Audience reviews
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Gintokiee
This anime is 1 of a kind type which just make you invested just by the plot ......i'm so comflicted to give this a 7 as its a great world which is dark and mysterious everything which a good unique anime needs...every things from grantz to the characters interacting evrything is really good ...music is one of the best even the bgm scores...
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But the reason i give these both season's a 6 is easily because of the direction i mean its a good anime with a bad storytelling this anime shines when it wants to tackle difficult characters who are just fd up but falls flat on the execution .....
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If not for the great character development WITH our MC which must be the part of the original story i would have not loved any of the characters ...the only problem i see with this anime is its direction…
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Gantz 2nd Stage is basically a direct continuation of the insanity that the first season started. If the initial premise was to throw the viewer into a brutal, strange, and psychologically chaotic world, here the anime fully embraces that and transforms everything into something even more intense, uncomfortable, and unpredictable. It's a season that clearly doesn't try to please everyone, but precisely for that reason it ends up being so memorable.
The animation remains very good for its time. The use of CGI has aged in some moments, but the direction still manages to deliver extremely fluid and violent action scenes, effectively conveying the feeling of constant danger. The missions remain tense and unpredictable because Gantz makes it clear all the time that nobody is truly safe. Any ch…
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The second season of Gantz redeemed the whole show. It went from being an infuriating and boring watch to suddenly locking in and making me not want to put it down at all. The very first episodes are like season 1, a shitshow. By the middle of season 2 the show suddenly gets good and the characters actually get some development to at least make you care for them if they die. Kei, the main character, had a very good development in a short amount of time and that was able to save the show.
The filler ending was alright for what it was.
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This is truly one of the worst sequels I've ever seen to a first season. After finishing this anime, I found out that this isn't the canonical ending, that the anime actually deviated from the manga. Which made perfect sense as to why this anime dropped so much in quality from one season to the next. I can't believe it took SO MANY episodes for the fight in the temple. It could have all happened in half the time, or less. It would have been on a much higher quality adaptation. Less is more. However, this season repeats exactly the same problems as the previous one but on a larger scale, and removes much of what made the first season good, which was the development of the plot and the characters' internal dialogue.
I think I saw each character “die” and then continue fighting abou…
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TLDR: Bad writing, lazy animation, homophobic. This is not a good anime.
Even though this anime seemed to have a really interesting premise, the execution of said premise is extremely bad. The character writing is some of the most lazy and horrible writing I have ever seen. Imagine someone says to you "in 5 seconds a red car will pass you, in 30 seconds someone will magically appear in front of you, in 2 minutes a pickle will be eaten 15 feet infront of you, and if you walk in to that building you'll immediately die" Now let's say the first 3 things happen you'll be like holy crap, I better not go in to that building then; not in this show though where people are constantly told things that will happen in the future and even though they do they still walk off to their death... why? The st…
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GANTZ made me think a lot. It looks like it's supposed to be for teenage boys, though it is labeled as "seinen". The story was interesting to me and it got even better. The second part of the show has a big surprise that I didn't expect. This makes it very exciting and interesting to watch. Keep in mind that the anime comes with grown-up topics like violence and blood. This show is rough and can be likened to an 80s Hollywood film. If you don't get upset easily and like a good story, then feel free to watch it.
A one-of-a-kind story is there where Kei and his buddy Masaru die on a train. Then, they are brought back to life by a strange ball called Gantz. The story is about surviving, so they need to hunt and kill alien monsters just to keep living. In the first part, the story moves slowl…
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This is the second part of my review... as interesting and different the first part of Gantz was during his time, the second stage did a good job for 90% of it's run, I was one of those excited teens, rooting for Kei and Kato and then freaking out when things didn't go well, and that was great!
Then something happend, pressure for censorship and backlash arrived, the anime deviated from the source material HARD and tried to make it's own ending, turning it into forced philosophical nonse that left the fans saying "I wasted my time on this didn't I"
So in short.
Story when it followed the manga: 7
Story when it didn't follow the manga: 1
Overall for the second part: 4 (and all of those 4 points are thanks to the source material)
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So i just post here the same Review, since I made it for the total 26 Episodes overview anyway. The second Part was still better than the first one.
Let me make one thing clear. I don't know the manga of this work, so I could only get an idea of the anime. I have also heard that the anime is not following the manga.
This should be said before I get to the actual evaluation of this ... "work".
Let's get to the plot first. The basic idea of hunting for death, cloning and all the trimmings is quite interesting. Even towards the end of the series, some tension was built up due to the fresher episodes.
But apart from that, the whole story has received little information from anything. And the episodes were practically unsettling. Every now and then a character ran to one spot for almost…
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The concept is awesome, the anime is just okay. Scenes go on for way too long and the animation is very dull.
But what I really love about this series is how dumb everything is. Usually in afterlife/altlife contracts with supernatural beings shows (Madoka Magica, Sword Art, etc) the rules and world are all very polished and reliable. In Gantz, they are not.
You don't get a badass weapon, you get this stupid gun that has mixed results, a shitty range, and has a delay between pulling the trigger and something actually happening. You get armor, but it breaks just when you need it most. The game is supposed to delete your existing self in favor of your copy, but sometimes that doesn't work and now you have a clone living your life. Gantz is supposed to teleport you back to the room when you…
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The first season was really good so I expected this one to be the same, but I was wrong. After watching both I did some research and I realized that the second season took the story in its own hands and did not follow the manga (which I haven't read, as I don't read manga at all), which explained why overall the second season felt very weird and out of place for me. !!!SPOILERS IN 2ND PARAGRAPH BEWARE!!!
The story continues where the first season ended, Kei and his friends are living their lives, waiting for Gantz to call them. So Gantz eventually calls them, but the quirky, weird aliens from the first season are no more. This time there are some buddhist statues, which makes absolutely no sense to me and I didn't find them entertaining at all. The fighting that took place also made littl…
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In all honesty, when I started this series I wasn't overly fond of it. But after pushing through I found myself becoming invested in the characters (funny that). The first season didn't show much character development but the second season really pushed Kurono to change and I liked that.
The way it ended though was slightly annoying. It just seems extremely rushed and I am fully aware that the reason for that is because the series wasn't renewed for a third season so they had to make something up so as to give the viewers an ending. I also know that the ending is intentionally left open for the viewer to piece everything together to make up their own ending but after reading many peoples own interpretation on the ending (and I mean a lot), I have managed to convince myself of an ending th…
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Mild spoilers below, maybe?
The stupidity haven't changed from the first season. I'm sure (at least I'm hoping) the manga and entire idea has a clear message in mind but the execution is just really terrible here.
The pacing gets a bit faster and newly introduced characters get ready for battle earlier than before but in the end it doesn't really matter. Characters are still uni-dimensional and their relationships sucks for the most part. One woman asks the MC if he needs anything because she's here to help. He asks if he can fuck her. She gets angry... but then goes along with it and say something like "if you see me as a whore then I guess I am one". But she ordered a book so that her entire character doesn't revolve about being Boobies #2. Another *deep* relationship gives another won…
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Gantz is one of those shows where you either love or hate it. Like Marmite, people either vigorously enjoy the show for its chaotic action and the thrilling pace, or religiously condemn it for its perpetual plot holes and shallow nature.
Gantz follows the story of Kei Kurono: a selfish, cocky, and rather porn-obsessed adolescent, and the trials and tribulations he faces in fighting the plethora of aliens that Gantz conjures. At first, this sounds promising. However, it is not until the second half of the 2nd season that the show becomes monotonous: fight alien(s). survive, repeat. fight alien(s), survive, repeat. fight alien(s), survive, repeat. So the repetitive nature of the show becomes too dull and slightly boring to watch.
Until you realise that one of the best things about this an…
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Gantz has a plot that plows forward aggressively. Most of the times that it moves forward, a character does something stupid like stand around instead of shooting at an enemy or something similar to that. The show kills of its characters without much thought and often the characters die in ridiculous ways that could be easily preventable if not for some weird reverse-plot armor the show gives its characters. Maybe because of this, I never particularly cared when a character died.
What I found interesting about the show, however, and what kept me going, were the moments when they weren't fighting the aliens where a whole multitude of depravities in characters showed - Religious fervor, adultery, lying, cowardice, allowing the savior of your kids life to die simply because you don't want t…
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[Portuguese-BR]
"O que você pode fazer sozinho?"
O mundo é repleto de pessoas más. porém existem as pessoas boas mesmo que sejam poucas existem.
Em geral o anime é bem simples de se entender, algumas pessoas que morreram vão para um quarto onde tem uma especie de esfera chamada Gantz, lá eles recebem missões, todas missões envolvem matar aliens. Após terminar as missões eles podem voltar para casa como se nada tivesse acontecido, alias os corpos dos mortos não são encontrados então por isso ninguém sabe que eles morreram a não ser os presentes na cena que pensam que foi só alucinação. E isso tem algum fim? Ao terminar as missões eles recebem "pontos" que ganham após matar os aliens, que sempre o primeiro é o mais facil para depois vir o chefão que é muitas vezes dificil de se enfrentar.…
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Warning possible Spoilers
So since the first half of Gantz was mixed in my opinion the second half didn't really help to improve the way I thought about this anime, it was still stupidly entertaining.
The second half continues with Kei Kurono and the others trying to desperately survive Gantz's cruel game however they don't realise that the game is only gonna get worse.
The second half immediately begins where the first half closed off and I think there was a little improvement when it came to the story a little bit because there are a few twists that did catch me off guard and it tries to make the characters more likeable, but most stay pretty much the same, it also tries to show how messed human beings can be as not everyone who dies and gets teleported to Gantz is a friendly person a…
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You can also check my first review of Gantz of the first season!!
(Havent read the manga yet!!
As i have heard in this season it has the best mission or one of the best mission of all Gantz(manga and anime).
Story 9/10:thats why i gave it 9 because that arc was fantastic its the only word to describe it and again at the end Gonzo fcked it up(sorry for the words) but it wasnt that bad end as it was on Hellsing made by Gonzo,u can say it had also some goods twist plots.
Art 8/10:The art was a bit more polished from the 1 season and i think at 4 or 5 episode Kishimoto Kei was changed as a model/drawing i dont know how to say it but i think that her change was a mistake or it was just my imagination.
Sound 7/10:It was like the 1 season it was just good i didnt find anything superb but it wasnt…
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This review may be a bit short so please excuse that, I reviewed the first 'season' or 'part' but really it should be watched and reviewed as a whole.
My review for the first part had a decent amount of cons, eg. the characters being unreliable. Swapping from being scared in the beginning, which is completely understandable, then being strong, but then they would bounce back to being scared and strong and it just repeated. That left me being kind of unimpressed with the first 'season'. But, having watched this, it doesn't get rid of how they were in the first half, but this half is much better.
Kei is fighting for his life and so are his new friends and acquaintances.
Some of the things in this are a lot more intense, especially the Buddha Temple mission. That on it's own was better tha…
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Story:
Talk about a huge disappointment.
I try not to mention source material a lot when discussing a work, but I think it's very important to mention it here in this review. This anime does not follow the manga to an unbelievable degree. That'd be alright if it wasn't NECESSARY to create an enjoyable experience. For instance, the manga has a turning point, an event that makes the series much better, as the lead character, Kei, undergoes dynamic 'cold-turkey' in a sense. His character is hit with a brick and he realizes what's happened in his life so far, then turns around. To those who have read the manga, you know what I'm talking about. However, despite this event leading into the what makes the manga so great, this anime, immediately after this event, begins to follow its own canon.…
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The second stage is a continuation first. The story has a great deal of finality though with the "2nd stage" though.
Gantz is a classic and if you watched it when it came out you know why, if you watch new anime and you're just seeing it now, I hope you see how great it is.
Gantz is many things in one and while being many things in one it manages to be balanced. It's about equal parts scifi, action, and psychological. The most impactful part of the anime was the psychological element, and how true to life the anime was.
It was true to life in that things never magically or miraculously happened. It's true to life in each character has a very different personality and due to their personality and actions they are either drawn together or drift apart.
For having well rounded individua…
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