An idealist with repressed phantasies of violence, a virgin with too big boobs and a late-puberal guy whose magic suits only seems to work when he gets a boner. Add a strange ball that gives missions and high scores for no good reasons and aliens that no one can see except some dead people – who want to eat garlic all the time and have green blood. Mix it with even more strange mindfuck-ingrediants and you got Gantz. Probably.
I missed the anime when it ran on MTV but have the DVD collection now. Just watched the first seven episodes and while I normally dislike too action-related anime, this one isn’t that much of action-related as you might think. I really like stories that use thought voice-overs rather than actual dialogue and Gantz is one of those. It’s great to listen to the protagonists thinking during the action and gives the different scenes and characters are much deeper touch then the surface might suggest.
Buying recommendation (German DVD Set / English DVD Set).
Yes, it is business as usual, and hopefully a little bit more than that. All the things we have seen before in Anime and Manga, and again a title which somehow sounds like Middle European. Which means it sounds exotic for most of the people who live in these countries the series is produced. And again a group is adressed which is adressed much too often(Me2 strategy)Why do we see these weak characters and non existent stories, filled with senseless effects and action, being a bore en masse? First it is the team: there is a boss, interested in nothing beyond being the boss, then a bunch of compensating marketing guys, who want to be secure to sell, and, at last the free lancing artists and writers, who need the money and do what they are told to do. And, if I were an artist of this age and standing, I surely would do like they do, too. Which leads to the conclusion that you put art and commerce together appropriately, if you got business people and artists who understand what that means- en detail. Which is as rare as snowballs in hell. To come to an end: Nice series for those who like to see what puberty implicates.This one is going to sell.