Series in one sentence:
The most unlikeable person on Earth has to deal with the most unlikeable people on Earth.
Series in more sentences:
Two high schoolers are hit by a tram and violently die on the spot. They find themselves in the room of an apartment immediately after, inhabiting some strangers and a giant ball. The strangers reveal they've all died and can't leave, until the ball gives them an assignment that allows the winners to be given the chance to return to the land of the living.
After the majority perishes, it's back to normal for the main characters, but normal life comes with problems as well.
But as I flew through the episodes, the boy failed to charm me even once, and I became less set on waiting for this supposed development.
When the anime begins, we're introduced to a perverted creep with the ability to fantasize about naked girls unprovoked and give himself an ill-timed erection over it. The moment an actual naked girl spawns in his arms, he lusts after her for episodes long, without even caring what she's like. She has big breasts, therefore he wants her. Brilliant. And this absolute fool of a girl lets the piece filth fondle her at one point as well, even though she's in love with the friend and has no reason to give up her virginity to this pathetic loser. She was considering it, though, and that's scary. Did she think to owe him because he allowed her to stay at his house for one night? What the flaming cunt is this anime?
He even says to himself that he doesn't know her, yet he buys condoms for this stranger he knows isn't in love with him and he never bothered to build a relationship with. Nauseating characters like him should not exist -not as the main character, not as the "hero" who's life we should care about. And I don't care about this fuckwad's lame life and disgusting thoughts, I wanted to follow his friend and what he thought and how he was planning to succeed.
I imagine he received more development further on, but I don't have the energy to keep watching more of this to find out.
Besides the main character, you get to listen to the thoughts of random people as well, and it's the most sickening dribble I've ever heard. And their personality matches.
A homeless man falls onto tram tracks and bystanders just stand there thinking "I'm not gonna help, lol, but hey, maybe we'll see a guy get run over!". Later, a teenage girl takes out her phone to take pictures of a boy's head being popped clean off, just in case we weren't disturbed enough.
The responses people give to traumatizing events are otherworldly in Gantz. When that one naked girl is dragged out of the room by some mob guy cliché who randomly decides to go rape her, everyone allows him to drag her off and afterwards accepts her screaming. Then the only good guy in this dump-ass show saves her, and our main character has the nerves to complain inside his head about how the girl doesn't care for him, while he "helped". Spoilers: the little bitch only watched.
This incident is never mentioned again after that and the girl calmly stands in the presence of her attacker. Any other woman would be seeing Vietnam flashbacks and put a distance of exactly a million miles between her and the guy, but I guess rape isn't that big of a deal. She basically let the main character attempt to rape her just a few episodes later and who am I to doubt a strong female character like that. It's strange behaviour for someone who died by killing herself. She must've felt tortured enough once to end herself, but now she embraces life and this shit does nothing to her, like a real strong ex-suicidal teenager would! Good job!
The abundance of bitterness, perversion, and casual immorality the human race in Gantz exudes makes it impossible to sit through what is otherwise a cool concept.
I just can't anymore with this, fuck off, Gantz.
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