Оку Хироя

Школьник Кэй Куроно и его друг Като Масару, погибают под колёсами поезда, попытавшись спасти упавшего на рельсы бомжа. Вместо того, чтобы успокоиться с миром, они попадают в закрытую квартиру в центре Токио, где в единственной комнате их встречают ещё несколько недавно погибших человек. Интерьер комнаты представлен лишь одним большим глянцевым шаром, имя которого — Ганц. Двери и окна не открываютс...

"Your lives are over. What you do with your new lives is up to me!" This was the warning given to a diverse group of citizens who were teleported to an inescapable condo by an ominous black orb calling itself Gantz. Join best friends Kei and Masaru, the sultry Kishimoto, a stray dog, and the rest of the group as they are unleashed on the streets of Tokyo to face a terrifying onion alien! Will the ...

What would you do if you were given a second chance on life from a catatonic man stuffed inside a computerized sphere? Well, that's exactly what the survivors of the first round of Gantz's wicked game have to figure out. Kei, Masaru, and the buxom Kishimoto try to reinsert themselves into their old lives. However, before any of them begins to take comfort in this fact, they're all transported back...

Life is complicated for Kei Kurono, possibly the horniest teen in Tokyo. So far he's had to deal with sleeping next to a sad but excessively cute and endowed girl who asked to be his "pet"; the fact that he's apparently really a fax copy of himself - the real version having died in the first volume; and falling out of the sky after being dropped by some sort of alien eagle. H...

Sometimes big things come in small packages. And our Gantz hero, Kei, might want to consider that in this volume of the frantic and weird, angsty and sexy manga by Oku Hiroya. Gantz's cross between the real world of teenage complications and the totally sci-fi concept of aliens occupying an unwitting Earth is a hit with a cross-section of comics and manga readers. Each volume bring...

We return to the continued weird storyline of our heroes in rubber suits fighting strange aliens. In this episode - odd, birdlike creatures in robot bodies of a popular past pop singer. In Volume 6 of the popular, ultraviolent, and sexy manga Gantz, Kei Kurono is caught with his pants down. Twice. And the first time he's got to fight the good fight with only one delayed-explosion g...

Without giving anything away, suffice it to say that this might be the watershed volume of Gantz. It's the end of the great Buddha battle, and it doesn't seem to be going well. In fact, it would be amazing if anyone returned to the locked apartment overlooking Tokyo tower. It's really been the worst fight yet. But there's got to be a gleam of hope somewhere. Also in ...

One might be led to believe that Buddha is a pretty nice god. He sits there with a complacent half-grin offering peace to the world, right? Well, not today, and not in the world of Gantz. Or maybe it's just that the statues at one of Tokyo's oldest temples just happen to be inhabited by yet another species of alien being hunted by the humanoid-powered orb known as Gantz. In ...

The blue phase is here! Gantz creator Oku Hiroya seems to have based his popular Gantz series on a sort of season-based cycle, and now that we're entering the second set of ten books, we're all blue here at Dark Horse as Hiroya boldly takes us into the increasingly scary world of Gantz. So now Kei's been dealing with a handsome schoolmate who seems obsessed with all thing...

Dinosaurs, terrorism, and blood - Gantz doesn't let up one bit as it climbs into its second "season" of cryptic, frenetic, sexy, and violent storytelling. This time, there's a guy who's a fanatic about the Gantz phenomenon, to the point where he tries to get himself inserted into the alien-hunting game. The question is: will he succeed? The only way to be part of the Gant...