February 9, 2005

• I spent 10+ hours of my life reading manga last night and wow I'm
  really blown away by this series called Gantz. It's really dark and
  emotional at times, not to mention that I must applaud the realism
  contained in terms of the fragility of a human body.

  At the subway a homeless person falls face first on the tracks,
  unconcious. Two kids cave in and go help the sack of shit. They manage
  to place the ragbag panhandler back up onto the platform. A train comes
  in and they fucking get smashed up and their heads fly off. The died
  but somehow they wake up in a room with other people who just died and
  a weirdo living in an 8-ball in some apartment. That 8-ball, Gantz
  sends them on missions to kill aliens. Points are attained by killing
  aliens, get 100 and they're free to live their lives normally.
  Inbetween missions they're free to live out their lives as they
  normally would, but tell a soul about Gantz and the bomb in your brain
  will detonate. Throughout the course of the story alot of strong
  characters are buchered to death, it's really emotional at times.
  There's no comic relief, but it's a great story.

  Yeah, it sounds completely ridiculous but it's probably the most
  awesome manga I've read yet. What other series has aliens, gore,
  nudity, and a wide variety of characters. Note that they died before
  going to Gantz, so there's suicide victims, victims of murder,
  gangsters who got whacked, kids and their grandma, all of it.
  
  

  Get Gantz Here

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