Contact Us  The ‘Gantz’ Movie: How to Water Down A Manga Until
It Drowns [Review]  Like Johnny Ryan’s Prison Pit, the main
appeal of Hiroya Oku’s Gantz may well be its repulsiveness. The
story of two boys who die and then reawaken as part of a
strange, brutal game that forces them to hunt aliens, Gantz is
horrifically violent, filled to bursting with T&A, cluttered
with astonishingly unlikeable characters, dotted with brief
instances of astounding racism, and above all, gross, which is
what makes it so interesting and compelling. You just have to
see what depravity Oku is going to put into the series next,
even as you’re completely repulsed by it. A big budget live
action version of the manga recently saw limited release here in
the US before hitting wide release Japan. It it any good? Does
it live up to the manga?  The short answer is “No, it isn’t, and
no, it really does not.”Gantz is about a dangerous game played
by dead people, who are teleported to a nearly empty room at the
moment of their death, none t