AKA: GANTz

Author(s): Hiroya Oku

Artist(s): Hiroya Oku

Genre(s): Action Drama Horror Sci-Fi Supernatural Adult Mystery Seinen Tragedy Psychological Martial Arts Romance Mature School Life

How long will you stay in the game?
The last thing Kei and Masaru remembered was being struck dead by a subway train while saving the life of a drunken bum.

Readers reaction: What a waste!

And yet somehow they're still ... alive? Or semi-alive? Maybe it's reanimated ... by some kind of alien orb with a nasty message:

"Your lives are over...
What you do with your new lives is up to me!"

And what this black-orb called "Gantz" intends to do with their lives is make them play games of death, hunting all kinds of odd aliens, along with a bunch of other ordinary citizens who've recently met a tragic semi-end.

The missions they embark upon are often dangerous.

Many die - and die again.

This dark and action-packed manga deals with the moral conflicts of violence, teenage sexual confusion and angst, and our fascination with death.

Hang on to your gear and whatever you do, keep playing the game; Gantz is unrelenting!

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Another Summary:
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Somewhere in Tokyo, there is a room.

In that room is a black sphere.

Periodically, people who should otherwise have died are transferred to the room.

There, the sphere gives them special suits and weapons, and sends them out on a mission to kill aliens here on Earth.

While these missions take place, the rest of the world is largely oblivious to them.

These missions are lethal - few participants survive them.

The sphere calls the shots, and it's not the slightest bit nice.

It's name... Gantz.