The BEST / WORST Manga | Full Gantz Retrospective
Вставка
- Опубліковано 29 чер 2023
- Gantz is one of the best and also worst things ever, so let's talk about the manga, anime, movies, spin-offs, video games and Oku himself!
PATREON: / slimefancypants
TWITTER: / slimefancypants
Trigun: A Fistful Of Donuts | Full Manga & Anime Retrospective:
• Trigun: A Fistful Of D...
Hellsing - Beautiful Darkness, Violent Madness | Full Series Retrospective:
• Hellsing - Beautiful D...
Manga Collection 2022 | 3,000+ Volumes:
• Manga Collection 2022 ...
Ajin: Demi-Human | Creating A Perfect Villain:
• Ajin: Demi-Human | Cre...
REFERENCES:
otakumode.com/news/52eae86f35...
www.crunchyroll.com/anime-fea...
kotaku.com/gantz-creator-is-a...
The Mind's Eye (1990) - Early Computer Animation Music Video
• The Mind's Eye (1990) ...
Ultimate History of CGI
/ @ultimatehistoryofcgi8897
Early CGI Was Horrifying
• Early CGI Was Horrifying
SHOUTSOUT:
Die Hard
Mega64
The Vampire Kids From South Park
Flocka
Renaldo "Fink" Mullen
Lonely Island
The PS2
Knocked Loose
Shadow the Hedgehog
Hideo Kojima
the movie Re-Animator
Soken
Filthy Joji Frank
Junior Soprano
The Remains of SBFP
Shaolin Soccer
#gantz - Розваги
As usual, UA-cam algorithm demands I beg you for the likes, comments, and any engagement so if you enjoy the video, or just think I'm a idiot, be sure to tell me below! Patreon as always for anyone who wants to help support these bigass videos, and thanks for taking the time on my goofy bullshit.
patreon.com/slimefancypants
EDIT: trying out a bit of a clickbait ass title to see if it helps engagement yes I agree its cringe Im sorry lmao
Well, the algorithm got me here, so there?
Yeo bruh in future reference can you get into the actual story or topic of the video the first 30 minutes your talking about other manga and jumping all around the story you started to tell the story the started bullshiting again talking about random shit about gants like bruh jus tell the story if gantz yea share your experience and opinions but not for more than a half hour of an hr long video
@@HueSama Nah that sounds boring you should probably just go somewhere else lmao
When Gantz is good, it's amazing. When it's bad, it's meme-able. There is no inbetween.
I fuck with that
I find it's amazing how there is such thing as Gantz, how something can be the best and the worst thing you've ever encountered.
Yes😊😊😊
Some of my fave memes are blackface and SA
Half measures are for chumps and losers
One thing about Kei that people forget to bring up - he was always a daredevil. Kato talks about looking up to Kei when they were kids. It's just life has beaten him down so much that he turned negative and forgot himself. The fight or flight nature of Gantz reawakened those instincts.
kei being the daredevil was always part of his character as well as what made him main character material.
even back in chapter 1 he cold have ignored his chidhood friend.
kei being a daredevil is not something that the bleak life has beaten out of him, him being the adrenaline junkie that was looking for something that matters and thrills him was always his driving force.
the thing mundane life beat out of him was literally his daredevil side - which is why he is the perfect protagonist.
he thrives in live-and-death situations - that's who he is.
at best the gantz games re-awakened his passion, it made him human.
@@RaNdomStuffINC9 I can see it from that perspective 👍🏾
@@RaNdomStuffINC9 he was dick, he stopped being a dick. That's it
Who's a better kid daredevil, Kei or Takemichi Hanagaki (Tokyo Revengers)?
@@jaylarkin4331bro
I love the Gantz manga, I wholeheartedly believe Hiroya Oku is one of the most under appreciated mangaka in the west. I’m one of the few who enjoys Gigant and Inuyashiki is a straight up masterpiece
Well half of the excellent mangaka are under appreciated in the west. Look at Kurumada Masami who pretty much created battle Shonen with Ring ni Kakero, and developed it with Fuuma no Kojirou and Saint Seiya, but it’s always credited to Akira Toriyama or Buronson/Hara Tetsuo with their series. And the first two series haven’t even translated past the first third despite establishing the battle Shonen genre before Fist of the North Star had even been released.
Edit: at least Saint Seiya is popular in the west, but with the Spanish and Portuguese populations, and not the English fanbase. I’m not sure about French or Italian tho where manga is popular as well.
You ain’t wrong, i will admit there are crazy amounts of mangaka that have no notoriety over here in the west, though that’s also because it’s a niche in Japan and a niche niche in the west lol beauty of art, there’s so much to explore in different mediums
I think the amount of unnecessary nudity in his manga is what makes people not going to recommend his work. Something like Berserk, at least there is meaning in the amount of sexuality scenes in the manga while in Gantz, hiroya is just horny lol. At least Gantz is successful enough in Japan, I seen him tweet that he doesn't need to make a new manga because Gantz still sells well.
Nah, I don't like his art. The pictures might look good, but the almost never felt alive.
There's certain parts of Inuyashiki that are great, I'd rather someone else do the same idea, but Gigant is awful. Where he's not tracing, basically every background, he's copying from himself. The heart from Inuyashiki is gone and the originality of Gantz is reversed.
best part of Gantz was how you were expecting there to be some profound meaning behind the "Gantz", the mysterious ball, the whole game. Is this Samsara? A cycle of death, rebirth, and suffering?
and then at the end they straight up ask the God aliens "yo if you gave us all this tech to fight the aliens wtf was up with that Gantz shit?!"
and the God aliens are like "IDK LOL that weirdo scientist made all that shit up lmao"
Basically, they didn't care at all and it was like a coin flip: should we prep this planet for an impending invasion or nah? Oh, ok, give em guns, supersuits and shit, i guess.
@@Scoring57word
@@Scoring57 It's just kind of a flat ending, completely spells out the theme of cosmic insignificance and it's a bit too cruel even for Gantz's standard. After everything Kurono has done there's just straight up god that toys with life how it wants.
Thing is I found that explanation great and even realistic. Lol
People with power don’t care about others and they absolutely would and do come up with crazy shit like that all the time.
@@night1952 "even for Gantz?" Dude, that ending is _essentially_ Gantz. When you read through the whole thing, you see all of existence as we understand it on display.
The most striking to me wasn't the gang rape of the 40-ft alien women... it was the alien grandmother and grandson in the park who were kindly feeding the "animals," only to be be murdered in cold blood when one of those animals had the power to do so. But who was to blame? Those two weren't doing any harm... as far as we saw. It's entirely possible the next day they would have gone to an eatery serving human corpses in pasta like anchovies.
We are ALL to blame, because not only do we forget who we are, but we ignore the parts about ourselves that we hate, and just go along with our own lives believing we're better than something or someone else.
Like Kurono did. Like the "gods" did.
The only true hero of the story is Kato, who agonizes over the weight of every decision to take the lives of creatures he knows nothing about.
The entire series was only kicked into gear because HE was the one person in a sea of disgusting, mad individuals who believed the life of a drunken homeless man was worth saving.
The LESSON is that none of it matters to anyone but yourself as an individual, but we can change that when we do our absolute best to take care of each other.
-end
The quality of this video is insane and I can actually see your channel getting big in the future. Gantz holds a special place in my heart because I started reading it when i was 14 years old and since then every other manga seemed mediocre in comparison
I’ve been obsessed with Gantz since I was a kid and it feels me with joy when people give it a try despite its reputation. It really is one of the best mangas I’ve read action and character development wise, and you really put it in such a coherent way that I think anyone who feels compelled to read it after watching this video could still get an enjoyable and surprising experience. Great video, man! Looking forward to more videos of yours.
Been obsessed with it since I met a Puerto Rican girl in a chatroom back in '06 who was obsessed with it . I guess it was my first foray into gore. It put me off at first but the visuals haunted me for a few years. That cover where kei is being transported and you can see into her head.
At the time my friend said she was getting 2 episodes a DVD for 25$ which it thought was mad
Finally a UA-camr who discusses Gantz & Oku properly, knows their stuff, & doesn't straight-up hate either.
I have a tattoo of Kei Kurono. Gantz is my favorite manga. I love it because of all its flaws; a passion project that celebrates exploitation whilst reflecting this complex human experience.
Gantz not being perfect actually fits, I remember reading it because the anime ended without doing the other arcs. Damn the arc after the anime ended went hard, gantz is goofy, dark, and emotional.
After all this time, and multiple rereads, I still hold Gantz as my all time favorite manga. It’s stupid, over the top, and insanely edgy, but I love it for that reason. You can feel the heart and passion that Hiroya Oku has put into each panel. Kei Kurono remains one of my favorite characters in manga because of his character development and arc throughout the series. It has not aged well, but I still love it all the same.
Why people say edgy like a bad thing. Berserker is edgy as fkk, thats what make those mangas unique
Started to read in 2006 when I was in a very dark place of mind so I kind of vibed with the "this is human nature, no one cares about anyone" kind of thing. Ironically, as I progressed through the stor, I realized how this is more about life and protecting what's important to you. The manga isn't made for you to question all those things but it did for me and showed some new perspectives to me, it was pretty neat. I definitely agreed with everything including the ending and I hope someday we can see a proper anime adaptation, even though I doubt it wouldn't be censored to no ends.
Great video.
I think it hits a soft space in most people, but especially men via Kei (MC). When we were kids, we did crazy shit that could get us grievously injured all the time, but we did them with confidence and young bodies.
We can still do a lot of that up to a point, but that depends on how often we keep up with ourselves and keep using our bodies and minds that way.
I'm 41, and incredibly flexible compared to many my age because I never stopped moving my body like it was the best thing ever (with some learning involved between more and less physically demanding jobs). And even now, I feel like i'm going insane having to worry about the horrible, defective, mind-killing shit adults are expected to.
I want my OLD body back, so i took up practicing nunchaku in public, and running in places i'm not supposed to at work, and am looking into getting toe-shoes for jogging.
It's not because i want to be fit, per-se, but because I want to be the ultimate version of myself, comfortable in my flesh-prison which needs not be a prison at all.
Kei's journey from an apathetic, beat-down loser to the person he _was_ when he learned how to actualize is pretty fucking compelling, even when he banged Sei in a hallway because why not? And in the end, he still acknowledged her person, which I always thought was cool of him. He basically had a wife by that endpoint, and he wasn't afraid to be himself and wistful/fret/cry over seeing her again in the whims of the closest thing "God" has to explaining the abject pointlessness of our existence.
I’m always excited for new videos from you, keep it up man!!
another banger video idk how youre still so underrated
Big same tbh, thanks!!
I came from Reddit as well and must say you done Gantz justice. This series has become an obsession of mine since i read it for the first time a year and a half ago. It's what helped me get into manga. But even now Gantz and Oku are still my favorite manga and mangaka.
Inuyashiki is 10/10 as well while Gigant.....has entertainment value.
If you do make a video talking about those two series, then I earnestly await them 😁
Weekly Young Jump is literally the Shonen Jump of Seinen. It has most the biggest and most popular Seinen out there I believe. It has Kingdom, which is pretty much the One Piece of Seinen.
I love how his taste in film is film bro: basic edition. Like he likes awesome movies, but they are all movies that dude bros like, but is an absolute nerd with how many he’s seen.
what aere some of his favorite movies?
The goat is back 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
🫡🫡🫡
What a great video ... I even recognized all the music haha it was a real joy revisiting this incredible series. A rollercoaster of human emotion like very few can hope to be, and a real inspiration to my own creative efforts. Thank you, definitely earned that subscription ! (also, the Trudeau joke had me laughing like a crazy person in the middle of the subway)
Great work Love this video in particular your're getting better with each series Also I have a suggestion for another video namely the OG Surreal Action COmedy manga Yoshio Sawai's Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo
Always saw it as the Japanese jj Abrams 'lost' version. It wasn't about conclusive and satisfying writing. It was about a constant mystery box that moves so fast opening one right after the other It moves so fast you're still asking questions without being able to think about the answers. Its spectacle, it's fun some of the time and I totally understand why people loved it so much.
My god this series is just heartbreaking but awesome. Also the Persona 2 duology is better than 3, 4, and 5. Yea I said it!
I RESPECT IT!!!
That is a pure fact
Also shinigami tensei>>>persona 3 4 and especially 5
Want that when it was basically just Shin Megami 3 before Shin Megami 3?
@@sonofsparta3858I still love the other 3 but that duology is so damn good
call it edgy however you want. those 'gore' deaths are realistic. and people miss the best part, Kurono's redemption in life.
Have you ever read dorohedoro? I would love a big video essay on that series from your perspective
Dorohedoro is a personal 10/10 and for sure will happen here one day!
Just found this channel and I already feel your underrated keep up the good work man.
Gantz was truly fun to read.
Nothing else like it tbh
@@SlimeFancypants
The closest thing to Gantz are dorohedoro by q hayashida and tatsuki Fujimoto works like fire punch and chainsaw man, which is weirdly pretty mainstream.
@@frog6054All those mangas are weird and insanely good, Dorohedoro and Fire Punch are also chaotic, but Gantz vibrates a different energy probably the genre
ayyyyyeeeeeeeeEEEE les GoooHHH! new Slime
Amazing vid man. Definitely need something like this about Terraformars (which is coming back from hiatus this month!)
GANTZ is so good!
man, this was such a dope video!!! great job :3 deff gonna check more of ur content out!!
I really need to get in to GANTZ
Hey, I didn’t know you watch Slime Fancypants.
It’s kinda bad, but in a really good way lol!!
Yes😊
love your video making skills bro and a big fan of your long vidz
Appreciate that man!!
bro did u mix the gantz anime songs yourself? sounds amazing
RETURN OF THE KING
WE MOVE
I just finished reading it, this video dropped at the perfect time thanks man🙏🔥
The plans all coming together 🫡
Immediately subscribed after finishing your video. Your channel is criminally underrated. Keep up the amazing work 🙌
The algorithm brought me here. Awesome video. Liked and subscribed
This video is so freaking well made it’s unreal that you have so few subscribers.
I went into gantz completely blind as a teen and tho i never finished it, i still enjoy it to this day and have fond memories of it. It’s just so. Insane.
Hope to see much cooler manga/anime retrospectives from you😎😎
Hey, when the final volume for Fist of the North will you review it? You know in like 2026.
I do love FOTNS so you never know 👀👀👀
@@SlimeFancypants I just read the first volume a few weeks back, and it’s just awesome stuff. They are almost done with pre-time skip arc for the English release, and that where I wanna stop, because I heard that it gets too wacky after that with them treading old ground. I also personally like to end series where the author originally intends to end it, as it almost always feels more complete. I just wanna see more people talk about it, as I am getting into classic 80s battle manga like Ring ni Kakero, Kinnikuman and Dragon Ball as well and I think that era deserves more attention.
Thank you so much for this! Gantz is one of the first manga that I fully acommpanied as it was coming out, and is forever one of my favorites, crude stuff and all. Glad to see its still getting some love after all this time. Really great work on the video!
You definitely deserve more subs! This video is incredible!
One day the algorithm will have to notice, probably 🫡
hell yeah slime Gantz is one of my favorite manga!!!
great editing of panels, loved the slow movements!!
Watched your Ajin video, thought it was excellent.
Saw a recommendation for your Gantz manga video and subscribed. Keep up the good work, and continue enjoying these human arts
Yeah I’m going to be watching all of his videos. Super good stuff
+SlimeFancypants Another great video Slime. I remember reading a series called Psyren; it was like a shonen version of Gantz, but without the batsh*t insantiy of Gantz was. Highly recommend Psyren if you want a solid manga to read.
Absolutely fantastic video as always Slime, you're fantastic at expressing your opinions in an engaging way and your editing is mwa chefs kiss. I haven't seen much Gantz other than just people going "Hey here's a badass scene" or "Look at this edgey scene." So seeing the heart of Gantz has finally made me consider giving it a chance. Also loved seeing you go through Oku's older work to explain how he got to where Gantz is!
Yooo thank you!!!
Great video man
I’m surprised you don’t have more subs, I stumbled on your videos yesterday and each one of them have been great
One day the grind will pay off 🫡 thank you!!
"Judith" sounding in the background as you said "A perfect circle". Exquisite
your channel's so good, I hope it blows up
great video
41:45 the panel of Tae poking Kei's Noise, is that in the manga? Because I cant remember that happening... unless it's in the last arc. I was more invested in the clone Kei than the OG Kei.
It’s for sure from the manga, no clue where tho lol
@@SlimeFancypants Isn't it from when the aliens first invade? Kurono is at school and tries to protect everyone there
Great vid
🫡🫡🫡
Found this on a vod on anime network and was instantly hooked, read the manga after watching the anime and was blown away! Kurono is one of my favorite protagonists so seeing him grow from being a lowly guy into a respectable hero was very satisfying. Given i enjoyed the anime for what it was but the manga was way better. Thank you for making this video!
33:44 you used the music from Tengou Tenge. Nice.
Great video!
Who is the guy with red hair on the far right at 34:35?
The guy who taught cherry the whole esp thing
great video keep it up!
And Where One can find the OST of the Anime series that isn't just a crude Rip from the show? So far only the ending and opening tracks are out there.
Anyone know the song used at 0:50 ?
Great video
Thanks for the info about Thunder 3!!! This is definitely his work. About Deluxe Edition: Oku showed the look of Japanese Deluxe Edition. English version probably will look the same way
Fingers crossed!
Great Video 👍
4:48 is that Anton Chigurh in the top right?
Love GANTZ and your channel youve got a new sub i saw the ajin vid too
you showed takeshi at 56:50 when saying something about not seeing how characters end up, and while that may be true takeshi is shown on muscle riders shoulders in the last panel
Another banger video
Bless 🙏🏼
Amazing video as usual, your writing is so entertaining
wait they are doing a deluxe ver (and I just started the series (going on omnibus 2) so then its come to this
Just finished the gantz manga so watching this banger after it is just perfect
When I decided to begin to read Manga's, thing like 15 years ago (and never stopped since then) I chose randomly 2 manga in the new releases part of the store: I chose Berserk and Gantz (Yeah, the Force was with me that day). I really love Gantz for one reason: I give to his reader somethings all manga should give: a unknown, original experience. Do you know any story who looks like Gantz? I read a lot of mangas and saw more animes, but no one I have seen looks like Gantz, and just for that, It was a good reason to read it
Best or 2nd best Gantz Video on this site in my opinion. I wish that Gantz would have a bigger fanbase because I think the premise is so interesting and it could be taken on from so many different perspectives. Just writing it off as Edgy for appealing to young grown ups is a big miss in my opinion. I too read it when I was 18 and while also thought then that Kurono was massive scumbag at the beginning I could kinda relate to his struggle. Thank you for also drawing that out I think Kurono is a great Mc. One thing you as a fellow gamer should recognize though is how amazing a modern day Gantz game based on an original or the one from the manga would be. I mean imagine having like this gameplay style from the battle sections from the ps2 game but improved upon and then having a persona like out of mission slice of live. I think it could be amazing and Iam sad it is never going to happen.
I agree with most stuff you said in this video, I just want to bring forth some points of view from the perspective from a fan from very early in the manga's run.
I got to know Gantz through the anime. Most people don't remember or know, but it was released in 2 parts, so to speak. At first, they only released 11 episodes (heavily censored, no explicit nudity nor mutilation and white fluid instead of blood) that later would be the first 13 episodes, that's how much it was being censored, so that's why the studio went to look for a different broadcasting network, and this seraph took a while, about 6 months in between, I think, after which, they re-launched from episode 1, all the way until episode 26, but ably 13 of those episodes being actual new plot.
So, about midway through the first 11 episodes I looked it up and read all the manga chapters and stayed up to date all the way until the end. So while I do understand that you find funny the sudden stop ending, what you apparently are not considering, is the fact that a lot of us had spent a decade or more reading, talking, discussing and more, to just be done dirty like that. I won't say shit like that makes it bad or thrash or something like that, I just wanna point out why that is the biggest sticking point of the manga.
About the blackface shooting. I do realize that nowadays that is a big deal, but back in 2005 when that went down, shootings weren't as common in USA as they are now, and the fact that he went with the blackface was because Izumi knew that he was going to revive and that he was going to appear in the room with many of his victims, so that's why he did everything in his power to hide his identity utilizing the only part of his body that he couldn't hide, his height, that's why he went as a black tall man! You can be as snowflake as you like, but from a writing perspective, it made all the sense in the world, at that time. Besides you do know that Japan (and specially Oku Hiroya) don't care much for PC culture.
I did actually buy the game back in the day, and finished it, even though I can't read a lick of Japanese, I at least could somewhat understand spoken lines. But yeah, it's very simplistic and monotonous, but at the very least it had the actual fourth hunt (chibi alien) but since the the dino hunt was just wrapping up, we had barely seen the vampires, so the fifth hunt was changed to a vs vampires mission, which made it somewhat interesting. I also seem to recall the game having multiple endings, ranging from lone survivor to team leader if you managed to keep a lot of characters alive through dialogue, which was a thing. But yeah, I bought that and the Berserk game for PS2, and honestly, Berserk was the far superior game.
Finally, while I do agree that if you try to watch the anime nowadays, it looks choppy and stilted, that was not so much the case back in 04 and 05, again, you are spoiled by the great levels of animation reached in the last 20 years by studios, but back then, while there were certainly some massive productions with impeccable animation like Evangelion, Cowboy Beebop and FMA, most production were not of those levels, and Gantz, specially on its second half (network) had a better animation than most at that time, go watch stuff like Chrno Crusade, Kiddy Grade or Vandread, all of them were pretty popular back in the day and had inferior animation to that of Gantz. All this to say, yeah, hindsight is 20/20 but things weren't as crystal clear back then.
But yeah, as a big fan of Gantz, I would love an anime reboot, this time following the manga all the way to it's conclusion, could be in Gantz:O or in it's original style, don't care, I just want it. But I doubt it would be a possibility nowadays because of the shooting, the Osaka team, and the Cherry and Nishi arcs in Catastrophe, just to name a few, unless it gets somewhat censored in those instances.
Thanks for this, just rewatched Gantz 0 and got super nostalgic :D
Have you read pumpkin scissors?
Have not but I’ve heard good things!
need a video on inuyashiki and gigant too, great work
This video is quite the sales pitch. Now I gotta add Gantz to my list.
Mission accomplished
i watched the anime and the movie before reading the manga and I still remember the whole maga fully animated in my head I still hear Tae yelling Kay kun or something over and over again.
W vid i wont read the manga but i enjoy you making this dawg
Hey look dad came back with the milk 😂
Turns out I forgot the cigs and gotta go get those be back soon probably
I am a new yorker..ive been in the subways and there are in dent in the walls FOR the reason if a person feel they could be safe....ish. when they ran i was pissed and said "the WALL DENT!! WTFA
Subscribed 🔥🔥
I read almost all of Gantz and I had NO IDEA that CGI was used in it... where as whenever I see CG in anime, I can always tell if it's bad or okay (with some expectations)
I guess Gantz really is that great. Being able to blend in CG in the early 2000s
such a good video bro
I eventually took this as an enthusiastic recommendation to reread the series- Thanks!
Didn't even know there was a second side(sequel?) series.
GANTZ one of my favorite manga it reminds me why I love reading manga its just this hilarious and fun sci fi series that knows what it is and doesn't have to be this big brain fake intellectual series. People also overlook its surprisingly optimistic message in the end with how Kei Kurono overcomes his own blackpilled and nihilistic mindset after being around so many new people.
Yeah, kurono has one of the best character development, he is the most underrated protagonist
another amazing vid and another manga added to my reading list
🫡🫡🫡 we move
Mystery stories always get kind of disappointing once the puzzle is solved. I am fine with a lot of questions staying unanswered. I was fine with the ending :)
Nice video! Gants is just fun :D
I got through all of Gantz years ago and never got into it but if anyone can convince me to give it another go, it's Slime
I see you are a SOTN enjoyer. Nice video!
ZACH BELL MFERES
We MOVE
@@SlimeFancypants Top tier childhood fave. Needs so so much more coverage
I need to reread this series again
19:00 The symphony of the night ost tells me u have excellent taste
back to say I read Gantz bc of this video 🔥
Yooo love to hear it!!
What the actual fuck? I have read Gantz multible times and I don't remember anything about these vampire characters or Keis brother. Are there multible versions of the manga? o.o is there more to read for me?
The vampires are pretty far into the manga
I read it once and remember it completely clearly 😂
ayyy new gantz review dropped! gantz transport me first
I like the FoTNS head exploding sound effects @33:34 because the X gun the Gantz members all use is a for sure FoTN homage
I searched for a Gantz retrospective because I read it all back in the day and just started a novel series called Undying Mercenaries and the series really reminded me of Gantz. I had forgotten alot about Gantz and after watching this video I realised Undying Mercenaries was even more similar to Gants than I first thought. It's got revival machines, alien weapons, battles with dinosaurs, people being "revived" while still alive resulting in a clone, a galactic empire that thinks humans are trash but still wants to keep "order" and even the same level of horniness. It's a lot more political and hard scifi but I'm now 100 percent confident the author took inspection form Gantz.
Gantz is such utter trash, but I fucking love it.
While an odd bit media to call out for this, it's also deeply important to me. The whole arc with Tae led me to a decision that changed my entire life for the better, and I legit don't know if I'd still be around today if I hadn't have made that choice. There was such a warmth and sincerety underneath all that edge Gantz starts with, and it just cut me deep in the best way.