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Gantz #27
Gantz/27
Esiste qualcosa dopo la morte? I protagonisti di questo manga sono tutti defunti. Ma invece che in una tomba, si ritrovano dentro una stanza chiusa, in compagnia di una grande sfera che pare faccia da tramite tra i due mondi. I personaggi raggruppati in quel luogo non hanno nulla in comune fra loro e vengono inspiegabilmente riportati nel mondo reale per catturare una creatura misteriosa…
224 pages, Paperback
First published October 19, 2009
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About the author
Hiroya Oku
293 books338 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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February 5, 2024
My Word this is awesome!
At the beginning, the manga was so good because of the whole idea of gantz and the death matches and the scoring and the resurrection of people.
But now?
The manga evolved into an amazing story, a mind dazzling story.
Its insanely beautiful, i am so pumped up right now even so i am way past my sleeping time.
And i am heading right into the next volume! can't wait to see what is going to happen.
At the beginning, the manga was so good because of the whole idea of gantz and the death matches and the scoring and the resurrection of people.
But now?
The manga evolved into an amazing story, a mind dazzling story.
Its insanely beautiful, i am so pumped up right now even so i am way past my sleeping time.
And i am heading right into the next volume! can't wait to see what is going to happen.
March 7, 2022
The end has begun.
June 28, 2022
Volume 27: Chapter 292-303
Phase 2: Katastrophe
Arc 10: Italian Alien Mission
Arc 11: The Invasion Begins
It turns out that every Gantz team around the world were sent to Italy. Inaba and Suzuki were dead! Suddenly, the transfer begins. The mission is prematurely finished. The calculation started. Nishi got 100 points and he chose Option 2 for more powerful weapons. Reika also got 100 points. She trying to revive Suzuki but nothing happens. Later, Reika comes back to the room and she revived Kurono. So, now there are two Kuronos.
Kikuchi, with the help of Sebastian, meets Heinz, a German organization's owner. He is the one who instructed to build the black ball and formed Gantz organization around the world. Heinz said, his disabled daughter, started spurted some random numbers. He and his team deciphered the numbers and they got a way to build Gantz. It also turns out that Sebastian knows everything. He can control human fate!
The next morning, the sky turned bloody red. The invasion started!
The end of the world is coming! America has fallen!
The end of Phase 2.
Phase 2: Katastrophe
Arc 10: Italian Alien Mission
Arc 11: The Invasion Begins
It turns out that every Gantz team around the world were sent to Italy. Inaba and Suzuki were dead! Suddenly, the transfer begins. The mission is prematurely finished. The calculation started. Nishi got 100 points and he chose Option 2 for more powerful weapons. Reika also got 100 points. She trying to revive Suzuki but nothing happens. Later, Reika comes back to the room and she revived Kurono. So, now there are two Kuronos.
Kikuchi, with the help of Sebastian, meets Heinz, a German organization's owner. He is the one who instructed to build the black ball and formed Gantz organization around the world. Heinz said, his disabled daughter, started spurted some random numbers. He and his team deciphered the numbers and they got a way to build Gantz. It also turns out that Sebastian knows everything. He can control human fate!
The next morning, the sky turned bloody red. The invasion started!
The end of the world is coming! America has fallen!
The end of Phase 2.
February 25, 2025
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May 26, 2021
*slzička ukápla* Odpočívej v pokoji :(
December 27, 2020
¿Qué demonios está pasando aquí? :S
July 26, 2020
This is a review of the entire series.
Synopsis: Gantz tells the story of a teenager named Kei Kurono, among others, who die but find themselves brought back in perfectly healthy bodies and forced to participate in a "game" where they must hunt down and kill aliens.
Review: I almost gave up on Gantz several times, but now that I've read it all the way to the end, I'm glad I stuck with it. The beginning is dragged down by repulsive and unlikable characters, a messily paced story, unnecessary sexualization and gratuitous violence without much substance. As it progresses, however, the character development becomes pretty incredible and the growing threat of the enemies feels truly well done. Once the real enemies are revealed, it's mind-blowing how the series had been secretly foreshadowing their arrival from the very beginning.
Although it takes a while, some really good characters are introduced later on in the series and they're the ones that made me want to read to the end. Some characters that were absolutely unbearable in the beginning became polar opposites of their original selves and even made me sympathize with them quite a bit. The protagonist Kei for example, I hated him with all my heart for the first third of the series, he became progressively more likable in the second third of the story and then he evolved into one of the most memorable, unlikely heroes I've ever seen in this storytelling medium throughout the final third. The last third of the series is unbelievably terrifying with some of the most gruesome and disgusting battle/survival scenes in the history of fiction. It's much more bearable and intense in the final third because this time the violence and horror is happening to people we actually care about instead of a bunch of unlikable nobodies.
The final third of the story is what made me feel so glad that I didn't give up on this series. It had me on the edge of my seat more times than I can recall. There are a ton of chapters but they're very short and full of action which makes the series a quick read despite having almost 400 chapters. So even though the first third of the story was kinda bad in my opinion, it doesn't last for long and the payoff that comes after it's over truly impressed me. It's a flawed, thrilling and horrifying action series that takes a while to kick off. When it finally kicks off, however, it kicks off extremely hard.
Synopsis: Gantz tells the story of a teenager named Kei Kurono, among others, who die but find themselves brought back in perfectly healthy bodies and forced to participate in a "game" where they must hunt down and kill aliens.
Review: I almost gave up on Gantz several times, but now that I've read it all the way to the end, I'm glad I stuck with it. The beginning is dragged down by repulsive and unlikable characters, a messily paced story, unnecessary sexualization and gratuitous violence without much substance. As it progresses, however, the character development becomes pretty incredible and the growing threat of the enemies feels truly well done. Once the real enemies are revealed, it's mind-blowing how the series had been secretly foreshadowing their arrival from the very beginning.
Although it takes a while, some really good characters are introduced later on in the series and they're the ones that made me want to read to the end. Some characters that were absolutely unbearable in the beginning became polar opposites of their original selves and even made me sympathize with them quite a bit. The protagonist Kei for example, I hated him with all my heart for the first third of the series, he became progressively more likable in the second third of the story and then he evolved into one of the most memorable, unlikely heroes I've ever seen in this storytelling medium throughout the final third. The last third of the series is unbelievably terrifying with some of the most gruesome and disgusting battle/survival scenes in the history of fiction. It's much more bearable and intense in the final third because this time the violence and horror is happening to people we actually care about instead of a bunch of unlikable nobodies.
The final third of the story is what made me feel so glad that I didn't give up on this series. It had me on the edge of my seat more times than I can recall. There are a ton of chapters but they're very short and full of action which makes the series a quick read despite having almost 400 chapters. So even though the first third of the story was kinda bad in my opinion, it doesn't last for long and the payoff that comes after it's over truly impressed me. It's a flawed, thrilling and horrifying action series that takes a while to kick off. When it finally kicks off, however, it kicks off extremely hard.
April 7, 2018
[4,5 / 5]
La misión en Italia, además de ser extremadamente rara (con aquellas esculturas atacando a la gente de Gantz de todo el mundo unida sólo para derrotarlos) acabó demasiado rápido y al ser regresados a la habitación, a algunos les aparecía la leyenda "fin", por lo que pensaban que serían libres, sin embargo, a otros con los puntos necesarios, Gantz les seguía ofreciendo la opción 1 (libertad a cambio de perder su memoria).
Eso sí, algo que logró sacarme de mis casillas fue que en verdad consideraba a Reika mucho más inteligente que lo que demostró ser al volver a revivir a Kurono (el inocente sólo quería regresar con Tae, de todas formas). Cabe destacar que Reika vio a Gantz fuera de su bola.
Kikuchi (por fin me aprendí su nombre), estando en Alemania descubre lo que parece ser un (no tan) secreto acerca de las bolas Gantz, no obstante, se encuentra con el chico que le traducía las cosas y quien comienza a matar gente a voluntad propia.
Al día siguiente, el mundo aparece con un cielo rojo y los EEUU quedan destruidos, la gente no sabe qué es lo que está pasando pero los miembros de Gantz suponen que se trata de KATASTROPHE, por lo que intentarán combatir para salvar a sus seres queridos ... o a ellos mismos.
Ahora que ya quedan sólo unos cuantos tomos más, siento que han salido demasiadas cosas a la luz y no estoy completamente segura que en 10 tomos sean capaces de resolver lo que en 27 apenas se terminó de plantear casi completamente, como los problemas con Gantz, la guerra mundial, encargarse de las bolas negras, aliens, demonios y vampiros, entre muchas otras cosas que Hiroya tiene para ofrecer.
La misión en Italia, además de ser extremadamente rara (con aquellas esculturas atacando a la gente de Gantz de todo el mundo unida sólo para derrotarlos) acabó demasiado rápido y al ser regresados a la habitación, a algunos les aparecía la leyenda "fin", por lo que pensaban que serían libres, sin embargo, a otros con los puntos necesarios, Gantz les seguía ofreciendo la opción 1 (libertad a cambio de perder su memoria).
Eso sí, algo que logró sacarme de mis casillas fue que en verdad consideraba a Reika mucho más inteligente que lo que demostró ser al volver a revivir a Kurono (el inocente sólo quería regresar con Tae, de todas formas). Cabe destacar que Reika vio a Gantz fuera de su bola.
Kikuchi (por fin me aprendí su nombre), estando en Alemania descubre lo que parece ser un (no tan) secreto acerca de las bolas Gantz, no obstante, se encuentra con el chico que le traducía las cosas y quien comienza a matar gente a voluntad propia.
Al día siguiente, el mundo aparece con un cielo rojo y los EEUU quedan destruidos, la gente no sabe qué es lo que está pasando pero los miembros de Gantz suponen que se trata de KATASTROPHE, por lo que intentarán combatir para salvar a sus seres queridos ... o a ellos mismos.
Ahora que ya quedan sólo unos cuantos tomos más, siento que han salido demasiadas cosas a la luz y no estoy completamente segura que en 10 tomos sean capaces de resolver lo que en 27 apenas se terminó de plantear casi completamente, como los problemas con Gantz, la guerra mundial, encargarse de las bolas negras, aliens, demonios y vampiros, entre muchas otras cosas que Hiroya tiene para ofrecer.
January 24, 2025
Even though the fight was tough, they were brought back during the middle of the fight. Gantz ball has 'End' in it, so this will be their last game?
Old man died in the fight and Reika got 100 points. She tried to revive him but Gantz ball malfunctioned. When everyone got out the Gantz room, Reika went again for her clothes and saw Gantz man coming out and standing. He asked her again, then she brought back KEI! WTF REIKA?!
We got to know the truth behind Gantz! A German person's daughter is retarded but saying some numbers in an encoded pattern. Finally they decoded and that helped the German man build his business and also to the creation of Gantz balls.
The person (Sebastian) who met our Japanese Gantz researcher in Germany, is he a god or something? He caused a plane crash into a building! 💀
The end of the world begins with America's destruction.
Old man died in the fight and Reika got 100 points. She tried to revive him but Gantz ball malfunctioned. When everyone got out the Gantz room, Reika went again for her clothes and saw Gantz man coming out and standing. He asked her again, then she brought back KEI! WTF REIKA?!
We got to know the truth behind Gantz! A German person's daughter is retarded but saying some numbers in an encoded pattern. Finally they decoded and that helped the German man build his business and also to the creation of Gantz balls.
The person (Sebastian) who met our Japanese Gantz researcher in Germany, is he a god or something? He caused a plane crash into a building! 💀
The end of the world begins with America's destruction.
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January 5, 2022
Дивний пролог до фінальної арки “Гантзу”. У ньому чорні кулі без причини припиняють місію проти прибульців у вигляді шедеврів класичного мистецтва. Все вимикається, тих, хто вижив, телепортують по кімнатах, голі чуваки вилізають з куль та йдуть кудись по своїх справах.
Рейка отримує свою копію Куроно, такий собі любовний трик… квадрат із клонами.
Імплантованих бомб більше немає. Журналіста-розслідувача заплутують, з готовністю розповідаючи про те, що насправді відбувалося (все заради трансляцій та ставок, але чи правда це?), а потім настає час сцени з дивним німецьким отаку, який ледь не за бога себе видає.
А далі червоне небо та таємничий літаючий об’єкт, який знищує США. Щоб у фіналі було ще цікавіше.
Якось зовсім наліплено. Навіть художня складова зроблена так собі.
Рейка отримує свою копію Куроно, такий собі любовний трик… квадрат із клонами.
Імплантованих бомб більше немає. Журналіста-розслідувача заплутують, з готовністю розповідаючи про те, що насправді відбувалося (все заради трансляцій та ставок, але чи правда це?), а потім настає час сцени з дивним німецьким отаку, який ледь не за бога себе видає.
А далі червоне небо та таємничий літаючий об’єкт, який знищує США. Щоб у фіналі було ще цікавіше.
Якось зовсім наліплено. Навіть художня складова зроблена так собі.
March 28, 2023
Si bien muere el viejo e Inaba, la verdad no me importa, sentí que ya me había despedido de ellos, en especial Inaba hace mucho rato. Ahora era momento del viejo de ir con su esposa y darle un cierre de ciclo. Pero el problema es otro, qué mal aprovechado Roma, podría haber sido épico más capítulos allá, o en otros ciudades: Londres, Paris, New York, Sao Paulo. No sé, ideas que me habría encantado, pero fuera desechadas completamente, y lo peor es que en muy pocos capítulos. Más encima aquí dan la explicación de Gantz que nadie pidió, o por lo menos a mí no me interesaba, y por si fuera el colmo, pusieron a otro Kurono a pito de nada. Creo que ha sido el volumen que menos me ha gustado, y por la ejecución, porque tenía ideas buenísimas.
October 21, 2017
Gantz is a large black metal ball that transmits a team of recently deceased people in black shiny tight outfits to locations to fight groups of aliens. At the conclusion of the battles, they are transmitted back to their lives. After the battles, they are graded based on their fighting and can score points. When they reach 100 points they can return to their old lives, get better weapons for the Gantz fights or resurrect others that were killed in the battles. In this latest edition of Gantz, the team returns to find after they have lost several members and that the battles with the aliens is over. That's when it gets weird.
June 7, 2017
Se revelan más secretos sobre el origen de Gantz y a la vez nuevos misterios. Finalmente llega la "Katastrophe", que parece ser una invasión, y en poco tiempo acaban con los Estados Unidos. La caonversación de los dos Kuronos es muy divertida, me hizo pensar como sería si me encontrara conmigo mismo.
October 18, 2020
Oh wow, I like how is turning out! As the mission abruptly ends, and things seem to settle down into the end-of-mission routine, except, it's not the end, it's the beginning of something else, on a global scale. And one huge twist at the end that I certainly hadn't expected. Kurono, is this some sort of private fantasy of it being a solution to love triangles. Oh, that's hilarious.
May 8, 2022
Characters I absolutely started hating in a few pages: Reika and OG Kurono (like wtf both of you). All of Kurono's development and all he did for Tae. It feels such a low and dirty thing to do with the story. I'm currently quite mad at the author lol and my excitment to continue reading has dropped so much. Wtf was that for honestly, that's horrible.
March 24, 2024
All female characters here suck, but Jesus Reika sucks so much ass... She's on the same level as that short hair girl from the first volumes.
Also I feel like the art has gotten worse? Like the 3d models are very obvious and don't blend that well, which wasn't true for previous volumes.
Also I feel like the art has gotten worse? Like the 3d models are very obvious and don't blend that well, which wasn't true for previous volumes.
September 8, 2017
Another good volume.
October 4, 2017
Another good volume.
January 19, 2020
Wow, things just turned into a completely new direction. What even.
November 28, 2021
⭐️ 5 ⭐️
La misión en Italia estuvo wow, y luego inició la Katastrophe y ya no tengo ni idea del rumbo que tomará la historia
La misión en Italia estuvo wow, y luego inició la Katastrophe y ya no tengo ni idea del rumbo que tomará la historia
December 4, 2022
GOD WHAT A CRAZY RIDE // fun complex feelings
February 1, 2023
The end of the world is approaching and still 10 volumes to read hhhmmmm
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
December 14, 2024
Holy shit. Two Keis? Gantz made my humans? Maybe? It really is a catastrophe.
October 28, 2025
A big battle starts but seems to end more abruptly than anyone expected. Now what? Is the room at an end now? Is there an apocalypse on the horizon?
June 7, 2014
On pourrait appeler ce tome triple retournement de situation : entre le journaliste, Reïka, Keï, on ne sait plus où donner de la tête au bout d'un moment.
En bonus, c'est la deuxième fois que l'auteur exprime de façon manifeste une espèce de croyance limite cathare (Dieu ne fait rien, c'est le Diable qui agit) qui résonne bizarrement avec ma lecture de Moi Lucifer.
En bonus, c'est la deuxième fois que l'auteur exprime de façon manifeste une espèce de croyance limite cathare (Dieu ne fait rien, c'est le Diable qui agit) qui résonne bizarrement avec ma lecture de Moi Lucifer.
December 30, 2011
El fin del mundo como lo conocemos. La catástrofe ha empezado.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
February 11, 2014
Just when I thought things were getting repetitive, Hiroya Oku manages to surprise me again...
July 12, 2015
Que brutalidad de tomo. Varios giros inesperados lo hacen uno de los mejores de toda la serie.
October 1, 2015
Litros de tinta convertidos en litros de sangre en este vigésimo séptimo tomo de esta preciosa barrabasada llamada Gantz.
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