Audience reviews
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Corbert
Good guy A: I'm gonna shoot it!
Good guy B: Shoot it now!
Alien: *kills random guy*
Good guy B: Shoot it already!
Good guy A: I will for sure!
Alien: *kills another guy*
Good guy A: Okay, I'm serious, I think I should shoot it right now...
Good guy B: Yeah, sounds like a good idea...
Alien: *kills nearly everyone but good guy A and B*
Good guy A: *finally shoots the alien* -mission cleared-
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Fun aside, but this is mostly what this anime felt like. It's not that it's bad at all (the story is quite interesting and offers great potential to make this show an awesome anime), but there's still so much that made me feel uncomfortable watching this show. But let's start with the good thing:
Story:
The main characters die in the very beginning and get ki…
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There's no pay off!
Would not recommend to a Psychological anime lover. Great nudity and violence though!
This anime is very flat.
Pros: nudity, violence, animation, English Dub is spot on, great voice acting in both jap & english versions and social commentary (the first four episodse make you question what does humanity really mean? What makes us human? What does "human nature" mean? Why do some people stand up for others? While some people move aside to see their fellow man fall to the ground, without so much as an 'are you okay?' 'Do you need help?'
I liked that... I found it deep, intriguing and topical.
Con's: Storyline is flat. There's main character, character development but the majority of the episodes and series are spent in the "Gantz" room. Time spent here is full of argu…
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Gantz is infamous for its excessive amount of gore and explicit sex, which is its bread and butter, and this does sound awesome on paper but it lacks any real likeable characters and has a story with more questions than answers.
Story
Gantz is about two students who die in a train accident after saving a hobo’s life. They awake in a room with a giant black ball called Gantz and other people who have died recently. The ball in this room commands them to kill aliens every night within a certain amount of time and with every kill they rack up points. After every night of killing the survivors do go back to their normal lives for another day before doing all of it all over again the next night. With enough points, they can go back to their normal lives without ever having to participate in t…
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Back in 2004, many Americans including myself liked to watch Anime Network to witness edgier and darker anime. Released in tandem that year were Elfen Lied and Gantz. Elfen Lied became hugely popular and Gantz...did not. This is despite the fact that Gantz had more blood, more tits, and more realistic art than Elfen Lied. Many critics of Elfen Lied say that it is only popular due to tits and gore, but these people are missing a crucial bit of information in their analyses, the utter failure of Gantz! Gantz has a plot so stupid that an 8 year old on a sugar high could write a better one in 5 minutes. The characters are either unlikable assholes or bland and forgettable. The soundtrack leaves MUCH to be desired, despite that awesomely terrible J-rap at the beginning. Despite all of this, Gan…
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I was first introduced to gantz manga. When I started to read it I found myself unable to stop. I thrilled me to no end. When I was finished, I was really sad because I wanted more of gantz, until I found out that they made anime.
I started watching it and frankly it ruined the gantz name for me.
Half of the things are left out in anime, the other half was just poorly done.
Just a poor poor imitation of manga.
Ok, I understand. The manga has about 380 chapters,a lot of things are expected to be included, story is huge and they made just 2 seasons.
But if you already decided to make 2 seasons of particular manga, shouldn't you at least try to make it as similar as possible as manga?
This part ruined it that much that I was very disappointed and I don't recommend it at all.
Of course you c…
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This series has everything I could have wanted, blood, gore, graphic and unnecessary violence, even children being forced to fight to the death. This was going to be my next "Battle Royale", yet sadly it missed the mark, flew a few more miles, through a window, and into a thousand dollar vase.
The story was intriguing to say the least, but a lack of any substantial plot development by the halfway mark left me waiting for the series to actually get going. The art and sound were fine, nothing interesting, but nothing terribly negative. Then came the characters, who are some of the least interesting, shallow, and simply boring characters I have ever endured in an anime. The fact that they are terrible people wasn't what bothered me, I loved the Droogs from a Clockwork Orange, but they had ac…
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Gantz is a manga written by Oku Hiroya. It enjoyed quite a bit of success getting two anime series, a novel, a video game and two live action movie adaptations. Of course, popularity doesn't equate to quality and this is the guy who's known for random fan-service and gore of course you can't judge a person's works just by their reputation. So I guess I'll actually have to watch the anime before I make any judgments. Let's take a look at Gantz: First Stage.
There's not so much a story in this as there is a concept. An electronic bowling ball known as Gantz creates copies of people as they die, somehow getting rid of the original bodies in the process. Gantz then sends the duplicates to live their lives, assuming that they can survive fighting aliens. Okay, this is an interesting concept. T…
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This is a review of both Gantz and Gantz 2nd Stage. Why are the two seasons even split up in the first place? The first season very clearly does not end the show and the second season picks up right where the first leaves off, so what's the point of even writing two reviews? If you have fundamental problems with this decision, blow me. Moving on.
Gantz is a show that a lot of people don't get. This surprises me because, in the grand scheme of things, Gantz is amazingly simple and straightforward. It's brutal in a different way than anime fans are used to because it pulls absolutely no punches in its delivery. This is an anime that isn't really suited for today's anime climate, where shit that uses gore for filler gets passed off as "tough to watch" (Elfen Lied), and Epic Movie style refer…
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Gantz at first sounds amazing by some of the other reviews I had read. The idea of people dieing and then being transported to a place where they basically have to kill to earn points and win their life back sounds interesting enough, plus after hearing that is loaded with violence, sex, and profanity... nuff said had to give it a shot...
But of course this anime went the way of Elfin Lied, alot of hyped up talk, but nothing to back it up. There is no sex in the first 13 episode season.. ill tell you that now, just a lot of fanservice shots, and the sex that was in the second season.. pointless and was pretty much just put there to keep people watching. The Violence... not really there, yeah you see a few heads explode here and there, but most of the time the first season is pretty much…
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It is not easy to find an anime that keeps you on edge. Something that in which no character seems safe, and nothing is certain. Gantz is one such anime, a relentless monster-busting gorefeast. It takes no prisoners, and even the central characters do not seem safe from harm. However, what Gantz has in intensity and shock, it lacks on plot and theme.
Gantz follows high school student Kei Kurono. Kei is a rather selfish teen who’s only goal in life is to get laid, going on record as one of the horniest anime characters of all time. However, this goal goes unmet, as Kei and childhood friend, Masaru Kato, die saving a homeless man from an incoming train. Unexpectedly, they end up in an apartment room with others who have died, including naked girl Kei Kishimoto, and and a sphere referred to…
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Gantz is gritty. Gantz is gruesome. Gantz is a show where a bunch of people who have died essentially become the Japanese MIB, only with a Battle Royale twist.
Now that may sound like an intriguing premise, but let me continue. I'm a pretty easy going guy and I can tolerate more nonsense than most people. For instance, I've actually watched (and in some cases enjoyed) Ikkitousen, Elfen Lied, Mezzo Forte and even some hentai, so I know tasteless when I see it. Gantz is many things, but someone would have a hard time trying to defend it as tasteful. Everyone, including old folks, kids, and women, get treated like utter crap. They are either getting humiliated and/or abused (physically or sexually). What I'm trying to say is: Gantz is pretty F'd up.
The funny thing is I don't even really d…
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When I first think of watching an anime, I always look at the reviews. I like to see what others have to say before I watch, without spoilers. I am really glad I decided to watch this anime. I was pleasantly shocked at the beginning and wanting more at the end. I have yet to watch Gantz: The second stage, but I am starting when I am done with this review.
Story: I gave it a 9 because I really think it deserves it. There is more than one hidden message in the story and hopefully most of you will see it, if not, that's okay as well, you will enjoy it. I hate to read reviews with spoilers, so I won't add any. It starts off shocking and isn't for the faint of heart. If you don't like blood, gore, nudity, profanity, this anime is not for you. There is no sex or romance, :( , lol, but thats oka…
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Supposedly to be about COMPASSION. It manages to show HESITATION. Imagine a paintball game where all the participants are dumb and become sitting ducks.
Episodes drag endlessly, stretching at a slow pace, with all characters doing nothing, stupid, motionless, refraining from even defending themselves even if they are armed with hi-tech weaponry and if they are in the iminence of being hurt/killed by the bad guys. It feels strongly like a horrid NIGHTMARE in which you are frozen, unable to act and everything is out of control due to your own weakness.
The aliens are quite something. Surprisingly sluggish grotesque weirdos, who even so eventually manage to kill the characters due to their lack of decision. They are later replaced by mystical Tomb Raider-style living statues.
The CHARACTE…
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Overall: though many might say Gantz is good, I must say otherwise, its a super bloody killfest that isnt actually that interesting. though I must say that they tried to get attention by throwing stuff like an H-scene, and tons upon tons of blood and guts, I liked it when I first watched it, but now I took a hard look back on it and it doesnt seem all that great. also, if you are expecting explanations for many of the events and mysteries of Gantz, you will be disappointed.
Story: At first glance the story seems interesting, but once you start watching, you realize that the anime doesnt make it flow well. to me, it was all "I have to survive this game" till they tried to throw in some "are humans worth saving?" and other utter bull that makes it into a wanna be morale teaching anime.
Art…
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First of all, I want to say that the anime of Gantz, is not as bad as people who have read the manga have made it sound. Also, I am not a person who watched it for the gore or nudity, but for the story and overall message. I started this anime expecting a disaster. But as I continued to watch the series, paying attention to every detail, I began to feel a thrill that no other anime has offered. It is that thrill that made this anime unique.
Gantz was a thrilling adventure about an average high school student, Kurono Kei, who didn't think about anyone but himself. He was just a perverted kid that thought only about women. But all that changed when he died. Well, I'm not sure if he really died, but that doesn't matter.
He was sent to a room with several other people that had similar near-…
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Action, aliens, crazy wild sex! Yes, these are all elements of the story of Gantz, and what a story it is!
The story starts with Kurono Kei, a complete asshole with no regard for the life around him, who dies trying to save the life of a homeless man.
Yes, you heard me right and before you call out my contradiction, there were other parties involved.
Kurono Kei was described as being a fearless person who was ready to tackle on anything by his close middle school friend Kato Masaru, however, as time went on Kurono slowly starts to drift away from being so fearless and eventually assimilates into the void of the human nature.
He becomes just like every other human being, no longer any different as he once was, just an uncaring, unfeeling person trying to work for only his own benefit in…
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Oh dear God, here comes the train wreck! Ironically, Gantz unfolds after a fatal train wreck kills two of the main characters. It sounds intriguing, yes, but it is really a reflection of the utter barf that is this series.
First and foremost, this series has so much profanity that it's akin to listenning to a teenager who has just discoverd the F-word for two hours. The over the top violence makes your stomach roil. Seriously, it's traumatizing. And finally, there's the nudity and boderline porn. Strick that, I'm going to go ahead and just call it porn because for someone who has never seen a "true" porno, this would likely register as one in his mind.
The actual story appears at first glance to be quite interesting. The recently deceased are resurrected by a mysterious being known as G…
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As I'm sure almost everyone knows by now, this series is not for the faint of heart. It has buckets of Gore, a healthy dosage of nudity and a nice sprinkling of profanity to go along with it.
That being said, Gantz really does have a message underneath it's grisly facade, this is actually a much more philosophical anime then people think, most might compare it to Elfen Lied, do not be fooled. I found Elfen Lied to be way over-the-top in content but I felt that they did way to many scenes just for the hell of it. Gantz itself however manages to ensure that it keeps a message to go with the violence, when I was watching this show It seemed at many times to talk about why violence itself is generally unnecessary (I.E. Kato's initial feelings regarding the Green Onion Alien and especially the…
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Skip the anime, read the manga. The pacing is awkward and the artwork pales in comparison to that in the manga. The artwork of the manga is drawn over 3d models whereas the animation is completely flat. Also the exquisitely drawn blood and gore of the manga is translated into a few seconds of short unskillfully animated blood squirting. I suppose they could not invest any money into animating most of it since they knew it would be edited out for several releases.
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NOTE: This review is intended to cover Gantz in its entirety.
Gantz is about as close as you�ll ever get to a love it or hate it anime. It�s littered with so much gore, profanity, nudity, and sex that it�ll either immediately turn you off or immediately glue your eyes to the screen. Being a person from the latter group I have to say I absolutely loved Gantz right from the start. Well, okay, not exactly right from the start. Gantz starts out in the life of Kei Kurono, an angst ridden teenager who has nothing better to do but think negatively to himself and get boners in class. He�s always worrying about something, and doesn�t care about anyone else except for himself. To put it simply, he�s like an emo kid on acid. He complains about everything, but mostly dwells on the fact that he�s neve…
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