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08-14-2012, 05:35 PM
It looks like Gantz is approaching its end, so I figured it's about time to talk about how great it is.
If you haven't read it before, basically, it's about a bunch of people who are forced into a game where they're occasionally given missions where they have to kill aliens using skin-tight sexy suits to gain 100 points and either A: buy a new weapon (to aid them in the game), B: revive somebody who died in the game (a friend or family member of theirs) or C: buy their freedom and have all their horrific memories from the game-- watching their friend get severed, disintegrated, eaten, or raped to death by some gigantic horrifying monster and the memories and feelings of the kill-state they were forced to get into in order to survive-- erased. So it's very violent and has a lot of gore in it. It also has a lot of tits.
I remember I heard about Gantz about, like, 4 or 5 years ago from a buddy of mine and started reading it, and got, like, halfway through the series (at the time) in, like, a week or so. Then the plot got to a point where it was kinda slow, so I stopped and read it at a much slower rate, but then it picked up a lot and I read, like, the remaining 100 chapters (at the time) in, like, a day or two. Seriously, there are a couple parts in it where it really has an argument for being one of the greatest action comics ever, particularly the Osaka storyline and the one with those Oni aliens, or, whatever they were, and there are a lot of emotionally-powerful moments throughout all of it. When a character dies (by the way, characters die all the time in it), you actually feel bad and kind of wish that they didn't have to die; when they cry once they find out they survived the mission where a lot of their friends died, you actually feel genuinely happy that they survived.
The only real bad part about the series is that the pace is kind of slow when you have to wait two weeks for another chapter to come out (it's very decompressed), but, if you have a large stockpile of chapters to read, then it really becomes one of the best comics to read at once. You'll want to read, like, the entire 70 chapter arc at once, but when you catch up to it, the drama slows down a lot. So, that sucks, but the whole of the series more than makes up for that.
If you haven't read it before, basically, it's about a bunch of people who are forced into a game where they're occasionally given missions where they have to kill aliens using skin-tight sexy suits to gain 100 points and either A: buy a new weapon (to aid them in the game), B: revive somebody who died in the game (a friend or family member of theirs) or C: buy their freedom and have all their horrific memories from the game-- watching their friend get severed, disintegrated, eaten, or raped to death by some gigantic horrifying monster and the memories and feelings of the kill-state they were forced to get into in order to survive-- erased. So it's very violent and has a lot of gore in it. It also has a lot of tits.
I remember I heard about Gantz about, like, 4 or 5 years ago from a buddy of mine and started reading it, and got, like, halfway through the series (at the time) in, like, a week or so. Then the plot got to a point where it was kinda slow, so I stopped and read it at a much slower rate, but then it picked up a lot and I read, like, the remaining 100 chapters (at the time) in, like, a day or two. Seriously, there are a couple parts in it where it really has an argument for being one of the greatest action comics ever, particularly the Osaka storyline and the one with those Oni aliens, or, whatever they were, and there are a lot of emotionally-powerful moments throughout all of it. When a character dies (by the way, characters die all the time in it), you actually feel bad and kind of wish that they didn't have to die; when they cry once they find out they survived the mission where a lot of their friends died, you actually feel genuinely happy that they survived.
The only real bad part about the series is that the pace is kind of slow when you have to wait two weeks for another chapter to come out (it's very decompressed), but, if you have a large stockpile of chapters to read, then it really becomes one of the best comics to read at once. You'll want to read, like, the entire 70 chapter arc at once, but when you catch up to it, the drama slows down a lot. So, that sucks, but the whole of the series more than makes up for that.