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The sphere names itself Gantz, sings an exercise song, and explains the situation: They ''were'' dead, but Gantz needs them for the mission of killing a weird alien creature (the first of a series, as it turns out). The rules are easy: They have one hour to complete the assignment. If they are hurt but alive at the end of the time, they are fully healed, but if they are killed they'll remain dead. If they get too far outside the hunt area they will die. Their performance will be measured for points; when they get 100, they can be free. With all that said, Gantz gives them high-tech battle suits and some futuristic equipment and armament, and launches them into the mission.

The manga finished in 2013, in a finale that was deemed as unsatisfactory for almost everyone involved. A spinoff manga, titled ''GANTZ:G'', was published between 2015 and 2017.

 

 

== Multiple Version Examples ==

* [[Aborted Arc]]: The plot points involving the real Kishimoto's survival and the vampires fighting back against the Gantz players ultimately don't go anywhere. ''That we know of yet.''

* [[It Got Worse]]: The Osaka arc presented an entire ''army'' of foul beasts/aliens as well as three immensely powerful boss monsters, one of whom was so strong it wiped out a more experienced, better armed, and brutal Gantz team almost single-handedly, as well as displaying a [[Healing Factor|regeneration ability Wolverine would envy]]. The main team barely survives...and then finds out that Gantz has a clock that is counting down some sort of [[The End of the World as We Know It|worldwide catastrophe]] which is due in about a week. And just when you think things can't get any worse, the Italy arc starts, and there isn't a sewer big enough to produce all the excrement that has hit the fan.

** Then Chapter 303 came out. Somehow, it's gotten EVEN DAMN WORSE. Specifically, {{spoiler|alien robots with the same visual theming of the Gantz sphere and weapons land worldwide, and begin to level everything. Aliens with the same large Gantz suits seen in the Osaka arc then appear in everywhere and start to do the same, harvesting the civilians. And in Chapter 306 the alien mothership starts coming down... All humanity need is a final blow.}}

*** And now we learn that {{spoiler|the Giants are ''recreationally fishing humans'', complete with bait and rod guns. The fact that Tae is caught in the middle of the group being fished makes the situation worser than ever for Kei.}}

**** Not only is {{spoiler|Kei-1}} in a bad situation; in chapter 345, {{spoiler|Kei-2's}} group of merry men {{spoiler|have been transported to an unknown region of the alien mothership described as "hell" in the previous chapter, where they've found a mass grave featuring hundreds of humans, including JSDF members and people from other Gantz teams. To top it all off, the civilians they just rescued showed the standard Gantz-esque display of immediately showing zero appreciation and leaving the team only to encounter another group of aliens which can only be described as large creepy crawlies.}}

* [[Plot Armor]]: How else do you think {{spoiler|Tae}} survives for so long?

* [[Punch Clock Villain|Punch Clock Sociopaths]]: Remarkably enough, the Osaka team. They get their own bonus chapter(s) that show what happened shortly before and shortly after the Osaka hunt. As it turns out...

*** In stark contrast to their mission behavior, practically the entire team seems to be composed of well-adjusted members of society.

* [[Psycho for Hire]]: Shion Izumi, Jouichirou Nishi, Kajiura Ryuji and Hajime Muroto.

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