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2000 to 2013

Created by
Hiroya Oku

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Cover of Gantz

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Gantz.

Gantz (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiroya Oku. It was serialized in Shueisha's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Jump from June 2000 to June 2013, with its chapters collected in 37 tankōbon volumes. It tells the story of Kei Kurono and Masaru Kato, both of 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.

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Type
manga series
Country
Japan
Published
2000 to 2013
Publisher
Young Jump Comics
Language
Japanese

Run

In print
The story

Gantz, in three panels

  1. 2000. Gantz begins in Japan.

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