Okay, so I recently just went completely bored since there was absolutely nothing to watch. So I acquired a copy of this anime since there’s nothing on TV, Cable or otherwise. I recently gave it a try since I even ran out of anime to watch. There’s been a recent drought of things to watch lately. It was never this bad last year. So here goes….
Description:
Korono Kei is an arrogant high school freshman, whose thoughts are constantly occupied by that of a girl. One day, on his way home, Kei sees a guy fall off a train platform. He didn’t care about this other person and, at first, just watched the scene in amusement. However, Kato Masaku, who was a classmate of Kei in his elementary school days, suddenly gets off the platform to help the man. Upon being asked for help, Kei reluctantly does so. However, while doing this, a train comes. Normally they would have been killed by the train, but they were transferred into a room of a condominium in the blink of an eye. There, they find a black sphere and people who are supposed to be dead, like Kei. They are unable to get out of the room, nor even touch the walls. What is the room? What is this ball?
In the middle of all this, a naked girl named Kishimoto Kei is transferred into the room. Then, from the sphere, a radio exercise song begins to play. It’s lyrics:”Your old lives are gone and your new lives belong to me.” It didn’t explain anything other than that, but give them weapons and ordered them to hunt aliens.
They couldn’t cry for help and, gradually, Kei and Kato realize that they are in a real battle and not a game or a TV-program. Regardless of their own wishes, they are involved in this mysterious fight against aliens.
What will happen to them? What is this mysterious sphere, “Gantz”?
Gantz has the keys to unlocking all mysteries…
Grabbed from: AnimeNfo
This title was also released as a manga back in 2000. There’s been 277 chapters translated into english by OneManga now.
Back to the Anime version. A few years ago when I read the summary of this anime on AnimeNFO, I thought it wasn’t going to be anything interesting for me to watch. But apparently I was wrong. Watching the first episode already caught my attention, which is rare nowadays with recent titles. I ended up watching episode after episode after episode, until I realized I watched 4 episodes non-stop. Then I saw the sky and it was already morning. So the next day, I ended up doing it all over again. But this time I watched the whole thing til the very end. This time I slept at 1 in the afternoon.
You’ve probably realized by now that I wasn’t really talking about the anime and not any spoilers? Heh, I won’t write about any spoilers, or at least not too much.
So anyway, the anime was quite interesting in retrospect. An odd one but very addicting in my opinion. Kinda makes me wanna read the manga. But not really. I don’t have much patience for reading manga except for Claymore. There’s quite a bit of adult content and swearing in this anime so I DO NOT recommend this for kids. Violence, blood and gore are a regular on this anime. So for those who are faint of heart, don’t watch this anime. But otherwise, this is a great show to watch for those who are into a lot of blood and guts and stuff. I’d say a good 4 out of 5.
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