ImTiredOfThisJunk Gantz is a series with weaknesses that far outweigh its strengths. The writing, the action, the animation; it's all complete nonsense. It is a series that tries to be edgy and character driven, yet fails on the most basic levels of quality. 7.4 average! What series is everyone watching here? If there is one lingering thought I had after finishing the entire series, it was the horrible pacing that plagued each episode. Without giving anything away, the bulk of the story follows one main character along with many supporting characters that come and go. Now it is fairly obvious that the director did not have a decent budget to work with, since there were scenes that were drawn out for minutes on end. This is not Dragon Ball Z drawn out either. It is even worse. There are scenes early on that drag and drag with pointless banter in the most unrealistic situations. And when the action finally does come, it is about as memorable as last weeks breakfast.The animation is poor, as it makes constant use of still shots and low quality CGI. Do not expect anything remotely decent until very far into the series. What is even worse are the character designs. There are gigantic boobs on the women, terribly designed monsters, and about five locations that I can remember. And if you enjoy not having your ears assaulted, at least watch it in Japanese. The dialogue is so bad, it makes Michael Bay and Stephenie Meyer look like Shakespeare.However if you still find yourself intrigued by the series' notorious violence, you might find something here. But be warned, as this show will try to do anything to get you to hate it. The last few episodes do start to finally pick up the pace, but all of a sudden it's over.Instead of watching this show, do yourself a favor and watch Black Lagoon instead. It does everything this show does (action, vulgar language, animation, story arcs, and characters, sexy women) ten times better. Skip this if you have any respect for anime.

enkephalin07 When you wind up dramatic tension in a scene, it has to pay off, in either action or plot revelation. But it's possible to spend so long on the wind-up that no pay-off will be worth it, and all your get for the effort is viewer apathy. This series does this a lot.Every action is preceded with 5 minutes of internalizing the obvious, and followed with 5 minutes of predictable reaction. It's as if this was written to be accessible an audience too dense to grasp a situation within the first 30 frames -- an audience not mature enough for this level of graphic violence and sex in the first place.The illustration and sound were very fine, but not enough to make this less grueling to watch. But if you happen to be studying Japanese, this is pretty basic material to listen to, so it won't be a complete waste of your time. The characters aren't much for observation, or any thought that isn't self-involved and too rudimentary for the capacity for real self-consciousness.However, if you wanted to watch a pack of animal-order personalities get horribly mutilated -- no, forget that, they still don't die quick enough to sustain interest.

soloriamagic08 If you have seen the Saw movies then you should know what I'm talking about. This anime is like the devils spawn of them. A group of people( dead people) are transported to a room in an abandoned apartment minutes after their deaths.In the room is a black ball with a person in it. This is Gantz, and he's a sadistic bastard.Cue the mind rapes and psychological trauma among other things. You have just walked into hell trust me. You can return back to the real world but there's a catch. Gantz likes to play, and the game he likes to play can cost you your life. The game is simple. It's seek and destroy. If you're alive after the time limit is up you get to go home fully restored. You die you stay dead.However, your life belongs to Gantz and he can, and will, call you back to the game whenever he feels like it.Oh yea gantz doesn't explain the rules to you. On purpose. If you break his rules, that he doesn't tell you about in the first place, then let's just say seeing you in any more episodes becomes slim(er).What exactly is Gantz, and w.t.f. does he want no ones knows. The anime never explains it and I'm not sure if the manga does either.This anime is full of nudity, sex, violence, and gore. Oh god the violence and gore. It's definitely M or even AO material.Pros- Everybody can die and god damn they can die horribly. No one has plot armor. If you are transported into Gantz's game, no matter if you have main character stamped to you, you can die as easily as everybody else. I like this because it's realistic. No one likes an immune hero. Its gets boring when you know no matter how many limbs, and blood they lose they will survive over and over. Looks at you Bleach.However, the one bad thing about this is it's easy to get attached to the characters, well some of them anyway, but since everybody can die it's a good chance you'll not be seeing them alive for much longer.Dialouge- Most of it was so good. So realistic. I laughed at quite a few bits even in a sadistic, dark anime like this. However, there were some bad nuggets.Visuals- the people looked real. You can actually imagine them in everyday life.Voice acting- I don't see why a lot of people hated the voice acting. I quite liked it. The voices for each character suited them.Music- creepy and fits the scenes. Love the intro music.Cons- This anime is not particular nice to female characters. The main character is likable in a jerkass with a heart of gold kinda way, and I use the heart of gold part lightly. However, he is sex crazy.EVERYTHING regarding sex in this anime is a direct result of his antics.I know its part of his personalty, and him being male unfortunately, but they could have toned it down a bit.The to dumb to live idiot ball gets passed around a lot.Characters take their sweet time trying to kill the things that are trying to kill them. I understand being passive but this is going overboard. Way to much naive idealistic talking goes on as well.What makes the idiot ball even more profound is that gantz, the sadistic chess-master, sends them to kill things that weren't bothering anyone in the first place.So if they had just left well enough along until time ran out then well what might have been...Gantz cheats. A lot. To the point that even getting half of the people to come back alive is nearly impossible.

theghost50 The reason behind my review on Gantz is to speak out a tad more clearly since most of the reviews I've read were somewhat vague and incomplete. This review does include spoilers.First of all, the thing that allured me into this series and I believe it's the only real awesome thing about it was the plot. I thought the idea was very original, very crazy, and had the potential to turn into a great, fun story. This big black ball claims the lives of individuals that die in the real world, only to provide them with an opportunity to go back to their real world lives if certain tasks placed before them are completed. It dictates the scenarios, displays a timer along with the objectives and opponents, provides weapons and a Spawn-like black rubber suit, and kicks them into a supernatural battlefield where no one living can see or hear them. In a weird way, it reminded me of Saw 2, where a bunch of random people get thrown into a hell hole with a very rare, but tangible chance to climb their way out… if they only would just remain coherent and work together. This is what sets in motion the decline of the Gantz series. The story had two paths in which it could take; one every serious and creepy, grim and dark, and the other a heroic alliance between everyone to overcome and defeat evil. The anime tries to do both… and it just doesn't work.I did like the main character Kurono, particularly when he keeps his chalkboard-scratching voice silent, only because he finally breaks the "frozen with fear" stage (a stage it seems everyone initially gets locked into), begins to discover the potential of their obscure suits and weapons, and actually kicks some alien ass in the 2nd and 3rd missions. Unfortunately however, the action to drama ratio leans way too far in the favor of just talking… or in this case yelling. Endless frivolous arguments abound from why are they are there, are they alive or dead, whether or not they're going home, who they should or shouldn't listen to/trust, to who is or is not in charge. Where was the leadership, the confidence, the control? After six times of just rolling my eyes up at the ceiling with how ridiculous the constant altercating dialogue was, I stopped counting... but that's not to say my frustrated gestures ceased. Even from Mission one, there is rapid yelling and screaming between the characters in a cloud of confusion and uncertainty, which, in a way, is to be expected. However, it gets quite trite quickly, it doesn't progress the story really at all, yet it continues pretty much throughout every episode. If the constant arguing wasn't enough, the alien creatures are simply too powerful for the less motivated of the captured souls to even combat. Hence, numerous times, my shoulders slumped to the fact that much pathetic death ensues these whiny side characters while overall continuing the consistency of a sheer despairing environment. This emotion capitulated with the conclusion of Mission 3 (ending around the 21st episode). I was happily amazed to see some of the 2nd group (mostly just the three main characters though) actually bond and work together and with quite heavy difficulty, defeat the missions' first two big, stone warrior aliens, only to watch their efforts disintegrate in vain when the two fallen aliens are immediately replaced by six more stone like alien statues, along with an apparently stronger new head leader, that pretty much singlehandedly kills off all of our heroic alliance in a few bloody stabs and separations.Seriously, the path taken with the overall story was just downright depressing. After having watched this, I can't see how anyone that intently involves themselves in this story can walk away with a satisfying, "that was worth it" smile. The fact that the series is devoid of hope brought me to the conclusion I will not watch this series again and am greatly thankful I watched it online without shelling out any money. But that's just me.I must admit the series did have an addictive element. Sex (ep. 15) and gore in anime are just what I want and expect. Also, the music choices, both for the opening and closing themes, as well as for the random song inserts throughout were perfectly picked and placed. However, at least for me, I wanted to watch this series as quickly as possible so I could put it behind me and look forward to more gory sexy anime that would not suck as much.Overall, the series was okay. A 5 out of 10, nothing utterly terrible but surely nothing great either. If you do watch this, make sure to have a fast forward option easily accessible. It was just too long… dragged out over 26 episodes when it could have snuggled into 13. I really wanted to enjoy Gantz. A lot of other reviews raved about how good it was, but to me, I was sadly disappointed by the overall depressing feeling the series gave me. Anyone who just hails from above how spectacular this series was really has not watched a lot of anime or has very simplistic morals for being entertained. While the plot and music excelled the experience, the mediocre animation and very poor dialogue just pulled the whole anime down the outhouse hole. Comparing to other animes like Basilisk, Blue Gender, and Ergo Proxy, Gantz, outside of its original intriguing idea, really doesn't hold a candle.