Gantz
Oct 20, 2015Warning: There are some spoilers in this review!
Do you like manga that has blackface? CONSTANT mention of rape? unnecessary killing? intense over sexualizing of the female characters, that are only introduced to quickly fall in love with one of the male characters? Then this manga is for you!! When i first started reading Gantz it was pretty good at first, i started noticing the female characters were really oversexualized, (every chapter has a page at the end with one of the female characters either wearing a bikini or nothing at all) so i thought of dropping it, wish i did lmao. I really thought it was going to get less problamatic, but it never did. Over the course of the manga, the story gets more and more confusing. Nothing is really explained. I can't believe how much rape is mentioned in here like it's nothing? I can't count on my fingers how many times i read "i'm gonna rape her" or something disgusting along the lines of that. Like even around the end of the manga, they forced two of the giants to have sex, while they were crying and both clearly didn't want it. Then there was another part where one of the random characters starting raping one of the giants, and when she tried to pull away, they shot her head off. Then we get to the blackface. I was so disgusted. One of the main characters "Izumi" put on blackface to go gun down a ton of people for such a stupid reason as getting Kurono's attention. Literally the whole chapter was Izumi just killing people. Great character. If you REALLY don't see anything wrong with that, then PLEASE reflect on your beliefs and opinions. The character development is poor, the only character who actually changed was Kurono. The ending left a ton of questions unanswered as well.
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As said by other people before it baffles me that you read it until the end (if it was a short manga it would be understandable, but it isn't) even if it was so so so bad like you said.
I just want to point out this here: "they forced two of the giants to have sex, while they were crying and both clearly didn't want it." Do you know what prisoners of war go through? Worse than that. That part was just to heighten how malicious and disgusting humans are, and if they can do these things to other humans do you really think they would bat an eye about doing it to aliens?
you're right. I really like the initial plot - gore, an unfair challenge, having to team up, opening character development... but now I'm having a hard time to keep reading. Kurono acts like an incel lmao
I like how you were disgusted by it yet you read it to the end, like what the actual fuck, seriously? evidently you didn''t find it that offputting if you read the whole thing.
Don't rate this manga based on your beliefs. The rape, violence and oversexualisation of women is just a way of world-building. If there is one thing Gantz IS great at, is at being realistic. A horny, arrogant 15 year old, and people doing anything to survive even at the expense of someone else's life. If you want a politically correct manga, you can go look in the children's aisle.
This is a manga with shitloads of rape, violence and just straight up psychological torture, and the thing you find the most shocking is blackface? Gotta get your priorities straight nigga.