think with their hormones. In the second, it's a great story. And in the last 100, you start skipping chapters.


... Last updated on February 5th, 2012, 12:12am
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GANTZ   
Rating: 8.0 / 10.0
by Shily
December 5th, 2006, 5:18pm
Thrilling & interesting. A great choice of action & gore. However, it's somehow hard to identify the main characters because they just continue to switch places. Too many untied knots, i.e. the black ball. After 20 vols, I still don't gain any single info about it & the whole situation.
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WTF!!!   
Rating: N/A
by weaklin6z
December 13th, 2011, 4:41am
This will be my only comment:
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The most unpredictable manga ever that i'have seen.
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