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I read Gantz a couple of months ago so this review isn't as fresh as it should be, also, i haven't written a review in this site since i was like 16 years old. That said, this is one of the most dogshit pieces of literature i've ever read. "But you gave it a 6! How is that dogshit?"
Well, I gave it a 6 because as well as being one of the worst manga ever, it's also one of the most hilarious reading experiences i've had.

Gantz is so funny at times i just couldn't stop myself from reading. Everytime i was 40 chapters into a ... fight, i said to myself "I swear to god if this fight doesn't end right fucking now i'm gonna stop reading" and then something so outlandish would happen i just had to keep going.
I don't think Gantz even intended to be funny. Sure, there's comedy but it's usually just big boob nya~ jokes i don't find even remotely funny because i'm not japanese. I'm talking about a t-rex spitting a fire ball out of nowhere, 8 dudes taking a piss next to each other, and a dude unnecessarily doing blackface and then shooting like 800 people.
Gantz is also very disgusting and horrifying at times. Lots of grotesque stuff and WTF moments. It likes to just bring sex into scenes that had nothing to do with it. Two characters could be talking about whatever like "oh my god we need to kill these aliens" and then it would somehow end up being about fucking.
The art is phenomenal and it's one of the most remarkable aspects of Gantz. Can't believe this dude drew all of this for like 400 chapters.
I did not care for any of the characters. Gantz made it clear everyone was a piece of shit and it made it very hard to like any of them. They all do weird shit and then everyone acts like they didn't 20 chapters later.
I would not read this again, and i wasn't invested enough to read any of the other Gantz spin-offs. I must say, i finished this manga just because i was in too deep, and i would stop myself from finishing it if i was just starting it. It's not very good, but it's incredibly entertaining, even though some fights stretch for far too long.

I don't have much else to say about it. If you read it, please don't take it too seriously, it will make your reading experience better.

I think what makes Blame such a memorable experience is that the manga itself is an experience contrary to an actual narrated story.

You just kinda see things happen and go around picking up the pieces little by little and what makes this so great is that everything is sort of left up to your imagination and you can interpret things by yourself.
Obviously there are things happening and you can see Killy has a goal but most of Blame is just seeing him walk around in hopes of completing this goal.
What's best about this narrative choice is that you can feel everything that's going on but ... everything becomes more personal if that makes sense?
You are led to believe this is a world that's been like this for thousands and thousands of years and that Killy has just been wandering around barely meeting any people for thousands of years as well.
This sort of notion can be interpreted in any part of the story as the author utilizes landscapes and things in the environment to convey the story and you can just imagine how things got to that point and i think the art itself tells the story.
Blame only needs few words to tell its story, and what's best is that theres barely any story by itself and i think this makes Blame all the more cool.
You are just drawn into a story in which you can't understand 99.9% of what's happening and i think you don't even need to understand it that much to actually enjoy it because you can just go interpreting things and filling in the blanks and that itself becomes the meaning of the story.

That's why i said Blame is more of an experience than a narrated story, because at the end of everything it's all about the journey and you start to feel the story a lot more instead of reading it, and this is intensified a lot more when there is barely any dialogue and everything is just packed with scenery and beautiful art.
At the end of the day i'd just say Blame is a beautiful journey and i completely understand if you think it's shit because it's a different type of manga and it can become annoying if you just don't understand anything.
10/10

When you tell someone to read a manga about wheelchair basketball it sounds almost absurd, but once you get into it you realize this manga is more than just wheelchair basketball

If i had to describe real, it would be this sentence: "life is fucking hard", because this is what real is, the hardness of life, the effort one has to make to keep living, this is the reality of the world.

What i like most about REAL it's that it has more than just 1 protagonist, the series revolves around 3 persons, each one battling their own demons and battling to survive the condition their living ... in. The characters from REAL have so much depth and development that i'd have to say, from all the mangas i've read, this manga is the only one that actually made me cry, and it wasn't just some tears, i was actually crying my eyes out, which made me realize how much connection i had to the characters on this manga. The ways the characters are presented makes you feel what they're feeling, for example even though Takahashi is presented as an asshole and a selfish person, the more you know about him, and the more you go on into this character you start to like him, you start to feel what he's feeling on a deeper level, which many mangas fail to do, the same can be said about nomiya or togawa, they're all created on such a personal level, that i'd say this manga feels more real than most of the manga I've read.

If you wanna read something serious, something to actually think about at night or in the shower, then read REAL, I wouldn't say everyone would like it, it feels more of a book than a manga, for the simple fact that this manga doesn't follow the normal characteristics and tropes of a manga.
It isn't farfetched to say this is the best manga I've read up to date, and if you wanna have something to think about, then give it a try.