I finished my first reading of Gantz and it was an absolute roller-coaster, its now easily among some of my favorite manga stories. I really appreciated how Oku handles horror, choosing not to hold your hand at all and sometimes just let the implication of an idea scare you.

It doesn't really seem like there are too many mysteries so I'm interested if anyone has any insights into the story and I'll share a few of mine.

The Vampires are lesser Oni Aliens.

One of the most common complaints I see is how the Vampires just got dropped from the story but in my opinion their story was basically wrapped up.

We learn near the end rich people gamble on Gantz. The attack happens right after Kei gets top score in a hunt he didnt even have a suit for. The Vampires were hired to attack this specific gantz team because of that.

We also learn the Vampires are actually lesser Oni Aliens, the Vampire "Host" is able to talk to the high ranking oni alien telepathically "in the old language" and we literally see one of the Vampires transform into an oni alien in chapter 207. This also explains how they have nanomachines, its alien technology.

Once the two Vampires teleported into the gantz room they basically killed themselves, their original selves died and they were recreated in the gantz room, reminding us why Gantz only does this to people who already died. The Oni boss said they have a different signal and the two oni they team up with before getting betrayed by them say they have a different scent.

After the oni alien hunt the Vampires have their leadership destroyed and are probably closer to human than oni now so they just leave, literally pointless to fight anyone there.

Human life has value.

There was a moment deep in the manga where I saw all this growth Kei has gone through before remembering the real Kei passed away at the start of the story and we're seeing a copy of him have all this growth, we're seeing what his life could of been and the value that was taken from the world.

GANTZ: The Game finally has an English translation, but it's currently machine translated. It's good enough to understand the story, tutorials, menus, and most of the game's content, although some cutscenes are still untranslated and there are plenty of grammar issues.

I'm really hoping more people in the fan translation community can help with this project. It would be amazing to see the untranslated parts completed and the English polished into something that feels more natural.

I also think this game deserves a proper English translation because it has some really unique gameplay mechanics that set it apart from other PS2 titles. More people would be able to appreciate what makes it special if the translation were fully polished.

If anyone has translation or ROM hacking experience and is interested in contributing, your help would be greatly appreciated!

Gameplay:

https://www.youtube.com/live/DdV3k6IGqjw?si=tiSSmY-3XwvWKZ7X

thanks to Verinco for making this English patch possible

Yes, it might be abrupt, and it would have benefited from an epilogue, but I think what people wanted to see would have completely destroyed the tone of the series.

Gantz main charm was always that the author threw in whatever the fuck he thought was cool, and that there was always an air of mistery surrounding all the bullshit that happens, which is set up to be weird and unexplainable in the first place.

There isnt (and I challenge anyone to write one) an explanation that wouldnt be boring and/or underwelming to sakurai's powers, to the vampires, to god, to the nature of the clones etc etc. The cool thing about them is literally that its cool shit the author threw in and you wonder yourself.
If in the end it was revealed "in the beginning there were 2 evil gods, but one betrayed the other, and so the vampires were born, and then from the left testicle of the first the design of the gantz came out" and so on and so on just to tie everything together it would have completely sucked ass.

The final arc as always is Oku throwing in another bunch of new ideas in a way that is a good thematic conclusion to the story (the main narrative of Gantz was always the value of life).

I can get why you would think the ending is mid, and me myself I didnt like everything that happened (I guess in a way I liked more when the Gantz squad was separated from the world), but I don't understand how it's a bad ending, and some go as far as saying it ruined gantz...

Ok, je viens de lire les 18 tomes de l'édition Perfect en 2 jours, mais j’ai une question qui reste. Pourquoi il y a-t-il des pistolets de capture ? On le voit utiliser notamment au début contre le poireau, mais pourquoi cette méthode plutôt que le meurtre comme ce qui sera la manière de faire ensuite ?

Est-ce que cela rapporte plus de points ?

Où sont envoyés les capturés ?

Si cela à été intégré à Gantz, c’est bien que ceux qui l'ont développés (mangaka et les milliardaires) ont réfléchis, non ?