 If you liked
Battle Royale
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 ...then you might like
Gantz
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Both follow the same concept of people being forced into a death game. Both are very graphic and gory with interesting story and characters, GANTZ is a little more supernatural with more nudity as well but above all both are very similar.
I thought I'd made this recommendation already. I hadn't. (True story...)
After reading the BR manga, I went on to read the novel. There's a world of difference between the novel and its completely over the top manga adaptation. The simplest way of explaining it is for me to tell you to imagine the author of Gantz, Oku, was allowed to insert as much graphic violence and nudity as humanly possible, while keeping the story and characterisation as is.
Remember that part in the novel where - in a flashback - the Terminator/final boss character plucked an eyeball out at school?... No? What about the part where
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Recommended by AironicallyHuman
If you enjoy blood, gore, action, sex, and lots and lots of death then these are the perfect series for you to check out.
Both incredibly graphic and gory manga, with the concept of deadly survival games with a lot of killing involved. Whereas Gantz goes for the sci-fi approach, Battle Royale goes for realism. ^_^
Do you need a good old fight for survival in form of a male-aimed, game-like graphic gore fest? Look no further.
Both have students and bombs, sex and guts, wimpy jerks and manly chads. Gantz also throws aliens in the mix. The readers will likely root for some characters and loathe others deeply, struck with the brutality and meanness extents of human nature.
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Recommended by RenaPsychoKiller
Both are horror-action series that are unusually heavy on the bloody, gore, and sexual content and have forced kill-or-be-kill battle set-up.
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Recommended by lithiumflower
Both are violent, exciting, and carefully drawn. Both are based on the idea of an extreme TV show using unsuspecting members of the general public.
Characters fight to survive, and if they try to run away then a bomb goes off in their head. It has the same feeling of hopelessness that runs through Battle Royale, and while reading Battle Royale I was shocked at some of the similarities. If you like one then you will like the other.
Gantz and Battle Royal both take random people away from society into a type of "game" where the only way to survive is too kill.
Combining graphic violence with a game style concept and gimmick, Gantz and Battle Royale are classic survival horror series. Both series consists of a group of characters trapped in a death game where they must fight in order to survive. The follow a different set of rules and principles but the core of the themes remain. Both series' main male protagonists also adapts similar personality with a strong dedication to survive. Throughout both series, we learn much more about the other players and what awaits them.
While Battle Royale deals a lot more with character development, there are many similarities that are present between the two series'.
In terms of sex scenes and overall nudity, the same elements are in Gantz, although in a more extreme state.
Another great similarity is the AMAZING amount of realism that both of these manga contain, luring the reader in with relatable stories and setups.
If you're into the horror aspects of BR, you'll certainly like Gantz! In fact, I would say that the brutality in BR does next to NOTHING to prepare you to some of Gantz's more extreme scenes.
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Recommended by Shatteredxx
They're both about survival games
They both have a lot of action,gore and nudity
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Recommended by QueenOfHeroes
Both Battle Royale and Gantz are similar in many ways.
First off, both of them have a group of people put into a place where they must kill or be killed. The only difference is the Battle Royale focuses on only one such setting, while Gantz has multiple characters go into this setting multiple times. Plus, in Battle Royale, the people are killing humans, while in Gantz, aliens are being killed.
Both have extremely similar styles of art, with tons of gore and nudity present in both of them.
Overall, both of these manga, are similar in a multitude of ways and if you like one, you'll most
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Recommended by LPGeneratorx