Gantz
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Kei, a cynical and arrogant high school student, has minimal regard for others; so it's much to his surprise that when he's asked by his elementary school friend Kato to save a drunken bum laying on the subway tracks, he actually complies. However, no good deed goes unpunished, and they are swiftly decapitated by the oncoming train. Kei and Kato awaken in a nondescript room occupied by a black sphere and a variety of other people, and thus begins Gantz's game. In it, the players must face off against aliens in battles where death is inevitable and rewards are minimal. Unfortunately for them, this is just the beginning of their nightmare - at least, for those who manage to survive...
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Battle Royale
Reality TV has hit a new and disturbingly graphic low with ‘The Program,' a television series in which a purposely chosen ninth-grade class is forced to fight to the death on a remote island. With only minimal survival gear and a random weapon, each student must survive and kill their friends until only one winner remains; if the group refuses to play, all of its members are killed by the electronic collars around their necks. Girlfriends and boyfriends betray each other, friends are brutally slain by their closest companions and alliances are made and broken. On screen for the world to see, only the strongest will survive this horrific, sadistic game...
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add recGantz and Battle Royale have astonishing similarities. In addition to being filled with explicit violence and sex aplenty, each is a stark and horrific survival game in which each person, for the most part, is out for himself. The characters in both manga are out of control and must do the biddings of nefarious forces, and deadly consequences await both success and failure...
Both are very sad, violent and have much stuff involving sex, drugs and killing! Battle Royale has a similar storyline and idea as Gantz but Gantz is still more interesting and A LOT more gory and dramatic! But Battle Royale is a very good manga that can shock you many times!
Berserk
- Vol: 34+; Ch: 309+
- 1988 - ?
Born beneath the gallows tree from which his dead mother hung, Guts has always existed on the boundary between life and death. After enduring a terrible childhood, he spends his adulthood in brutal combat, pitting his strength against others in order to build his own. Life is simple enough for Guts until he meets Griffith, the inspirational, ambitious, and beautiful leader of the mercenaries, the Band of the Hawk. When Guts loses to Griffith in a duel, he is forced to join the Band of the Hawk, and, despite himself, finds a sense of camaraderie and belonging amongst them. However, as Griffith leads his soldiers from victory to victory, the bloody wars and underhanded politics reveal a side to him that nobody quite expected. Very soon, what seems like a straightforward march for conquest becomes a harrowing struggle for humanity and life itself. Can Guts, a simple warrior, defend those who have come to mean the most to him, all the while struggling not to lose to the darkness he has carried with him his entire life?
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add recThese are two series which supply no end to violence. Storywise, they both focus a lot on showing the character's emotional states.
If you like the violence and slaughter in Berserk, then you probably like Gantz as well. Just don't expect there to be as much story to back the violence up.
If you need a little more story to back up your violence, Berserk is an excellent choice.
Bokurano
When a group of children discover a strange cave at the beach, their lives are forever changed. Inside they meet a man called Kokopelli who seems to have a lot of advanced gadgetry. He invites them to participate in a ‘game' in which they play heroes saving Earth from fifteen giant monsters. To defeat the invaders, he will give them a powerful mecha of black armor. The children eagerly sign the contract, name their new weapon Zearth, and must now take turns to pilot it; but the ‘game' is in fact all too real and the consequences of battle become the stuff of nightmares. With no option to cancel the contract, is there any way to stop the game before it is too late for all of them?
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add recBokurano and Gantz are two peas in a disturbing pod. Each throws characters into a high stakes game from which they can't escape, the difference being that in Gantz they are young adults/adults (plus a ton of explicit violence/sex), while in Bokurano the focus is more psychological and there's little violence to be found. Regardless, this is a very, very good recommendation pair.
Cage of Eden
Alt titles: Eden no Ori
- Vol: 3+; Ch: 36+
- 2008 - ?
Akira Sengoku and his class were traveling home from a field trip aboard Flight 357 when the plane mysteriously crashed, leaving them stranded on a hostile, prehistoric island. In this place, extinct and colossal animals run wild, quickly devouring many of the survivors and leaving the rest to fight for their lives. Alongside his childhood friend Rion and other classmates, Akira will struggle to survive in this impossible place against all odds.
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