Showing posts with label Manga. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Manga. Show all posts

Thursday, July 2, 2009

Gantz | Comics

High-school going Kei Kurono and Masaru Kato are accidentally hit by a speeding train in the subway while they both were trying to save the worthless life of a drunken homeless man who fell onto the train tracks. Even though they are dead, they found themselves very alive somehow and they discover themselves inside a Tokyo apartment!

gantz manga
Gantz | Comics

There they also met a few others like them who also died an unexpected death but now are here in this semi-alive state, trapped in the same apartment. A large black sphere shaped orb entity known only as "Gantz" greets them all before enlighten them about their current state. He affirms them yet they are dead but their life still belongs to him.

Gantz then offers them various custom combat suits as their outfits, super-human strength, stamina and other units along with weapons before he tasked them to their mission; to kill aliens around the world that threatens humanity that are targeted by Gantz, that will earn them points necessary to return to their normal life without the memory of serving Gantz ever, exclusive upgrades for extremely-powerful weapon or even revive a fallen teammate.

Embarking those deadly missions, some kills, some dies and some passes through series of emotional conflicts. Then there was a catastrophic alien invasion that threatens the human race and more mysteries emerges. Many goes in the line of war and dies again and again but this alien hunting game seems to go on forever.

For more information on Gantz comics series, you can check out these links below.

Gantz (Comics) Wikipedia


Gantz (Comics) Wikia


Here is your links to buy "Gantz" comics from Dark Horse Comics on Amazon.

Gantz Vol 01


Gantz Vol 02


Gantz Vol 03


Gantz Vol 04


Gantz Vol 05


Gantz Vol 06


Gantz Vol 07


Gantz Vol 08


Gantz Vol 09


Gantz Vol 10

Gantz Vol 11

Gantz Vol 12

Gantz Vol 13

Gantz Vol 14

Gantz Vol 15

Introduced as a Japanese Manga series, Gantz (ガンツ Gantsu?) is a series by artist Hiroya Oku, who both wrote and draws the entire series. This popular Manga has been adapted into an Anime released into two seasons containing 26 episodes. This fan favorite action sci-fiction horror thriller was published by Dark Horse Comics in 2000 that ran till 2013.

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Kishimoto Kei of Gantz

After smashing the sales list in Japan, Gantz has topped the market in America too and also managed to enter the "Manga Best Seller List". The most recent adaptation of the series is a CGI anime film which release in 2016, titled "Gantz: O".
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Thursday, June 26, 2008

Blade of the Immortal | Comics

In the mid-Tokugawa Shogunate period, there lived a skilled samurai in Japan called Manji. He was at the service of the local powerful Feudal lord, Hatamoto Horii Shigenobu but quickly left his aid upon realizing his shady ways and killed him. This event however caused the death of 100 law enforcers, leading Manji to become an outlaw. To take shelter, he goes to his sister’s house where he kills her husband in an act of self defense, leading her to go insane.

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Blade of the Immortal | Comics

Manji decides to take care of her and then he encounters Yaobikuni, an 800 years old mysterious nun who gave him kessen-chu, the sacred bloodworms that will render him ageless and immune to lethal injuries of any sort. If he even loses a limb, the worms will help him re-attach it or regrow him a new one. Because of his actions against Hatamoto, his sister was also killed as retaliation and to get rid of his immortality he made a pact with the nun that he would kill 1000 evil men in exchange for the removal of kessen-chu from his bloodstream.

Soon, he encounters a young girl named Asano Rin, the only remaining survivor of the infamous Ittō-ryū massacre by its leader Kagehisa Anotsu and vows revenge on him for killing her entire family. Though Manji looked her up as his younger sister and decided to help her fulfill her destiny, Rin eventually develops feelings for him while trying to get her revenge alongside the quest Manji is set for.

For more information on Blade of the Immortal comics series, you can check out these links below.

Blade of the Immortal (Comics) Wikipedia

Blade of the Immortal (Comics) Wikia

Here is your links to buy "Blade of the Immortal" manga from Dark Horse Comics on Amazon.

Blade of the Immortal Vol 01 – Blood of a Thousand

Blade of the Immortal Vol 02 – Cry of the Worm

Blade of the Immortal Vol 03 – Dreamsong

Blade of the Immortal Vol 04 – On Silent Wings

Blade of the Immortal Vol 05 – On Silent Wings II

Blade of the Immortal Vol 06 – Dark Shadows

Blade of the Immortal Vol 07 – Heart of Darkness

Blade of the Immortal Vol 08 – The Gathering

Blade of the Immortal Vol 09 – The Gathering Part 2

Blade of the Immortal Vol 10 – Secrets

Blade of the Immortal Vol 11 – Beasts

Blade of the Immortal Vol 12 – Autumn Frost

Blade of the Immortal Vol 13 – Mirror of the Soul

Blade of the Immortal Vol 14 – Last Blood

Blade of the Immortal Vol 15 – Trickster

Blade of the Immortal Vol 16 – Shortcut

Blade of the Immortal Vol 17 – On the Perfection of Anatomy

Blade of the Immortal Vol 18 – The Sparrow Net

Blade of the Immortal Vol 19 – Badger Hole

Blade of the Immortal Vol 20 – Demon Lair

Blade of the Immortal Vol 21 – Demon Lair II

Blade of the Immortal Vol 22 – Footsteps

Blade of the Immortal Vol 23 – Scarlet Swords

Blade of the Immortal Vol 24 – Massacre

Blade of the Immortal Vol 25 – Snowfall at Dawn

Blade of the Immortal Vol 26 – Blizzard

Blade of the Immortal Vol 27 – Mist on the Spider's Web

Blade of the Immortal Vol 28 – Raining Chaos

Blade of the Immortal Vol 29 – Beyond Good and Evil

Blade of the Immortal Vol 30 – Vigilance

Created by by Hiroaki Samura, Blade of the Immortal (無限の住人) is a popular Japanese Manga series that originally ran from 1993 to 2012. Later, Dark Horse Comics started publishing the series in United States and in 2008 an anime adaption was made that was produced by Bee Train and Production I.G.

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Manji and Rin

When translated in English, the series gain more popularity and eventually led it to won the Will Eisner Comic Industry Award in 2000, already having won the Excellence Prize previously in 1997 at the Japan Media Arts Festival.
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