History Manga / Gantz

* EnergyWeapon: The Thousand Arm Buddha statue's weapon

* FrickinLaserBeams: The Thousand Arm Buddha statue's weapon

** While they are not exactly super weapons, the {{Teleport Gun}}s are extremely useful, being a homing HitScan weapon, while all the other types of guns only fire straight (with a firing speed slower than real bullets) and have a delay between pulling the trigger and their targets blowing up. They are used only two or three times in the entire manga, mostly by Kato, because they're (supposedly) non-lethal and he's the only main character who seems to be morally opposed to killing everything that opposes him.

** TeleportGun: One of the Gantz weapons is a "Y-Gun" that traps its victims with a net, then teleports them (using the process described above) to an as yet unknown location.

''GANTZ'' is a horror/sci-fi action series by Hiroya Oku. As it begins, Kei Kurono, a [[JerkAss rather unpleasant]] teenage student, is run over by a train after he and his childhood friend Masaru Kato rescue a hobo from the rails. Instead of being dead, Kurono finds himself trapped in a small apartment along with Kato, a bunch of weird people (including a hot naked girl, a dog, and a middle-school boy who seems to be the only one who knows what's going on) and a mysterious large black sphere.

* AngelsPose: Kurono, Masaru and Kishimoto strike this pose st the end of the TitleSequence, from episode 6 onwards.

* AngelsPose: At the end of the TitleSequence, from episode 6 onwards.

''GANTZ'' is a horror/sci-fi action series by Hiroya Oku. As it begins, Kei Kurono, a [[JerkAss rather unpleasant]] teenage student, is run over by a train after he and his childhood friend Masaru Kato rescue a hobo from the rails. Instead of being dead, Kurono finds himself trapped in a small apartment along with Kato, a bunch of weird people (including a hot naked girl, a dog, and a middle-school boy who seems to be the only one who knows what's going on) and a large black sphere.

The sphere sings an exercise song, and explains the situation: they were dead, but "Gantz" (which an experienced character says the sphere has just "always been called," not knowing where the name came from) needs them for the mission of killing a weird alien creature (the first of a series, as it turns out). The rules are easy: they have one hour to complete the assignment. If they are hurt but alive at the end of the time, they are fully healed, but if they are killed, they'll remain dead. If they get too far outside the hunt area, they will die. Their performance will be measured for points; when they get 100, they can be free. With all that said, Gantz gives them high-tech battle suits and some futuristic equipment and armament and launches them into the mission.

Essentially, the first nine volumes (and the whole anime series) consist of ([[HumansAreFlawed seem]][[MyGodWhatHaveIDone ingly]]) senseless killings of a [[{{Gorn}} gory, horrific nature]]; {{Fanservice}}; and sex scenes. [[GrowingTheBeard The manga began to improve]] when Kurono was given a romantic interest and impressive CharacterDevelopment. Then "vampires" are introduced, secrets are revealed, and things become truly weird and extremely convoluted. The fights also become longer and longer, to the point where they seem interminable.

A Sequel Manga, ''GANTZ: G'', was released in 2015. It appears to be a ContinuityReboot with a group of {{Ordinary High School Student}}s as the protagonists.

* ThreeDEffectsTwoDCartoon: the Anime and Manga have their share of it:

* ConspicuousCG: the Anime and Manga have their share of it:
** The anime is more modest about it, and features only a few locations and aliens modeled in 3D. The CG at the Buddhist Temple mission is most notable, as both Gate Guardians and the Living Armor are mostly in 3D, and a few shots of regular 2D animation make up the interim.
** The artist obviously produces the graphical representations of all weapons in the manga and a good deal of the technologies using 3D modeling. He then applies varying levels of 2D art and other post-production refinements over those models, to make them fit in better with the general art style. (The artist even details the process by which he does this in an early chapter.)
*** In later chapters, Hiroya Oku increasingly employs 3D modeling on top of real photographs to portray scenes of destruction, to the point where on some pages it [[http://www.mangareader.net/97-34409-2/gantz/chapter-304.html entirely dominates the scene]] and hand-drawn art stands out as perverse kind of ConspicuouslyLightPatch. This technique would lead a reader unfamiliar with the manga to become confused, as the scenes of destruction look like an entirely different comic.

* HelloNurse: Kei Kishimoto had a bit of this going (read:everyone wanted to rape or harass her), but add the fame to [[strike:the boobs]] the beauty, and you have Reika. Everybody's fapping over Reika, fortunately except most of her teammates, who're too young, too old or too outstanding, so it's not causing major problems...until Reika herself fell for Kurono and discovered she cannot have him, which made her ''very'' frustrated.

** George and Knob are [[http://view.thespectrum.net/series/gantz-volume-01.html?ch=Osaka+Chapter+001&page=11 coworkers at a fast-food joint]]. Their dialogue and uniforms even make them seem like expys of Beavis and Butthead.

* TeleportersAndTransporters: The Gantz sphere uses a very slow teleportation process on the team members; it gradually sends their bodies in and out of the apartment, starting at the head and moving downward. The characters' innards are visible while this happens. This is played for grossout horror, and occasionally comedy (Kurono is astonished that while his lower half is in the apartment, his upper half is already outside).

* AbortedArc: The plot point involving the vampires fighting back against the Gantz players ultimately doesn't go anywhere.

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*** How about in the final battle, Kei is fighting [[spoiler: what is assumed to be the Giants leader/best warrior/general, and it is televised, humanity is watching and they actively RootForTheEmpire! Against someone who is fighting for their very survival, taunting him to just die.

* MuggingTheMonster: Nishi's classmates. If we don't start with the ''actual'' monsters

* BaitAndSwitch: For a moment it looks like Kato and Anzu [[spoiler:will be TogetherInDeath... then the shred of life Kato is holding on to qualifies him for full restoration. And the points for nailing Nurarihyon allow him to bring back Anzu.]]