History YMMV / Gantz

* TheyChangedItSoItSucks: When the dub of Gantz:0 was announced, the castlist revealed none of the original actors would reprise their roles. While it was inevitable for Kato's voice actor Creator/IllichGuardiola, fans were still disappointed.

* {{Anvilicious}}: The final episode of the anime.

* BaseBreakingCharacter:
** Nishi came 1st in the official character popularity poll and has a ton of (often yaoi) fanart dedicated to him in the Japanese fandom. He's pretty popular in segments of the English-speaking fandom too. Some would say this has devolved into DracoInLeatherPants treatment. To others he's TheScrappy. You either love him or hate him.

* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap:
** Nishi started off as an ''asshole'' who, while experienced, was constantly seen disappearing from battle and leaving much of his colleagues to die. That all changed in chapter 341 [[spoiler: where he kicks the viral monsters' asses and saves Takeshi from the explosion at the department.]]
** In the manga, Kei Kurono gets rescued too.

* SignatureScene: Nishi's ReasonYouSuckSpeech to his teammates. Gained a lot more traction after a VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses video was created with the audio coming from the scene as Linhardt was voiced by Creator/ChrisPatton, who voiced Nishi in the first anime.

* TheyChangedItSoItSucks: When the dub of Gantz:0 was announced, the castlist revealed none of the actors would return. While it was inevitable for Kato’s voice actor Creator/IllichGuardiola, fans were still disappointed.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The opening to the anime, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ivgva0XdV4E Super Shooter]] by Rip Slyme. And it's full of GratuitousEnglish.

** Nishi. He came 1st in the official character popularity poll and has a ton of (often yaoi) fanart dedicated to him in the Japanese fandom. He's pretty popular in segments of the English-speaking fandom too. Some would say this has devolved into DracoInLeatherPants treatment. To others he's TheScrappy. You either love him or hate him.
** Tae. A useless DamselScrappy or a nice loving and caring girl who is unwillingly in shit way above her head but is vital on Kurono's CharacterDevelopment.

** It specially comes off as random given the fact that the aliens nihilistic speech seems to foreshadow some kind of [[DownerEnding Horrifying Ending]], but since [[spoiler: the ending of the series is a ''happy'' one they come off not only as random, but outright ''wrong'' on their assertions towards the Gantz team. This may be an IntendedAudienceReaction, since ''Gantz'' becomes surprisingly optimistic towards the end and its main message is "the universe is a terrifying but the people within it can make life worth it". ]]

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The opening to the anime, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ivgva0XdV4E Super Shooter]] y Rip Slyme. And it's full of GratuitousEnglish.

** Early on, a chapter involved Kikuchi (a journalist that interviewed Kurono previously, helping to trigger his erased memories) going to Germany to continue his investigation on Gantz, while being aided by [[OccidentalOtaku a german otaku]] who speaks broken Japanese. At the end of the chapter, the german guy starts speaking fluent Japanese, causes mass destruction with his mind and finally teleports away pretty much like Gantz teleports the hunters. Some would think that it would tie with the story and get explained later on... but [[LeftHanging it never was]].

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The opening to the anime [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ivgva0XdV4E Super Shooter]]. And it's full of GratuitousEnglish.

* SignatureScene: Nishi's ReasonYouSuckSpeech to his teammates.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: That entire scene in the Room of Truth. Some extremely powerful god-like aliens deliver soul-crushing {{Breaking Speech}}es to the heroes before sending them right back to the Giant Alien mothership to finish the series. Said god-like aliens are never seen or mentioned again, and even without the abrupt nature of the ending, they seem to exist solely to justify the Gantz technology, and pretty much explicitly say "So ... yeah ... you did what we wanted you to do, we're done with you now, your 21 grams of data can have a nice eternity being reincarnated, or not, we don't really care either way."

* DamselScrappy: Tae gets under the skin of some readers because she needs to be rescued often. Another source of hatred has been the fact she's not as attractive (thus "good for Kurono") as [[FanPreferredCouple Reika]].

* GrowingTheBeard: For the first 9 volumes, Gantz was a GuiltyPleasure consisting of naked women, {{Gorn}}, and a JerkAss AntiHero. Along came Tae and much needed CharacterDevelopment for the protagonist, and the manga never looked back since.

-->'''[[spoiler:The Truth]]:''' Now we shall prove that human beings are merely "things..."

* TheWoobie: Takeshi, for officially having the worst childhood ''ever.'' The heartbreaking part? He's still a toddler.

* UncannyValley: The Tanaka alien disguise can be unsettling to many. [[http://images.wikia.com/gantz/images/0/00/Tanaka1.jpg See for yourself.]]

** It specially comes off as random given the fact that the aliens nihilistic speech seems to foreshadow some kind of [[DownerEnding Horrifying Ending]], but since [[spoiler: the ending of the series is a ''happy'' one they come off not only as random, but outright ''wrong'' on their assertions towards the gantz team]]

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy:
** Aside from the blood and gore everywhere and the overly gritty tone, it can be really hard to sympathize with the main characters as many of them are {{jerkass}}es at best and downright malicious at worst. Even with the series getting EarnYourHappyEnding, it still feels like a chore to read through for some.
** For a while Masaru Kato was the closest thing the series had to a BigGood, being the most idealistic and selfless of the participants. He also frequently got berated for his pacifism and was often [[GoodIsImpotent portrayed as ineffectual compared to his more ruthless peers]].
** The general citizens in ''Gantz'' are pretty [[EvilIsPetty petty]], [[TooDumbToLive idiotic]], [[DirtyCoward cowardly]], {{jerkass}}es and more than anything [[UngratefulBastard ungrateful]] and [[ExtremeDoormat prone to believe anything told to them at face value]]. It doesn't matter how many people the Gantz team saves [[HeroWithBadPublicity they're always criticized for not doing enough and they get bad rep]] at the minimum provocation. [[spoiler: This is nicely averted come the end of the series, where the ''entire planet'' weeps for Kurono's sacrifice to save them, and when he and Kato wash up on Japan's shoreline, they have a crowd of people ''sprinting'' to make it there in time to feverishly thank them.]]
*** It really goes to a whole new level during Katastrophe, after a while the Earth and the Alien Mothership have apparently signed peace, [[YankTheDogsChain only for the excommunicated Tokyo Gantz team be declared a terrorist organization almost immediately]] [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished despite not killing any alien civilians and saving a multitude of people]], all that while the human slaughterhouses are still operational. Its really hard to blame Sakurai when he fucking snaps... [[MoralEventHorizon until he starts killing civilians]].
** This is even the subject of SelfDeprecation in Oku's next manga, ''Manga/{{Inuyashiki}}'', where Hiro scolds Ando for reading ''Gantz'' because of this trope (but it's also some sort of HypocriticalHumor, considering that Hiro is no better than most Gantz characters).

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: The Vampires subplot is casually forgotten, when their involvement in the alien invasion side-by-side with the Gantz players could've been interesting

* ValuesDissonance: In an interview at the back of one of the volumes the interviewer asks the author if Kurono got stuck with Tae for being such an asshole in the previous chapters to which not only he answers yes but he mentions how awful of a girlfriend Tae is. Tae is nothing but sweet and loyal to Kurono and treats him better than anyone before save Kato probably, is just that she isn't hot to be considered a good girlfriend and YMMV on that opinion.

** The general citizens in ''Gantz'' are pretty [[EvilIsPetty petty]], [[TooDumbToLive idiotic]], [[DirtyCoward cowardly]], {{jerkass}}es and more than anything [[UngrafetulBastard ungrateful]] and [[ExtremeDoormat prone to believe anything told to them at face value]]. It doesn't matter how many people the Gantz team saves [[HeroWithBadPublicity they're always criticized for not doing enough and they get bad rep]] at the minimum provocation. [[spoiler: This is nicely averted come the end of the series, where the ''entire planet'' weeps for Kurono's sacrifice to save them, and when he and Kato wash up on Japan's shoreline, they have a crowd of people ''sprinting'' to make it there in time to feverishly thank them.]]

** The general citizens in ''Gantz'' are pretty [[EvilIsPetty petty]], [[TooDumbToLive idiotic]], [[DirtyCoward cowardly]], {{jerksass}}es and more than anything [[UngrafetulBastard ungrateful]] and [[ExtremeDoormat prone to believe anything told to them at face value]]. It doesn't matter how many people the Gantz team saves [[HeroWithBadPublicity they're always criticized for not doing enough and they get bad rep]] at the minimum provocation. [[spoiler: This is nicely averted come the end of the series, where the ''entire planet'' weeps for Kurono's sacrifice to save them, and when he and Kato wash up on Japan's shoreline, they have a crowd of people ''sprinting'' to make it there in time to feverishly thank them.]]

** The general citizens in ''Gantz'' are pretty petty, idiotic, cowardly, jerksasses and more than anything ungrateful and prone to believe anything told to them at face value. It doesn't matter how many people the Gantz team saves they're always criticized for not doing enough and they get bad rep at the minimum provocation. [[spoiler: This is nicely averted come the end of the series, where the ''entire planet'' weeps for Kurono's sacrifice to save them, and when he and Kato wash up on Japan's shoreline, they have a crowd of people ''sprinting'' to make it there in time to feverishly thank them.]]
*** It really goes to a whole new level during Katastrophe, after a while the Earth and the Alien Mothership have apparently signed peace, only for the excommunicated Tokyo Gantz team be declared a terrorist organization almost immediately despite not killing any alien civilians and saving a multitude of people, all that while the human slaughterhouses are still operational. Is really hard to blame Sakurai when he fucking snaps... until he starts killing civilians.

* {{Wangst}}: Kato's actually strong, tolerably smart by the series' standards (which, granted, aren't all that high), and fairly effective whenever he manages to stop boo-hoo-hooing about ... well, pretty much everything ... and actually ''do'' something other than just whining about it. Which is to say, almost never, at least up through the Buddhist Temple arc.
** Kurono also falls victim to this. It's so bad, he's currently the trope page image.

** It specially comes off as random given the fact that the aliens nihilistic speech seems to forwshadow some kind of [[DownerEnding Horrifying Ending]], but since [[spoiler: the ending of the series is a ''happy'' one they come off not only as random, but outright ''wrong'' on their assertions towards the gantz team]]