Gantz, Band 9

Gantz #25-27

by Hiroya Oku

Nach den heftigen Auseinandersetzungen mit weiteren hochgefährlichen Gruppierung in Osaka, kehren die Mitglieder der Gantz-Gruppe nach Tokio zurück. Doch der Frieden währt nicht lange, denn die letzte Schlacht beginnt und das Ende der Welt naht …

Genres: Manga, Horror, Science Fiction, Graphic Novels, Comics, Comics Manga

660 pages, Paperback

Published December 3, 2020

About the author

Hiroya Oku (奥浩哉 Oku Hiroya, born September 16, 1967 in Fukuoka, Fukuoka) is a mangaka who is the creator of Gantz, Zero-One and HEN, all of which have been serialized in Young Jump. He has finished working on his most renowned manga, Gantz, which began in July 2000. His manga often contain explicit violence and gore, as well as sexual situations.

He won the second prize of the Youth Manga Awards in 1988, under the penname Yahiro Kuon.

He designed a character for Namco Bandai's Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 fighting game, Soulcalibur IV named Shura.

Reviews

[Baba]

Three more volumes of this intense series are collected in this omnibus. Volume 25 sees the highest ever ranking alien, Nurarihyon still rampaging and only the Tokyo players are left to combat it; volume 26 sees the sense shattering apocalyptic warning overrides everyone's downtime; and volume 27 truly turns it up with not only the start of another alien mission, but the confirmation of other players and off-key of all, a bizarre duplication! The series has huge rumblings of a dramatic change of focus, with the journo investigating Gantz, the 'game' rolling more into the mainstream reality and a realisation that Gantz itself might be a lot bigger than the players realised! By the end of volume 27, the series has taken a new path that the creators have drawn and plotted so well that it all feels organic. So much going on, all making sense, all hugely entertaining and the deep diving ongoing mystery. What's not to like? 8 out 12, Four Star read.

2024 read

[Rod Brown]

The aliens the Gantz team fights keep getting more and more powerful, so maybe its time to get off that track and start heading toward, oh, say, maybe, hmmm . . . the apocalypse?

But it wouldn't be a Gantz volume without something tasteless and triggering, so how about a school shooting to set the end-of-the-world mood?

Meanwhile a journalist is making progress in his investigation to find out the origin of the black spheres.

It's time for the final quarter of this gonzo sci-fi thriller! What ending could possibly top all that has come before?

[Urbon Adamsson]

The story is growing into a level of scale that I feel it won't be sustainable.

Let's see where this is going, but for now it's still pretty good.

[Reyne Derrick]

Gantz, No!
No! Please no!
How could you rush two of the most interesting plots in the series so far?
Why the fuck did you skip over the Italian mission, that was so utterly awesome and fascinating, and you skipped it after four chapters. Pathetic.
Then, if that wasn’t bad enough, you rush through the Kei clone and Reika romance. Like, WTF! I am so fucking angry right now. How could you fumble the ball like this?

[Etienne]

Very good again, but I particularly like that one and that’s because of all the massive plot twists that unfold in that volume. There was more surprise in that one than in the entire series and I love it!

[Collin Henderson]

A set up for katastrophe with plenty of fucked up edgy crap. Especially from reika in this volume

[Stephen Stroud]

The story is as bonkers as ever. The panels here are crazy insane. I feel like while the writing isn’t crazy strong the art makes up for it

[Lee]

Wraps up where the CG-anime movie ends, and begins the unexpected and catastrophic Endgame for our Gantz squad.

[Peter Derk]

#TeamTae

[Cade]

reika is stupid and selfish for reviving another version of him but i get it. also finding out this shit was all MAN MADE is insane and the fact it’s just a game for the government etc is crazy and the fact the final mission had those monsters is fucked. i hope the last 2 omnibuses really wrap it all up though. i’m sad that inaba and the old man died though :/