The blue phase is here! "Gantz" creator Oku Hiroya seems to have based his popular "Gantz" series on a sort of season-based cycle, and now that we're entering the second set of ten books, we're all blue here at Dark Horse as Hiroya boldly takes us into the increasingly scary world of Gantz. So now K[...]
The devastating war against the alien invaders is over A new day of peaceful coexistence is dawning Olive branches for everyone Of course, before tranquility can be attained, something must be done about the nasty Gantz "terrorists" monkeywrenching the works. Fighting monstrous extraterrestrials [...]
While humans on the ground believe the war with the aliens is over, aboard the invaders' mothership human prisoners face a parade of horrors in a circus of death for the televised amusement of the offworlders. And as Kei desperately tries to find his beloved Tae, the only help he gets comes from an [...]
The truce with the alien invaders begins to crumble, and this time the humans are gaining the upper hand against the goliath ETs. Gantz warrior Kei discovers that his beloved Tae still lives, and the race is on to save her before she and her alien protector are brought down together in the rapidly s[...]
How long will you stay in the game? The last thing Kei and Masaru remember was being struck dead by a subway train while saving the life of a drunken bum. 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..."You[...]
"Your lives are over. What you do with your new lives is up to me!" This was the warning given to a diverse group of citizens who were teleported to an inescapable condo by an ominous black orb calling itself Gantz. Join best friends Kei and Masaru, the sultry Kishimoto, a stray dog, and the rest of[...]
What would you do if you were given a second chance on life from a catatonic man stuffed inside a computerized sphere? Well, that's exactly what the survivors of the first round of Gantz's wicked game have to figure out. Kei, Masaru, and the buxom Kishimoto try to reinsert themselves into their old [...]
A new game begins! The masochistic orb Gantz has gathered a new crew of ordinary citizens to play within its dangerous plot. The new draftees and returning survivors are thrown headfirst into a new game promising a far more lethal prey. This time their target is a strange robot in the guise of famed[...]
Life is complicated for Kei Kurono, possibly the horniest teen in Tokyo. So far he's had to deal with sleeping next to a sad but excessively cute and endowed girl who asked to be his 'pet'; the fact that he's apparently really a fax copy of himself - the real version having died in the first volume;[...]
We return to the continued weird storyline of our heroes in rubber suits fighting strange aliens. In this episode - odd, birdlike creatures in robot bodies of a popular past pop singer. In Volume 6 of the popular, ultraviolent, and sexy manga Gantz, Kei Kurono is caught with his pants down. Twice. A[...]
One might be led to believe that Buddha is a pretty nice god. He sits there with a complacent half-grin offering peace to the world, right? Well, not today, and not in the world of Gantz. Or maybe it's just that the statues at one of Tokyo's oldest temples just happen to be inhabited by yet another [...]
Without giving anything away, suffice it to say that this might be the watershed volume of "Gantz". It's the end of the great Buddha battle, and it doesn't seem to be going well. In fact, it would be amazing if anyone returned to the locked apartment overlooking Tokyo tower. It's really been the wor[...]
Sometimes big things come in small packages. And our Gantz hero, Kei, might want to consider that in this volume of the frantic and weird, angsty and sexy manga by Oku Hiroya. Gantz's cross between the real world of teenage complications and the totally sci-fi concept of aliens occupying an unwittin[...]
Plots are starting to twist in the Gantz storyline! Has Kato disappeared forever? Who is this cute girl Kei's falling in love with? Does someone on the internet know the secret of Gantz? And who is this huge fighter roaming the streets of Japan looking for the greatest fighting challenge? Well, the [...]
Dinosaurs, terrorism, and blood - Gantz doesn't let up one bit as it climbs into its second 'season' of cryptic, frenetic, sexy, and violent storytelling. This time, there's a guy who's a fanatic about the Gantz phenomenon, to the point where he tries to get himself inserted into the alien-hunting g[...]
Dinosaurs. Seriously, can the frantic world of Gantz get any more scary? How about a giant doughboy with crazy fangs and a strange outie bellybutton? Yeah, it's not just scary; it's a very strange world for Kei and whomever is unlucky enough to die when Gantz is gathering random people and animals f[...]
Our alien-hunting gang meets a vampire gang who can grow samurai swords from their hands! Once again, Hiroya Oku is pushing the envelope with his crazy manga Gantz! And to add to it, these vampire yakuza guys might not even be aliens! This isn't a mission. These guys seem to know who is working for [...]
Gantz is getting absolutely intense! Our protagonist, the eternally awkward otaku boy named Kei, has hunted a bevy of odd and dangerous aliens living in Japan. The Onion Alien was strange enough, but then there were the dinosaur aliens and eventually some vampires who might not be aliens at all. Gan[...]
It's hard to tell who the heroes and villains are in Gantz these days. Some members of the alien-hunting team are trying to kill protagonist Kei's girlfriend, and it's possible he might not be able to stop them! Plus, Kei uncovers a very powerful secret related to his achieving the 100-point goal. A[...]
It seems like every new alien creature the Gantz gang fights is just practice for another, tougher, more demented future alien battle. Every new alien means another crew of newly dead citizens, reborn as alien hunters. Except for those who survive for the next battle. And Kei is the only one whoâ[...]
The crazy world of Gantz just got a heck of a lot crazier! First, there were people being recruited at the moment of death to fight aliens living on earth, but unseen by humanity. The battles seemed to take place outside of human sight. Our reluctant hero, Kei, has lived through many of these battle[...]
The best stories have plots that twist and turn and keep you guessing, and in this volume of "Gantz", creator Hiroya Oku twists it so hard, it'll make your neck hurt! Gantz's reluctant alien-hunting hero, Kei, has dealt with all sorts of selfish and seedy teammates, but somehow he's recently fought [...]
Life is confusing for Kei Kurono. Once a conscripted fighter of invisible alien invaders, a strange turn of events finds him back in his old life. Having no recollection of his warrior days, the sense of something missing flickers in the shadows of his memory. But despite a missing past, Kei's prese[...]
A new chapter in the "Gantz" saga brings with it a new level of action and mayhem! The alien-hunting Gantz warriors are transported to their new mission, leaving behind their fallen comrades, Kurono and Izumi. Given no time to mourn, they find themselves in a completely unfamiliar location, well bey[...]
A spectacle without precedent unfolds in the streets of Osaka, leaving a path of complete and utter destruction as the battle with the aliens in Dotombori continues to escalate. Beset by a growing number of ghouls, each more deadly than the last, even the battle-hardened Gantz warriors find their nu[...]