Gantz G Omnibus

by Hiroya Oku, Tomohito Ohsaki, Matthew Johnson (translator)

Genres: Manga

648 pages, Paperback

Published September 30, 2025

About the author

Hiroya 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.

Reviews

[Cade · Rating 3 out of 5]

the art is the worst part by far, of course the story is still super fun and the characters were interesting just sucks we’ll never see them again. wasn’t really attached to anyone either but it is what it is.

[Peter Derk · Rating 3 out of 5]

Gantz beat Ghostbusters to the idea of taking a franchise and reimagining it as all-female.

You know what Gantz did that was smarter, I think?

Gantz had the G team and the mainline team both exist in the same world. Like, why did Ghostbusters 2016 have to pretend the old Ghostbusters didn't exist?

If I had to guess, it's because it WOULD be hard to de-convince people ghosts are fucking real after they've had two MAJOR ghost incidents in Manhattan. Which is one of my main complaints about Ghostbusters 2, although we DO tend to forget these sorts of things awfully quickly ("Measles shot? For what? Measles doesn't even exist!").

So maybe for the sake of writing, it's better to just start fresh. But, I don't know...I think it would've been pretty funny to just have everyone kinda forget about ghosts. I mean, literal proof of an afterlife, and everyone just kinda went, Eh, so it goes?

Or maybe Venkman fucked up the patent renewal paperwork on Ghostbusting equipment, so now there are A BUNCH of Ghostbusters running around with an unlicensed nuclear accelerator strapped to their back. That'd be amazing.

[Etienne · Rating 2 out of 5]

2,5/5. Far from the quality of the original Gantz. The characters felt flat and build on a rush, the action was alright, but a massive feeling of déjà-vu that bring nothing new. Not worth it, read the original series though!

[Reyne Derrick · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was great. A great little gantz side quest. My only real problem is why did it stop here? Why is it so short? Was it because of readership? Because this is not a bad little story here, so I’m surprised it didn’t continue from here.

[Minki Kim · Rating 3 out of 5]

+ Gantz as we know it, but with a female cast
- Not as good as original