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Cute Japanese and European teenage girls, wearing Wehrmacht uniforms, exploring a Japanese school in a Spanish town full of French people who make Venetian glassware on Switzerland's French border, in a country that has a soldier princess playing Amazing Grace on a trumpet, following a Shinto-Christian religion with a miko-nun, treating tropical diseases only children get, accepting yen as currency while not being able to read kanji, celebrating Spanish traditions mixed with Chinese New Years legends, shooting at African owls (that try to keep them away from schoolgirl ghosts) with German rifles, being led by a traumatized commander who is afraid of lightning, tricking Italian ... mobsters to keep them from moving in on the girls' bootlegging operation which finance their paycheck and supplies, playing war games with a nun and getting pissed drunk, pissing themselves and becoming baby factories for the Pope, creating biological weapons while still little kids and killing thousands, all while at war with German-speaking brown-skinned Americans with bindis on females' foreheads from a Roman Empire lead by the Pope that follows a monotheistic religion that believes in the Judgment Day, while piloting a finally fixed multi-legged, demon-slaying, weather-reporting, stealth-sniper and simulation training mode capable, AMAZING GRACE SINGING, Engrish-speaking, talking like a SPESS MEHREEN,wall-climbing, 200mm coil gun-firing "son of the god of fire" supertank from the past (aka Tank-kun).

10/10 Watch this Dank Show.

I'm going to start this off by saying I love anything related to World War Two, especially anything about the Eastern Front.

I'm willing to make a whole lot of exceptions for Eastern Front films, but in this case, even I couldn't overlook some glaring flaws. The film opened with an enjoyable ten minutes, and a very realistic depiction of an airstrike, I thought I was sold, and had the film ended there, I'd have given this a 10.

But then the rest of the film happened.

While I never expected them to play the setting straight, they could have at least taken the time to make a ... coherent plot. We are introduced to a number of characters in the underworld/afterlife who make a grand total of "zero" effect on anything in the story. It feels as if the writers came up with a bunch of different story ideas for this film, placed all their manuscripts in a blender, and then stitched together the pieces to make a (thankfully) short film.

The framing device of using real people telling their stories as if they were a part of this in real life was interesting, and could have worked, had the plot not revolved around an (absurd) SS Officer trying to bring back knights from the Teutonic Order (which was nowhere near Moscow by the way) to use as an army against the Soviets. Let's pretend for a moment that bringing back an undead army armed with swords to fight tanks was in any way tactically sound, we're still left wondering... what is the main character doing here again? No really, the entire film is basically the main character going to different places to have some other person give a half-done exposition speech before going off to do the same thing for about an hour and twelve minutes.

Overall score, 0/10, but that's not an option, so they get a 1.

This series has everything I could have wanted, blood, gore, graphic and unnecessary violence, even children being forced to fight to the death. This was going to be my next "Battle Royale", yet sadly it missed the mark, flew a few more miles, through a window, and into a thousand dollar vase.

The story was intriguing to say the least, but a lack of any substantial plot development by the halfway mark left me waiting for the series to actually get going. The art and sound were fine, nothing interesting, but nothing terribly negative. Then came the characters, who are some of the least interesting, shallow, ... and simply boring characters I have ever endured in an anime. The fact that they are terrible people wasn't what bothered me, I loved the Droogs from a Clockwork Orange, but they had actual motivation. By the end of GANTZ the protagonist hadn't changed in the slightest, and was still the same whiny coward he was in the beginning. The "monster fights" generally ended on anti-climatic notes, and I couldn't wait to see that ending theme for the last time.