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REVIEW: Gantz GN 2

to criticize an entire series based on one grouping of chapters is kind of a low blow. Not a lot of story is going to appear in any single volume. At least, not until much later.

Maybe it can be compared with Lost in regards to the story actually going nowhere, or, to be more precise, the story being developed only after it has become a hit.

<rant>Even risking like sounding a fan or something, I have to call bullshit on your Lost claim. I'm 100% sure that Abrams and co. really did develop the series' story atleast to some point even before it became a hit. They have claimed it multiple times in interviews etc. that they had indeed planned it all (believe that if you will).

Maybe the finer intricacies were written as they went along but the main idea what the island is, what the Kerberos is, what the time-space discrepancy inducing effect is that surrounds the island etc. were certainly planned and developed well in advance. I do agree that the story is advancing slowly. All the answers given are followed by a thousand and one new questions. But that's what makes Lost interesting!

To single out Lost, which is probably the series that has the most highest probability of being a series that had its story developed well in advance, means that you either have not watched it carefully enough or you are just trolling...</rant>

In some sense one can compare Gantz to Lost, or Twin Peaks .. or anyother series that throws you in the middle of things and doesn't tell you everything until way into the series (or never at all). But Gantz certainly does have a high level of randomness in it and long ass fights that seem to be stretched way too long.

Thank you. It seems like the reviewer in this case wanted the whole question of what Gantz is answered right away and had no patience for the author to try and develop some things. It may take a little longer than usual, and the art may be a little roughshod at first, but the art gets really good and at the very least the character development really steps up. Kurono becomes a character you end up admiring and care about (although it takes until about the 6th-8th volume, around the time of the Buddha statue mission), and they put a decent cast of likeable characters around him. And only now that the series is in the 280 chapter range are we beginning to get substantitive answers about what Gantz really is. So I would say to give Gantz a decent shot; at least a few volumes before you decide whether it's worth sticking with. It's definitely one of the better action/sci-fi series around.

I'm starting to wonder if the endless defensive arguments I hear for shows or manga that take forever to go anywhere, never really answer any questions until much much later, linger on side-stories, skimp on character development and don't get "good" until way later on are borne entirely from the fact that you guys don't pay to read this stuff.

There's no investment for you except time. You're not paying $12 per volume, it's all free, so you're willing to forgive the fact that it takes forever for the story to actually develop and sort of gloss over the fact that it isn't very well paced or written. I really do think there's a pattern here.