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Introduction.
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Index.
206.Gantz.
207.Gantz chapters.
208.Barsoom/Mars.
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206.Gantz.
Gantz (Japanese: ??? Hepburn: Gantsu?) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiroya Oku. Gantz tells the story of Kei Kurono and Masaru Kato, both whom died in a train accident and become part of a semi-posthumous "game" in which they and several other recently deceased people are forced to hunt down and kill aliens armed with a handful of futuristic items, equipment, and weaponry. Both the manga and anime are noted for their heavy violence and sexual content.
The Gantz anime adaptation, directed by Ichiro Itano and animated by Gonzo, contains 26 episodes divided into two seasons. A series of two live action movies based on the manga were produced and released in January?April 2011.
A pair of high school students, Kei Kurono and Masaru Kato, are hit by a subway train in an attempt to save the life of a drunk homeless man who had fallen onto the tracks. Following their deaths, Kurono and Kato find themselves transported to the interior of an unfurnished Tokyo apartment. The pair soon realize others are present and find that they are not able to leave the apartment. At one end of the room there is a large black sphere known as "Gantz".
After some time in the room, the Gantz sphere opens up, revealing a bald naked man with a breathing mask and wires attached to his head, and various items for them to use. These include the custom fitting black suits which give them super-human strength, speed, stamina and damage resistance, a controller which acts as a radar and stealth unit, and three types of weapons.
When the Gantz sphere opens, green text appears on its surface, informing those present that their "lives have ended and now belong to him". A picture and brief information is shown of some of the Gantz' targets; Gantz orders them to go and kill them. Except for a single mission, all the targets are aliens living on Earth, which take on a wide variety of forms. During the mission, normal people cannot see the players or the aliens. Gantz transports them to the area of the mission, and they cannot leave or return until all the enemies have been killed, or the time limit has run out. If they survive a successful mission, each individual is awarded points for the aliens they have killed. Once a participant has scored 100 points, a "100 point menu" will appear. The menu offers three options:
Option 1: the participant can return to their normal life, never having to be summoned by Gantz again. As a price, their memories of Gantz and the missions will be erased.
Option 2: the participant obtains a unique and extremely-powerful weapon.
Option 3: the participant can revive someone who has died during a mission from Gantz' memory.
After a mission has been completed and the points have been tallied up, the participants are allowed to leave and do as they see fit until their next mission. During Kurono and Kato's third mission, all the participants but Kurono are killed. As the series continues, Kurono participates with the objective of reviving his deceased friends with the 100 point reward option. A new team of Gantz players is assembled, which Kurono, as the most experienced and one of the best fighters, leads. Through his interactions with the other members of the team and his life or death battles, Kurono gradually grows into a responsible leader. As the series goes on, the rules of the missions change; they can now be seen by regular people, the aliens they encounter are increasingly powerful and dangerous, and they participate in a mission with another Gantz team from Osaka. The series depicts both the missions and Kurono's regular life, as well as the daily lives of other Gantz players (to a lesser extent).
After several missions, an old participant named Nishi, who knows more than the others about how Gantz works, shows them a "catastrophe countdown" on the Gantz sphere which the other players were unaware of. The countdown reveals that there is one week left until some unknown "catastrophe." At the end of that week, a massive alien force invades the Earth and begins exterminating the human race, while Kurono and his companions try their best to make use of Gantz' advanced technology and weaponry in defense. The Japanese also learn of the existence of Gantz teams all around the world. After a long battle, the humans manage to stop the alien invasion and soon after, it is revealed that it was another, highly advanced alien species that provided mankind with the means to defend itself against the invaders, for reasons they refuse to reveal. In a last desperate effort, the leader of the alien forces challenge Kurono to a fight, which is broadcast to the entire world, and with a revived Kato's help, Kurono manages to defeat it and stop the alien mothership from destroying Earth. The series ends with Kurono and Kato returning safely to Earth and being greeted as heroes.
The anime and manga series Gantz features a large number of fictional characters created by Hiroya Oku. The series takes place in a modern Japan, in which several creatures known as aliens start attacking citizens.
The series starts with the teenager Kei Kurono, who dies in a train accident along with his childhood friend Masaru Kato. Suddenly, they appear in an apartment from Tokyo along with several people who have recently died. A black sphere named Gantz revives them a................
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207.Gantz chapters.
Volumes 1?20Edit
No.Japanese release dateJapanese ISBNEnglish release dateEnglish ISBN
1December 11, 2000ISBN 978-4-08-876105-3June 25, 2008ISBN 978-1-59307-949-9
"A Certain Accident" (???? "Aru Jiko"?)
"The Enigma Room" (?????? "Fukakai na Heya"?)
"The Naked Suicide Girl" (?????? "Hadaka no Jisatsu Sh?jo"?)
"Command from the Black Sphere" (????? "Kuro Tama no Shirei"?)
"Illusion" (??????? "Iry?jon"?)
"Encounter with the Onion Alien" (???????? "Negi Seijin to no S?g?"?)
"Non-Preplanned Harmony" (????? "Hi-yotei Ch?wa"?)
"Slaughter" (?? "Zansatsu"?)
"Eichmann Test" (???????? "Aihiman Tesuto"?)
"Rage" (?? "Gekifun"?)
A pair of high school students, Kei Kurono and Masaru Kato, are run over by a subway train after saving the life of a homeless drunk who had fallen onto the tracks. Kurono and Kato find themselves transported, along with a number of other people who have also recently died, to a room inside a building in Tokyo. By way of green text that appears on the surface of a black sphere named Gantz the group is informed that they have to kill a little creature, apparently an alien, to survive. They are transported out of the building and Kato, Kurono and a girl named Kei Kishimoto attempt to return to their homes. The remaining participants are able to kill the alien using weapons provided by Gantz. After killing the small alien, a much larger and more menacing alien appears and kills most of the team with the exception of Kato, who wanted to save the little alien.
2March 19, 2001ISBN 978-4-08-876139-8October 1, 2008ISBN 978-1-59582-188-1
"No Survivors" (???? "Zen'in Shib?"?)
"Hypnotism and Hallucination" (????? "Saimin to Kakusei"?)
"Eye" (? "Me"?)
"Fearless" (??????? "Kowaimono Shirazu"?)
"Jump or Die" (????? "Ch?yaku ka Shi ka"?)
"Metamorphosis of the Flesh" (????? "Nikutai no Henb?"?)
"Fire" (?? "Hatsudan"?)
"Conditions of Survival" (????? "Seikan no J?ken"?)
"Gantz" (??? "Gantsu"?)
"Scoring" (?? "Saiten"?)
"Clone" (????? "Cop? Ningen"?)
"Duplication" (?? "Ch?fuku"?)
The tall alien attacks Kato, making him fall from a bridge and finds Kurono and Kishimoto. Both of them try to escape but as the alien focuses on Kurono, he ends alone. Before the alien attacks, Kato appears and tries to protect Kurono but is mortally wounded. Kurono is enraged after seeing that and the black costume he was given by Gantz gives him strength enough to knock the alien. After that another teenager named Joichiro Nishi, who was among the other people from the building, kills the alien. After the alien's death, the survivors return to the building. The ones who return are Kurono, Kishimoto, Nishi and Kato, whose injures are healed. The ones who returned are displayed by Gantz score with the points based on the aliens they faced. Kurono asks Nishi what is happening there and he responds that this missions will happen several times and that many people have already died.
3June 19, 2001 ISBN 978-4-08-876163-3January 21, 2009 ISBN 978-1-59582-232-1
"Normality" (?? "Nichij?"?)
"Great Strength" (?? "Ky?ryoku"?)
"Lucky Man" (?????? "Rakk? na Otoko"?)
"Dear Pet" (???? "Aigand?butsu"?)
"Latent Ability" (???? "Senzai N?ryoku"?)
"Returned" (?? "Sais?"?)
"Gang" (? "Zoku"?)
"Disappearance on the Road" (???? "Roj? Sh?shitsu"?)
"Unexplainable, Inscrutable" (????????? "Kaisetsu Fukan? Imi Fumei"?)
"Forgotten Things" (??? "Wasuremono"?)
"Group Madness" (???? "Sh?dan Ky?ki"?)
"Tanaka" (???? "Tanaka-san"?)
After returning to her house, Kishimoto discovers that she is only a copy of herself and that her real self survived her suicide attempt. Having nowhere to go now?since her other self is living her life?she runs to Kurono's apartment to ask him if she can stay. Kato becomes angry while remembering how the little green alien died and attacks a bully from his school. During the following days, several people die and appear in the building in Tokyo along with the previous survivors. Kato tries to explain to them what is happening. A gangster tries to attack Nishi, but he is able to survive and kills gangster. As the people are transported to the city, Kurono misses his black suit, having left at his apartment. Unfortunately for him, he is the first to encounter the target alien named Mr. Tanaka, which has the appearance of a doll.
4October 19, 2001 ISBN 978-4-08-876217-3April 8, 2009 ISBN 978-1-59582-250-5
"Singing Voice" (?? "Utagoe"?)
"Not What It Seems" (?????? "Mayakashimono"?)
"Malfunction" (???? "Kin? Fuzen"?)
"Sacrifice" (???? "Ikenie"?)
"Submerged Threat" (????? "Senk? no Mashu"?)
"Ignored Warning" (???? "Keikoku Mushi"?)
"Bird" (? "Tori"?)
"Complicated Information" (???? "J?h? Sakus?"?)
"An Unexpected Development" (?????? "Yos?gai no Tenkai"?)
"Flock of Tanakas" (???? "Tanaka no Mure"?)
"Shudder" (???? "Rori Rori"?)
"The Back Room" (?????? "Ap?to no Oku"?)
Nishi fights against Mr. Tanaka, but is badly injured when Tanaka shoots a type of sonic boom that explodes his eyes, ear drums and destroys his suit. Kato attempts to rescue him and holds Tanaka while Kurono shoots the alien. As a result, a dying bird emerges from within Tanaka. Kato asks Nishi about how to escape the game, to which Nishi responds that one hundred points are required to exit the game. Nishi was ten points from winning. Due to his severe injuries, Nishi dies, not before calling out to his mother. Despite the alien's destruction, the group is not transported like before, which leads them to suspect that there must be more aliens. Some people try to leave the area, but their heads explode when they step outside the designated boundary. As Kurono does not have his black costume to protect him, Kato tells him to stay away from the fights. However, Kurono is captured by two gangsters, who force him to enter a building that holds a multitude of Mr. Tanaka's aliens. Kato, Kishimoto and a fashion model destroy several Tanakas from the city, but discover that several of their fellow fighters are dead.
5February 19, 2002 ISBN 978-4-08-876267-8June 24, 2009 ISBN 978-1-59582-301-4
"Resonance" (?? "Ky?mei"?)
"Boss" (?? "Oyadama"?)
"Clever Strategy" (?? "Kisaku"?)
"Collapse" (?? "H?raku"?)
"Capture" (?? "Hokaku"?)
"Weakness" (?? "Jakuten"?)
"False Calm" (????? "Itsuwari no Heion"?)
"Distrust, Discomfort" (???? "Fushin Fukai"?)
"The Emperor's New Clothes" (???? "Hadaka no ?-sama"?)
"New Participants" (??? "Shinzanmono"?)
"Preacher" (??? "Sepp?sha"?)
"Despair" (?? "Zetsub?"?)
Kurono confronts Mr. Tanakas' boss, a giant violet bird that attempts to kill him when Kurono accidentally steps on one of the little birds. Kurono fires his X-gun to the ground continuously to make the entire building collapse. Kurono manages to escape, but the boss survives. The giant bird boss attacks Kurono, who uses his X-gun to kill it. The survivors return to the Tokyo building and learn that, depending on how many aliens they kill, they will accumulate more points. In the following days, the surviving gangster attempts to kill other gangsters, but his head explodes as he reveals the gun from Gantz. Kurono and Kishimoto have an argument, as Kurono notes Kishimoto is in love with Kato and not him, and she leaves his apartment. Kato, who was living with his younger brother in a house with their cruel adoptive mother, moves into a new apartment. Kato is later transported to the Tokyo tower along with the previous group of survivors.
6May 17, 2002 ISBN 978-4-08-876293-7August 26, 2009 ISBN 978-1-59582-301-4
"Sex" (???? "Sekkusu"?)
"Guide" (??? "Annainin"?)
"Gate" (? "Mon"?)
"Akimbo" (???? "Ni?dachi"?)
"Palm" (? "Tenohira"?)
"Angle of Attack" (??? "Toppak?"?)
"Lack of Mercy" (???? "Jihi Ketsuraku"?)
"Sensational Battle" (????? "Senj? no Senj?"?)
"Slave of Destruction" (???? "Hakai no Shimobe"?)
"Descent into Heresy" (???? "Ged? K?rin"?)
"Cornered Rats" (?? "Ky?so"?)
"Identifying with the Elite" (???? "Senmin Ishiki"?)
Back in the Gantz room, Kato tries to explain to the disbelieving newcomers about what they can expect to happen. A Buddhist priest is there among the newcomers, and has convinced most of them that they have gone to the afterlife, and not to listen to Kato. A new girl named Sei Sakuraoka, agrees to have sex with Kurono upon his request. The group is transported to a Buddhist temple, where they are supposed to kill two giant statues. The two statues start attacking the group and kill several people. Kurono fights back against the statues, defeating both. Just when the group feels safe again, another group of statues appears and confronts them. The new statues are mostly human-sized, with the exception of one giant Buddha statue.
7September 19, 2002 ISBN 978-4-08-876342-2October 14, 2009 ISBN 978-1-59582-373-1
"Even Buddha Loses Composure" (???? "Hotoke no Kao mo"?)
"Feast of Death" (???? "Shi no Taiky?"?)
"Der Freischütz" (????? "Madan no Shashu"?)
"Dramatic Kill" (?? "Gekisatsu"?)
"Limits" (?? "Genkai"?)
"Kiss of Death" (???? "Shi no Seppun"?)
"Declaration of Love" (?? "Kokuhaku"?)
"Wail" (?? "D?koku"?)
"Resignation" (?? "Teinen"?)
"Rupture" (?? "Haretsu"?)
"Cold Words" (????? "Tsumetai Kotoba"?)
"Do or Die Woman" (???? "Haisui no Onna"?)
The group divides; Kurono, Kato and Kishimoto fight some of the aliens outside and the others enter the Buddhist temple, where they fight a new group of statues/aliens, only to be killed by them. After defeating their opponents, Kato and the others enter the temple. One of the statues, which takes the form of a multiple-armed god, begins to throw acid at them, and Kishimoto dies while protecting Kato. Furiously, Kurono attacks the god, but it recovers and destroys one of Kurono's arms and one of his legs. Kato takes Kurono outside and tries to stop his bleeding. Kato then goes to seek out and destroy the remaining aliens; while he is away, the god statue finds Kurono and Sakuraoka tries to protect him.
8January 17, 2003 ISBN 978-4-08-876388-0December 24, 2009 ISBN 978-1-59582-383-0
"Powerless" (?? "Muryoku"?)
"Failed Sneak Attack" (???? "Kish? Shippai"?)
"Human Words" (?? "Jingo"?)
"Communication" (????????? "Comyunik?shon"?)
"True Form" (?? "Hontai"?)
"Triumph of the Will" (????? "Ishi no Sh?ri"?)
"Brother" (? "Ot?to"?)
"Alone" (?? "Kodoku"?)
"Pick Up?" (???? "Nanpa?"?)
"New Kids" (??? "Tenk?sei"?)
"Room of the Black Sphere" (?????? "Kuroi Tama no Heya"?)
"Kurono Kei" (????? "Kurono Kei"?)
Sakuraoka is killed by the alien statue, which also kills all the other surviving members of the group except for Kato and the wounded Kurono. Kato decides to fight against the last alien and discovers that the statue has eaten the brain of one of his partners, which has given him the ability to speak as the dead teammate. Kato destroys its statue form; however, the alien then exits the statue body and takes a larger form. Once again, Kato destroys it, but he is killed at the same moment, leaving Kurono as the only survivor. Kurono reappears in the Tokyo tower uninjured and is overcome by depression as he realizes that he is alone. In the next days, Kurono meets a new student from his school, Shion Izumi, who tells him that there is a website that contains information about Gantz. Kurono does not reveal his knowledge of Gantz because he knows that doing so would make his head explode. Later, Kurono is transported to the Tokyo building again, but this time he is the only one there.
9May 19, 2003 ISBN 978-4-08-876442-9March 3, 2010 ISBN 978-1-59582-452-3
"Long Jump" (??? "Habatobi"?)
"Midair Action" (???? "K?ch? Katsugeki"?)
"Pangs" (?? "Kashaku"?)
"The Punching Bag" (??? "Naburimono"?)
"Derangement" (?? "Sakuran"?)
"Time Limit" (??????? "Taimu Rimitto"?)
"The Game of Life" (????? "Jinsei G?mu"?)
"Destruction of the Class" (???? "Gakky? H?kai"?)
"Ecstasy > Unease" (??>?? "K?kotsu>Fuan"?)
"Justice" (?? "Seigi"?)
"Final Prey" (????? "Saigo no Ejiki"?)
"Discovery of Existence" (????? "Sonzai no Hakkaku"?)
Kurono is transported to his solo mission upon a rooftop. He discovers his targets, the Shorty Aliens, which are a group of aliens the size of children. With this knowledge, he is able to destroy all but one when they jump after him. The surviving alien communicates with him using telepathic abilities and tells him that he already knows all his moves. The alien destroys Kurono's black suit, but Kurono escapes and hides until his time runs out. Gantz tells him he failed, and reduces his score to zero. The surviving alien is furious about the death of his partners and swears to kill Kurono. The next time Kurono goes to his school, the alien appears in the corpse of a student and kills all of Kurono's classmates with the exception of Shion Izumi and a girl named Tae Kojima. Kurono decides to fight against him. At the same time, a large number of policemen enter the school to battle the alien.
10August 19, 2003 ISBN 978-4-08-876486-3March 31, 2010 ISBN 978-1-59582-459-2
"Annihilation" (?? "Senmetsu"?)
"The Days After" (???? "Nariyuki"?)
"Candidate for Suicide" (???? "Jisatsu Shigan"?)
"Paranormal" (???? "Ch?j? Gensh?"?)
"Master" (?? "Taitoku"?)
"Scene of Torture" (????? "Ijime no Genba"?)
"Murder" (?? "Satsujin"?)
"Questioning" (?? "Jinmon"?)
"Man from Hakata" (??????? "Hakata kara Kita Otoko"?)
"World Championship" (??? "Sekaisen"?)
"Shadow Boss" (?? "Uraban"?)
"Lover" (?? "Koibito"?)
The Shorty Alien attacks a group of policemen, who are unable to stop it with bullets. Kurono sneaks up behind it and uses an X-gun to successfully kill it. In an attempt to keep the incident a secret, government officials tell Kurono to keep silent. Afterward, Tae Kojima becomes the girlfriend of Kurono, who realizes that he is no longer all alone. In the following days, a teenager named Hiroto Sakurai learns from a man, Kenzo Sakata, how to use psychic powers and uses them to kill bullies from his school. A giant man, Daizemon Kaze starts searching the city for a strong person to fight to have a capable opponent. He fights Kurono, and Daizemon is ultimately defeated when Kurono uses his black suit's power to do so.
11December 18, 2003 ISBN 978-4-08-876538-9May 26, 2010 ISBN 978-1-59582-518-6
"Late-Night Classroom" (?????? "Mayonaka no Ky?shitsu"?)
"Envy and Jealousy" (????? "Senb? to Shitto"?)
"The Masked Man" (???? "Kamen no Otoko"?)
"Morning of Crime" (???? "Hank? no Asa"?)
"Shinjuku, 10 AM" (?????? "Shinjuku Gozen J?ji"?)
"Massacre in Shinjuku" (????? "Shinjuku Daigyakusatsu"?)
"Pedestrian Paradise" (????? "Hok?sha Tengoku"?)
"Bare Hands" (???? "Toshu K?ken"?)
"The Man" (? "Otoko"?)
"Atonement" (?? "Aganai"?)
"Death of the Master" (??? "Shi no Shi"?)
"Raging Death" (?? "Funshi"?)
Shion asks Kurono to meet him at the school and tells him that he was once a participant in the Gantz activities. He mentions that he recently received a small Gantz-style sphere with a message that instructed him to kill several people. Kurono is unable to shoot him and Izumi tells him he will do what Gantz has asked of him. The following Sunday, Izumi wears a disguise himself as a black man with facial hair, and begins massacring all of the pedestrians in Shinjuku with a bag of guns. Tae is in the middle of the attacks, but is saved by Daizemon Kaze. Daizemon tries to stop Izumi, but is killed after a long fight. Hiroto and Kenzo also try to stop him by blocking his bullets with their telekinetic abilities, but they die as well.
12March 19, 2004 ISBN 978-4-08-876578-5July 28, 2010 ISBN 978-1-59-582526-1
"Just Missed" (???? "Surechigai"?)
"Confrontation" (?? "Taiji"?)
"High Noon" (????? "Hai N?n"?)
"Seat of the Pants" (????? "Girichon"?)
"New Rule" (???? "Shin R?ru"?)
"Jurassic" (?????? "Jurashikku"?)
"Survival of the Fittest" (???? "Jakunikuky?shoku"?)
"Kansai" (???? "Kansai"?)
"Sword" (? "Ken"?)
"Split in Half" (?? "Ry?dan"?)
"Predation" (?? "Hoshoku"?)
"Superman" (?????? "S?p?man"?)
Shion kidnaps Tae in an effort to lure Kurono into battle. Shion die in the duel, Kurono is mortally wounded and about to die. Both are transported to the Gantz room, along a number of those killed by Izumi that day. Izumi punches Kurono unconscious before he can tell anyone what happened. When Kurono awakens, Izumi and most of the others have already been sent. Kurono is told by Gantz that he must get fifteen points to survive. He also finds a door that Izumi recently opened, and discovers vehicles, taking one with him on the mission. The mission's official target is the Kappa Alien, a deformed person that wears a large hat. Kurono is joined by an old man named Yoshikazu Suzuki and Reika, a famous and very beautiful Japanese idol. Everybody is attacked by several alien dinosaurs, but most of the dinosaurs are killed by the combatants.
13May 19, 2004 ISBN 978-4-08-876608-9September 29, 2010 ISBN 978-1-59582-587-2
"Brave Papa" (???? "Chichi no Senaka"?)
"Howl" (?? "H?k?"?)
"Cannibalism" (??? "Tomogui"?)
"Lust for Life" (???? "Ikiru Chikara"?)
"The Odd Couple" (???? "Mei Konbi"?)
"Crash" (?? "Rakusha"?)
"Encouragement" (?? "Kobu"?)
"Leader" (???? "R?d?"?)
"Simultaneous Killings" (???? "D?ji Tasatsu"?)
"Unavoidable" (????? "Kaihi Fukan?"?)
"Decoy" (? "Otori"?)
"Feelings" (? "J?"?)
A dinosaur alien that Shion was fighting escapes from the museum and attacks Reika. She manages to survive by making her black costume harder. Kurono and the old man, Yoshikazu, use the Gantz monowheel vehicle to attract the attention of the dinosaur and lead it away from the rest of the group. However, while they are leading it away Kurono falls from the back of bike where he was acting as gun-man. He is able to fight, and ultimately kill, the dinosaur. After that, all of the others who were sent by Gantz acknowledge Kurono as their leader. The group is surrounded by the Kappa alien and a group of Velociraptors. The team separates and kills them all. However, a Brachiosauridae alien emerges, and appears to be furious about the death of the others. Kurono steps up and challenges the new dinosaur foe.
14July 16, 2004 ISBN 978-4-08-876637-9November 24, 2010 ISBN 978-1-59582-598-8
"Dinosaur Parade" (????? "Ky?ry? Daik?shin"?)
"Surprise Attack" (???? "Fuiuchi"?)
"One Hundred Eyes" (?? "Hyaku Me"?)
"Black Clothes" (?? "Kuro Fuku"?)
"Chance Meeting" (?? "Kaik?"?)
"The Only One" (??? "Tada Hitori"?)
"Reunion" (?? "Saikai"?)
"Lamp in Broad Daylight" (??? "Hiru Andon"?)
"Seminar" (???? "Semin?"?)
"5:00 in Shibuya" (???5? "Shibuya de Goji"?)
"Whirlwind" (?? "Senp?"?)
"Teeth" (? "Ha"?)
With the help of Shion, Kurono destroys the last dinosaur and the mission ends. While all the people from the mission are being transported, a group of swordsmen dressed in black begin attacking. Most of participants are killed, but Yoshikazu is able to return. Upon returning to the Gantz room, scoring commenced. Kurono score is 58, which is much more than what Gantz claimed he needed to avoid death. After Kurono's stellar performance in the last battle, most of the other surviving group members start training everyday with Kurono to improve their own abilities. During the following days, Kurono's younger brother, Akira, reveals that the people that attacked the Gantz group before are known as Vampires, and that he is one of them. The Vampires want to take revenge for all the deaths of other vampires by the hands of the people from Gantz. Some of them are able to find Shion and try to capture him.
15December 17, 2004 ISBN 978-4-08-876717-8January 5, 2011 ISBN 978-1-59582-662-6
"Game of Death" (???? "Shib? Y?gi"?)
"Telephone Shocker" (??????????? "Terefon Shokkingu"?)
"Caught in the Middle" (?? "Hazama"?)
"Breaking Up" (?? "Betsuri"?)
"Afterimage" (?? "Zanz?"?)
"Embrace" (?? "H?y?"?)
"Transparent" (?? "T?mei"?)
"Target" (?? "Hy?teki"?)
"Reunion" (?? "Saikai"?)
"Flee" (?? "T?s?"?)
"True Feelings" (???? "Shins? Toro"?)
"Schism" (?? "Bunretsu"?)
Despite having the black costume broken, Shion is able to kill the leader of the Vampires he previously fought. In the next days, Kurono has a date with Reika and the event ends up being published in several popular celebrity magazines. Tae finds out about it and breaks up with Kurono. Soon Kurono and all the other members are transported by Gantz to kill aliens dressed as black knights. They manage a swift victory, but are then tasked by Gantz to kill Tae for unknown reasons. Kurono suddenly goes to her house and so that he can provide her with protection. All of the remaining members except Kenzo, Hiroto, Daizemon, Yoshikazu and Reika still want to proceed in killing her.
16April 19, 2005 ISBN 978-4-08-876780-2March 16, 2011 ISBN 978-1-59582-663-3
"Trackless" (??? "Mukid?"?)
"Personal Attack" (???? "Taijin K?geki"?)
"Area" (??? "Eria"?)
"Murderer" (??? "Hitogoroshi"?)
"Argentate Film" (?????? "Gin'en Firumu"?)
"Vanish" (?? "Sh?shitsu"?)
"100 Point Menu" (100????~ "Hyakuten Meny?"?)
"Present" (????? "Purezento"?)
"Investigation" (?? "S?sa"?)
"Punishment" (?? "Seibai"?)
"Muscle Rider" (???????? "Kinniku Raid?"?)
"Changing Clothes" (???? "Namakigae"?)
Shion's team finds Tae after injuring all the people who aimed to protect her, and successfully kills her. Kurono attempts to commit suicide but he asks Gantz what will happen if he gets 100 points. He discovers that he can resurrect anybody who has participated in Gantz's missions and decides to try and revive the friends he has lost, including Tae. In the following days, Sakurai, who still regrets killing the people who bullied him, uses his telekinesis to stop criminals. In the next mission, among the newcomers is a child named Takeshi who died as a result of parental abuse. He thinks that Daizemon is a hero that he used to admire before dying, and that he was meant to save him.
17July 19, 2005 ISBN 978-4-08-876826-7May 18, 2011 ISBN 978-1-59582-664-0
"Common Knowledge" (?? "Sh?chi"?)
"In the Public Eye" (????? "K?sh? no Menzen"?)
"Out with the Demons" (???? "Oni wa Soto"?)
"City Battle" (??? "Shigaisen"?)
"Combustion" (??? "Nensh?kei"?)
"Dislocation" (?? "Ten'i"?)
"Close Combat" (???? "Sekkin Sh?bu"?)
"Chicken" (????? "Chikin Yar?"?)
"Morphing" (??? "Futeikei"?)
"Gulp" (???? "Gokkun"?)
"Murder and Vomit" (???? "Satsujin ?to"?)
"The Man Born from a Wish" (????????? "Negai kara Umareta Otoko"?)
The group is sent to kill the Oni Aliens, creatures that are able to transform into anything. Takeshi is attacked by several of them but Daizemon is able to defeat them. Hiroto and Kenzo fight against one that is able to manipulate fire and, although the alien is killed, Hiroto is incinerated. Other aliens enter the bodies of several people and explode them from their insides. Ultimately, Kurono destroys all the aliens. Meanwhile, Daizemon manages to calm Takeshi by claiming that he is indeed the hero that was created for Takeshi's protection, as he had imagined was the case.
18November 18, 2005 ISBN 978-4-08-876881-6August 3, 2011 ISBN 978-1-59582-776-0
"Fist" (???? "Genkotsu"?)
"Swing Lock" (??????? "Suingu Rokku"?)
"Worthy Opponent" (??? "K?tekishu"?)
"Before the Storm" (??? "Arashi no Mae"?)
"Record of Bloodshed" (??? "Kepp?roku"?)
"God of Thunder" (?????? "Kaminari-sama"?)
"Human Extinction Declaration" (?????? "Jinrui Bokumetsu Sengen"?)
"Desperate Blow" (???? "Ichigeki Hisshi"?)
"Within Reach" (??????? "Miete Iru Mono"?)
"Impossible" (????? "Dame-jan"?)
"Attack from Above" (???? "Tobikiri"?)
"Synchronicity" (???????? "Shinkuronishiti"?)
Daizaemon faces an Oni alien, able to turn his body into rock. After a prolonged fight, Daizemon manages to kill the alien. A new lightning-wielding alien appears in Tokyo and starts killing people. Shion confronts it, but is unable to inflict any damage. However, he is saved by the remainder of his fellow hunters. They also attempt to fight it, but in the end are all defeated by the alien despite Kenzo managing to blind it. Kurono repeateadly fights against him, determined to achieve enough points to revive Tae. He is able to ultimately overpower the alien threat. In the end he is tired but still wants to fight, and a weakened Shion arrives to help him.
19June 19, 2006 ISBN 978-4-08-877069-7October 19, 2011 ISBN 978-1-59582-813-2
"The Pathos of Rejoicing" (?????? "Kanki no Patosu"?)
"100 Points..." (100?... "Hyakuten..."?)
"How to Use Freedom" (?????? "Jiy? no Tsukai Kata"?)
"Comeback" (????? "Kamubakku"?)
"The Third Revived Person" (3?????? "Sanninme no Seikansha"?)
"Number One" (???? "Ichiban"?)
"Good Work" (?????? "Otsukaresama"?)
"Older and Younger Brother" (??? "Ani to Ot?to"?)
"Remains That Can't Be Erased" (?????? "Kesenai Zanshi"?)
"Lovely Stalker" (????????? "Rabur? Sut?k?"?)
"Key" (?? "Kagi"?)
"Contact" (????? "Kontakuto"?)
Kurono and Shion kill the last Oni Alien by beheading it and the hunters are transported back to the room to receive their scores. This time, most of them are able achieve 100 points. Kenzo uses his points to revive Hiroto. Reika, Yoshikazu and Daizemon all decide to use their points to revive Tae, Kato and Nishi who are then able to assist the other participants. However, when Kurono is about to revive somebody else, his partners tell him to ask Gantz to choose the option that allows him to exit the battle cycle. He reluctantantly follows their advice and is able to return back to his normal life, with no memory of the Gantz activities. Since he does not remember anything, he also forgets that Tae was his girlfriend. This confuses him, since he still has her gifts and pictures. Kurono realizes that he lost his memories and attempts to get them back.
20December 19, 2006 ISBN 978-4-08-877187-8December 21, 2011 ISBN 978-1-59582-846-0
"Mystery Hunter" (????????? "Misuter? Hant?"?)
"Dining Table of the Black Suits" (????? "Kuro Fuku no Shokutaku"?)
"Leak" (?? "Ry?shutsu"?)
"Splitting Chinese Bamboo" (???? "Karatake Wari"?)
"Home Visit" (???? "Katei H?mon"?)
"Altruistic Actions" (????? "Ritateki K?d?"?)
"Let's Go Somewhere" (?????? "Issho ni Dokka"?)
"Me, a Hero?" (????? "Eiy?, Ore?"?)
"Junk Party" (????????? "Janku P?t?"?)
"Photosterilization" (??? "Hikari Sakkin"?)
"...Next Phase" (...???????? "...Nekusuto Feizu"?)
Kurono is asked by a detective named Seiichi Kikuchi about the "Gantz team". However, he is still unable to remember any of the events that occurred in Gantz-related activities. Meanwhile, the Akira Kurono tries to save a girl from being killed by the Vampires, but is knocked by one of his partners. The detective tries to interview the Vampires but they force him to reveal information about the Gantz team instead. After that, the Vampires confront Shion, who they kill when he tries to protect his girlfriend. Akira calls Kurono and tells him that he is the next target of the Vampires and also tells him that they are vulnerable to sunlight, which makes Kurono prepare for the attack. That night, when he is attacked by the Vampires, he confronts them, but is killed by one of them. Kato and his friends try to rescue him but they are attacked by two Vampires in the process, and are transported by Gantz along with them.
Volumes 21?37.
No.Japanese release dateJapanese ISBNEnglish release dateEnglish ISBN
21May 18, 2007 ISBN 978-4-08-877276-9February 22, 2012 ISBN 978-1-59582-847-7
"Host Samurai" (??????? "Hosuto Samurai"?)
"Boss Ghoul" (?????? "Nuraripyon"?)
"Dotombori" (?????? "D?tonbori"?)
"A Joyous Stench" (?????? "Kanki Naru Sh?ki"?)
"Wass Goin' On?" (????? "Nan'yanen"?)
"West Side Story" (???????????? "Uesuto Saido Sut?r?"?)
"The Land of Excess" (??????? "Kuidaore no Machi"?)
"Last Piece of Strength" (????????? "Tsuyosa no Rasuto P?su"?)
"Hunters and the Hunted" (?????? "Kari to Karare"?)
"Cheap Lives" (??????? "Ch?pu na Inochi-tachi"?)
Following Kurono's death, all his former teammates are transported to Gantz room. Kato is determined to achieve 100 points so that he can revive Kurono. This time, in addition to the previous survivors, two Vampires that killed Kurono are also transported and are forced to aid them in the next mission. Also, they are sent to Osaka for this mission rather than Tokyo. The team must destroy the y?kai aliens. Takeshi is the first one to be sent and accidentally kills some of them after becoming scared. The other members discover another Gantz team from Osaka, which tells them not to attack the aliens in their territory. Daizemon finds Takeshi and helps him to destroy other local aliens. Meanwhile, after discovering the Osaka team have obtained 100 points several times, Kato is told that it is impossible to revive everyone and get out of the missions from Gantz.
22November 19, 2007 ISBN 978-4-08-877349-0April 18, 2012 ISBN 978-1-59582-848-4
"Prepare for the Nearest Death" (???? "Shisha Gony?"?)
"Hypocrite Alien" (??????? "Gizensha Seijin"?)
"The Three Super S's (Sadists)" (?S?3? "Do S no Sannin"?)
"The Single-Minded Man" (?????? "Hitamuki na Otoko"?)
"The Group from the West" (???? "Nishi no Hitobito"?)
"Whatsitsname & So-and-So" (????????? "Nanigashi Soregashi?"?)
"A Single Finger" (??? "Yubi Ippon"?)
"Do Whatever You Want" (????? "Katte Yanen"?)
"The Hundred-Point Alien" (100???? "Hyakuten no Yatsu"?)
Kato goes alone to fight the y?kai. He meets Anzu Yamasaki, a woman from the Osaka team, who tells him that in her team there were a couple and a child without suits to protect themselves. Kato and Anzu run to where they are and find them being attacked by a giant alien. Kato traps the alien in a small shop and kills him. At the same moment, the two Vampires encounter a couple of the aliens and make an attempt to ally with them, but the aliens betray them. However, the blonde male Vampire, nicknamed "Host Samurai" by Gantz, destroys them and rescues his partner. Meanwhile, two members from the Osaka team discover the strongest of the y?kai, the Nurarihyon, which is worth an entire hundred points alone. When Kato hears this, he becomes motivated to defeat it to receive the points needed to revive Kurono.
23May 19, 2008 ISBN 978-4-08-877445-9June 20, 2012 ISBN 978-1-59582-849-1
"Desperation" (?????? "Yabure Kabure"?)
"Splatterhead" (??????? "Pachipachi Heddo"?)
"Half-Awakened" (??? "Hankakusei"?)
"Vs. the SDF" (???? "Tai Jieitai"?)
"Annihilation vs. Extinction" (????? "Sh?metsu to Sh?shitsu"?)
"Like a Cockroach" (?????? "Gokiburi nami"?)
"Impossible Death" (?????? "Arienai Shi"?)
"Mind Over Muscle" (?????... "J? Yoku G? wo..."?)
A member of the Osaka team destroys part of the 100-point alien, but dies in the process. Another Osaka member is attacked by two other aliens and in a panic he manages to destroy them with the head of the strongest alien. With the help of an invisible person he is able to escape, but is then surrounded by members of the military. Kato tries to defend him but they are attacked by two aliens. Three members of the Osaka team arrive and destroy them, although a team member dies in the process. After that, the 100-point alien reappears. Despite being destroyed several times, it resurrects into a new form each time and continues to fight.
24October 17, 2008 ISBN 978-4-08-877511-1August 15, 2012 ISBN 978-1-59582-907-8
"Feminine Hell" (??? "Onna Jigoku"?)
"Ambush" (????? "Fukuhei no Ky?sh?"?)
"" (????? "Shintai no Kiwami"?)
"The Ones Not Going Back" (???? "Kaeranumono"?)
"" (????? "Ky?kyoku no Kokui"?)
"Ping Pong" (???? "Pin Pon"?)
"The Gap in Levels Between Him and Us" (??????? "Danzetsu Suru Higa Sa"?)
"" (????? "Deguchi to Itoguchi"?)
The Nurarihyon transforms into a mountain of women that proceeds to kill several of the Osaka combatants. Kato and the other members from the Tokyo team join the battle and try to destroy it as well. The alien once again transforms and becomes a giant minotaur, seriously injuring the Tokyo team. Kenzo decides to distract it while the others escape and dies in the process. The Nurarihyon continues to follow the Tokyo team and, just when they are about to be killed, the last hunter from Osaka, Oka Hachirou, appears. He uses an improved version of the black suit to overpower the alien. The Nurarihyon again resurrects, this time in the form of an old man and continues fighting Oka. Oka is victorious, but he decides not to finish off the Nurarihyon, thinking he may die while doing it. However, the alien transforms into several balls and proceeds to attack the Tokyo squad.
25February 19, 2009 ISBN 978-4-08-877597-5October 24, 2012 ISBN 978-1-59582-908-5
"Roars of Terror" (????? "Ky?fu no H?k?"?)
"Melee Rush" (?????? "Nikudan Rasshu"?)
"Regaining a Plan" (????? "Bankai no Kisaku"?)
"Questioning the Question" (????? "Shitsumon ni Shitsumon"?)
"" (?????? "Hikari kara no Kish?"?)
"" (?????? "Yami kara no Ky?sh?"?)
"Revival" (????? "Ribaibaru"?)
"" (?????????? "Katasutorofi no Jokyoku"?)
The previous attack from the Nurarihyon leaves Takeshi seriously injured, and Daizemon decides to fight the alien to make Takeshi return to Gantz's room safe. The Nurarihyon takes this time the form of a skeleton and fights Daizemon. As Daizemon is left wounded, the alien leaves to find and kill Oka. Unwilling to give up, Kato asks his comrades to attack the alien while he will be a bait. As the Nurarihyon returns, all the hunters shoot in order to defeat it. However, the alien manages to defend and cuts Kato's legs. Before Kato is finished, Anzu protects him, dying in the process. The vampire Host Samurai fights the Nurarihyon, allowing Kato to kill the alien. With the mission over, the surviving Tokyo members return to Tokyo, where Kato receives 100 points from Gantz. Kato decides to revive Kei, who appears without remembering what happened after he chose to leave the room. Meanwhile, Nishi tells the team that nothing matters now as, according to Gantz, all mankind will be destroyed in a week due to a possible new nuclear war.
26June 19, 2009 ISBN 978-4-08-877668-2January 23, 2013 ISBN 978-1-61655-048-6
"Warm Memories" (??????? "Nukumori no Kioku"?)
"Proud Primates" (?????? "Ogoreru Reich?rui"?)
"Desperate Meeting" (???????? "Zetsub? M?tingu"?)
"Factory" (?? "K?j?"?)
"" (????? "Tsunagaru Sh?en"?)
"Distorted Feelings" (???? "Yugamu Omoi"?)
"Definition of Bullying" (?????? "Ijime no Teigi"?)
"The Roar of Collapse" (?????? "Sh?matsu no Hasai On"?)
"The World Attacks" (?????? "Ky?sh? Suru Sekai"?)
"Intelligence Like That of a Straw" (??????? "Wara no Y?na Eichi"?)
"" (????????? "Hangyaku Suru Bi naru G?z?"?)
The members from the Tokyo team return to their common lives, but they remain concerned about Nishi's comment of the world's destruction. The members reunite once again, and ask Nishi to tell them about Gantz. Nishi tells them that there are various Gantz teams all around the world and that it is suspected that the aliens and the black spheres were made by men. Meanwhile, Kikuchi goes to Germany, where with the help from a person named Sebastian, he finds a factory of black spheres. Reika goes to Kurono's apartment and confesses her feelings to him, but Kurono tells her he is in love with Tae. As she leaves the apartment, Reika decides to get 100 points to revive Kurono once again so that the new one would love her. As Nishi returns to his school, he is attacked by the other students who have grown a dislike for him. Enraged, Nishi kills most of them forcing several soldiers to attack him. Before being killed, Nishi is transported to Gantz's room along with all the members from the Tokyo team. The team is then transported to Italy where they find that all the Gantz's participants from the city are being killed by Roman statue aliens.
27October 19, 2009 ISBN 978-4-08-877721-4April 17, 2013 ISBN 978-1-61655-049-3
"International Tragedy" (????? "Takokuseki Sangeki"?)
"The Price of Courage" (????? "Y?ki no Taika"?)
"Shutdown" (??????? "Shattodaun"?)
"Colony Collapse Disorder" (??????? "H?gun H?kai Sh?k?gun"?)
"The Meaning of Finished" (?????? "Owari no Imi"?)
"Stirrings Within the Black Sphere" (??????? "Kuro Tama no Naka no Taid?"?)
"Warped Providence and Love" (??????? "Yugamu Setsuri to Koigokoro"?)
"How to Make an Eternity" (???????? "Eien no Tsukurikata"?)
"Sage of the Book of Darkness" (??????? "Yami no Tobari no R?kenja"?)
"Things Come to Light in the Mansion" (?????? "Yakata no Naka no Hakujitsu"?)
"The Berlin Trickster" (?????????? "Berurin no Torikkusut?"?)
"Daylight of Destruction" (???????? "Hametsu no Deiraito"?)
Participant Kouki Inaba gives up while confronting the aliens and Suzuki is killed by them when he tries to protect Inaba. Realizing that Suzuki cared for him, Inaba starts fighting to survive to the mission, but is killed by an enormous statue. When Tokyo team is overpowered by the aliens, Gantz transports them back to Tokyo, where the sphere announces that the missions ended. As most participants leave, Reika finds that the person from the sphere is out and asks her who she wants to revive. Reika chooses to create a clone of Kurono, who decides to stay with her when he realizes he is a clone and cannot continue being with Tae. Sometime later, Sebastian takes Kikuchi to Germany where Sebastian discovers that a group men created Gantz through a coded message by an ill person. However, Kikuchi becomes suspicious of Sebastian. Next day, the sky becomes red, and an unknown black ship destroys North America's military force.
28May 19, 2010 ISBN 978-4-08-877854-9July 24, 2013 ISBN 978-1-61655-050-9
"Shooting Stars" (?????????? "Sh?tingu Sut?"?)
"Rejected Surrender" (???? "K?fuku Kyakka"?)
"Tokyo Eliminator" (????????????? "T?ky? Erimin?t?"?)
"Giga Structure" (?????????? "Giga Sutorakuch?"?)
"Collision with the Unknown" (?????? "Michi to no Gekitotsu"?)
"Deciding to Open Fire" (????? "Ketsui no Hibuta"?)
"People Saved, Things Wasted" (????????? "Sukuetamono to Koboshitamono"?)
"Stealth Hope" (??????? "Suterusu no Kib?"?)
Giant beings resembling the black outfits appear in Japan and start slaughtering the citizens. When Kurono decides to battle them, he discovers they are humanoid aliens. The other Tokyo hunters also battle them, managing to protect various people. As Reika and Kurono's clone also fight the alien, they are supported by unknown hunters who proceed unarm and capture them.
29September 17, 2010 ISBN 978-4-08-879025-1October 23, 2013 ISBN 978-1-61655-150-6
"The Counterattack Begins" (????? "Gyakush? no Shikk?"?)
"Loss of Control" (????? "Seigyo no Sh?shitsu"?)
"Agitation" (??????? "Ajit?shon"?)
"Clash of Civilizations" (????? "Bunmei no Sh?totsu"?)
"Twist and Turn" (???? ??? ??? "Tsuisuto ando T?n"?)
"Superiority Moments" (????? "Setsuna no Y?sei"?)
"Hectic Chase for Safety" (?????? "M?tsui Suru Anpi"?)
"Teared Life" (?????? "Hagasareru Inochi"?)
When trying to protect Tae and his school mates, Kurono is transported to an area where and various hunters from different cities are. They are ordered by a group of hunters controlling black spheres to go fight on the alien ship, threatening that they will kill them if they disobey. In the ship, the hunters battle the humanoid aliens until they are able to secure one and transport it back to land. The lead hunters send the other hunters including Kurono back to different cities at random, but as Kurono runs to find Tae, she is kidnapped alongside various humans by an alien ship.
30January 19, 2011 ISBN 978-4-08-879088-6January 29, 2014 ISBN 978-1-61655-151-3
"Signal of Death" (????? "Danmatsu no Aizu"?)
"Perverted Salvation" (?????? "Henshitsu Suru Ky?sai"?)
"The Very Bottom of the Chain" (?????? "Rensa no Saiteihen"?)
"Depths of the Alien World" (????? "Ikai no Shin'?"?)
"The Choice of Those with Power" (??????? "Chikara Arumono no Sentaku"?)
"Exposed Reunion" (??????? "Tenjisareta Saikai"?)
"Toy Girl" (???? "Gangu Sh?jo"?)
As they enter the alien ship, most humans are killed by the machines in there. Tae and other humans manage to escape and appear in an alien city where the giant humanoid aliens live and humans are used as food. As aliens continue killing the humans, Tae is taken by a child alien. Kurono arrives to the ship, desperate to find Tae, but decides to help the surviving humans escape from the area upon their pleads.
31April 19, 2011 ISBN 978-4-08-879129-6April 23, 2014 ISBN 978-1-61655-152-0
"Innocence in a Palanquin" (??????? "Kago no Naka no Junj?"?)
"Transcendence" (?? "Ch?etsu"?)
"Rebellious Gathering" (????? "Han'i no Sh?ketsu"?)
"The Outbreak of War Begins" (????? "Kaisen no Kaishi"?)
"Reversible Invasion" (?????? "Kagyaku Naru Shinryaku"?)
"The Wills Are Piling Up" (???????? "Sh?seki Suru Ishi-tachi"?)
"Extreme Ways" (????? "Kyokugen no Shiy?"?)
"Irreversible Lives" (????? "Hikagyaku Seimei"?)
"Mismatched Rescue" (?????? "Surechigau Ky?sai"?)
After his girlfriend was killed by the aliens, Hiroto grows furious and starts killing all the aliens in the area. Meanwhile, the Tokyo Hunters reunite and force Nishi and the human inside the black sphere to use it for them. The Kurono revived by Reika then sends a message to Hunters across Japan to seek their help to rescue the people taken by the alien's spaceship. As various Hunters start reuniting, the other Kurono takes an alien hostage so that she will guide him and the humans he found outside the ship. Learning they cannot revive people anymore, the Hunters recruited in Tokyo goes to the spaceship to save the people in danger.
32August 19, 2011 ISBN 978-4-08-879185-2July 23, 2014 ISBN 978-1-61655-428-6
"Quality and Quantity of Life" (????? "Inochi no Shitsu to Kazu"?)
"Peace and Cornering" (????? "Wahei to Haisui"?)
"" (????? "Geigeki to K?my?"?)
"The Beginning of the Chain" (?????? "Rensa no Hajimari"?)
"" (?????? "Hanten Suru Katsub?"?)
"Exploding Respite" (?????? "Bakuretsu Suru Ansoku"?)
"Resuscitation Failure" (???? "Saisei Hatan"?)
"The Pen of Fishing Lures" (?????? "Gijie no Kakoi"?)
The Tokyo Hunters start transporting the hostages back to Tokyo with the black sphere. However, the aliens in charge of the ship view them as terrorists and start sending creatures to eliminate them. Moreover, the black sphere from Tokyo is then hacked, and all transportation cannot be done as a result. Gantz's room is then attacked by aliens, and while Nishi and Takeshi manage to escape safely, the human from the sphere dies. Now in the aliens' city, the Hunters try evacuating the humans but are confronted by more enemies.
33January 19, 2012 ISBN 978-4-08-879255-2November 4, 2014 ISBN 978-1-61655-429-3
"A Game of Life and Death" (???? "Seisatsu Y?gi"?)
"Reactive Resignation" (????? "K?sei no Teikan"?)
"Quenched Combustion" (??????? "Sh?hi Sareru Nensh?"?)
"Saturated Skull" (?????? "H?wa Suru Zugai"?)
"Rampaging Tumor" (?????? "B?s? Suru Shuy?"?)
"Less Than a Fight" (???? "T?s? Miman"?)
"Pinpoint Victory" (?????? "Hari Hodo no Katsuro"?)
"Beautiful Feelings" (????? "Utsukushiki Kanj?"?)
The Tokyo Hunters continue being attacked by a diverse amount of creatures that reduce their numbers as well as the people captured. The remaining Osaka Team members try to protect the humans captured but are surpassed by the aliens. Now having nearly ten members alive, the Tokyo Hunters manage to help the Osaka Hunters. Back in the ship's city, Kurono is able to finds Tae with help from the alien he took hostage.
34May 10, 2012 ISBN 978-4-08-879328-3February 10, 2015 ISBN 978-1-61655-573-3
"Lovers Crossing" (????? "?se no K?sa"?)
"Deus Ex Machina" (??????? "Kikai Jikake no Kami"?)
"I, Too" (???? "Oreda tte"?)
"Parallel Strike" (?????? "Ky?sh? Suru Heik?"?)
"A Forbidden Dream" (???? "Kinki no Yume"?)
"Tiny Love Song" (????????? "Ch?sana Koi no Merodi"?)
"Steel March" (????? "K?tetsu M?chi"?)
"The Squinting Tyrant" (???????? "Yabu Nirami no B?kun"?)
Without warning, Kurono is put in a superpowered machine and sent to destroy a tower that supports the alien ship. After killing almost all the aliens in the building, the Gantz and Osaka team leave with the second Kurono staying behind to kill the last alien. Reika refuses to leave and sacrifices her life to save the second Kurono.
35October 19, 2012 ISBN 978-4-08-879438-9May 12, 2015 ISBN 978-1-61655-586-3
"Confession and Repentance" (????? "Kokuhaku to Zange"?)
"Battlecry" (???? "Sensen Ky?ky?"?)
"Meager Redemption" (???? "Hakanai Aganai"?)
"Sky Tower" (??? "Sora no T?"?)
"Dissonant Resonance" (?????? "Fu Ky?wa no Ky?mei"?)
"Deal with the Devil" (?????????? "Ged? Negoshieishon"?)
"The Great Escape" (???????????? "Za Gureito Esuk?pu"?)
"How to Make a Hero" (?????? "Eiy? no Tsukurikata"?)
Hiroto starts to use telekinesis to destroy the machines in sight, but is distracted by hallucinations of Kenzo and Tonkotsu. After the hallucinations end, Hiroto is killed by an incoming electrical-powered laser. When Kurono reaches the tower, he rescues Tae when the miniship of the alien who saved her was shot down, and the alien sacrificed herself. He then confronts Nishi, who wants to destroy the aliens for good. Kurono then has second thoughts about killing the entire alien population, after being convinced by Tae that they are not eradicating Earth for their liking. After a brief argument, Nishi attempts to kill Tae, but Kurono manages to escape with Tae and leaves Nishi to die in the chaos below the tower. Soon, both Kurono and Tae find out that they are in space, and with a shuttle, immediately headed back to Earth. Meanwhile, the rest of the gang are transported to a headquarters in space, where some of them abuse the aliens endlessly.
36March 19, 2013 ISBN 978-4-08-879588-1??
"Transgression and a Profession of Love" (????? "J?rin to Kokuhaku"?)
"Question Time" (????????? "Kuesuchon Taimu"?)
"Perfect Plan" (????????? "P?fekuto Puran"?)
"Proof of Humanity" (????? "Ningen no Sh?mei"?)
"Where the Missing Mass Goes" (??????? "Sono Shitsury? no Yukue"?)
"Dueling Etiquette" (???? "Kett? Sah?"?)
"Rush Hour" (??????? "Rasshu Aw?"?)
"The Final Barrier" (????? "Saigo no Sh?heki"?)
Shortly afterwards, the members of Gantz are transported into a room with a divine figure who explains that humans are weaklings in the universe. After being teased by revived lovers and friends of the past, the clone Kurono manages to get himself obliterated trying to kill the figure. The team ends up being transported to the alien ship, where they discovered that they incapacitated almost all of the aliens and are at the verge of winning the war.
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"A Challenge from the Defeated" (??????? "Haizan-sha no Ch?sen-j?"?)
"The Melancholy of Prometheus" (????????? "Purometeusu no Y?utsu"?)
"Confronting His Heaviest Burden" (??????? "Saidai Kaj? no Taiji"?)
"Exchanging Despair for Hope" (???????? "Kib? to Zetsub? no ?sh?"?)
"Flashing All His Might" (????? "Konshin no Issen"?)
"Converging on Despair" (?????? "Sh?soku suru Teikan"?)
"Lightning Counterstrike" (????? "Jinrai no K?saku"?)
"End Point" (?????? "Saigo no Sh?shifu"?)
The Gantz crew struggles to defeat the strongest alien, Eeva, and many casualties were present before Kurono flies straight into Eeva's head, killing him. As Kurono tries to convince the last alien to stop fighting the humans, the alien commits suicide, and the entire alien ship is set to self-destruct. Every human safely transport themselves back onto Earth, with the exception of Kurono and Kato. The duo escape the ship before it explodes using the Gantz bikes, and fall into the ocean, experiencing hypothermia and starvation before military personnel arrive. Kurono and Kato manage to get out of the water, and are greeted by Tae and Kato's brother Ayumu as the war ends.
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208.Barsoom/Mars.
Barsoom is a fictional representation of the planet Mars created by American pulp fiction author Edgar Rice Burroughs. The first Barsoom tale was serialized as Under the Moons of Mars in 1912, and published as a novel as A Princess of Mars in 1917. Ten sequels followed over the next three decades, further extending his vision of Barsoom and adding other characters. The first five novels are in the public domain in U.S., and the entire series is free around the world on Project Gutenberg Australia, but the books are still under copyright laws in most of the rest of the world.
The world of Barsoom is a romantic vision of a dying Mars. Writers and science popularizers like Camille Flammarion were convinced that Mars was at a later stage of evolution than Earth and therefore much drier, took the ideas farther and published books like Les Terres du Ciel (1884), which contained illustrations of a planet covered with canals. Burroughs gives credits to him in his writings, and goes as far as to say that he based his vision of Mars on that of Flammarion. John Carter is transported to Mars in a way described by Flammarion in Urania (1889), where a man from earth is transported to Mars as an astral body where he wakes up to a lower gravity, two moons, strange plants and animals and several races of advanced humans. In The Plurality of Inhabited Worlds and Lumen, he further speculates about plant people and other creatures on far away planets, elements that would later appear in the Barsoom stories.
The Barsoom series, where John Carter in the late 19th century is mysteriously transported from Earth to a Mars suffering from dwindling resources, has been cited by many well known science fiction writers as having inspired and motivated them in their youth, as well as by key scientists involved in both space exploration and the search for extraterrestrial life. Elements of the books have been adapted by many writers, in novels, short stories, comics, television and film.
Burroughs began writing the Barsoom books in the second half of 1911, and produced one volume a year between 1911 and 1914; seven more were produced between 1921 and 1941. The first Barsoom tale was serialized in The All-Story magazine as Under the Moons of Mars (1912), and then published in hardcover as the complete novel A Princess of Mars (1917). The final Barsoom tale was a novella, Skeleton Men of Jupiter, published in Amazing Stories in February 1943.
Collectively, this series of novels has been referred to as the Martian Series.
OrderTitlePublished as serialPublished as novelFictional narratorYear in novel
1A Princess of MarsFebruary?July 1912, All-StoryOctober 1917, McClurgJohn Carter1866?1876
2The Gods of MarsJanuary?May 1913, All-StorySeptember 1918, McClurgJohn Carter1886
3The Warlord of MarsDecember 1913-March 1914, All-StorySeptember 1919, McClurgJohn Carter1887?1888
4Thuvia, Maid of MarsApril 1916, All-Story WeeklyOctober 1920, McClurgthird person1888~1898
5The Chessmen of MarsFebruary?March 1922, Argosy All-Story WeeklyNovember 1922, McClurgthird person1898~1917
6The Master Mind of MarsJuly 15, 1927, Amazing Stories AnnualMarch 1928, McClurgUlysses Paxton1917
7A Fighting Man of MarsApril?September 1930, Blue BookMay 1931, MetropolitanTan Hadron1928
8Swords of MarsNovember 1934-April 1935, Blue BookFebruary 1936, BurroughsJohn Carter1928~1934
9Synthetic Men of MarsJanuary?February 1939, Argosy WeeklyMarch 1940, BurroughsVor Daj1934~1938
10Llana of GatholMarch?October 1941, Amazing StoriesMarch 1948, BurroughsJohn Carter1938~1940
11John Carter of Mars - a novella collection containing:
John Carter and the Giant of Mars
(attributed to John Coleman Burroughs)January 1941, Amazing StoriesJuly 1964, Canaveralthird person1940
Skeleton Men of Jupiter
(attributed to Edgar Rice Burroughs)February 1943, Amazing StoriesJohn Carter1941?1942
Etymology.
Burroughs frequently invented words from the languages spoken by the peoples in his novels, and used these extensively in the narrative. In Thuvia, Maid of Mars he included a glossary of Barsoomian words used in the first four novels. The word "Barsoom", the native Martian word for Mars, is composed of the Martian name for planet, "soom", and the Martian word for eight, "bar". This assumes that Mars is the eighth body in the inner solar system, though to reach this figure it is necessary to count the Sun and the satellites of both the Earth and Mars itself.
Character focus.
A Princess of Mars, the first novel in the Barsoom series, with its sequels The Gods of Mars and The Warlord of Mars, forms a trilogy centered upon protagonist John Carter and damsel in distress Dejah Thoris. John Carter's and Dejah Thoris's son Carthoris is also introduced as a minor character in The Gods of Mars, as is Thuvia.
Three other books focus on their descendants: Carthoris, in Thuvia, Maid of Mars, his sister, Tara of Helium, in The Chessmen of Mars, and Tara's daughter, Llana of Gathol, in Llana of Gathol.
Ulysses Paxton, another Earth man transported to Mars, is the focus of The Master Mind of Mars, and the rest of the books focus on John Carter's later adventures (Swords of Mars and John Carter of Mars), or on native Martian characters (A Fighting Man of Mars and Synthetic Men of Mars).
Form.
The majority of the tales are novels; but two are collections of shorter works: Llana of Gathol has four linked novelettes, originally published in Amazing Stories during 1941, and John Carter of Mars is composed of two novellas.
Most of the tales are first-person narratives. John Carter narrates A Princess of Mars, The Gods of Mars, The Warlord of Mars, Swords of Mars, the four novellas in Llana of Gathol and "Skeleton Men of Jupiter" in John Carter of Mars. Ulysses Paxton narrates one, The Master Mind of Mars. Martian guardsman Vor Daj narrates Synthetic Men of Mars and Martian navy officer Tan Hadron narrates A Fighting Man of Mars. Two other novels, Thuvia, Maid of Mars and The Chessmen of Mars, are written in the third person, as is "John Carter and the Giant of Mars" in John Carter of Mars.
Introductions.
Beginning with A Princess of Mars, Burroughs established a practice which continued in the four sequels of introducing the novel as if a factual account passed on to him personally, wherein John Carter appears as an avuncular figure known to his family for years. The same device appears in several sequels: The Gods of Mars, The Chessmen of Mars, Swords of Mars, and Llana of Gathol.
Authorship.
All of the Barsoom tales were published under the name of Edgar Rice Burroughs, except Under the Moons of Mars, the first publication of A Princess of Mars, which was published under the pseudonym "Norman Bean". Burroughs had actually typed "Normal Bean" (meaning not insane) on his submitted manuscript; but his publisher's typesetter changed it to "Norman". The first novella in John Carter of Mars, "John Carter and the Giant of Mars", is thought to have been penned by Burroughs's son John "Jack" Coleman Burroughs, although allegedly revised by his father. It was recognized by fans, upon publication, as unlikely of being Burroughs' work, as the writing is of a juvenile quality compared to that of Burroughs' other stories.
Genre.
The stories are science fantasy, belonging to the subgenre planetary romance, which has strong elements of both science fiction and fantasy. Planetary romance stories are similar to sword and sorcery tales, but include scientific aspects. They mostly take place on the surface of an alien world, frequently include sword fighting, monsters, supernatural elements such as telepathic abilities, and civilizations similar to Earth in pre-technological eras, particularly with the inclusion of dynastic or religious social structures. Spacecraft appear in the stories, but are not central to the story.
The stories also share a number of elements with westerns in that they feature desert landscapes, women taken captive and a final confrontation with the antagonist.
Burroughs' Barsoom stories are considered seminal planetary romances. While examples existed prior to the publication of his works, they are the principal influence on the many works of this type that followed. His style of planetary romance has ceased to be written and published in the mainstream, though his books remain in print.
Plot.
Like most of Burroughs' fiction, the novels in the series are mostly travelogues, feature copious violence, and often depict civilized heroes captured by uncivilized cultures and mimicking their captors to survive.
Most Barsoom novels follow a familiar plot structure, wherein a hero is forced to a far-off location in search of a woman kidnapped by an odious but powerful villain. Female characters are frequently threatened with sexual assault; Dejah Thoris (on numerous occasions), Thuvia of Ptarth, and Tara of Helium are all subjected to this threat. Having met the women the hero may misinterpret their interest in him. Female characters are likely to be virtuous and fight off amorous advances and other dangers until able to connect with the hero; who himself fights a variety of enemies and deposes petty rulers of severely repressed populations, usually with the assistance of a native.
Motifs.
The world of Barsoom is morally unambiguous; whereas a sense of honor overcomes loyalty to ethnicity or society. Qualities of compassion, loyalty, and bravery are celebrated, and callousness, lasciviousness, deception, and cowardice are frowned upon.
Typically the novels include descriptions of aspects of the Martian world such as the architecture, and the presence of desolate landscapes punctuated by abandoned cities, technological achievements, advanced medicine, cultural elements such as superstitious religious practices and eating habits, breeding practices, and methods of population control. Many lost cities and civilizations and journeys into forgotten underworlds appear across the series, and the environment beyond the cities is populated by a variety of ferocious beasts, many roughly equivalent with Earth creatures and most bearing multiple sets of limbs. There are numerous examples of striking coincidences and deus ex machina usually to the benefit of the protagonists.
Mad scientists also appear, Ras Thavas from The Master Mind of Mars and Synthetic Men of Mars being the principal example, although another plays a prominent role in A Fighting Man of Mars. Incidences of the use of superstition by religious cults to control and manipulate others are also common.
A Princess of Mars was possibly the first fiction of the 20th century to feature a constructed language; although Barsoomian was not particularly developed, it did add verisimilitude to the narrative.
Villains.
The majority of the villains in the Barsoom series are implacably evil; are rulers or despots of major empires, or of hidden fiefdoms; are usually hated by their subjects; and possess a voracious sexual appetite, usually directed towards the heroine. The pattern is established by Tharkian Jeddak Tal Hajus in the first novel, A Princess of Mars. Further examples include the Salensus Oll of The Warlord of Mars, Nutus of Dusar in Thuvia, Maid of Mars, and Ul Vas, Jeddak of the Tarids in Swords of Mars.
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