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Gantz #29
Gantz/29
As the aliens' merciless war machine continues its systematic slaughter of humanity, Gantz teams from across Japan are assembled against their will for a desperate assault, a strike at the heart of the invaders' mother ship. Standing against the most powerful and lethal foes they have yet faced, will the Gantz warriors seize the moment that turns the tide of the struggle, or will their sacrifice serve only as a final, futile gesture before mankind's extinction? Hiroya Oku's Gantz is adult manga at its most challenging: violent, bizarre, erotic, and created with stunning craft and fierce imagination!
216 pages, Paperback
First published September 17, 2010
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About the author
Hiroya Oku
293 books338 followersHiroya Oku (奥浩哉 Oku Hiroya, born September 16, 1967 in Fukuoka, Fukuoka) is a mangaka who is the creator of Gantz, Zero-One and HEN, all of which have been serialized in Young Jump. He has finished working on his most renowned manga, Gantz, which began in July 2000. His manga often contain explicit violence and gore, as well as sexual situations.
He won the second prize of the Youth Manga Awards in 1988, under the penname Yahiro Kuon.
He designed a character for Namco Bandai's Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 fighting game, Soulcalibur IV named Shura.
He won the second prize of the Youth Manga Awards in 1988, under the penname Yahiro Kuon.
He designed a character for Namco Bandai's Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 fighting game, Soulcalibur IV named Shura.
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February 8, 2024
Somehow i am not impressed, what i hate the most is how the fight scenes are not clear.
Most of the time i can't tell where the giant is attacking, and what kind of weapon he is using...
Most of the time i can't tell where the giant is attacking, and what kind of weapon he is using...
March 8, 2022
HELL YES. I love this shit.
June 30, 2022
Volume 29: Chapter 312-319
Phase 3: Invasion
Arc 11: The Invasion Begins
Arc 12: Alien Ship Takeover Mission
The mysterious Gantz team are from around Japan. They come to fight the alien invasion. The chaos keep going. Kurono and Tae, and their surviving classmates searching for hiding place. Out of the blue, Kurono and other surviving members were being transferred to some place. Kurono was separated with Tae.
They will raid the alien's mothership, destroy as much as they can and bring back as many information as they can. The raid is begin! After a fierce fight, the mission is aborted. They caught one alien hostage.
Phase 3: Invasion
Arc 11: The Invasion Begins
Arc 12: Alien Ship Takeover Mission
The mysterious Gantz team are from around Japan. They come to fight the alien invasion. The chaos keep going. Kurono and Tae, and their surviving classmates searching for hiding place. Out of the blue, Kurono and other surviving members were being transferred to some place. Kurono was separated with Tae.
They will raid the alien's mothership, destroy as much as they can and bring back as many information as they can. The raid is begin! After a fierce fight, the mission is aborted. They caught one alien hostage.
June 15, 2023
Too much of "Tae-chan"
January 8, 2015
The best adage of this volume: "The urge to kill is shown by glares, not words"
By the way...Tae Chan...
By the way...Tae Chan...
July 26, 2020
This is a review of the entire series.
Synopsis: Gantz tells the story of a teenager named Kei Kurono, among others, who die but find themselves brought back in perfectly healthy bodies and forced to participate in a "game" where they must hunt down and kill aliens.
Review: I almost gave up on Gantz several times, but now that I've read it all the way to the end, I'm glad I stuck with it. The beginning is dragged down by repulsive and unlikable characters, a messily paced story, unnecessary sexualization and gratuitous violence without much substance. As it progresses, however, the character development becomes pretty incredible and the growing threat of the enemies feels truly well done. Once the real enemies are revealed, it's mind-blowing how the series had been secretly foreshadowing their arrival from the very beginning.
Although it takes a while, some really good characters are introduced later on in the series and they're the ones that made me want to read to the end. Some characters that were absolutely unbearable in the beginning became polar opposites of their original selves and even made me sympathize with them quite a bit. The protagonist Kei for example, I hated him with all my heart for the first third of the series, he became progressively more likable in the second third of the story and then he evolved into one of the most memorable, unlikely heroes I've ever seen in this storytelling medium throughout the final third. The last third of the series is unbelievably terrifying with some of the most gruesome and disgusting battle/survival scenes in the history of fiction. It's much more bearable and intense in the final third because this time the violence and horror is happening to people we actually care about instead of a bunch of unlikable nobodies.
The final third of the story is what made me feel so glad that I didn't give up on this series. It had me on the edge of my seat more times than I can recall. There are a ton of chapters but they're very short and full of action which makes the series a quick read despite having almost 400 chapters. So even though the first third of the story was kinda bad in my opinion, it doesn't last for long and the payoff that comes after it's over truly impressed me. It's a flawed, thrilling and horrifying action series that takes a while to kick off. When it finally kicks off, however, it kicks off extremely hard.
Synopsis: Gantz tells the story of a teenager named Kei Kurono, among others, who die but find themselves brought back in perfectly healthy bodies and forced to participate in a "game" where they must hunt down and kill aliens.
Review: I almost gave up on Gantz several times, but now that I've read it all the way to the end, I'm glad I stuck with it. The beginning is dragged down by repulsive and unlikable characters, a messily paced story, unnecessary sexualization and gratuitous violence without much substance. As it progresses, however, the character development becomes pretty incredible and the growing threat of the enemies feels truly well done. Once the real enemies are revealed, it's mind-blowing how the series had been secretly foreshadowing their arrival from the very beginning.
Although it takes a while, some really good characters are introduced later on in the series and they're the ones that made me want to read to the end. Some characters that were absolutely unbearable in the beginning became polar opposites of their original selves and even made me sympathize with them quite a bit. The protagonist Kei for example, I hated him with all my heart for the first third of the series, he became progressively more likable in the second third of the story and then he evolved into one of the most memorable, unlikely heroes I've ever seen in this storytelling medium throughout the final third. The last third of the series is unbelievably terrifying with some of the most gruesome and disgusting battle/survival scenes in the history of fiction. It's much more bearable and intense in the final third because this time the violence and horror is happening to people we actually care about instead of a bunch of unlikable nobodies.
The final third of the story is what made me feel so glad that I didn't give up on this series. It had me on the edge of my seat more times than I can recall. There are a ton of chapters but they're very short and full of action which makes the series a quick read despite having almost 400 chapters. So even though the first third of the story was kinda bad in my opinion, it doesn't last for long and the payoff that comes after it's over truly impressed me. It's a flawed, thrilling and horrifying action series that takes a while to kick off. When it finally kicks off, however, it kicks off extremely hard.
October 18, 2020
As Tokyo gets turned into rubble and the populace slaughtered, Kei gets two points-of-view, seeing as how one of them is with Tae and the other is with Reika. Feels like the one with Tae got the short-end of the stick. She's still so... useless, and need to be protected all the time.
There's also a revelation of a group of humans (in disguise?) are in control of Gantz balls and forcibly teleports a lot of teams into the enemy base for a recon mission. We finally get to see the giant alien species, and their disturbing resemblance and implications on their treatment of the human race. I'm anticipating some sort of philosophical rationalisation or exposition to be incoming.
There's also a revelation of a group of humans (in disguise?) are in control of Gantz balls and forcibly teleports a lot of teams into the enemy base for a recon mission. We finally get to see the giant alien species, and their disturbing resemblance and implications on their treatment of the human race. I'm anticipating some sort of philosophical rationalisation or exposition to be incoming.
November 4, 2017
Gantz is a very entertaining series of graphic novels where a group of recently dead humans are dressed in tight black outfits and forced to fight aliens. Instead of single aliens or small groups, the fights seem to be taking a worldwide scenario. The main character, Kei Kurono, a high school teenager is a stranger scenario where there are two of him and two girlfriends with one being separated from him and the other Kei with a Gantz fighter. If this seems confusing, remember that it is episode 29.
April 7, 2018
Los transferidos pelean contra los aliens, sin embargo son regresados aleatoriamente, por lo que Kurono intenta regresar con Tae, quién ya ha sido capturada y enviada al lugar donde mantienen a los humanos, además que al estar allá, piensan que los mantendrán vivos ...
Estos tonos están increíblemente rápidos de leer ya que son escenas con mucho movimiento y fluidez, pero aún así tengo mis reservas respecto al final ...
Estos tonos están increíblemente rápidos de leer ya que son escenas con mucho movimiento y fluidez, pero aún así tengo mis reservas respecto al final ...
March 2, 2025
Acá otros participantes de Gantz hackearon/se apoderaron de las esferas de todos los de Japon y los hacen acompañarlos a la nave nodriza de los robototes para sacar info, atacar, capturar prisioneros
Esta bueno.
Problema, luego los regresan aleatorio, aunque a Kurono le sirve porque por suerte lo aleatorio lo deja cerca de Tae-chan
Aunque no exactamente en una buena situacion
Suena interesante lo de estos nuevos ....
Esta bueno.
Problema, luego los regresan aleatorio, aunque a Kurono le sirve porque por suerte lo aleatorio lo deja cerca de Tae-chan
Aunque no exactamente en una buena situacion
Suena interesante lo de estos nuevos ....
March 29, 2023
Nadie sabe que son, nadie entiende que pasa y tampoco es que importe, pero darle una trama estratégica utilizando las esferas negras es ingenioso. Aún así, se siente apresurada y se tropieza de forma tonta, pero no quita que tanto la batalla como la narrativa visual está siendo muy entretenida.
June 8, 2017
La Guerra de los Mundos de Hiroya Oku se pone cada vez más intensa y más desproporcionada, ¿Habrá realmente alguna forma de detener la invasión?
September 10, 2017
Another good volume.
October 5, 2017
Another good volume.
April 14, 2020
it just keeps getting blurrier and blurrier
November 28, 2021
⭐️ 4 ⭐️
😭😭😭
😭😭😭
March 24, 2024
Ok so like the whole thing is fucking crazy as hell but this last one actualy turned kind of epic? I don't know what is happening anymore but I'm living for Kei and Tae
November 17, 2025
A war with giant aliens. A daring rescue attempt. The rules have all changed.
March 10, 2024
Reseña retroactiva que supongo que voy a aplicar a varios tomos de la serie: Gran serie en general, con muchos altibajos y cosas que no cierran del todo, pero que algún día se va a ganar una maratón. Eso sí, no creo que sea en esta edición, cuya traducción quedó vieja (y pedorra) muy rápido, sino en la nueva Deluxe, que seguramente está con el estándar de calidad actual que le pasa el trapo a aquellos años grises.
Tomo sin extras pero con unas viñetas panorámicas de la invasión de los gigantes tremendas.
Tomo sin extras pero con unas viñetas panorámicas de la invasión de los gigantes tremendas.
March 26, 2016
This is getting crazy and it's great!!
June 26, 2016
Edición argentina, tomo 29. Penúltimo en llevar tapas negras y logo azul.
December 27, 2020
Me gusta mucho el rumbo que está tomando la historia.
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