Gantz/Characters
< Gantz
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Kei Kurono
A description of the character goes here.
Tropes exhibited by this character include:
- Anti-Hero: Classical Anti-Hero
- Badass
- Back from the Dead
- Butt Monkey: Outside of missions.
- Chris Ayres: SEVERELY Playing Against Type.
- The Determinator
- Hopeless Suitor: to Kishimoto
- Jerkass--> Jerk with a Heart of Gold
- The Lancer --> The Hero
- Lovable Sex Maniac: Kurono. Though, the 'loveable' is disputed among fans.
- Love Hurts
- Messiah Creep
- Official Couple: With Tae.
- Our Hero Is Dead: Kurono gets killed in a fight with vampires, although it doesn't take that much (in story) time to get him revived.
- Ordinary High School Student
- Playing Against Type: Chris Ayres normally plays deep-voiced characters, so it's surprising he'd play a young teenager. Plus, where else have you seen Chris play a lead character?
- Survival Mantra
- Technician vs. Performer: The Performer to Kato and Izumi's Technician.
- Took a Level in Badass
- Took a Level In Kindness
Masaru Kato
A description of the character goes here.
Tropes exhibited by this character include:
- Badass
- Back from the Dead
- Cartwright Curse
- Chronic Hero Syndrome
- The Combat Pragmatist
- The Determinator
- Good Is Not Dumb: He is about as morally upstanding as they come, but he'll still pre-emptively ambush a guy on the toilet in order to defend himself and head off further violence.
- The Hero
- The Messiah
- The Obi-Wan: To Kurono
- Ordinary High School Student
- Promotion to Parent
- Technical Pacifist
- Technician vs. Performer: Technician to Kurono's Performer.
Kei Kishimoto
A description of the character goes here.
Tropes exhibited by this character include:
- Action Girl
- Anguished Declaration of Love
- Bath Suicide - Kishimoto finds herself in the Gantz room after one. ...except she survived. This causes complications later.
- The Chick
- Cloning Blues
- Gag Boobs
- Hello, Nurse!
- Heroic Sacrifice
- Ms. Fanservice
- Naked on Arrival
- Sacrificial Lion
- Stupid Sacrifice: An alien throws a highly corrosive acid at Katou. Instead of, say, pushing him out of the way, Kishimoto runs around him, blocks him with her body, and takes the blast.
Joichiro Nishi
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"Remember how I thought you had a little bit of potential last time? I was wrong. You should be the first one to die!" |
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A description of the character goes here.
Tropes exhibited by this character include:
- Anti-Hero: Type V.
- Ax Crazy: After his classmates throw him out the window of their classroom (on the second story of the school), he comes back and slaughters the entire class except for one girl because she was nice to him.
- Chris Patton
- Back from the Dead
- Dirty Coward
- Eye Scream: Nishi, when he is killed by Suzuki Seiji
- Ineffectual Loner
- Jerkass
- Lack of Empathy
- Not So Different: He does that with Kei in the third episode.
- Ordinary High School Student
- Psycho for Hire
- Serial Killer
- The Social Darwinist
- Token Evil Teammate
- Tsundere: In the Gantz PlayStation 2 game if you follow his route. He even says something along the lines of "Don't get the wrong idea; I didn't come here to help you" during one event. This is mind-meltingly weird for anyone who's familiar with the Jerkass Nishi from the manga and anime, to say the least.
Sei Sakuraoka
A description of the character goes here.
Tropes exhibited by this character include:
Shion Izumi
A description of the character goes here.
Tropes exhibited by this character include:
- Anti-Hero: Type V-> Type IV.
- Ax Crazy
- Badass
- Blood Knight
- Broken Ace
- Dissonant Serenity
- Ineffectual Loner
- Inferiority Superiority Complex
- Jerkass
- Lack of Empathy
- The Lancer
- Nominal Hero
- Omnicidal Maniac: He goes on a shooting rampage just so he can get killed and return to the game. This also bulks up the team's roster.
- Ordinary High School Student
- Pet The Panda: Cold-blooded killer Izumi will not hesitate to murder dozens of innocent Tokyo citizens, including Kurono's girlfriend, but he will save Hoi Hoi when escaping a bunch of dinosaurs.
- Psycho for Hire
- The Resenter: Towards Kurono.
- Sacrificial Lion
- Serial Killer
- Sociopathic Hero: For any given definition of hero.
- Suicide by Cop
- Tall, Dark and Snarky
- Technician vs. Performer: The Technician to Kurono's Performer.
- Token Evil Teammate
Tae Kojima
A description of the character goes here.
Tropes exhibited by this character include:
- Back from the Dead
- Died in Your Arms Tonight: Dies in Kurono's arms
- Killed to Uphold the Masquerade
- Morality Pet
- Official Couple: With Kurono.
- Ordinary High School Student
- Second Love
Yoshikazu Suzuki
A description of the character goes here.
Tropes exhibited by this character include:
Daizemon Kaze
A description of the character goes here.
Tropes exhibited by this character include:
- Badass Normal
- The Big Guy
- Blood Knight
- Gentle Giant: Towards Takeshi.
- In-Series Nickname: "Muscle Rider"
- Manly Tears: After finding out Takeshi's 'stepfather' beat him to death over a pudding cup, while his mother did nothing to stop it.
- Papa Wolf: Kaze to Takeshi. When one of the Nura alien's attacks hurt Takeshi, Kaze went apeshit and attacked it, dealing more damage than Oka Hachirou did even with his Power Armor.
- Promotion to Parent: for Takeshi.
Hiroto Sakurai
A description of the character goes here.
Tropes exhibited by this character include:
- An Arm and a Leg: Turns out to be fatal
- Back from the Dead
- Badass
- Beware the Nice Ones: If you're a Giant alien, you are screwed if Sakurai catches you snacking on people.
- From Nobody to Nightmare: Sakurai goes from twisting candle flames to popping giants' heads left and right.
- Go Out with a Smile
- Heroic Sacrifice: As the building collapses, he uses his remaining strength to divert the rubble from falling onto two alien children mourning their dead mother.
- Killed Off for Real: The explosion removes all of his limbs. As if that wasn't enough, the building's roof collapses on him.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Sakurai experiences this after realizing that his massacre of giant aliens involved taking the life of an infant and an elderly giant woman in Chapter 340.
- Ordinary High School Student
- Psychic Nosebleed
- Sanity Slippage
- The Smart Guy
Kenzo Sakata
A description of the character goes here.
Tropes exhibited by this character include:
- Badass
- Heroic Sacrifice
- The Mentor: To Sakurai
- Psychic Nosebleed
- The Obi-Wan: To Sakurai
- The Smart Guy
Reika Shimohira
A description of the character goes here.
Tropes exhibited by this character include:
- Action Girl
- Anguished Declaration of Love
- Badass
- Battle Couple: With the second Kurono.
- The Chick: In Kurono's team.
- Dying Offscreen Moment of Awesome: She finishes the monster that was about to kill Kei-2, but pays the ultimate price as a result.
- Fan Girl: A Kurono fangirl.
- Gag Boobs
- Hello, Nurse!
- Heroic Sacrifice: Heavily implied between chapters 356 and 357.
- Hopeless Suitor: To Kurono.
- Idol Singer
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Reika uses her 100 points to resurrect Kurono's girlfriend...and then later subverts the trope by resurrecting another Kurono for herself.
- Killed Off for Real: She saves Kei-2 at the cost of her own life between chapters 356 and 357.
- The Lancer: In the Osaka arc.
- Love Makes You Crazy: It seems like Reika is starting to head down this road after being rejected by Kurono. She resurrected a second copy of him after getting 100 points in Italy.
- She feels guilty about it immediately afterwards though and when the Alien Invasion begins she seems more eager than usual to sacrifice her life in the defence of other as some sort of atonement
- Ms. Fanservice
- Ordinary High School Student
- Smurfette Principle
- Stalker with a Crush: Crush on Kurono.
- Took a Level in Badass
- Unlucky Busty Girl
- Yandere
Takeshi Koumoto
A description of the character goes here.
Tropes exhibited by this character include:
Kouki Inaba
A description of the character goes here.
Tropes exhibited by this character include:
- Butt Monkey: In the Tokyo team.
- The Chick
- Dirty Coward
- Hopeless Suitor
- Mauve Shirt: Inaba among others. Interestingly, he was perfectly fine as long as he kept a Red Shirt status, and got killed off right after receiving his Character Development.
- Redemption Equals Death: though more of an Usefulness Equals Death or Action Equals Death, as he'd stopped being a Jerkass a bit earlier.
Hoi Hoi
A description of the character goes here.
Tropes exhibited by this character include:
- Panda-ing To The Audience
- Team Pet
- What Happened To The Panda?: Hoi Hoi disappears after the Italy arc; presumably he was killed, but it was never shown.
Second Kei Kurono
A description of the character goes here.
Tropes exhibited by this character include:
- Battle Couple: With Reika.
- Badass
- Cloning Blues
- Doppelganger Replacement Love Interest
- Tomato in the Mirror: Happens to him when he finds out he is a copy of the first Kurono.
- Back to Gantz