Gantz is a masterpiece manga and quite possibly Oku's Magnum Opus. This manga is definite not for everyone. This manga contain sex scenes,
blood, blood and more blood, naked girls/monsters with supernatural and
technological twist to everything. However if you can stand all of the above then, this manga is for you.
The manga is about killing aliens with incredible suits, weapon,
vehicles and with everything you can think of. The alien are not just
standing there doing nothing, the monsters are strong and sometimes,
they are way to strong, and makes you wonder if they can be killed or
not.
Good thing about it, is that you cannot predict anything. Some character
will die, new will come... I always asked myself what else will happen
next page. If you want a gore, bloody, nasty manga, this is the one. If you joined Kei's battle, and as expected, you are still craving for
more, don't worry. Here we give you ten other manga that share with
Gantz a lot of similarities.
1. Battle Royale
Both follow the same concept of people being forced into a death
game. Both are very graphic and gory with interesting story and characters,
GANTZ is a little more supernatural with
more nudity as well but above all both are very similar. In Battle Royale a
class is randomly chosen to be placed in a deserted area where they are forced
to kill each other in order to survive, with the events broadcast to the world.
2. Kamisama no Iutoori
An endless series of 'play or die' games, where survivors from each
game must continue to work together. The enemies in both are aliens. until the
aliens start being dicks and make humans fight it out. There's no text-sharing
black sphere in Kamisama but the aliens themselves tend to be quite chatty,
with the same sort of twisted humour. Almost anyone can die. Getting attached
to characters is a bad idea (until Kurono appears in Kamisama with his
100-points, anyhow). No attempt is made to explain why, exactly, people are
finding themselves forced to go at it with weird as hell enemies
3. Inuyashiki
In Gantz are sometimes those unnecessary side Story's that actually
nobody needs, and Inu Yashiki feels exactly like such a Gantz side Story. That
doesn't necessarily means something bad. Those side Story's in Gantz are
sometimes better than the main Story.
4. I Am a Hero
Both Mangas are very dark, mature, bloody, violent, horrific, and
all things that make a good seinen. They both have the premise of fighting to
survive, aliens and Zombies with the latter. They also are similar in that
later in their stories they things become extremely grandiose in scale and that
affects humanity on an existential level. Though they both possess a similar
tone, they differ greatly in approach with characterization . As Gantz is more
of the cliche cool/bad ass guy that kills everything with his friends, while I
am a Hero follows a guy the opposite, being delusional, socially awkward.
5. Mahou Shoujo Site
Mahou Shoujo Site is basically a magical girl remake of Gantz (which
is basically a seinen action remake of the mahou shoujo genre ;) ). People get
chosen by a supernatural force, they kill each other and stuff happens. What
makes Mahou Shoujo Site stand out is the great characters and a solid story
(and lots of violence!). In my opinion it has more in common with Gantz than
Madoka Magica.
6. All You Need Is Kill
There is no other similar characterisation that I have encountered.
There are plenty of survival series out there, for sure, but none where
characters grow mentally stronger by dying and gradually abandoning fear. Death
being the starting point of both series, rather than an end that will never
come to pass due to your typical main character plot protection in other
series, makes for unique and gripping reads
7. Mahou Shoujo of the End
Another gory and creepy as shit series. Both are about the same level of
quality. Mahou Shoujo though feels more
like Dawn of the Dead though to be honest.
But they both kill off anyone they want to really. You don't really feel safe about anyone.
8. Enigma
Enigma is similar to that to GANTZ in that a group of characters are
dictated to perform missions which are set by mysterious figures (which the
titles of the two series are named after). Such missions are governed by a set
of rules and oftentimes require characters to work as a team in order to
succeed
9. Jisatsutou
Kid that nobody really
believes in steps up. In Gantz a bunch of people have o fight aliens in almost
like an alternate universe and kei is the leader.The story has a lot of gore,
there's rape, it's mature but very good. In Jisatsutou Sei is a nobody who
attempted suicide, sent to an island with other attempted suicidal people, and
uses his kick ass archery skills to survive. It's very good as well.
10. Jagaaaaaan
Jagaaaaaan had a lot of
gore, sex and action just like Gantz. Both have supernatural stuff hounding on.
Also the art style kind of reminds me of Gantz. And the characters are not
completely likeable just like in Gantz. It's an enjoyable manga because if you
like Gantz you most likely will like Jagaaaaaan.
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