Gantz
GANTZ • Gantz/Osaka
Oku, Hiroya
Manga
Completed
2000
Description
Lonely high school student Kei Kurono isolates himself out of a growing cynicism toward his fellow man and the cruelty they are capable of enacting. One day, while waiting to take the subway to school, Kei’s classmate Masaru Katou leaps onto the tracks in an effort to save a drunk man. Driven by an uncharacteristic desire to rescue someone else, Kei follows Katou down into danger. While successful in saving him, the two boys are killed by the train. Kei wakes up beside Katou in an apartment full of strangers and furnished by a giant black orb with a glass-like outer surface. After finding out that everyone in the room has recently died, words appear on the black ball tasking them with killing a strange creature. The ball equips Kei and the others with power suits and mysterious guns before sending them off to collect this bizarre bounty. Although Kei discovers the mission to be far more deadly than originally suspected, he manages to survive. He is teleported back to the apartment where he and the other survivors are rewarded point values according to their actions in battle by the black sphere, which a fellow survivor says is called “Gantz.” Despite his death earlier that day, Kei is granted the ability to return to his daily life with one condition: he can be uprooted from his day at any time and summoned back to the apartment, where Gantz will task him and other recently deceased with the assassination of another target. While Katou dreads the inevitable return to Gantz, Kei finds himself living for the sole purpose of carrying out these missions. Thriving in the heat of battle and learning to care about himself and his comrades, Kei faces escalating monstrous threats that begin to bleed out into his normal life outside of Gantz. [Written by MAL Rewrite]
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Lightning Counterstrike
Converging on Despair
Flashing All His Might
Exchanging Despair for Hope
Confronting His Heaviest Burden
The Melancholy of Prometheus
A Challenge From the Defeated
The Final Barrier
Rush Hour
Dueling Etiquette
Where the Missing Mass Goes
Proof of Humanity
Perfect plan
Question Time
Transgression and a Profession of Love
How to Make a Hero
The great escape
Deal with the devil
Dissonant Resonance
Sky Tower
Meager Redemption
Battlecry.
Confession and repentance.
The Squinting Tyrant
Steel March
Tiny Love Song
A Forbidden Dream
Parallel Strike
I, Too
Deus Ex Machina
Lovers' Crossing
Beautiful Feelings
Pinpoint Victory
Less than a Fight
Rampaging Tumor
Saturated Skull
Quenched Flames
The Truth Behind Agression
A Game of Life and Death
Taking the Bait
Breakdown Revisited
The Safe Haven Is Breached
Reversal of Fortune
The First Link in the Chain
Hopes United
Strangled by Fear, You Taste Hope
Life's Questions and Answers
Rescue Ships Passing in the Night
Irreversible Lives
The Limits Made Clear
Gathering of Wills
Reverse Invasion
Gathering Under the Banner of Rebellion
Rebel Forces
Transcendence
Little Birds in a Cage
Toy Girl
Exposed Reunion
The Choice of the Strong
Depths of an Alien World
The Very Bottom of the Food Chain
Perverted Help
A Sign of Death
Skinned Life
Pursuit of Safety
A Moment of Dominance
Twist and Turn
Clash of Civilisations
Agitation
Loss of Control
Executing the Counterattack
Stealth Hope
People Saved, Things Wasted
Resolve Unleashed
Collision with the Unknown
Just Another Battlefield
Tokyo Eliminator
Rejected Surrender
Shooting Stars
Daylight of Damnation
The Berlin Trickster
Things Come to Light in the Mansion
The Old Sage of Darkness
How to Build an Eternity
Warped Providence and Love
Stirrings Within the Black Sphere
The Meaning of "Finished"
Colony Collapse Disorder
Shutdown
The Price of Courage
International Tragedy
Wisdom of Beauty
Intelligence Like That of a Straw
The World Attacks
The Roar of Collapse
Definition of Bullying
Warped Thoughts
The Link Between Mind and Sphere
Factory
Desperate Meeting
Proud Primates
Warm Memories
Prelude to Collapse
A Valuable Choice
Once in a Lifetime Rush
The Marksman
Questioning the Questioner
Regaining a Plan
Melee Rush
Roars of Terror
Oka vs. Nurari, One-on-One!
The Gap in Levels Between Me and Us
Ping Pong
Survival of the Fittest
The Ones Not Going Back
Forced to Compete
Ambush
Feminine Hell
Mind Over Muscle
Impossible Death
Like a Cockroach
Annihilation vs. Extinction
Vs. the SDF
Half-Awakened
SplatterHead
Desperation
100-Pointer
Howeva I Want
With One Finger
Thee and Thou?
The Westerners
A Single-minded Man
The Three Total Sadists
Hypocrite Alien
Enlightenment Through Death
Cheap Lives
Hunter to Hunted
The Last Bit of Strength
City of Gluttons
West Side Story
What the Hell
A Delightful Stink
Dootonbori
Nurarihyon
Host Samurai
Next Phase
Purifying Light
Assault Against the Reality
Hero, Me
Lets Go Somewhere
A Selfless Cause
Home Visit
Split Bamboo
Flow
A New Dark Massacre!
Kurono Kei
Sexy Images of Reika Half-Dressed
Contact
Key
Lovely Stalker
That Inerasable "Something"
Brothers
Your Job Is Done
Number 1
A Third Member Returns
Comeback
How to Use Freedom
100 Points
The Pathos of Rejoicing
Omake
Synchronicity
Flying Slash
It's Useless
The Thing That He Sees
A Desperate Attack
Declaration of Mankind's Extermination
Lord of Lightning
Record of Bloodshed
Before the Storm
A Worthy Opponent
Swing Rock
Fists
A Man Born from a Wish
Murder Vomit
Gokkun
Non-Fixed Form
Chicken
Close Combat
Transposition
Burning Type
Street Fight
The Oni Is Outside
Public Prescence
Common Knowledge
Changing Clothes
Muscle Rider
Punishment
Investigation
Present
100 Point Menu
Vanish
Argentate Film
Murderer
Area
Personal Attack
Trackless
Split
The Truth Is Revealed
Escape
Reunion
Target
Transparency
Embrace
Afterimage
Separation
Loophole
Telephone Shocking
The Game of Death
Teeth
Whirlwind
Shibuya at 5:00pm
Seminar
Daytime Lantern
Runion
The Only One
Encounter
Black Clothing
Hundred Eyes
Surprise Attack
Rampaging Dinosaur
Feelings
Decoy
Unavoidable
Simultaneous Kills
Leader
Encourgement
Falling Off
The Wanderers
The Power to Live
Cannibalism
Roar!
Father's Back
Superman
Prey
Bisection
Sword
Kansai
Survival of the Fittest
Jurassic
New Rule
Sweet Gift
High Noon
Confrontation
Passing by Each Other
Dying in Anger
The Death of Sensei
Atonement
Chinese
Unarmed Fighting
Pedestrians' Paradise
Shinjuku Holocaust
Shinjuku at 10:00am
The Morning of Crime
The Man Behind a Mask
Jealousy
Midnight Class
Sweetheart
Underground Master
World Game
The Man from Hakata
Interrogation
Murder
Oppression
Learned
Super Human
Suicide
Growth
Annihilation
Existence Revealed
The Final Target
Justice
Absent Minded > Insecure
Class Breakdown
The Game of Life
Time
Deranged
Being Played
Responsibility
Fight Scene in the Sky
Long Jump
Kei Kurono
The Black Ball's Room
Transfer Student
Sexual Harassmen?
Alone
Brother
The Meaning of Victory
True Face
Communication
Human Language
Failed Sneak Attack
Incapable
The Woman Who Fights to Win or Die
Cold Words
Burst
Read Carefully
Crying
Avenging
Deadly Lips
Barrier
Slaughter
Hand of the Evil Spirit
Grand Feast-O-Death
Buddha
Feeling Superior
Poor Method
Arrival of Teachings
Vol.6 0067: Slave of Destruction
Vol.6 0066: Sensational Battle
Vol.6 0065: Lack of Mercy
Vol.6 0064: Angle of Attack
Vol.6 0063: Palm
Vol.6 0062: Akimbo
Vol.6 0061: Gate
Vol.6 0060: Guide
Vol.6 0059: Sex
Vol.5 0058: Despair
Vol.5 0057: Preacher
Vol.5 0056: New Participants
Vol.5 0055: The Emperor's New Clothes
Vol.5 0054: Distrust, Discomfort
Vol.5 0053: False Calm
Vol.5 0052: Weakness
Vol.5 0051: Capture
Vol.5 0050: Collapse
Vol.5 0049: Clever Strategy
Vol.5 0048: Boss
Vol.5 0047: Resonance
Vol.4 0046: The Back Room
Vol.4 0045: Shudder
Vol.4 0044: Flock of Tanakas
Vol.4 0043: An Unexpected Development
Vol.4 0042: Complicated Information
Vol.4 0041: Bird
Vol.4 0040: Ignored Warning
Vol.4 0039: Submerged Threat
Vol.4 0038: Sacrifice
Vol.4 0037: Malfunction
Vol.4 0036: Not What It Seems
Vol.4 0035: Singing Voice
Vol.3 0034: Tanaka
Vol.3 0033: Group Madness
Vol.3 0032: Forgotten Things
Vol.3 0031: Unexplainable, Inscrutable
Vol.3 0030: Disappearance on the Road
Vol.3 0029: Gang
Vol.3 0028: Returned
Vol.3 0027: Latent Ability
Vol.3 0026: Dear Pet
Vol.3 0025: Lucky Man
Vol.3 0024: Great Strength
Vol.3 0023: Normality
Vol.2 0022: Duplication
Vol.2 0021: Clone
Vol.2 0020: Scoring
Vol.2 0019: Gantz
Vol.2 0018: Conditions of Survival
Vol.2 0017: Fire
Vol.2 0016: Metamorphosis of the Flesh
Vol.2 0015: Jump or Die
Vol.2 0014: Fearless
Vol.2 0013: Eye
Vol.2 0012: Hypnotism and Hallucination
Vol.2 0011: No Survivors
Vol.1 0010: Rage
Vol.1 0009: Eichmann Test
Vol.1 0008: Slaughter
Vol.1 0007: Non-Preplanned Harmony
Vol.1 0006: Encounter with the Onion Alien
Vol.1 0005: Illusion
Vol.1 0004: Command from the Black Sphere
Vol.1 0003: The Naked Suicide Girl
Vol.1 0002: The Enigma Room
Vol.1 0001: A Certain Accident
