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Post by Oka Ace on Aug 28, 2009 10:07:36 GMT -5
The Tanaka Alien portion of the manga is out. www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/gantz/gn-4Thinkit's a fair review? I think it wasn't fair, he marks that Oku can't prtray good personality and Gantz is only about Action blood and boobs. Which it is but I also love Gantz for the characters and story. This review kindof angered me a bit.
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Post by DawgX on Aug 28, 2009 10:26:55 GMT -5
This muhphukka has no idea wat hes talkin about. Either u fall in love wit Gantz from the get go or u become a hater. Hes da hater.
We all know Gantz is beast soo
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Post by Kamina on Aug 28, 2009 11:04:37 GMT -5
That guy does not like Oku. Pretty damn obvious in his review. Not fair at all.
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Post by DawgX on Aug 28, 2009 11:21:13 GMT -5
I guess they wanted someone to do it with a biased opinion...
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Post by Oka Ace on Aug 28, 2009 15:27:29 GMT -5
How anyone can hate gantz at all is beyond me.
I demand this man be fired. He had a few good points but I'm not the guy to point them out.
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Post by DawgX on Aug 28, 2009 17:36:18 GMT -5
How anyone can hate gantz at all is beyond me. I demand this man be fired. He had a few good points but I'm the guy to point them out. YEAH! FIRE HIM! THe only good point he had in my opinion is that the characters sometime look stiff in some poses.
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Post by Fay on Jan 15, 2010 20:56:44 GMT -5
How anyone can hate gantz at all is beyond me. Well, that's actually quite simple: If blood and guts do not entertain you, or you don't like it when characters drop like flies, then it would be easy to hate Gantz. And there are a lot of humans like that. Also, the review was pretty stupid.
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Post by Renan on Jan 16, 2010 13:07:49 GMT -5
How anyone can hate gantz at all is beyond me. Well, that's actually quite simple: If blood and guts do not entertain you, or you don't like it when characters drop like flies, then it would be easy to hate Gantz. And there are a lot of humans like that. Also, the review was pretty stupid. This. Gantz also has very slow plot development and Kurono is a very unlikable main character in the beginning.
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Post by Fay on Jul 20, 2010 8:58:48 GMT -5
Here's a pretty good review of Gantz:
"Gantz The Manga is (when you get past the first two or three volumes) a moving and deeply involved story. Sans the blood and sex; the characterisation is like the story, slow moving and deliberate.
Following the events of the first mission and as new players are rolled out for the for the Tanaka / Suzuki Alien Hunt, Oku expands on the characters and inserts the darker aspects with touching reflections on character motivation. Often this is in the midst of battle, the characters themselves realising these motivations and it providing the strength to continue and move on.
Sadly, often they do pass on, the nature of the game being what it is but this adds to the overall tragic nature of the story, that they have no control, no power and are inserted in a game that despite how well they play and the alliances they form, once they win, its back to the beginning. Imagine playing a high stakes game, kill or be killed, meeting people who become allies, friends and even lovers but knowing that if you choose to collect your 100 points and leave the game, all the knowledge, personal growth and experiences will be blocked from your mind.
It’s a tease. It’s harsh. And it’s a metaphor for the oft-times seeming futility of life itself.
The characters do develop. More often in absentia then when they are in play. The character of Nishi develops more after his death in the second mission then in the small time he is in frame. Simply by us, as a reader understanding the horrors of the game and why he adopted the rigid persona he presented with. We understand this more as upon his resurrection, he hasn't changed despite the fact that though they have been through similar if not worse, Kurono and team have developed an attitude of family.
It’s an extreme case of human nature and the nature of the game, versus the individuals at play and their relations to one another.
As the story progresses further characters like Takeshi, Kaze and Anzu add more humanity to the sorry, being that they have no place in the game, embrace a role placed upon them for the benefit of another or simply chose to overlook and more horrifying and baser act of depravity in order to do what they must.
The Osaka Squad and the Tokyo Squad are a counterpoint to each other. Single individuals of the Osaka Squad having cleared the game multiple times at the expense of other players and their own humanity while the Tokyo Squad have all cleared as a team to support one of their own and adding to the family dynamic.
You don’t always like your family and it is true, some characters are reprehensible creatures, but they provide a vital counterpoint to the lessons that the characters learn and in truth, while originally some characters are shallow and selfish, they develop into shining examples of the human condition, baptised in the fire of war. Others are burnt beyond recognition, for example nearly all of the Osaka Squad display violent, extreme anti-social tendencies that place them squarely as villains and the aliens they hunt as victims.
Gantz is a complex, multi layered story, told in a stunning visual style, abundant in detail and interspersed with blood and sex. This blood and sex is used as both a tool and a metaphor exemplifying the high and lows of humanity itself as protector and defender, hunter and hunted, hero and villain. Two sides of a coin, both sides in a game.
I would recommend the manga to anyone who wants a visually engaging story, combined with some harsh lessons on human nature. Admittedly though some chapters border on the obscene and depraved and some shock almost to tears (Chapter 189 for me was both a high and low, portraying a horrendous act but giving the victim a dignity that seems lost in the real world, and giving that victim within the game, something he lacked in life). It’s not for everyone but I had more trouble putting it down the further I read. The story and the premise itself is interesting and thought provoking. Oku has captured a cross section of humanity within his pages, both in its glory and grotesque. His efforts while not always appreciated deserve to be applauded."
-Warriorsong
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