Feb 3, 2023
"Dead Or Alive has too much fanservice". "Highschool DXD has too much fanservice". "Highschool Of The Dead has too much -" Calm down people! Gantz is here and oh boy it uses shock value and fanservice worse than most Seinen and Ecchi media. Gantz is known in the beginning as being infamous for terrible characters, poor, shoehorned and unneeded usages of shock value and fanservice, pacing and story. Let's get to the details.
Story: The story is about a young man named Kei Kurono who is pathetically perverted and very well weak. After school he does some outside activities and meets with his friend Katou. They
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head to the train station in which they find a homeless man and after saving him they just wait for the train to run them over because they weren't fast enough *facepalms*. They get partially resurrected by a mysterious ball like being known as Gantz which they must survive in a death game and kill all the aliens as possible. A very interesting premise but the story loses its identity by focusing on other random stuff for no reason other to say "Some humans are bad. Life is tough" and has many plot holes and inconstancies. The anime adaptation is worse as it uses a terrible original ending that has no relation to the manga at all.
Characters: Most of the characters are awful. Many of the males are cliched, over- arrogant for the sake of "Human can be bad at times", perverted, narcissistic and idiotic while the females are damsels in distresses, almost only exist to be sexually objectified (Yes actually they are) and used for death fodder and sex. While Kishimoto gets development. It's very short as they kill her off fast after giving her "development" which is absolutely pointless and stupid.
Sound: Most of the music is trash and misplaced. Example is when they're fighting the father Green Onion Alien. It sounds like superhero music is being played rather than fitting music that's supposed to sound more intense. The suspense/unsettling music sounds like it was ripped off of classic horror films like Halloween though the opening is cheesy fun while the ending theme is good. The Japanese voices are good but the dub is garbage. The dub tries to poorly emulate most of Manga Entertainment's profanity filled cheesy dubs and the characters sound more annoying in the dub such as Kishimoto's screaming and Kei's whiny voice though usual for ADV to have poor dubbing choices.
Overall: It's quite pretty bad at times and I hope the manga is better too. The fanservice is actually sexist to the point it makes Dead Or Alive, Highschool DXD, Highschool Of The Dead and even Fairy Tail look clean in comparison. Gantz is a mess and it seems it wants to destroy its great ideas and potential at times.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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