How long will you stay in the game? The last thing Kei and Masaru remember was being struck dead by a subway train while saving the life of a drunken bum. What a waste! And yet somehow they're still...alive? Or semi-alive? Maybe it's reanimated... by some kind of alien orb with a nasty message... "Your lives are over. What you do with your new lives is up to me!" And what this orb called 'Gantz' intends to do with their lives is make them play games of death, hunting all kinds of odd aliens, along with a bunch of other ordinary citizens who've recently met a tragic semi-end. The missions they embark upon are often dangerous. Many die - and die again! This dark and action-packed manga deals with the moral conflicts of violence, coupled with teenage sexual confusion and angst, and with our fascination with death. Hang onto your gear and keep playing the game, whatever you do; Gantz is unrelenting!
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Decidedly Not for the Faint of Heart,
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This review is from: Gantz Volume 1 (v. 1) (Paperback)
The individual ingredients--teen angst, existential dilemma, sexual anxiety, purgatory, alien hunting, graphic violence, and computerized spheres that house omnipotent but catatonic men--could have calamitously collided. In fact, they could have made a grim, clumsy train wreck, like the one that launches the mind-bending, viscerally charged narrative of this fabled manga. But in the hands of Hiroya Oku, writer and digital artist, Gantz is one of the genre's most thoroughly addictive, eminently readable entries.
The story follows sometimes friends Kei and Masaru on their surrealistic, supernaturally amped adventures through Tokyo, following a train accident that may or may not have killed them. In the realm of the undead, the less-than-dynamic duo--typical teens: angry, disenfranchised, mischievous, and constantly thinking of sex--is drawn into an underbelly of alien-hunting by a mysterious orb named Gantz, who apparently controls their destiny and promises to restore their quote-unquote real lives once they have completed enough missions for him. These missions (think Mission: Impossible meets The Matrix) come replete with high danger, cool gadgets, hyper-gory violence, and Big Bads named Onion Alien, Bird Alien, and Buddhist Temple Alien. New characters join Kei and Masaru. The female ones frequently shed their clothing. The males are quick to slice, dice, and otherwise draw blood. The series succeeds--over nearly 500 issues--by offering consistently inventive individual missions against the ongoing mystery of who and what is Gantz and what is the purpose of these body-splattering, alien-hunting assignments. Gantz is front-loaded with metaphysical queries (a la Lost), a hardboiled sensibility (a la Hammet or, say, Haruki Murakami), and graphic ultra-violence (think M-rated first-person shooter games, the ones where decapitations and downpours of blood are the norm), and is, resultantly, an awful lot of fun. Grim fun, but fun. The utter normalcy of Oku's teen characters makes their upstream paddling against their environment's endlessly enigmatic sci-fi shadings all the more delicious, while the writer's willingness to wrestle with recent historical atrocities adds a deft and deep--if oftentimes delirious--resonance to the storyline. Oku's artwork, digitally rendered, is breathtaking, even though it's often incredibly grisly--one that's decidedly not for the faint of heart. -- J. Rentilly
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Neat Story Nice Artwork,
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This review is from: Gantz Volume 1 (v. 1) (Paperback)
I picked this one up on a reccommendation from a magazine for someone who is just looking to get into reading manga. I found the story to be intriguing, a bit of sci-fi and a bit of mystery as the characters struggle to understand where they are and what they are doing there. The artwork was very pretty and I definately look forward to reading Volume 2. I guess the reason I didn't give this 5 stars is because the story line is a bit confusing right now, but that just might be me being new to manga. I'll tell you though, don't flip back and forth from reading manga to american comics because you'll forget which way to read the panels :)
Overall, B+/A-
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Amazing Series though not for the faint of heart.,
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This series is fantastic but the things which occur in the manga are sure to alienate many would be readers.Not without reason as people are frequently killed. However, the art is good and the story is consistently good ensuring that the average reader won't be able to put the book down.
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