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Gantz #12
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Keï Kurono et Masaru Kato, deux lycéens comme les autres, se font écraser par une rame de métro alors qu'ils aidaient un sans-abri. Pourtant, à l'instant même où la vie les quitte, ils se retrouvent dans un étrange appartement en compagnie d'autres personnes venant également de "mourir". Tandis que tous tentent de comprendre comment ils sont arrivés là et comment en partir, une mystérieuse sphère noire apparaît et les somme d'éliminer "l'homme poireau"... L'Histoire Hiroya OKU Avec Gantz, Hiroya Oku atteint sa pleine maturité d'artiste. Que ce soit au niveau du scénario, fouillé et riche en rebondissements ou au niveau graphique ? où l'utilisation de l'ordinateur permet des effets inédits en la matière qui servent son récit avec précision ? Gantz est une histoire palpitante où le suspense omniprésent s'empare du lecteur pour l'emmener dans un monde étrange où réalité et fiction se croisent étroitement. Voilée de mystère, l'ambiance à mi-chemin entre Twilight Zone, The Cube et Matrix envoûte littéralement tandis que la violence soudaine nous rappelle la cruauté du monde réel !
224 pages, Paperback
First published March 19, 2004
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About the author
Hiroya Oku
289 books336 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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January 24, 2024
I wonder what is that big thing that was in the locked room, it looks like a futuristic motorcycle or maybe it has lots of weapons stored in it i guess i will know in the next volumes.
Izumi or as i like to call him 'pretty nishi' since they are really one and the same maybe nishi was more deranged than izumi, then again izumi is one weird villain, he looks so good and he was a good person since he showed up, then he went crazy to get back to the world of gantz, putting the readers in a weird spot, we didn't hate the guy yet as much as we hated nishi, even so he is more terrible than nishi by killing all these humans
Izumi or as i like to call him 'pretty nishi' since they are really one and the same maybe nishi was more deranged than izumi, then again izumi is one weird villain, he looks so good and he was a good person since he showed up, then he went crazy to get back to the world of gantz, putting the readers in a weird spot, we didn't hate the guy yet as much as we hated nishi, even so he is more terrible than nishi by killing all these humans
December 30, 2017
Probably the weakest entry tus far. After the insane fucked up last volume we slow things down for a bit before a lot of people start dying.
So the crazy insane murderer has gotten his way. He is now in the Gantz room with just about everyone else he killed. They don't know it's him though due to him wearing a black face in the previous volume. So now he's on the hunt, loving the feel of almost dying, every chance he gets he murderers. The other people in the room like usual have no clue what to do. Kei must now protect himself with his suit verses...dinosaurs? What!?
Good: I enjoyed some of the fights in here, easier to follow and epic. I also thought the end of the mass murdering was satisfying but then he came right back. Also the new girl is super cute.
Bad: It felt rushed, pacing really off, dinos are stupid in this, and transform into big muscle dinos...what? The Villain of this story isn't very interesting and honestly really boring and nothing particularly happened in this volume that made me excited.
By far the worst volume so far. I wish I could give it higher but nope. I'll still continue though because this series has it's ups and downs.
So the crazy insane murderer has gotten his way. He is now in the Gantz room with just about everyone else he killed. They don't know it's him though due to him wearing a black face in the previous volume. So now he's on the hunt, loving the feel of almost dying, every chance he gets he murderers. The other people in the room like usual have no clue what to do. Kei must now protect himself with his suit verses...dinosaurs? What!?
Good: I enjoyed some of the fights in here, easier to follow and epic. I also thought the end of the mass murdering was satisfying but then he came right back. Also the new girl is super cute.
Bad: It felt rushed, pacing really off, dinos are stupid in this, and transform into big muscle dinos...what? The Villain of this story isn't very interesting and honestly really boring and nothing particularly happened in this volume that made me excited.
By far the worst volume so far. I wish I could give it higher but nope. I'll still continue though because this series has it's ups and downs.
August 8, 2025
Gantz volume 12 was just ok. Still chaotic and juvenile, like a teenager’s sketchbook come to life. The violence feels like it exists purely to make you say “yep, that’s a lot of blood.” With everyone dying all the time, new characters keep popping up but never long enough to care much. The one guy who keeps surviving is an asshole, so congratulations to him, I guess. At this point I’m just reading to see how weird it can get before it collapses under its own nonsense.
January 22, 2024
Izumi gets his twisted way and it's back to World Gantz with Kurono.
And if in doubt Talking Dinosaurs and the Bumpkin Alien will shake things up.
And if in doubt Talking Dinosaurs and the Bumpkin Alien will shake things up.
May 30, 2022
Gantz 12
Ese Izumi si que es maldito, mira que todavía después de , usar así a Tae-chan.
Al menos aquí regresamos a lo usual, y en este es con dinosaurios
SPOILERS
3.5 stars
Ese Izumi si que es maldito, mira que todavía después de , usar así a Tae-chan.
Al menos aquí regresamos a lo usual, y en este es con dinosaurios
SPOILERS
3.5 stars
November 27, 2012
Este tomo lo leí hace unos cuantos años, pero como se me había pasado ponerrlo como "read", aprovecho ahora que lo releí en la edición argentina para marcarlo y escribir una seudo-reseña.
En cuanto al comic en sí: muchos momentos de tensión y acción a rolete, pero palidece frente al tremendo tomo anterior y frente a lo que está por venir, aunque ya se empieza a ver lo pulentas que son en el nuevo equipo Gantz. Puntos en contra para la edición argentina que está mal traducida, mal letreada, con páginas mal cortadas y bocha de errores estúpidos y evitables. Cómo se nota cuando ya no hay nadie corrigiendo los putos mangas y mandan todo con fritas. Y tampoco es que el traductor y el rotulista hagan mucho por sacar un buen laburo. En fin... Dios le da pan...
En cuanto al comic en sí: muchos momentos de tensión y acción a rolete, pero palidece frente al tremendo tomo anterior y frente a lo que está por venir, aunque ya se empieza a ver lo pulentas que son en el nuevo equipo Gantz. Puntos en contra para la edición argentina que está mal traducida, mal letreada, con páginas mal cortadas y bocha de errores estúpidos y evitables. Cómo se nota cuando ya no hay nadie corrigiendo los putos mangas y mandan todo con fritas. Y tampoco es que el traductor y el rotulista hagan mucho por sacar un buen laburo. En fin... Dios le da pan...
November 7, 2022
This one was…..a bit too silly 🧍♀️
January 22, 2023
The alien Triceratops dialogue made me laugh.
April 14, 2016
Meh. Dinosaurs. Really? What was with the nonsense statements coming from the transformed triceratops. Yet another large breasted beauty to act as a lust object for Kei. Several of the new characters successfully battling without suits. Telekinesis to kill the aliens. So many factors that just left me annoyed at this volume. And to highlight why this manga has got so many feminists irate, this statement by Kei encapsulates the problem: "It's no place for a girl. You should wait here.", said to Reika when she was wearing a suit, and he wasn't.
June 3, 2017
Me gustaron los dinos y que volvieran a la habitación de Gantz, este nuevo equipo es el más divertido en mi opinión, pero en comparación con el tomo anterior se siente un poco anticlimático. Creo que el que sigue va a estar mucho mejor.
March 17, 2015
¡La katana de ti madre, Izumi! y otros grandes éxitos en este tomo de Gantz que completa la primera docena de vicisitudes y vísceras...
December 8, 2015
Tienen tanto dibujo que se leen demasiadorápido. Visualmente se ve genial, pero los diálogos por este mismo motivos son bastante pobres.
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.
June 27, 2018
Me siento vivo. Por fin puedo sentir la realidad. La adrenalina de una situación al límite. Es algo que no se puede experimentar en los deportes. Este es el... ¡lugar donde pertenezco!
El tomo 12, que contiene los mangas 131-142 nos muestra una escena ya repetida en otros mangas: otro grupo de personas desconocidas que no saben donde están, ni las razones. Y sin embargo Izume, de quién son las palabras más arriba, si lo sabe y ha arrastrado a todo el que a podido a Gantz para satisfacer su necesidad de realidad.
Un tomo con una estructura repetida, de llegar a Gantz, no creer, ser aniquilado o tratar de sobrevivir, pero que aún así, sigue siendo atractivo para pasar de página a página.
El tomo 12, que contiene los mangas 131-142 nos muestra una escena ya repetida en otros mangas: otro grupo de personas desconocidas que no saben donde están, ni las razones. Y sin embargo Izume, de quién son las palabras más arriba, si lo sabe y ha arrastrado a todo el que a podido a Gantz para satisfacer su necesidad de realidad.
Un tomo con una estructura repetida, de llegar a Gantz, no creer, ser aniquilado o tratar de sobrevivir, pero que aún así, sigue siendo atractivo para pasar de página a página.
October 14, 2020
And.... Kurono has a team (well, not yet, but it's definitely coming), a new vehicle of some sort, plus a new girl (you know what that means). Gantz finally sends them on another mission - and... it's dinosaurs this time. There's a panda too, who seems to function in the same capacity to Izumi as the dog did to Kishimoto (I don't recall what happened to the dog...). On Izumi, it's kind of dissatisfying that he's seems like he's going to get away with what he did.
As a side note, from the previous two volumes, I think the story holds up well enough, from without needing the T&A pandering, but well, probably something the author just wanted to include.
As a side note, from the previous two volumes, I think the story holds up well enough, from without needing the T&A pandering, but well, probably something the author just wanted to include.
December 16, 2021
Бій з прибульцями-динозаврами. Кей в черговий раз без броні, але на модному моноциклєті. Після бійні в Сєнгоку гантзерів наче й купа, але відбулося те, що зазвичай стається: спроба звалити додому під вибухи голів.
Сам екшн в цій частині нічим не вирізняється.
Для Кея було встановлено особливе правило - якщо він не набере 15 балів, то Гантзу він більше не потрібен.
Антагоніст. Дізнається трохи про своє минуле через раптовий флешбек у кімнаті з кулею, відкриває двері в кімнату, де моноциклєти стоять. Надто зверхній, паскудний. Сподіваюся, його довго триматимуть в сюжеті, щоб потім яскраво прибити.
Сам екшн в цій частині нічим не вирізняється.
Для Кея було встановлено особливе правило - якщо він не набере 15 балів, то Гантзу він більше не потрібен.
Антагоніст. Дізнається трохи про своє минуле через раптовий флешбек у кімнаті з кулею, відкриває двері в кімнату, де моноциклєти стоять. Надто зверхній, паскудний. Сподіваюся, його довго триматимуть в сюжеті, щоб потім яскраво прибити.
June 18, 2022
Volume 12: Chapter 131-142
Phase 1: Missions
Arc 5: Dinosaur Alien Mission
Kurono face off Izumi. They held a duel. Kurono got shot on the right chest while Izumi's head being blown off. Both of them and several other people who died in Shinjuku being teleported into the room. A new team has been formed. They were assigned with a new mission; to kill a Kappe Alien who can control dinosaur aliens.
Phase 1: Missions
Arc 5: Dinosaur Alien Mission
Kurono face off Izumi. They held a duel. Kurono got shot on the right chest while Izumi's head being blown off. Both of them and several other people who died in Shinjuku being teleported into the room. A new team has been formed. They were assigned with a new mission; to kill a Kappe Alien who can control dinosaur aliens.
July 21, 2017
In the last edition of Gantz, Izumi began shooting people at random in an effort to return to the Gantz room. Kei began to hunt him to stop him. In this edition, a group is assembled to begin the Gantz game again with a new set of threats. The art and story remain interesting.
July 9, 2018
After a non-Black POC villain goes on a shooting spree wearing Blackface, nobody recognizes him as the murderer.
Then Hiroya Oku introduces characters that are racist stereotypes of Black people. The action is cool, continuing BS like that makes it difficult to like this manga series more.
Then Hiroya Oku introduces characters that are racist stereotypes of Black people. The action is cool, continuing BS like that makes it difficult to like this manga series more.
November 21, 2021
⭐️ 4 ⭐️
La acción opaca al diálogo pero wow, tremendas armas que se presentan, esa katana de Izumi está increíble y ni hablar del vehículo que encontró Kei, su diseño es asombroso 🤩
Además había dinosaurios… ¡dinosaurios! 🤯
La acción opaca al diálogo pero wow, tremendas armas que se presentan, esa katana de Izumi está increíble y ni hablar del vehículo que encontró Kei, su diseño es asombroso 🤩
Además había dinosaurios… ¡dinosaurios! 🤯
January 15, 2025
2.5
Lo encontré algo flojo, me costó enganchar con los dinosaurios. Lo mejor es el personaje del viejo, que más adelante toma más importancia, al igual que Reika.
Comienza parte del peor arco, el de los vampiros, que recuerdo queda sin resolver, por lo que pasará con Gantz.
Lo encontré algo flojo, me costó enganchar con los dinosaurios. Lo mejor es el personaje del viejo, que más adelante toma más importancia, al igual que Reika.
Comienza parte del peor arco, el de los vampiros, que recuerdo queda sin resolver, por lo que pasará con Gantz.
January 18, 2025
After killing everyone, Izumi kidnaps our protagonist's girlfriend and calls our protagonist to meet him. They kill each other and enter Gantz where all the killed people were already present.
They battle with Dinosaurs! Sadly, our protagonist left his suit in the real world.
They battle with Dinosaurs! Sadly, our protagonist left his suit in the real world.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
August 24, 2017
Good volume.
September 29, 2017
This volume goes back to the weird suits and the action!
October 27, 2017
I fucking HATE Izumi.
May 6, 2021
Jurassic park in Gantz? Damnnn.
October 16, 2021
Qué diablos estoy leyendo???
March 30, 2022
Dinosaurios!!!!!!!!!!
May 6, 2022
Pero que ganas de molestar a la novia de Kurono... Tanto para llegar de nuevo al juego, espero que lo justifique.
May 7, 2022
I'm actually scared for the MC, finally I have stopped hating him. However, having the pyscho-murderer with them makes me feel so umcomfortable. It seems Gantz wants to makes things harder.
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