GANTZ

Anime Review by Ztefrock

I have learned about this anime because a colleague’s cousin looks like Kenichi Matsuyama. He kinda reminded me of the actor. I just thought of doing a research about Matsuyama to check if he had his huge bell-like nose done. Don’t get me wrong. I like Matsuyama. The nose made him uniquely handsome. He did a pretty good job as L in Death Note. Of course, Gantz was the result of my research. Everyone in Japan is crazy about the film. Matsuyama was one of the protagonists. Ninomiya of Arashi and some porn star are also part of the casts in the movie.

Haaris Rizvi blabbered a bit of the story. I kinda liked it so I decided to check the anime first.

Gantz is about a dangerous game played by dead people, who are teleported to a nearly empty room at the moment of their death, none the worse for wear, and ordered to go out and kill an alien or two. To help with their mission, they're given sexy skintight black suits and high-tech weapons with unlimited ammunition by a flat black ball that sits in the middle of the room. This ball is known as "Gantz," and also displays their scores after the end of a mission.

First of all, I would like to say that the main protagonist (Kurono) is a pathetic male chauvinist pervert! His character made this anime quite different. I just don’t like the high sexual content of this anime. It is just so unnecessary. I don’t like how women are being represented as dumb sexual toys.

The plot is not too bad. I am extremely amazed with the action packed scenes, musical effects and the dubbing. It was a ninja-assassin-like anime. The scene in the Temple was I think the best. It was gory and dark, absolutely gruesome. Two thumbs up! This is the first anime that made me scream. The Psychology was intense.

Some weren’t satisfied with the story’s open ending. It was not even clear if Kurono survived. I’m not surprised at all with that. I mean, it is based on a manga that is still running. Who would know the ending? I wasn’t even upset about Katou’s death because I know that he will be revived in the manga.

It is a shonen anime that I will definitely hide from my fourteen-year-old brother. If I could only edit the explicit contents …… Anyway I like the Opening and the ending OST (Super shooter and Last Kiss) “kare no kiss wo wasuranai o” – I will never forget his kiss