GIGANT (9)

Gigant #9

by Hiroya Oku, 奥浩哉

白熱! パピコVSサタン究極の戦いへ

奥浩哉が描く漫画を「超」えるボーイ・ミーツ・ガール! 人類を守るため、その人類の悪意が産んだサタンと死闘を繰り広げるパピコと未来人たち。愛するパピコの側で、その戦いを見守る零だったが・・・

【編集担当からのおすすめ情報】
常に挑戦を続ける漫画家・奥浩哉の最新作、クライマックス!!!
戦い続ける裸の英雄・パピコと零の愛は、人類の悪意を超えることはできるのか?
他の漫画では決して味わえないスケール感で描かれる物語も、いよいよ佳境へ。是非 体験してください!

Genres: Manga, Science Fiction, Romance, Comics, Fiction

188 pages, Paperback

First published August 30, 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

[Urbon Adamsson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Building on the momentum of the previous volume, this installment remains action-packed, culminating in the conclusion of the epic battle against the giant Satan.

By the end, the AI entity behind all the chaos is finally revealed.

Only one volume remains in this thrilling saga.

[Azori Blomkvist · Rating 3 out of 5]

El satán cae por fin pero los problemas no terminan aún para papico :c

[Greg · Rating 4 out of 5]

4/5 The super hero squad and Chiho have their final showdown with Satan. They later get beamed up to the mothership where they meet the A.I.s Plato and Socrates, the two responsible for the ETE website and all of the monstrosities.

Rei and Chiho sharing a moment on the cover of volume 9.

Read 1/20/2023

[47Time · Rating 2 out of 5]

The Underwear Four tackle Satan, but get ripped apart. We finally see a new tactic from Chiho. FPS gamers will recognize it as tea-bagging. Then she grows even larger and tears Satan to bits. Why didn't I think of that one?

The world's celebration is interrupted when the orbital station descends from the sky. It doesn't take a big brain to figure out that normally it would break it apart under its own weight. It's a manga, so that doesn't happen, but come on, physics, do your thing. Things start getting sucked up into the ship, including Chiho and the two surviving women of the Underwear Four. (chuckle) Getting sucked in. Did I mention that every one of them is well endowed? More on sucking later.

On the ship the big-boobed trio meet Socrates and Plato, the AIs that are the cause of everything. They have the wizened beards, but the attitude and dress of 15-year-olds nerds. The AIs wonder why Chiho is altruistic when so much of humanity is self-centered and destructive. The girls answer that it's a part of being human. They ask the AIs to stop killing humans and the latter kind of agree if they can fondle the girls' boobs. Or maybe even sleep with them. What's the big deal, right? Award-winning writing there! The girls are repulsed at the idea for some strange reason. I thought they cared about saving humanity. Come on, take one for the team! Then the US launches nuclear missiles at the station. That sure was out of the blue. It seems like the station disintegrates.

[Michael Sorbello · Rating 4 out of 5]

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 aliens 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.

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[georgiaotaku · Rating 5 out of 5]

Listen I give this series a lot of credit. I can’t say whether it is truly justified but it’s just how I choose to see things. I choose to see more in a story. Satan being the final boss and the real masterminds threw me for a loop. Spoilers but Socrates and Plato (AI versions) were the ones responsible for everything. These supposedly superior beings have been using earth as a play thing. Why? Because they think they know best. What is probably ironic is that only the female warriors with Papico survived the battle with Satan. There is a deeper meaning in that somewhere. Especially when you add on the fact that the two AIs decide that all will be forgiven and they will leave if they can touch Papico’s boobs. And then they get nuked. Well a bit before that they have a very important conversation about sexism and it was awesome. I’m all for this crap. I don’t want it to end.

[Diogo Muller · Rating 3 out of 5]

Gigant is a really weird series. Many times, it's mostly "How to make a manga about a Pornstar fighting Kaiju the most boring possible". Others, it's incredibly weird - and that's where, most times, the series shine.

This volume has *both*. Some really boring moments, a good fight, and then a moment so weird but incredible, that individual parts of this could be one, three and five stars. I really have no idea about what was the author's intent here, but the main twist in very good. Everything else? Kinda passable.

[Carlos Arias · Rating 2 out of 5]

Es interesante que Oku concluya que la naturaleza humana se resumen en un pajero virgen que sólo quiere tocar tetas y no le importa nada más, no hay autocritica no ven la dualidad, no todo es blanco o negro siempre hay gris.

Aunque la I.A. de esta obra se supone que tiene años más avanzada que la I.A. verdadera parece que en realidad nunca alcanzará la complejidad de un ser humano.

4/10

[Fan of fanservice · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very explosive volume! I was so enthralled the whole time. Great amount of action and fanservice that still fits the atmosphere/narrative.

ENDS WITH THE NEXT VOLUME!!! 😱 I’m sad but also hella excited to see what they do! Hope it’s a thick book to read through and concludes nicely.

[Mario · Rating 4 out of 5]

افلاطون و سقراط بی نظیر بودن اینجا

[Heber Guerra-Recinos · Rating 4 out of 5]

Things kept getting intense. It seems we’re reaching the end here.

[Noe · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read the Spanish version published by Panini México, not the Japanese version.

[Ricardo Figueira · Rating 4 out of 5]

(The review is for the whole series, until vol. 9)

Very nice manga series, mixing dystopia and eroticism, with an obvious wink to Manara’s “Gulliveriana”.

[Oscar Rasmussen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ya sabía que llegábamos a este momento pero me dolió leerlo :(

[Alejandro Casanova vázquez · Rating 5 out of 5]

Tremenda obra maestra.

[Juan · Rating 3 out of 5]

El cliffhanger más duro desde lo de la 4a de Lost.

[Fabio · Rating 5 out of 5]

First reaction: shock.

Ma quanto sono belle le tavole?

[Charlie Pasta · Rating 3 out of 5]

oh my god. A big reveal so deranged dumb that it actually justifies all the fucked up stuff in this for me.

[Victor Medina · Rating 2 out of 5]

que troll el autor definitivamente a este manga le sobraron volumenes principalemente los de la "relacion" de los protagonistas, de no ser por eso seria una lectura rapida de un manga absurdo, graciosioso y con peleas de kaijus desnudos todo el tiempo, lastima que no fue asi.