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Gigant #1
GIGANT 1
Rei Yokoyamada möchte Filmregisseur werden und ist Fan der Schauspielerin PaPiCo. Eines Tages entdeckt er in der Stadt eine Reihe von Anschlagzetteln, auf denen PaPiCo beschimpft und beleidigt wird. Als der empörte Rei die Zettel abreißt, lernt er PaPiCo persönlich kennen …
236 pages, Paperback
First published May 30, 2018
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Hiroya Oku
289 books335 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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December 19, 2025
It has come to my attention that, after having re-read Infinite Jest and Gravity’s Rainbow, I am, perhaps, sandbagging this reading year. And so, thoroughly chastised by my pitiful attempt to avoid challenging material, I have returned to this formidable work and read up to volume five. My new score indicates a more truthful approximation of my feelings. It is, I am not afraid to say, a work that was written specifically for me.
Have you ever, due to your paltry endowment in mammary ornamentation, fantasized about what it would be like to have hulking hooters capable of (technique is crucial here) reducing beer cans to a wobbly coasters with the controlled fury of an elephant seal belly flopping against a Volkswagen? Have you ever put aside your commitment to science and ignored, for a moment, the square-cube law which renders all that nonsense about critters growing to mammoth proportions and still managing to support their weight, despite no gross anatomical alterations, and did some back of the envelope calculations to figure out how many liters of urine your bladder could hold if you were hundreds of feet tall? Well, if you’re that type of person, you’ve probably, at some point in your life, tried to determine how fast the liquid comes out of your body when you’re really dying for a piss. Your preliminary calculations might’ve went as follows:
The pressure of urine after it exits the body is by law equal to the surrounding atmosphere (within reason). Now if you are asking the pressure inside the body this is a more complicated question. To truly get a definitive answer, a few things must be known about the urine stream. The easiest approach is to use Bernoulli's Law along a stream line flowing from the top of the bladder through the urinary tract and out of the urethra. The approach would look something like this:
Pressure/density+velocity^2/2+gravitationalconstant*height=itself at all points in the stream line.
Now making the assumption that the energy gain from vertical distance traveled is negligible, ambient pressure is 0 (answer will be in gauge pressure), urine is an incompressible inviscid fluid, and velocity within the bladder is negligible, we have:
Pressure+0*density+0=0+velocity^2*density/2+0
Balancing and simplifying:
P=V^2*ro/2
Assuming the density of urine is the same as water (1g/cc) all we need to find now is the velocity of the urine as it exits the hole. This can easily be found if you know how high your penis or hoo-hah is from the ground and you piss outwards exactly parallel to the ground. Simply measure the distance the urine travels from the tip of the exit to the point where it touches the ground. Knowing the gravitational constant to be 9.8 m/s^2 and the height, we know the final value of the position equation.
x=height
Using a little knowledge of integrals, derivatives, and their relation to velocity and acceleration we can get a formula which will tell us exactly how long the urine was in the air before it hit the ground.
a=9.8
V=9.8*t
x=9.8*t^2/2
Now solving for time
sqrt(2*x/9.8)=t
Now once we have the time it took the urine to reach the ground, if we assume that the stream doesn't accelerate during its flight through the air, we can calculate the velocity as it exits.
V=dy/dt=distance traveled (horizontally)/time=distancetraveled/sqrt(2*height/9.8)
Plugging this back into the equation we derived earlier:
P=pressure (Pa)
Y=horizontal distance traveled by the urine (meters)
X=height of penis off the ground (meters)
R=density of urine (approximately 1000 kg/m^3)
P=(R/2)*(Y/sqrt(2*X/9.8))^2
Upon further speculation:
We urinate about 6-7 times per day. Total daily urine output is between 800-2000mL, so we can do a ballpark volume of 1400mL / 6.5 = 215 mL per pee.
The average duration of urination is about 21 seconds. So, you're shooting out about 10 mL per second. However, let's cut that in half because I bet a bunch of that time is spent dribbling. So, 20 mL per second.
The average diameter of the male urethra is 0.35 inches. This gives a cross-sectional area of 0.096 square inches, or 62 square millimeters.
The velocity of a fluid through a pipe is given by the formula
velocity = volume per second / area of the pipe
You can check this formula through dimensional analysis. We want meters per second, so we divide volume per second (m3 / s) by area (m2) to get m/s.
We measure the velocity of your outgoing pee by dividing the flow rate (20mL/s) by the cross-sectional area of the urethra (62mm2). This gets us a velocity of 0.322m/s.
Can test this by pissing at a 45 degree angle, finding how high the urine stream goes, and doing some simple trig to determine V_0 of the urine. Urinating straight up makes the calculations trivial.
As urine drops, its velocity increases with acceleration due to gravity, but the area of the stream also increases as the piss scatters. This dramatically lowers the pressure you can create, as cross-sectional area increases with the square of the radius, I think.
I believe the flow rate is 20mL per second, so about 20 grams per second.
Therefore, 20g/s * 0.322m/s = 0.00644Ns/s. The seconds cancel out, so we get 0.00644N of force.
Now, we divide this by the cross-sectional area of your urethra again to get the pressure.
0.00644N / 62mm2 = 103.87Pa, or 0.015 pounds per square inch.
Anyway, it’s probably safe to assume that hollering: “Don’t worry! It’s perfectly sterile!” Would not be enough to placate the newly homeless as you unleashed a golden thunder storm across an entire city block.
What’s this series about? It’s about a pornstar that gets a device slapped on her wrist which allows her to control her size, so, naturally, she grows to mammoth proportions and fights behemoths - BUST NAKE - with her deadly, pendulous sweater puppies beboppin’ and scattin’ all over the place during pitched battles, some times clobbering buildings with her beautiful wrecking ducts, gouging out windows with her nipples, darkening the skies with her menacing areolae, and dispatching foes with bloody, highly objectified, fanfare. It’s also about a young man who has developed a masturbatory connection with this woman through beating the salty yogurt out of his one eyed wonder weasel while watching her engaged in acts of professional paizuri on dvd. Romance ensues.
Should you read this? I think that if you have to ask yourself that question, you really shouldn’t. But if you’re the type of person that should read this - you should really read this. Those who bear the indelible stamp of their degenerate origins should study this tomb to show yourself approved to all the deities and demigods of the perverted pantheon.
Have you ever, due to your paltry endowment in mammary ornamentation, fantasized about what it would be like to have hulking hooters capable of (technique is crucial here) reducing beer cans to a wobbly coasters with the controlled fury of an elephant seal belly flopping against a Volkswagen? Have you ever put aside your commitment to science and ignored, for a moment, the square-cube law which renders all that nonsense about critters growing to mammoth proportions and still managing to support their weight, despite no gross anatomical alterations, and did some back of the envelope calculations to figure out how many liters of urine your bladder could hold if you were hundreds of feet tall? Well, if you’re that type of person, you’ve probably, at some point in your life, tried to determine how fast the liquid comes out of your body when you’re really dying for a piss. Your preliminary calculations might’ve went as follows:
The pressure of urine after it exits the body is by law equal to the surrounding atmosphere (within reason). Now if you are asking the pressure inside the body this is a more complicated question. To truly get a definitive answer, a few things must be known about the urine stream. The easiest approach is to use Bernoulli's Law along a stream line flowing from the top of the bladder through the urinary tract and out of the urethra. The approach would look something like this:
Pressure/density+velocity^2/2+gravitationalconstant*height=itself at all points in the stream line.
Now making the assumption that the energy gain from vertical distance traveled is negligible, ambient pressure is 0 (answer will be in gauge pressure), urine is an incompressible inviscid fluid, and velocity within the bladder is negligible, we have:
Pressure+0*density+0=0+velocity^2*density/2+0
Balancing and simplifying:
P=V^2*ro/2
Assuming the density of urine is the same as water (1g/cc) all we need to find now is the velocity of the urine as it exits the hole. This can easily be found if you know how high your penis or hoo-hah is from the ground and you piss outwards exactly parallel to the ground. Simply measure the distance the urine travels from the tip of the exit to the point where it touches the ground. Knowing the gravitational constant to be 9.8 m/s^2 and the height, we know the final value of the position equation.
x=height
Using a little knowledge of integrals, derivatives, and their relation to velocity and acceleration we can get a formula which will tell us exactly how long the urine was in the air before it hit the ground.
a=9.8
V=9.8*t
x=9.8*t^2/2
Now solving for time
sqrt(2*x/9.8)=t
Now once we have the time it took the urine to reach the ground, if we assume that the stream doesn't accelerate during its flight through the air, we can calculate the velocity as it exits.
V=dy/dt=distance traveled (horizontally)/time=distancetraveled/sqrt(2*height/9.8)
Plugging this back into the equation we derived earlier:
P=pressure (Pa)
Y=horizontal distance traveled by the urine (meters)
X=height of penis off the ground (meters)
R=density of urine (approximately 1000 kg/m^3)
P=(R/2)*(Y/sqrt(2*X/9.8))^2
Upon further speculation:
We urinate about 6-7 times per day. Total daily urine output is between 800-2000mL, so we can do a ballpark volume of 1400mL / 6.5 = 215 mL per pee.
The average duration of urination is about 21 seconds. So, you're shooting out about 10 mL per second. However, let's cut that in half because I bet a bunch of that time is spent dribbling. So, 20 mL per second.
The average diameter of the male urethra is 0.35 inches. This gives a cross-sectional area of 0.096 square inches, or 62 square millimeters.
The velocity of a fluid through a pipe is given by the formula
velocity = volume per second / area of the pipe
You can check this formula through dimensional analysis. We want meters per second, so we divide volume per second (m3 / s) by area (m2) to get m/s.
We measure the velocity of your outgoing pee by dividing the flow rate (20mL/s) by the cross-sectional area of the urethra (62mm2). This gets us a velocity of 0.322m/s.
Can test this by pissing at a 45 degree angle, finding how high the urine stream goes, and doing some simple trig to determine V_0 of the urine. Urinating straight up makes the calculations trivial.
As urine drops, its velocity increases with acceleration due to gravity, but the area of the stream also increases as the piss scatters. This dramatically lowers the pressure you can create, as cross-sectional area increases with the square of the radius, I think.
I believe the flow rate is 20mL per second, so about 20 grams per second.
Therefore, 20g/s * 0.322m/s = 0.00644Ns/s. The seconds cancel out, so we get 0.00644N of force.
Now, we divide this by the cross-sectional area of your urethra again to get the pressure.
0.00644N / 62mm2 = 103.87Pa, or 0.015 pounds per square inch.
Anyway, it’s probably safe to assume that hollering: “Don’t worry! It’s perfectly sterile!” Would not be enough to placate the newly homeless as you unleashed a golden thunder storm across an entire city block.
What’s this series about? It’s about a pornstar that gets a device slapped on her wrist which allows her to control her size, so, naturally, she grows to mammoth proportions and fights behemoths - BUST NAKE - with her deadly, pendulous sweater puppies beboppin’ and scattin’ all over the place during pitched battles, some times clobbering buildings with her beautiful wrecking ducts, gouging out windows with her nipples, darkening the skies with her menacing areolae, and dispatching foes with bloody, highly objectified, fanfare. It’s also about a young man who has developed a masturbatory connection with this woman through beating the salty yogurt out of his one eyed wonder weasel while watching her engaged in acts of professional paizuri on dvd. Romance ensues.
Should you read this? I think that if you have to ask yourself that question, you really shouldn’t. But if you’re the type of person that should read this - you should really read this. Those who bear the indelible stamp of their degenerate origins should study this tomb to show yourself approved to all the deities and demigods of the perverted pantheon.
August 31, 2020
A student filmmaker meets his favourite pornstar who’s recently had a device fused to her wrist, by a time-traveller who turns into a doll, that allows her to control her size - so she can become a giantess if she wants. There’s also a rogue AI that the time-travelling doll-man seemed to be trying to stop and a website that grants wishes that come true. I KNOW, who hasn’t read this same, tired old story a zillion times before, eh? Yeesh, come up with something original, Hiroya Oku!
Of course, I kid, and the first volume of Oku’s new series, Gigant, isn’t bad. I won’t say it’s ever boring and Oku’s very stylish art is pretty to look at, but there’s too many disparate elements being thrown in at once without it being very clear what they have to do with each other so they don’t sit well together.
For example, our protagonists are well-introduced. We get a clear look at the life of Rei, the schoolboy: he’s an aspiring filmmaker but his grades suck, so his dad’s coming down on him hard for that, and he wants a girlfriend. Ditto Chiho, the titular (hyuk) pornstar character: she has an abusive boyfriend, her family are a buncha deadbeats, and her beloved father is dead.
The two live near each other, and the kid watches her movies, but other than that, I’m not sure why the two would be friends after that initial encounter. I guess Chiho’s lonely or something contrived? I’m also not sure what their stories are going forward. She uses her powers for porn (hey, there are worse ways!) while Rei… doesn’t really do anything. And, while both are likeable characters, his story feels entirely superfluous and generically boring (girls, grades, etc.). I guess Chiho’s going to be the lead in his student film, which would just be a dull and obvious development so I hope I’m wrong, but I’d really hate it if she became his girlfriend.
The time-traveller, the rogue AI, the strange wish-granting website - no idea at this point what any of this has to do with one another, if anything. They’re all interesting concepts though random. Oku just kinda throws it all together and the effect is a bit messy.
It’s less sexy than the sci-fi stuff mentioned above but I’d find this series more compelling if it was just about Chiho trying to improve her life by ditching her abusive boyfriend and sorting out her relationship with her family. Maybe she still will - this is just the opening book after all - but, having read half of his last series, Inuyashiki, it seems like Oku tends to abandon character development after a certain point and focuses only on portraying flashy, loud action instead. Which would be a shame if the same happened in Gigant given what he’s accomplished in this book.
The art is very skilful with the photo-realistic backgrounds though the characters are your standard manga designs. I appreciated that Oku wasn’t gratuitously sleazy with Chiho’s pages when he could’ve shown much more, more often. Oku does shamelessly promote his previous books through his characters though, which was more amusingly meta than annoying.
Gigant, Volume 1 does what a successful introductory volume should do and sets up the premise and its main characters well though I’m only really intrigued in one of the two characters (Chiho) while the other is a yawner. Other clumsy plot elements thrown in aside, Hiroya Oku’s done enough in this first book to make me want to come back for volume two to see what happens next - a decent beginning then.
Of course, I kid, and the first volume of Oku’s new series, Gigant, isn’t bad. I won’t say it’s ever boring and Oku’s very stylish art is pretty to look at, but there’s too many disparate elements being thrown in at once without it being very clear what they have to do with each other so they don’t sit well together.
For example, our protagonists are well-introduced. We get a clear look at the life of Rei, the schoolboy: he’s an aspiring filmmaker but his grades suck, so his dad’s coming down on him hard for that, and he wants a girlfriend. Ditto Chiho, the titular (hyuk) pornstar character: she has an abusive boyfriend, her family are a buncha deadbeats, and her beloved father is dead.
The two live near each other, and the kid watches her movies, but other than that, I’m not sure why the two would be friends after that initial encounter. I guess Chiho’s lonely or something contrived? I’m also not sure what their stories are going forward. She uses her powers for porn (hey, there are worse ways!) while Rei… doesn’t really do anything. And, while both are likeable characters, his story feels entirely superfluous and generically boring (girls, grades, etc.). I guess Chiho’s going to be the lead in his student film, which would just be a dull and obvious development so I hope I’m wrong, but I’d really hate it if she became his girlfriend.
The time-traveller, the rogue AI, the strange wish-granting website - no idea at this point what any of this has to do with one another, if anything. They’re all interesting concepts though random. Oku just kinda throws it all together and the effect is a bit messy.
It’s less sexy than the sci-fi stuff mentioned above but I’d find this series more compelling if it was just about Chiho trying to improve her life by ditching her abusive boyfriend and sorting out her relationship with her family. Maybe she still will - this is just the opening book after all - but, having read half of his last series, Inuyashiki, it seems like Oku tends to abandon character development after a certain point and focuses only on portraying flashy, loud action instead. Which would be a shame if the same happened in Gigant given what he’s accomplished in this book.
The art is very skilful with the photo-realistic backgrounds though the characters are your standard manga designs. I appreciated that Oku wasn’t gratuitously sleazy with Chiho’s pages when he could’ve shown much more, more often. Oku does shamelessly promote his previous books through his characters though, which was more amusingly meta than annoying.
Gigant, Volume 1 does what a successful introductory volume should do and sets up the premise and its main characters well though I’m only really intrigued in one of the two characters (Chiho) while the other is a yawner. Other clumsy plot elements thrown in aside, Hiroya Oku’s done enough in this first book to make me want to come back for volume two to see what happens next - a decent beginning then.
September 8, 2024
So there I was, looking dully at the half-read copy of W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz sitting on my desk, seeming to mock me with its combination of high art and unreadability…just to spite that book, I decided to take a break and tackle my annual monster porn assignment. A few minutes later found me listlessly flipping through a catalog of stories authored by people with names like Chuck Tingle and Fanny Tucker. Pastries? Pass. Garden gnomes? God no. Fruits and vegetables? Tasteless. The brilliant algorithms of Amazon, sensing my dissatisfaction, steered me over to some Japanese manga titles, apparently unfazed that I don’t read graphic novels, don’t read Japanese, and, well, one of the requirements of monster porn is the presence of some sort of monster.
But….but….I’ve heard of Gigant before, and dimly remember that fully-stretched-out Umiqlo t-shirt. And those clever Kindle gods were offering me the first volume translated into German, so I could not only dive into the darker corners of Goodreads, but could practice my second language and read my first-ever manga to boot. (Lest this come off as pretentious and pseudo-sophisticated, I’ll point out that it took me about six or seven minutes to figure out, even on Kindle, that the book should be read back-to-front, and another several pages of utter confusion to figure out the panels on the pages needed to be tackled right-to-left.)
After figuring all that out, a weird sense of deja-vu came over me in the first few pages, as I got into the story of the schoolboy Rei and the generously filled-out heroine PaPiCo, plus her adorable little corgi named Mochi. Because I suddenly remembered where I’d seen this manga before. I have this friend, you see, who is--just like PaPiCo--half Japanese, half Swedish, completely adorable and totally, wholly, unflinchingly and fulminatingly perverted. And indeed, it was in my friend’s book pile that I stumbled across this opus all those years ago.
But I confess that I did not buy it for the dialog, enjoyable though that was. No, I bought it for the scenes when our already alarmingly busty gal figures out the thing stuck on her arm can cause her to grow to monstrous size, which of course reduces her already-scanty clothing to ribbons. She bestrides this manga like a colossus, pudendum enticingly floating at eye level, single-handedly bringing comfort to men who really really miss their mommies. Eventually, she returns to normal size, standing around comfortably in her birthday suit while all the men hovering nearby exclaim about the oddity and commercial potential of PaPiCo’s new skill.
Stars?
Artwork – one star
Lovely Japanese people – another star
Priceless dialog – third star
Cunnilinguistic equivalent of a stand-up desk – star #4
There’s a whole series of these mangas but I think my thirst for this sort of thing has been sated for at least another year.
But….but….I’ve heard of Gigant before, and dimly remember that fully-stretched-out Umiqlo t-shirt. And those clever Kindle gods were offering me the first volume translated into German, so I could not only dive into the darker corners of Goodreads, but could practice my second language and read my first-ever manga to boot. (Lest this come off as pretentious and pseudo-sophisticated, I’ll point out that it took me about six or seven minutes to figure out, even on Kindle, that the book should be read back-to-front, and another several pages of utter confusion to figure out the panels on the pages needed to be tackled right-to-left.)
After figuring all that out, a weird sense of deja-vu came over me in the first few pages, as I got into the story of the schoolboy Rei and the generously filled-out heroine PaPiCo, plus her adorable little corgi named Mochi. Because I suddenly remembered where I’d seen this manga before. I have this friend, you see, who is--just like PaPiCo--half Japanese, half Swedish, completely adorable and totally, wholly, unflinchingly and fulminatingly perverted. And indeed, it was in my friend’s book pile that I stumbled across this opus all those years ago.
”I tried to call an ambulance for him, when he stuck this thing onto my arm.”The fact that I can buy dialog like this for only a couple of dollars on Kindle fills me with joy.
“What”?
“And the thing…won’t come off.”
“Was the guy even injured?”
“He…he…turned into a stuffed puppet.”
[translation mine]
But I confess that I did not buy it for the dialog, enjoyable though that was. No, I bought it for the scenes when our already alarmingly busty gal figures out the thing stuck on her arm can cause her to grow to monstrous size, which of course reduces her already-scanty clothing to ribbons. She bestrides this manga like a colossus, pudendum enticingly floating at eye level, single-handedly bringing comfort to men who really really miss their mommies. Eventually, she returns to normal size, standing around comfortably in her birthday suit while all the men hovering nearby exclaim about the oddity and commercial potential of PaPiCo’s new skill.
Stars?
Artwork – one star
Lovely Japanese people – another star
Priceless dialog – third star
Cunnilinguistic equivalent of a stand-up desk – star #4
There’s a whole series of these mangas but I think my thirst for this sort of thing has been sated for at least another year.
June 4, 2018
I have no idea why I keep trying this author. Seriously, what is wrong with me. 😒
16-year-old guy is a fan of a certain AV actress (Japanese porn star) and finds out she lives near him and they become friends. Oh, and some homeless dude stuck a dial on her arm which allows her to get bigger, literally.
NSFW spoiler
🤨
So ... yeah. That's the plot.
16-year-old guy is a fan of a certain AV actress (Japanese porn star) and finds out she lives near him and they become friends. Oh, and some homeless dude stuck a dial on her arm which allows her to get bigger, literally.
NSFW spoiler
🤨
So ... yeah. That's the plot.
April 11, 2023
Hiroya Oku is back at it again with another absurd manga in the same vein as Gantz and Inuyashiki. And he’s even weirder than ever. Not quite as dark, gory or emotional as his other two major series, but it definitely has the same genre-bending creativity, insane plot and bizarre characters that defy all expected literary tropes.
Gigant is a science-fiction romance featuring a size-shifting pornstar as the hero, her dorky hypersensitive boyfriend that wants to be a professional film director and a whole slew of whacky hijinks from alien invasions, evil internet entities and Godzilla-style Kaiju battles that end in countless deaths. Trust me, it gets even weirder than it sounds. It’s straight up stupid at many points, but always highly entertaining and fascinatingly weird. Bizzaro fiction enthusiasts will find a lot to love here.
Overall, I just really liked Papico as a protagonist. Hiroya Oku is great at making unconventional protagonists extremely likable and interesting. Inuyashiki features an old dying grandpa that turns into a cyborg superhero. Gantz features a dead teenage boy forced to fight aliens in the afterlife while wearing a dark skinsuit that gives him superhuman abilities.
And now in Gigant, we get a beautiful pornstar with a sad backstory and a surprisingly bright personality that humanizes her rather than treats her like a sexual object. There’s a lot of nudity in almost every chapter, but it never really feels like fanservice. It just feels like a strong woman that’s perfectly comfortable with her body and she’s always fighting on behalf of others. How many other series out there have a kickass pornstar that beats the crap out of giant evil aliens in the nude without a care in the world?
As weird and dumb as this series could be, I had fun reading it and enjoyed experiencing the story of yet another unconventional protagonist by Oku.
My rating: 4.0/5
Gigant is a science-fiction romance featuring a size-shifting pornstar as the hero, her dorky hypersensitive boyfriend that wants to be a professional film director and a whole slew of whacky hijinks from alien invasions, evil internet entities and Godzilla-style Kaiju battles that end in countless deaths. Trust me, it gets even weirder than it sounds. It’s straight up stupid at many points, but always highly entertaining and fascinatingly weird. Bizzaro fiction enthusiasts will find a lot to love here.
Overall, I just really liked Papico as a protagonist. Hiroya Oku is great at making unconventional protagonists extremely likable and interesting. Inuyashiki features an old dying grandpa that turns into a cyborg superhero. Gantz features a dead teenage boy forced to fight aliens in the afterlife while wearing a dark skinsuit that gives him superhuman abilities.
And now in Gigant, we get a beautiful pornstar with a sad backstory and a surprisingly bright personality that humanizes her rather than treats her like a sexual object. There’s a lot of nudity in almost every chapter, but it never really feels like fanservice. It just feels like a strong woman that’s perfectly comfortable with her body and she’s always fighting on behalf of others. How many other series out there have a kickass pornstar that beats the crap out of giant evil aliens in the nude without a care in the world?
As weird and dumb as this series could be, I had fun reading it and enjoyed experiencing the story of yet another unconventional protagonist by Oku.
My rating: 4.0/5
March 14, 2020
Naked pornstar with big boobies who can turn giant? What's not to like.
I'll be honest I grabbed this because of the Author. I have a soft spot for Gantz series and always enjoyed it (even if it gets fucking stupid at times). So this is all about a 16 year old teenager who by mistake meets his favorite porn actress by taking signs off the streets about her. He's a film student, or wants to be, and that's the best part of the manga. Learning about what he wants to do growing up and watching that part.
But the other side is about this woman who gets ambushed by a injured man on the ground who places a device on her and she grows giant. of course growing giant makes her explode out of her clothes. She also deals with an abusive boyfriend who beats her.
This is a weird manga. It's interesting, but some of the dialogue is cringe and the story idea seems...dumb? But at the same time I was never bored and somewhat interested to see where it goes. For now it's a 3 out of 5.
I'll be honest I grabbed this because of the Author. I have a soft spot for Gantz series and always enjoyed it (even if it gets fucking stupid at times). So this is all about a 16 year old teenager who by mistake meets his favorite porn actress by taking signs off the streets about her. He's a film student, or wants to be, and that's the best part of the manga. Learning about what he wants to do growing up and watching that part.
But the other side is about this woman who gets ambushed by a injured man on the ground who places a device on her and she grows giant. of course growing giant makes her explode out of her clothes. She also deals with an abusive boyfriend who beats her.
This is a weird manga. It's interesting, but some of the dialogue is cringe and the story idea seems...dumb? But at the same time I was never bored and somewhat interested to see where it goes. For now it's a 3 out of 5.
October 4, 2020
A real slow burn. Totally draws you in with the suspense of the mundane. Can’t wait to read more.
July 17, 2025
I think that there are a lot of ideas mixed in here and that`s a big disadvantage for this kind of work.
Maybe I will try the second volume to make up my mind.
Maybe I will try the second volume to make up my mind.
July 3, 2020
Okay everyone so this book is really weird and I’m not gonna try to go too in depth, I’m just gonna tell you some of the main things that make this manga great!
-Well written plot
-Weird as fuck but still makes sense within the story
-Not too slow but not too rushed
-Fantastic artwork!
-Interesting characters
-Including a sexy porn star who ends up with the ability to become a giantess (though there is still non-fetish related plot, don’t worry... that being said I actually do kinda hope we get more sexy giantess content in future volumes (the cover for volume 3 depicts her at an absolutely massive height so I’m guessing that’s probable)).
(Character growth)
-Adorable little pupper that frequently appears in the book and is very cute and smiley!
Well there, I see no reason to skip this book. I loved it and am definitely looking forward to volume 2!
5/5
-Well written plot
-Weird as fuck but still makes sense within the story
-Not too slow but not too rushed
-Fantastic artwork!
-Interesting characters
-Including a sexy porn star who ends up with the ability to become a giantess (though there is still non-fetish related plot, don’t worry... that being said I actually do kinda hope we get more sexy giantess content in future volumes (the cover for volume 3 depicts her at an absolutely massive height so I’m guessing that’s probable)).
(Character growth)
-Adorable little pupper that frequently appears in the book and is very cute and smiley!
Well there, I see no reason to skip this book. I loved it and am definitely looking forward to volume 2!
5/5
April 24, 2021
I personally love the sense and design of Hiroya Oku’s unique technology in this story.
Instead of depicting a hero whose put together, I love that here, we have clumsy protagonists who are trying to live life as best they can, especially since they face a lot of hardships (abuse, violence, etc). I will give a trigger warning, there is extreme domestic abuse in this manga.
It reminded me of Twilight Zone and Black Mirror a smidge, based on the technology and storyline, it’s heavy on the fan service too, obviously!
I find the art style so beautiful, I finished reading this manga immediately.
Instead of depicting a hero whose put together, I love that here, we have clumsy protagonists who are trying to live life as best they can, especially since they face a lot of hardships (abuse, violence, etc). I will give a trigger warning, there is extreme domestic abuse in this manga.
It reminded me of Twilight Zone and Black Mirror a smidge, based on the technology and storyline, it’s heavy on the fan service too, obviously!
I find the art style so beautiful, I finished reading this manga immediately.
March 12, 2020
Ok so I understand why people get the wrong idea from this manga, even from the cover BUT it’s actually not what you think it is! I had a little doubts within the first couple chapters BUT it ended up being a really interesting concept! Yes there are boobs and porn but there isn’t as much as u think there is. Close to the end, it seems that the manga is going towards the sci-fi end which is really cool! I like where it’s going and I think it has lots of potential!
May 7, 2020
This is a kitchen sink of a volume, as in "everything and the." It's like Oku was playing Mad Libs and just threw a bunch of plots together...it also has an underlying current of misogyny that I am not liking, so file this one under "one and done" for me.
May 31, 2019
Muy bizarro y me ha dejado con ganas de más! Veremos cómo sigue esta locura.
January 14, 2021
Intrigante historia de ciencia ficción.
Cubierta de una tierna y bella sensualidad.
El arte es fantástico.
¡Quiero más!
Cubierta de una tierna y bella sensualidad.
El arte es fantástico.
¡Quiero más!
November 13, 2022
Like other Oku series, this sits in the middle of the pack with its mix fast paced and entertaining storytelling and juvenile themes. If a silly book filled with big naked titties and shit raining from the sky appeals to you, give it a try!
February 5, 2025
Pensé que era fan service y es una trama muy interesante, muy buen inicio para este manga de 10 tomos, creo que sí lo seguiré leyendo
January 10, 2020
Heu... Ça a l'air bien nul tout ça je continu parce qu'un mystère m'intrigue. Dessins qui puent l'arnaque que des visages non expressifs et les décors sont des photos réels retravaillé sur photoshop... Hideux !!!
June 18, 2018
I saw this manga advertised on Tokyo subway doors and recognized it as being by Hiroya Oku, who wrote Gantz. I have mixed feelings about Gantz, since after reading, seeing the entire anime series and all the movies, I still don't know what's going on...which is not always bad. At least, I think, it might have some philosophical value about afterlife-crossing into this life...maybe.
The cover of Gigant 1 says in English: "Do we experience a miracle in life? Do we realize when it happens?" These two factors (Gantz and these sentences) are why I bought and read Gigant 1. I like fiction that tell stories and/or uses images that point toward real experiences that cannot be put into words (or are difficult to), particularly "religious" experiences. That's why I like Taguchi Randy, Ogawa Yoko, and sometimes Yumemakura Baku. This is not one of those stories. Nor does this story have anything to do with the taglines on the cover...as far as I can tell.
Gigant 1 is about a 16-year-old boy (apparently marketed for shonen but also maybe seinen), who wants to make a video for class. His father is a filmmaker, who scolds him for not doing well in math. The boy, Yamada Yoko, likes to watch oppai porn and masturbate. He tears down flyers that slut-shames his favorite actress, Papiko, who unexpectedly (at least for him if not the reader) walks up behind and hugs him for doing so, inescapably pressing her "J cups" (already "gigant", ne?) against him. Eventually, she is tricked by a weird ojisan (grandfather/old man) from the future (that's right, who looks a lot like the old guy in Gantz that we never understand), who places a timer (or something) on her wrist, which she cannot remove no matter how hard she tries. Hey, I would have gone to the hospital! The timer has the magical power to make her gigantic, her whole body that is. When that happens, of course her clothes rip off of her. Well, honestly, that's about the entirety of the story , which is why I give it one star. There are some slightly interesting details about Papiko, such as she lives with a physically abusive boyfriend, who she beats up in her gigant form, and the fact that her family seem to be sponging off of her porn income. Oh, and shes "ha-fu", half Swedish and half Japanese, which I think is supposed to somehow account for her J cups.
There are also many references to American comics, SF movies (like The Terminator), and manga, including his own (Gantz and Inuyashiki).
The cover of Gigant 1 says in English: "Do we experience a miracle in life? Do we realize when it happens?" These two factors (Gantz and these sentences) are why I bought and read Gigant 1. I like fiction that tell stories and/or uses images that point toward real experiences that cannot be put into words (or are difficult to), particularly "religious" experiences. That's why I like Taguchi Randy, Ogawa Yoko, and sometimes Yumemakura Baku. This is not one of those stories. Nor does this story have anything to do with the taglines on the cover...as far as I can tell.
Gigant 1 is about a 16-year-old boy (apparently marketed for shonen but also maybe seinen), who wants to make a video for class. His father is a filmmaker, who scolds him for not doing well in math. The boy, Yamada Yoko, likes to watch oppai porn and masturbate. He tears down flyers that slut-shames his favorite actress, Papiko, who unexpectedly (at least for him if not the reader) walks up behind and hugs him for doing so, inescapably pressing her "J cups" (already "gigant", ne?) against him. Eventually, she is tricked by a weird ojisan (grandfather/old man) from the future (that's right, who looks a lot like the old guy in Gantz that we never understand), who places a timer (or something) on her wrist, which she cannot remove no matter how hard she tries. Hey, I would have gone to the hospital! The timer has the magical power to make her gigantic, her whole body that is. When that happens, of course her clothes rip off of her. Well, honestly, that's about the entirety of the story , which is why I give it one star. There are some slightly interesting details about Papiko, such as she lives with a physically abusive boyfriend, who she beats up in her gigant form, and the fact that her family seem to be sponging off of her porn income. Oh, and shes "ha-fu", half Swedish and half Japanese, which I think is supposed to somehow account for her J cups.
There are also many references to American comics, SF movies (like The Terminator), and manga, including his own (Gantz and Inuyashiki).
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September 13, 2023Manga is often regarded skeptically from the outside. Whether it's deserved or not, manga has a certain...reputation. I totally acknowledge that the cover of Gigant plays right into this reputation. It does look kinda porn-y...
The idea for Gigant could only come from Japan: "Rei Yokoyamada, a high schooler whose father works for a film production company, is inspired to create his own short film with his friends. One day, while out to find actors, he spots tabloid-like notices that the adult film star Papico lives in his area. When he takes them down to protect her, he runs into the woman herself. Little does he know that Papico is about to get dragged into a strange, supernatural happening...where she grows to the size of a giant!"
So...probably problematic, right?
Yes, there is nudity. However, there is surprisingly little nudity that does not advance the plot. [I never thought I would type that sentence.] It might be somewhat gratuitous at points...but it makes sense (as much as anything in Gigant makes sense).
What redeems Gigant is that it resists being tasteless fan-service. Instead, it explores the (abusive) relationship between Papico and her partner (scenes which are honestly difficult to read) and the interiority of loneliness and longing that both Rei and Papico experience. The relationship is complicated, to say the least.
What Gigant does best is explore character at a breakneck pace. I thought this first volume was just okay, until the cliff-hanger ending - after which I immediately sought out the next volumes.
Lastly, Gigant uses two-page spreads judiciously. You know how rare these are in graphic novels and manga? If you're lucky, you might get a splash page once or twice in a single volume? That's not the case here. These splash pages show off the art - which is much more realistic than the typical manga (anime) style art.
The idea for Gigant could only come from Japan: "Rei Yokoyamada, a high schooler whose father works for a film production company, is inspired to create his own short film with his friends. One day, while out to find actors, he spots tabloid-like notices that the adult film star Papico lives in his area. When he takes them down to protect her, he runs into the woman herself. Little does he know that Papico is about to get dragged into a strange, supernatural happening...where she grows to the size of a giant!"
So...probably problematic, right?
Yes, there is nudity. However, there is surprisingly little nudity that does not advance the plot. [I never thought I would type that sentence.] It might be somewhat gratuitous at points...but it makes sense (as much as anything in Gigant makes sense).
What redeems Gigant is that it resists being tasteless fan-service. Instead, it explores the (abusive) relationship between Papico and her partner (scenes which are honestly difficult to read) and the interiority of loneliness and longing that both Rei and Papico experience. The relationship is complicated, to say the least.
What Gigant does best is explore character at a breakneck pace. I thought this first volume was just okay, until the cliff-hanger ending - after which I immediately sought out the next volumes.
Lastly, Gigant uses two-page spreads judiciously. You know how rare these are in graphic novels and manga? If you're lucky, you might get a splash page once or twice in a single volume? That's not the case here. These splash pages show off the art - which is much more realistic than the typical manga (anime) style art.
July 19, 2020
This is amazing! NOT FOR KIDS! TRIGGER: DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
I bought this on a whim. Thought the premise sounded kinda goofy, it also sounded kind of interesting. So, here I am. Let me just say, she has an enormous chest. And it gets bigger (as does her whole body). Being a victim of DV from more than one woman I was with, the abusive BF really bothered me. Hopefully he's gone for good (but I suspect not). This is definitely a very unique story. I love it. Art, unbelievable! Just fantastic. Dialogue, very very good. Characters, believable, mostly likeable, & even relatable (especially the protagonist).
I bought this on a whim. Thought the premise sounded kinda goofy, it also sounded kind of interesting. So, here I am. Let me just say, she has an enormous chest. And it gets bigger (as does her whole body). Being a victim of DV from more than one woman I was with, the abusive BF really bothered me. Hopefully he's gone for good (but I suspect not). This is definitely a very unique story. I love it. Art, unbelievable! Just fantastic. Dialogue, very very good. Characters, believable, mostly likeable, & even relatable (especially the protagonist).
March 24, 2022
An adult film star wanting to make it big (boy is she in for a surprise) meets up with an aspiring high school filmmaker, there's time travel!? a mysterious website where junior high kids vote on strange events that then happen in the real world, and a literal shitstorm. It's all over the place. Oh, and there's a corgi!!
This author is just shameless in promoting his other work.
This author is just shameless in promoting his other work.
July 26, 2019
Oku lo logró de nuevo: Logró engancharme con un manga que pinta que va a limitarse a teta y piña pero dispara para otros lados enseguida.
July 29, 2022
Link to this review on my personal page, where it looks better
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This is a loose review of the entire series.
The main character of this tale (I wouldn't dare call him the protagonist) is a sixteen-year-old high schooler that loves Western movies, that aspires to become a film director, and that is obsessed with a twenty-four-year-old half-Japanese, pink-haired, heavy-breasted porn actress who goes by a stupid artist name.
One day as he's walking around in Tokyo, he comes across posted notices on which someone indicates that the porn actress lives nearby, which could lead a malicious person to harass her. The high schooler tears down the notices. The porn actress casually witnesses him doing so, and they strike up a friendship. Our main character can hardly wait to experience this gorgeous porn actress' talents on his own flesh and dick, but she intends to put him in the friend zone. Besides, she has a boyfriend: an unstable gambler who beats her up when he remembers that other guys are fucking his girl. After they break up, our high-schooler main character and this big-breasted porn actress end up dating. Some people may have a problem with the fact that she's twenty-four years old and he's in high school, but the situation is far worse, because our main character is a toddler; the motherfucker threw a tantrum at a restaurant, bawling and all, until she agreed to date him. I have no clue what the author intended with that moment, but if he wanted the audience to lose all respect for the supposed main character, he achieved it.
Anyway, they work well as a couple: she's motherly and loves to be needed, and he wants to screw as much as possible the most alluring woman to whom he has access.
Soon enough the tale delves into sci-fi: some weird guy is running around in his underwear while going on about some nonsensical stuff. Somehow he ends up getting struck by a truck. As he dies, he bequeaths to the porn actress a strange device that gets attached to her wrist, and she's unable to remove it. Once the weird guy dies, he becomes a plush toy.
Our lovely porn actress figures out that the device allows her to become gigantic at will. At around the same time, a website named "Enjoy the End" grows popular: it lets users vote for what strange event they want to happen, and the most popular one becomes reality no matter how absurd: people start witnessing dragons and UFOs, and gigantic monsters descend from the sky to wreak havoc on Tokyo. The users of the website rejoice at the destruction that these manifestations are causing on the capital; most of the users seem to reside in the countryside. When they end up voting for a skyscraper-tall monster to reduce the population of Tokyo to one million, our porn actress decides to become the protagonist of this tale by turning gigantic and fighting the menace while naked (because the process of turning monstrously huge destroys her clothes, as well as anything else she happened to be in).
The story follows how Japanese society, then the rest of the world, reacts to the heroic deeds and growing cult status of the unlikely heroine who keeps exposing her monster-sized tits and genitals, and although the series becomes increasingly more ridiculous and absurd, this porn actress turned Godzilla-murderer remains brave and good-natured to an extent that warmed my black heart.
I don't know if I can honestly recommend this series. I loved the graphic depictions of this big-boobed heroine, as well as how often she showed up naked. The fights are compellingly choreographed. This author has featured aliens in the three stories of his of which I'm aware: "Gantz" (I gave up halfway through when he killed off a main character, and I wasn't enjoying it enough) and "Inuyashiki" [I appreciated the anime adaptation as well as its bold, violent nature, particularly the gun fingaz stuff (warning: disturbing)]. I wouldn't be surprised if the author himself was an alien; he writes his human characters as if he's only ever watched people from afar. However, I was most impressed with the quality of the drawings, which resemble renders based on photographs or 3D models, as well as with how balls-to-the-wall bonkers the whole thing is; I gotta admire the author for that. The two highlights that come to mind are the whole prolonged sequence involving a gargantuan Satan, and the two gigantic depictions of Socrates and Plato, who speak like teenage "Call of Duty" fanatics.
I had a good ol' time reading this series. To be fair, I'd have a good time with pretty much anything that involves huge, meaty tits, so make of this review what you will.
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This is a loose review of the entire series.
The main character of this tale (I wouldn't dare call him the protagonist) is a sixteen-year-old high schooler that loves Western movies, that aspires to become a film director, and that is obsessed with a twenty-four-year-old half-Japanese, pink-haired, heavy-breasted porn actress who goes by a stupid artist name.
One day as he's walking around in Tokyo, he comes across posted notices on which someone indicates that the porn actress lives nearby, which could lead a malicious person to harass her. The high schooler tears down the notices. The porn actress casually witnesses him doing so, and they strike up a friendship. Our main character can hardly wait to experience this gorgeous porn actress' talents on his own flesh and dick, but she intends to put him in the friend zone. Besides, she has a boyfriend: an unstable gambler who beats her up when he remembers that other guys are fucking his girl. After they break up, our high-schooler main character and this big-breasted porn actress end up dating. Some people may have a problem with the fact that she's twenty-four years old and he's in high school, but the situation is far worse, because our main character is a toddler; the motherfucker threw a tantrum at a restaurant, bawling and all, until she agreed to date him. I have no clue what the author intended with that moment, but if he wanted the audience to lose all respect for the supposed main character, he achieved it.
Anyway, they work well as a couple: she's motherly and loves to be needed, and he wants to screw as much as possible the most alluring woman to whom he has access.
Soon enough the tale delves into sci-fi: some weird guy is running around in his underwear while going on about some nonsensical stuff. Somehow he ends up getting struck by a truck. As he dies, he bequeaths to the porn actress a strange device that gets attached to her wrist, and she's unable to remove it. Once the weird guy dies, he becomes a plush toy.
Our lovely porn actress figures out that the device allows her to become gigantic at will. At around the same time, a website named "Enjoy the End" grows popular: it lets users vote for what strange event they want to happen, and the most popular one becomes reality no matter how absurd: people start witnessing dragons and UFOs, and gigantic monsters descend from the sky to wreak havoc on Tokyo. The users of the website rejoice at the destruction that these manifestations are causing on the capital; most of the users seem to reside in the countryside. When they end up voting for a skyscraper-tall monster to reduce the population of Tokyo to one million, our porn actress decides to become the protagonist of this tale by turning gigantic and fighting the menace while naked (because the process of turning monstrously huge destroys her clothes, as well as anything else she happened to be in).
The story follows how Japanese society, then the rest of the world, reacts to the heroic deeds and growing cult status of the unlikely heroine who keeps exposing her monster-sized tits and genitals, and although the series becomes increasingly more ridiculous and absurd, this porn actress turned Godzilla-murderer remains brave and good-natured to an extent that warmed my black heart.
I don't know if I can honestly recommend this series. I loved the graphic depictions of this big-boobed heroine, as well as how often she showed up naked. The fights are compellingly choreographed. This author has featured aliens in the three stories of his of which I'm aware: "Gantz" (I gave up halfway through when he killed off a main character, and I wasn't enjoying it enough) and "Inuyashiki" [I appreciated the anime adaptation as well as its bold, violent nature, particularly the gun fingaz stuff (warning: disturbing)]. I wouldn't be surprised if the author himself was an alien; he writes his human characters as if he's only ever watched people from afar. However, I was most impressed with the quality of the drawings, which resemble renders based on photographs or 3D models, as well as with how balls-to-the-wall bonkers the whole thing is; I gotta admire the author for that. The two highlights that come to mind are the whole prolonged sequence involving a gargantuan Satan, and the two gigantic depictions of Socrates and Plato, who speak like teenage "Call of Duty" fanatics.
I had a good ol' time reading this series. To be fair, I'd have a good time with pretty much anything that involves huge, meaty tits, so make of this review what you will.
September 24, 2023
Wuh. Huh? Uh. Hm.
To be fair, I guess this one's on me. I didn't really check what the story waw about, I just needed a quick read for my train trip. Turns out this isn't exactly one of those mangas to read in public, but oh well. Still finished it, just like the main character did all over his screen when he watched this pornstars huge bazoingas. I... think I'll avoid this author in the future.
To be fair, I guess this one's on me. I didn't really check what the story waw about, I just needed a quick read for my train trip. Turns out this isn't exactly one of those mangas to read in public, but oh well. Still finished it, just like the main character did all over his screen when he watched this pornstars huge bazoingas. I... think I'll avoid this author in the future.
October 26, 2020
I think this is a successful introduction to this series. I will admit that I have not read Gantz so maybe that’s why I’m not as excited to read this. I’m curious enough to continue on though.
CW for alcoholism ,domestic abuse, toxic relationship, explicit content.
CW for alcoholism ,domestic abuse, toxic relationship, explicit content.
March 13, 2022
3,5/5 🌟
June 27, 2020
Few male adolescent dreams carry more weight than a serendipitous act of gentility toward a gorgeous woman subsequently snowballing into a raucous and strange affair with the supernatural. GIGANT #1 smashes a handful of such tropes together in hopes of squeezing out something more interesting once the dust settles. A film otaku finds himself on the precipice of something cool, something heroic, and something weird -- all at the same time.
Rei isn't a particularly sharp teenager. He watches pornography on his phone at school, he tends to grieve common-sense advice from his movie producer father, and his math scores are abysmal. He's motivated to become a popular movie director, but for now, Rei must settle for nervously asking an attractive classmate if she'll play the lead in a script he wrote. Naturally, this low-key averageness is about to hit a nasty chicane.
Chiho Johansson, an adult film actress whom Rei adores, just so happens to live in the same Tokyo ward. She's witty, chatty, and enjoys the company of strangers. Even if her friendship with the high school boy was as random as bumping into him after running to the corner store, Chiho's a genuinely nice person. Too bad she lives with an abusive boyfriend, suffers the indignity of support from a family of leeches who take all of her earnings, and was recently tagged by an old man visiting from the future.
GIGANT #1 takes its name from the device bequeathed to Chiho from said old man -- a wrist watch that enables its user to safely scale up one's physical size to ridiculous proportions. For readers, to offer this power to a porn star is quite the titillating oddity. But Chiho's too scared and Rei, a fan of sci-fi, is too weirded out to know what the heck they should do with such a device.
Nothing much else happens in this volume, mostly on account of the author throwing in a thousand story hooks, few of which are of immediate relevance. Perhaps past fans of Oku will claim a sense of familiarity with this writing approach, but it's honestly rather difficult to get excited about. The manga's characterization is solid; Rei comes across as a benevolent idiot, and Chiho as a woman with a heart of gold who was dealt a raw deal. Everything else is lacking.
The story structure dips and pivots with weak precision and generally lacks focus. Do readers concentrate on the absurdity of time and space travel or the absurdity of a website that predicts the near future? Do readers concentrate on the dissolution of domestic life (gambling, abuse) or the dissolution of social expectations (apathetic friends, unreliable family)? GIGANT #1 is one unnecessarily layered info dump.
Visually, the manga doesn't fare much better. The title's rendered art style incorporates heavily traced background art, simplistically pasted graphics, and cel-shaded images that lend a squirrely if not uncanny inauthenticity to the overall design. However detailed the production design, it frequently lacks proper scaling and looks and feels intensely cheap. And when combined with lackluster pacing and unimaginative page composition, the book's aesthetical clumsiness only pushes readers further away.
GIGANT #1 is two or three different manga in one: the story about an average kid who lucks into a relationship with an older woman (who must survive an array of serious issues); the story of a time traveler whose attempt to warn the past goes awry; and the story of dreams deferred, of an academic, filial, or a professional nature. A manga about any of these in isolation would prove intriguing. Crammed together? Not so much.
Rei isn't a particularly sharp teenager. He watches pornography on his phone at school, he tends to grieve common-sense advice from his movie producer father, and his math scores are abysmal. He's motivated to become a popular movie director, but for now, Rei must settle for nervously asking an attractive classmate if she'll play the lead in a script he wrote. Naturally, this low-key averageness is about to hit a nasty chicane.
Chiho Johansson, an adult film actress whom Rei adores, just so happens to live in the same Tokyo ward. She's witty, chatty, and enjoys the company of strangers. Even if her friendship with the high school boy was as random as bumping into him after running to the corner store, Chiho's a genuinely nice person. Too bad she lives with an abusive boyfriend, suffers the indignity of support from a family of leeches who take all of her earnings, and was recently tagged by an old man visiting from the future.
GIGANT #1 takes its name from the device bequeathed to Chiho from said old man -- a wrist watch that enables its user to safely scale up one's physical size to ridiculous proportions. For readers, to offer this power to a porn star is quite the titillating oddity. But Chiho's too scared and Rei, a fan of sci-fi, is too weirded out to know what the heck they should do with such a device.
Nothing much else happens in this volume, mostly on account of the author throwing in a thousand story hooks, few of which are of immediate relevance. Perhaps past fans of Oku will claim a sense of familiarity with this writing approach, but it's honestly rather difficult to get excited about. The manga's characterization is solid; Rei comes across as a benevolent idiot, and Chiho as a woman with a heart of gold who was dealt a raw deal. Everything else is lacking.
The story structure dips and pivots with weak precision and generally lacks focus. Do readers concentrate on the absurdity of time and space travel or the absurdity of a website that predicts the near future? Do readers concentrate on the dissolution of domestic life (gambling, abuse) or the dissolution of social expectations (apathetic friends, unreliable family)? GIGANT #1 is one unnecessarily layered info dump.
Visually, the manga doesn't fare much better. The title's rendered art style incorporates heavily traced background art, simplistically pasted graphics, and cel-shaded images that lend a squirrely if not uncanny inauthenticity to the overall design. However detailed the production design, it frequently lacks proper scaling and looks and feels intensely cheap. And when combined with lackluster pacing and unimaginative page composition, the book's aesthetical clumsiness only pushes readers further away.
GIGANT #1 is two or three different manga in one: the story about an average kid who lucks into a relationship with an older woman (who must survive an array of serious issues); the story of a time traveler whose attempt to warn the past goes awry; and the story of dreams deferred, of an academic, filial, or a professional nature. A manga about any of these in isolation would prove intriguing. Crammed together? Not so much.
May 23, 2021
🖤 AVIS MANGA 🖤
Coucou mes Choucapics ! 🖤
♡ Je ferais des avis mangas en attendant de poster les avis services de presses ou romans
~Je vous donne mon avis sur "Gigant " de Hiroya Oku Tome 1/8
⚠️ ATTENTION PUBLIC AVERTI ⚠️
-Nudité modérée, Violences, etc…
☆ Éditions : Ki-Oon Seinen
☆ Prix : 7.90 euros
☆ Âge Requis : 14 ans et +
☆ Disponible sur Fnac, Amazon, Cultura
☆ Catégorie : Seinen
☆ Genre : Drame, Mature, School Life, Romance, Science-Fiction, Extra-terrestres, Combats, Adolescence, Cinéma, Combats, Super Pouvoirs, Action, Amitié, Acteur Pornographique.
☆ Nombre de tomes : 8 en VO (en cours) et 6 en VF (en cours)
☆ Année VF : 2019 ; VO : 2018 (Japon)
☆ Autres Œuvres de l'auteur : Gantz, Gantz: G, Last Hero Inuyashiki.
🖤 QUATRIÈME DE COUVERTURE 🖤
Pour Rei, le cinéma est tout ce qui compte dans la vie. Le lycée n'est qu'un prétexte pour monter des projets et parler films avec ses camarades. Il ne l'avouera jamais à ses amis, mais son artiste préférée, Papico, ne joue pas dans des œuvres classiques. C'est une star... du porno ! Il possède toutes ses vidéos, qu'il regarde en cachette. Sa passion prend un tour singulier le jour où des affiches anonymes et injurieuses dévoilent que Papico habite dans le quartier du lycéen !
En bon fan, l'adolescent se précipite pour les arracher au beau milieu de la nuit... quand il se retrouve nez à nez avec son idole ! Pour lui, c'est un rêve qui se réalise, ainsi que le début d'une improbable amitié. Rei est loin d'imaginer que l'actrice s'apprête à l'embarquer dans une aventure digne d'un film de SF déjanté, avec super-pouvoirs et extraterrestres à la clé !
📖 MON AVIS 📖
🌠 LA COUVERTURE 🌠
La couverture est holographique et elle représente Chiho. La jaquette est sympa, mais la tranche assez simple. Le manga est plutôt épais. Nous avons au début du manga des pages couleurs qui représente Rei, notre protagoniste principal qui filme.
✍ L'HISTOIRE ✍
Nous ne rentrons pas directement dans le vif du sujet, l'auteur nous fait mariner, il nous "présente" Rei qui va acheter un porno venant d'Amazon. Ce n'est pas n'imprime quel film porno c'est celui de Papico, son idole. Il cherchera par la suite au lycée, l'actrice pour son film à lui pour le présenter au PFF, mais son actrice le lâchera. Il est passionné par le cinéma, c'est également un geek. Nous pouvons le deviner grâce au décor de sa chambre. Il fera la rencontre de Chiho, un soir en déchirant les affiches la concernant. Son père, qui lui est réalisateur, lui demandera d'avoir de bonnes notes s'il veut avoir le budget pour tourner son film.
👧 LES PERSONNAGES 👦
~ Nous avons Rei Yoko- Yamada qui est un lycéen de seize ans. Il est fan de Papico depuis ses débuts dans le porno. Il habite chez sa famille et il n'a pas de très bonnes notes. Il a intérêt à remonter ses notes. Je sens également que cela ne va pas être facile, car il va devoir se concentrer sur autre chose, car la découverte qu'il fera avec Chiho aura des enjeux.
~Nous avons comme Chiho qui je pense est le demiurge de l'histoire, car elle est beaucoup plus en lumière et moins effacée que Rei. Son nom de famille est Johansson, elle est métisse, née d'un père Suédois et d'une mère Japonaise. On ne sait pas son âge, et son nom d'actrice pornographique est Papico.
~ La relation entre les personnages est assez spéciale mais on y voit leur fragilité également. Dans le tome 1, Chiho est assez tactile avec le jeune lycéen de 16 ans.
~Concernant son physique, je la préfère en géante, car autrement elle a des énormes seins mais une taille super fine et pas de hanche ni de fesses sur certaines planches. J'ai trouvé la morphologie assez spéciale. Mais je la trouve jolie quand même.
~Ryuji est le copain de Chiho, il a tempérament violent, possessif et il est accro aux jeux comme le Pachinko. Il frappe sur sa copine et lui prend son gagne pain pour le dépenser dans le Pachinko, il la laisse assez seule et il est impulsif. C'est un personnage détestable.
~Il y a aussi Mochi, le chien de Papico qui apporte une touche de mignonnerie. Chiho a l'air d'y être fort attachée.
~Ryuji est tellement addict qu'il prend même l'argent gagné par Chiho lors de ses tournages. Papico ne tourne pas par plaisir mais par nécessité pour sa famille. Le scénario n'est pas complètement dévoilé lors du premier tome et on s'aperçoit qu'il y a des enjeux de taille.
~L'œuvre parle de sujets assez sensibles et de l'actualité au Japon. Nous avons des scènes de violences conjugales, des séismes, de la précarité de certaines personnes, de la scolarité et de l'importance d'internet.
~Il y a deux sortes d'intrigues, nous suivons Papico qui cherche à gagner plus d'argent pour sa mère. Elle n'est pas énormément connue dans le milieu. Mais dès le début du livre, nous voyons plusieurs apparitions d'un homme qui va ouvrir les festivités du tome 1. Il y a aura également une deuxième question qui se posera, l'apparition d'un mystérieux site qui réalise les vœux. On ne sait pas si c'est lié ou non.
~Chiho se retrouvera avec une montre qui lui donnera un certain pouvoir et avec Rei ils chercheront à savoir ce qu'il se passe et pourquoi cet homme était-il là. Il lui donnera également un disque qui fait partie intégrante de l'intrigue.
~ À un moment dans l'histoire, Papico demande des mangas à lire et Rei lui cite les œuvres de l'auteur. Donc ça m'a fait rire, car l'auteur se fait de l'auto-pub. J'ai trouvé original d'avoir une actrice porno comme protagoniste principale. Les expressions des personnages sont plutôt authentiques. J'ai trouvé que Rei était plutôt effacé par rapport à Chiho.
~ L'auteur nous entraîne dans un mélange d'action, de suspense et d'humour. Les décors des planches sont semblables à des photographies tellement ils sont détaillés, je pense que ce sont des photos numérisées, par contre j'ai trouvé les cases trop bien rangées et les bulles de discussions ne dépassaient pas non plus. Mais l'intrigue est bien construite. L'auteur ne s'attarde pas sur les personnages qui ne resteront pas bien longtemps au niveau de la description, donc on sait qui va être important ou non.
~On ne sait pas grand-chose sur la vie de Rei mais un peu plus sur la vie de Chiho. La trame est un peu compliquée au début mais part sur plusieurs choses par la suite. On se pose des questions et on a des réponses pour certaines choses. C'est assez mystérieux mais on se demande ce qu'il se passe.
~Il y a pas mal de références et de placement de produits comme la PS4 ainsi que des références cinématographiques. L'histoire est assez loufoque mais les personnages n'en reste pas moins attachants au contraire. Je les trouve assez construits même si nous ne sommes qu'au début.
~Chiho n'est pas juste une actrice, elle a son histoire et je l'ai trouvé super adorable. Leur Duo est prometteur. Les deux protagonistes sont humains dans leur façon d'être et l'auteur nous laisse sur un Cliffhanger. Je l'ai trouvé assez chaleureuse d'ailleurs. La façon dont laquelle ils se sont rencontrés était belle, car lui retirait les affiches et c'est de là que leur amitié a commencé.
~ J'ai hâte de savoir si l'intrigue évolue lors des prochains tomes, je pense que l'on adhère ou non à l'histoire, car c'est assez particulier. Le manga se lit très rapidement.
Je ne vous en dis pas plus sinon cela dévoilera l'intrigue et ce qu'il se passe dans le tome 1. Par contre, je n'ai pas lu les autres œuvres de l'auteur donc pour vous Gigant passera ou cassera.
Pour vous résumer, la plume est addictive mais l'histoire est un peu longue au démarrage car les éléments principaux ne sont pas trop dévoilés dans ce tome. Je suis assez mitigée pour le moment n'ayant pas lu les autres œuvres de l'auteur.
J'espère que cet avis vous aura plu.
Bisous 🖤🖤
Coucou mes Choucapics ! 🖤
♡ Je ferais des avis mangas en attendant de poster les avis services de presses ou romans
~Je vous donne mon avis sur "Gigant " de Hiroya Oku Tome 1/8
⚠️ ATTENTION PUBLIC AVERTI ⚠️
-Nudité modérée, Violences, etc…
☆ Éditions : Ki-Oon Seinen
☆ Prix : 7.90 euros
☆ Âge Requis : 14 ans et +
☆ Disponible sur Fnac, Amazon, Cultura
☆ Catégorie : Seinen
☆ Genre : Drame, Mature, School Life, Romance, Science-Fiction, Extra-terrestres, Combats, Adolescence, Cinéma, Combats, Super Pouvoirs, Action, Amitié, Acteur Pornographique.
☆ Nombre de tomes : 8 en VO (en cours) et 6 en VF (en cours)
☆ Année VF : 2019 ; VO : 2018 (Japon)
☆ Autres Œuvres de l'auteur : Gantz, Gantz: G, Last Hero Inuyashiki.
🖤 QUATRIÈME DE COUVERTURE 🖤
Pour Rei, le cinéma est tout ce qui compte dans la vie. Le lycée n'est qu'un prétexte pour monter des projets et parler films avec ses camarades. Il ne l'avouera jamais à ses amis, mais son artiste préférée, Papico, ne joue pas dans des œuvres classiques. C'est une star... du porno ! Il possède toutes ses vidéos, qu'il regarde en cachette. Sa passion prend un tour singulier le jour où des affiches anonymes et injurieuses dévoilent que Papico habite dans le quartier du lycéen !
En bon fan, l'adolescent se précipite pour les arracher au beau milieu de la nuit... quand il se retrouve nez à nez avec son idole ! Pour lui, c'est un rêve qui se réalise, ainsi que le début d'une improbable amitié. Rei est loin d'imaginer que l'actrice s'apprête à l'embarquer dans une aventure digne d'un film de SF déjanté, avec super-pouvoirs et extraterrestres à la clé !
📖 MON AVIS 📖
🌠 LA COUVERTURE 🌠
La couverture est holographique et elle représente Chiho. La jaquette est sympa, mais la tranche assez simple. Le manga est plutôt épais. Nous avons au début du manga des pages couleurs qui représente Rei, notre protagoniste principal qui filme.
✍ L'HISTOIRE ✍
Nous ne rentrons pas directement dans le vif du sujet, l'auteur nous fait mariner, il nous "présente" Rei qui va acheter un porno venant d'Amazon. Ce n'est pas n'imprime quel film porno c'est celui de Papico, son idole. Il cherchera par la suite au lycée, l'actrice pour son film à lui pour le présenter au PFF, mais son actrice le lâchera. Il est passionné par le cinéma, c'est également un geek. Nous pouvons le deviner grâce au décor de sa chambre. Il fera la rencontre de Chiho, un soir en déchirant les affiches la concernant. Son père, qui lui est réalisateur, lui demandera d'avoir de bonnes notes s'il veut avoir le budget pour tourner son film.
👧 LES PERSONNAGES 👦
~ Nous avons Rei Yoko- Yamada qui est un lycéen de seize ans. Il est fan de Papico depuis ses débuts dans le porno. Il habite chez sa famille et il n'a pas de très bonnes notes. Il a intérêt à remonter ses notes. Je sens également que cela ne va pas être facile, car il va devoir se concentrer sur autre chose, car la découverte qu'il fera avec Chiho aura des enjeux.
~Nous avons comme Chiho qui je pense est le demiurge de l'histoire, car elle est beaucoup plus en lumière et moins effacée que Rei. Son nom de famille est Johansson, elle est métisse, née d'un père Suédois et d'une mère Japonaise. On ne sait pas son âge, et son nom d'actrice pornographique est Papico.
~ La relation entre les personnages est assez spéciale mais on y voit leur fragilité également. Dans le tome 1, Chiho est assez tactile avec le jeune lycéen de 16 ans.
~Concernant son physique, je la préfère en géante, car autrement elle a des énormes seins mais une taille super fine et pas de hanche ni de fesses sur certaines planches. J'ai trouvé la morphologie assez spéciale. Mais je la trouve jolie quand même.
~Ryuji est le copain de Chiho, il a tempérament violent, possessif et il est accro aux jeux comme le Pachinko. Il frappe sur sa copine et lui prend son gagne pain pour le dépenser dans le Pachinko, il la laisse assez seule et il est impulsif. C'est un personnage détestable.
~Il y a aussi Mochi, le chien de Papico qui apporte une touche de mignonnerie. Chiho a l'air d'y être fort attachée.
~Ryuji est tellement addict qu'il prend même l'argent gagné par Chiho lors de ses tournages. Papico ne tourne pas par plaisir mais par nécessité pour sa famille. Le scénario n'est pas complètement dévoilé lors du premier tome et on s'aperçoit qu'il y a des enjeux de taille.
~L'œuvre parle de sujets assez sensibles et de l'actualité au Japon. Nous avons des scènes de violences conjugales, des séismes, de la précarité de certaines personnes, de la scolarité et de l'importance d'internet.
~Il y a deux sortes d'intrigues, nous suivons Papico qui cherche à gagner plus d'argent pour sa mère. Elle n'est pas énormément connue dans le milieu. Mais dès le début du livre, nous voyons plusieurs apparitions d'un homme qui va ouvrir les festivités du tome 1. Il y a aura également une deuxième question qui se posera, l'apparition d'un mystérieux site qui réalise les vœux. On ne sait pas si c'est lié ou non.
~Chiho se retrouvera avec une montre qui lui donnera un certain pouvoir et avec Rei ils chercheront à savoir ce qu'il se passe et pourquoi cet homme était-il là. Il lui donnera également un disque qui fait partie intégrante de l'intrigue.
~ À un moment dans l'histoire, Papico demande des mangas à lire et Rei lui cite les œuvres de l'auteur. Donc ça m'a fait rire, car l'auteur se fait de l'auto-pub. J'ai trouvé original d'avoir une actrice porno comme protagoniste principale. Les expressions des personnages sont plutôt authentiques. J'ai trouvé que Rei était plutôt effacé par rapport à Chiho.
~ L'auteur nous entraîne dans un mélange d'action, de suspense et d'humour. Les décors des planches sont semblables à des photographies tellement ils sont détaillés, je pense que ce sont des photos numérisées, par contre j'ai trouvé les cases trop bien rangées et les bulles de discussions ne dépassaient pas non plus. Mais l'intrigue est bien construite. L'auteur ne s'attarde pas sur les personnages qui ne resteront pas bien longtemps au niveau de la description, donc on sait qui va être important ou non.
~On ne sait pas grand-chose sur la vie de Rei mais un peu plus sur la vie de Chiho. La trame est un peu compliquée au début mais part sur plusieurs choses par la suite. On se pose des questions et on a des réponses pour certaines choses. C'est assez mystérieux mais on se demande ce qu'il se passe.
~Il y a pas mal de références et de placement de produits comme la PS4 ainsi que des références cinématographiques. L'histoire est assez loufoque mais les personnages n'en reste pas moins attachants au contraire. Je les trouve assez construits même si nous ne sommes qu'au début.
~Chiho n'est pas juste une actrice, elle a son histoire et je l'ai trouvé super adorable. Leur Duo est prometteur. Les deux protagonistes sont humains dans leur façon d'être et l'auteur nous laisse sur un Cliffhanger. Je l'ai trouvé assez chaleureuse d'ailleurs. La façon dont laquelle ils se sont rencontrés était belle, car lui retirait les affiches et c'est de là que leur amitié a commencé.
~ J'ai hâte de savoir si l'intrigue évolue lors des prochains tomes, je pense que l'on adhère ou non à l'histoire, car c'est assez particulier. Le manga se lit très rapidement.
Je ne vous en dis pas plus sinon cela dévoilera l'intrigue et ce qu'il se passe dans le tome 1. Par contre, je n'ai pas lu les autres œuvres de l'auteur donc pour vous Gigant passera ou cassera.
Pour vous résumer, la plume est addictive mais l'histoire est un peu longue au démarrage car les éléments principaux ne sont pas trop dévoilés dans ce tome. Je suis assez mitigée pour le moment n'ayant pas lu les autres œuvres de l'auteur.
J'espère que cet avis vous aura plu.
Bisous 🖤🖤
January 31, 2022
I think three stars is fair.
The story concerns a porn star with huge boobs who one day tries to save an old man from the future who slaps a weird device on her wrist, and who then up and turns into a doll. The porn star then later fiddles with the thing on her wrist and finds that she can use it to shift size. She uses her size-shifting abilities to become more popular in porn, and she runs around with a teen fan and makes her violent and awful boyfriend jealous. Meanwhile, a popular website has a feature in which people can vote on particular events, and the most popular one will happen--whether its raining feces from the sky, or forcing a famous actor to run naked through the streets, etc.
The story has some intriguing elements for sure. It seems to be playing with some classic tropes straight out of Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, and here too we get the GF holding up the lousy boyfriend and causing him (deserved) grief. I was expecting action, maybe some kind of fight between the porn star and invading aliens, but so far the story is a bit slow-moving and feels a bit random.
As with any manga from Hiroya Oku, the content can be extreme. There is a lot of nudity and sex and language in this volume. I am also not really a fan of Oku's art, which relies heavily on CGI enhancements and what look like filtered photographs.
Not great.
Edit: Reread before reading the second volume. I had forgotten a lot of details and just how graphic the story got. This time I could see better where the story was leading, and it has some interesting elements, but I am definitely still not a fan of the giant porn star hook.
The story concerns a porn star with huge boobs who one day tries to save an old man from the future who slaps a weird device on her wrist, and who then up and turns into a doll. The porn star then later fiddles with the thing on her wrist and finds that she can use it to shift size. She uses her size-shifting abilities to become more popular in porn, and she runs around with a teen fan and makes her violent and awful boyfriend jealous. Meanwhile, a popular website has a feature in which people can vote on particular events, and the most popular one will happen--whether its raining feces from the sky, or forcing a famous actor to run naked through the streets, etc.
The story has some intriguing elements for sure. It seems to be playing with some classic tropes straight out of Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, and here too we get the GF holding up the lousy boyfriend and causing him (deserved) grief. I was expecting action, maybe some kind of fight between the porn star and invading aliens, but so far the story is a bit slow-moving and feels a bit random.
As with any manga from Hiroya Oku, the content can be extreme. There is a lot of nudity and sex and language in this volume. I am also not really a fan of Oku's art, which relies heavily on CGI enhancements and what look like filtered photographs.
Not great.
Edit: Reread before reading the second volume. I had forgotten a lot of details and just how graphic the story got. This time I could see better where the story was leading, and it has some interesting elements, but I am definitely still not a fan of the giant porn star hook.
March 2, 2022
People confuse me sometimes. This is one of the mangaka’s newest series. Their previous titles included Inuyashiki and GANTZ. Something tells me if you didn’t like those two drug trips, you won’t like this one. First off, the art is beautiful. The full 2 page scenes are to die for. Second, the story is layered. Our female lead is a porn star which might turn a lot of people off. When trying to save a man, she later finds is from the future, a device is implanted in her arm and can affect her size. People. This is the same mangaka who made an old man into a machine. My favorite part of the plot so far is this website that is making end of the world wishes come true. I think the plot is interesting and the characters have room to grow. Is it mind blowing? No. I am just surprised how low the ratings are.
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