GANTZ 11: Perfect Edition

Gantz #31-33

by Hiroya Oku

Nach langen und verlustreichen Kämpfen ist es der Menschheit gelungen, einen Waffenstillstand mit den Alieninvasoren auszuhandeln. Nun gilt es, eine weitere Bedrohung endgültig zu beseitigen: Die Terroristen, die im Namen der schwarzen Kugel GANTZ überall Angst und Schrecken verbreiten …

Genres: Manga, Horror, Science Fiction, Graphic Novels, Comics Manga

652 pages, Paperback

Published June 3, 2021

About the author

Hiroya Oku (奥浩哉 Oku Hiroya, born September 16, 1967 in Fukuoka, Fukuoka) is a mangaka who is the creator of Gantz, Zero-One and HEN, all of which have been serialized in Young Jump. He has finished working on his most renowned manga, Gantz, which began in July 2000. His manga often contain explicit violence and gore, as well as sexual situations.

He won the second prize of the Youth Manga Awards in 1988, under the penname Yahiro Kuon.

He designed a character for Namco Bandai's Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 fighting game, Soulcalibur IV named Shura.

Reviews

[Baba · Rating 4 out of 5]

More hyper hyped Gantz adventure as they players struggle to survive in their warped reality. Can the couple ever be reunited? There are also huge changes for Gantz itself. And just 'cos the creators are so great at creating them we get some new wonderfully dark alien threats on top of the dominant Giant race. I can't believe that over 330 chapters (33 volumes!) in I am completely enthralled by this monstrous speculative fiction work. 8 out of 12 Four Star jam.
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[Rod Brown · Rating 3 out of 5]

At the start of this series I had trouble catching my breath keeping up with the unrelenting action, thrills, and shocks. In the closing arc, I'm still having trouble catching my breath, but now it's because I'm laughing so hard at the sheer ridiculousness of the gonzo plot developments.

I mean this book dares to make tumors funny.

I cannot wait to see how goofy this gets before it ends. I start the final volume tomorrow!

[Urbon Adamsson · Rating 4 out of 5]

As I expected, things got a little out of the rails. I already felt this in the last volume, but here was much more noticeable.

It's like Hiroya is dumping all the things he wanted to do for this series in the last volumes at 2x the speed of pacing.

There are a lot of epic battles and new characters introduced. The problem is that everything is happing so quickly, one after the other, that there is no time to create a solid structure behind these events and characters. Everything feels kinda hollow even though it's cool to look at.

Some of these characters look very cool and have great potential but there is pretty much zero character development.

There is no breathing room between epic battles and the adversaries are craziest than the ones before.

It's still a solid read but not as good as other volumes.

With 1 more volume to go, I don't expect this to improve but I hope, at least, for a solid end.

[Cade · Rating 4 out of 5]

so far a lot of plot holes towards the end but i don’t mind. the new group that came together is raw as FUCKKKKKK though holy shit. shit seems a little 2 happy rn so i just know something horrible is gonna happen in the last omnibus. fuck my shit life.

[Etienne · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very good! We see the ending of the series coming closer and closer.

[Aildiin · Rating 3 out of 5]

the action scenes are becoming hard to follow and there are a lot of them.
I am glad this is soon over because I am already over Gantz.
As soon as I read the next volume I think I will resell all my Gantz omnibus..

[Lee · Rating 3 out of 5]

Last two volumes have just been pure adrenaline, as the Gantz crew is forced to face their biggest opponent yet. Kurono and co. just can’t catch a break ever. You’d never guess where this story gets to.

[DarthPenn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Gantz is insane as ever and I loved every second

[Collin Henderson]

I’ll have whatever crack Oku was having when he wrote this

[Logan Simpson · Rating 2 out of 5]

Idk if it’s just me but I’m having a hard time following some of the things going on here. Also, there’s no way that guy was just 20 years old…

[Francisco · Rating 3 out of 5]

All things considered, it's managed to be somewhat entertaining. Let's see how it all wraps up.

[A.M. Molloy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Man, Tae is one lucky sonofabitch isn't she?

[Peter Derk · Rating 4 out of 5]

Harrowing as all hell. I kind of miss the early Gantz days when it seemed a little, I don't know, more contained, but you gotta give it to 'em, this shit is nuts.

[Noemi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hiroya Oku continues his story of Gantz with the teams fighting the aliens who ate abducting humans from earth. Kei continues to search for his true love, Tae. There were lots of gruesome deaths and naked humans throughout this volume. Kei finds Tae in the end.

[Nuno Dark · Rating 3 out of 5]

The art has just been getting worse and the fights more confusing. I still like everything else around it, and it's cool to see the story progress and finish. Also pretty cool to experience the alien side of things. And the whole metaphor, that it is exactly the same we humans do to animals, its still strong. But I just wish the enemies weren't riddled with so much bad cgi and the fights less confusing and cooler, like gantz used to be.

[Stephen Stroud · Rating 2 out of 5]

The story is off the rails. The stuff with the alien invasion is ok, and some of the art is cool, but the character development here is gone. And the story is garbage. Three stars for some decent art, and the beginning of the aliens coming down and the actual start of this omnibus. It just loses steam here and there.

[Kyle Coates · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've seen lots of people say the final arc of Gantz is one of it's weakest, but the stakes are so much higher now and the art is amazing as always. Can't wait to see how it ends!