Gantz Storytime is almost over.

And we’ll survive to the very last, the final, the very last final end!

Almost the entire board is just storytimes
You'll find something

>>281246231 (OP)
Cherish the time what's left.

>>281246405
I still haven't started another since Ajin ended man..

>>281246231 (OP)
how many volumes are left?

>>281246336
survival!

>>281246231 (OP)
I remember a previous Gantz storytime from like, 2019. Interesting how much staying power this series has.

>>281246231 (OP)
sad

>>281246231 (OP)
All good things must come to an end.

>>281246231 (OP)
You DID draw your Taedog, right?

>>281246405
you will find shit

>>281246231 (OP)
I'd enjoy the series more if the MC wasn't such a faggot. But same could be said about almost all manga

>>281246231 (OP)
I'm looking forward to him doing Tokyo Ghoul next honestly

>>281256647
the dogshit OG storytimer? might work out actually since that only needs a chapter a day

>>281248056
really anon

i dont even remeber how exactly this manga ends, just that is awfull

>>281251689
i remember the gants thread

>>281257790
I actually really like the absolute last ending scene iirc it's kei, tae and kato on the shore breathless after surviving it all - cut to black. I think it's a fitting end, I like that there's no epilogue and it's finally finally all over

now that i think about it they don't kill the buddha statue in Gantz:E must have been the first time that gantz failed to properly register a kill

I dropped the manga originally during the vampire bullshit but I did occasionally check back in to see what going on, and I did see there an invasion of giant aliens. I never read the conclusion because I knew it would AWFUL. In this scenario humanity is just proper fucked, the end roll credits. It should end with humans being reduced to urban wildlife getting scraps of food tossed to them by aliens like how people feed pigeons at the park. Or a small number of refugees following other aliens through portals to some other alien world to eke out an existence there while being hunted by their version of Gantz, etc. But obviously the manga simple can’t end that way, humanity has to win. The problem is, with this scenario, only the most absurd asspull or dues ex could make that happen, and that would completely destroy the fantasy of the narrative. I wonder if I should just drop it now and substitute whatever awful crap ending it has with my vastly better headcanon.

>>281255453
Was too late to reply to this post. I agree with you. Tae goes through waaaaaay too much bullshit this volume and she's not even done yet. Either Kurono should have found her and the story should have moved on to something else, or Oku should have written a more believable way for him to find her. And this stuff takes too much space in this arc. You can easily see by the end of the manga that he was burnt out. I'd rather have gotten more K2 adventures or at least made K1 rely more on his skills than dumb luck to find Tae. For instance, instead of having the rich fucks be killed by a hack, K1 pays them a nice visit where he out-gantzes the fuck out of them. Then he beams back Tae and revives the old man, lara croft, inaba, and kishimoto. Idk but there surely were better ways of handling this.

>>281259301
i could know what thought process some creators have when doing stuff,like i wanted to know why did oku decide to drag things out with tae so much

>>281258721
Don't be a pussy, keep reading with us.

>>281246231 (OP)
well i miss it every time so

It's not over yet.

>Tae-chan
>Kei-chan
>x1000000000000000000 pages

It's a lot better when you don't have to wait a month just to get these two yelling each other's name for half the chapter.

>>281258493
>at the end all the top gantzers are just randomly fighting 1v1 battles to the death with prisoners
felt so out of place. i guess it just further drives home that everyone in the gantz program is a complete fucking psycho.

>>281259951
Glad I'm not the only one. Threads literally speed by while I'm asleep +12h from EST is suffering...

>>281261024
It's also not nearly as bad as people say. There is a quite a lot in the current volume when the invasion starts. But the next few volumes focuses mostly on other characters and then Kei gets back Tae and the fight boss rush starts.

>>281261091
OP here, i could start at a different time. But most people are probably from EST timezone or close to it. Not sure if the threads would survive if the times change now.

>>281261591
An hour or 2 earlier would let me catch most if not all of the thread in realtime. Not sure about the other guy though.

>>281246231 (OP)
LUV ME KURONO
LUV ME KATO
LUV ME REIKA
LUV ME KAZE
I TOLERATE KOJIMA & NISHI
SIMPLE AS.

>>281259301
I'm the anon you replied to and I would like to expand on that. I think we all understand why the stuff last volume was there and why it was necessary to a certain extent. Oku took a character the audience is familiar with, and that we know is important to the protagonist, to use as the POV to plunge us into the bleakness and horror of a situation where human civilization and authorities have collapsed under the invasion of a superior alien power, and what happens to normal and powerless common folk in the process, and that's all framed by the personal quest of the MC to reunite with his lover. It's basically the second act of "War of the Worlds" if you've ever read that book except the missing wife has taken the narrator's place. The problem I've noticed in this second read (because yes, I also read this as it was coming out as a teenager) aside from length and repetitiveness is the fact that it's basically in the service of nothing. Neither Tae or Kurono really learn anything or grow from this experience, which is fine for Kurono since at this point he has pretty completed his character arc, but a huge missed opportunity for the former. And it also contributed to the feeling of this last arc's final arc as both too slow paced and rushed at the same time by taking up panel time that could be used to expand on other parts of story. We also can't really expect Oku to suddenly feel the need to speed up the pace of events i the name of story progression when the entire rest of the manga has always been like this, but I think what's missing here from the formula that worked so well in other arcs is the lack of meaningful character development and moments we saw in every other arc, and not having enough cool (and discernible) action scenes to punctuate the human elements, so we were only left with the horror genre element.

War of the Worlds was a much more intelligent story, even though the Martians loss was also ridiculous. The Martians were never once at war with humanity. It wasn’t an invasion, it was forestry workers fumigating the place and setting up infrastructure for the next stage. The risk of death at the hands of humans was an occupational hazard. The Martians had intellects as far above us and ours are above animals.

>>281258721
Why is deus ex machina somehow a bad resolution and no, gantz does not end with d e m? If it worked for the greeks it can work for you, you uppity cunt

>>281262981
Conceptually it's a good take. But what breaks it really is the amount of plot-armor that Tae gets plus the lacking character development as you've highlighted. For the former, you can only have the main character survive so much before it becomes really ridiculous. I mean she reunites with Kurono when he's on top of a mech because a random ayy brought her to him. Then she literally gets shot by Nishi and survives, then she literally survives atmospheric reentry. I think this volume had the right amount of survival horror. It's what's next that's problematic. For the latter, there's plenty of possible character development with K2 that we don't get. suddenly he's got a death wish and an inferiority complex. When he stays behind, Kato barely tries to talk him out of it. Then Reika dies and suddenly he understands he was wrong. So the whole character also feels pointless since he dies not much later It also doesn't help that the enemies don't have any iconic designs.

>>281263235
>It wasn’t an invasion, it was forestry workers
I will admit that I haven't read it, so I can't say for certain that you're wrong, but my first instinct is to tell you that I think that sounds made up, and ask for proof that you're not making shit up or wildly extrapolating from something that isn't explicitly what you're saying.
>>281263818
>If it worked for the greeks
First of all, you're probably thinking of the physical devices used to put actors playing the roles of gods on stage. Second, they actually believed in gods who could maybe fix problems if they felt like it, so if they really did think it was good writing, it's probably because of that. Third, it still wasn't universally thought of as "good enough" back then, because apparently Aristotle didn't think it was good writing.

>>281246231 (OP)
We're finally more in the area where my complaints really bear all.
>just spam individuals who can deal with having clones are who are really good
>somehow the aliens didn't destroy all the satellite bullshit infrastructure that makes the system work
>if operational, the system really should be able to save state EVERYONE on the planet to just prior to invasion (if said HDDs containing your save data survives/humanity wins) AND HAVE BACKUPS SOMEWHERE, we KNOW the system has a 'pre joining the game' savestate AND a 'last good'
>TAE CHAN does get old
>reika didn't do too much wrong, ojisan did want to die, just wish he could have gone out more peacefully after reviving a few more people, he was a good man
>revive limits should have been 'game only'
>soul magic and memories and shit is inconsistent

Most of the story was utterly on the fly and rule of cool. Sometimes there are just entities so far beyond you that they'll help for shits and giggles.

>>281264623
No Martian came out and said "we’re clear-cutting and fumigating you", it’s based on the opening narration where it’s stated plainly that their minds are as vastly superior to ours as ours are to animals. We do not go to war on chimpanzees. The tripods have two systems — the heat ray to destroy buildings etc, and black smoke to kill humans. The black smoke lingers on the ground for a long period of time which the tripods clean out with steam jets — basically its ecologically friendly pesticide. The tripods themselves are not particularity armored and can taken out with howitzer shots. They are civilian work vehicles, like a tractor that does clear-cutting (heat ray) and pesticide spraying (black smoke and steam jets).

>>281264926
>just spam individuals who can deal with having clones are who are really good
>somehow the aliens didn't destroy all the satellite bullshit infrastructure that makes the system work
>if operational, the system really should be able to save state EVERYONE on the planet to just prior to invasion (if said HDDs containing your save data survives/humanity wins) AND HAVE BACKUPS SOMEWHERE, we KNOW the system has a 'pre joining the game' savestate AND a 'last good'
why would you assume so much about god aliens' tech while all you have is guessess

>>281265177
>We do not go to war on chimpanzees.
And I don't think the aliens here were planning on having to actually go to war with the little animals either.

>>281265226
1. 2 kei's proves this
2. network is still operational, they're sending/receiving people as the infil team
3. we already know this

what happened to the white man in the ball that just walked out btw? do we get an answer to this? i forget. i remember a return to the room but not what happened after

>>281265271
No, they were clearly using military forces. Another example of good vs bad writing is that War of the Worlds explains why the aliens are being psychopaths. Martians evolved into super-brains with tentacles attached which resulted in hyper intelligence but because there is no body they ended up losing human-like emotions. They operate in a world of pure logic and self-serving reasoning. They understand very well that humans are intelligent lifeforms and are similar to themselves, just less evolved, they just don’t care. They don’t feel empathy, they want our planet, they can take it, so they take it

>>281265177
>>281265445
That doesn't make it not an invasion.

>>281263235
all you said just make their loss even worse

>>281265319
gantz doesnt use satellites

>>281265445
why does it need an explanation, only humans like to pretend they are so different when so many cultures would have done the same or worse, aliens species don't need "deep" meaning to butcher other intelligent species,being evolved doesn't mean they will care more about others.

>>281246231 (OP)
I'm gonna miss my nigga Korono and my Idol Reika so much.

>>281256059
That call for /storytime/ or /manga/ is getting more real, lockdowns did a number on how frequent storytimes were, this is like my 3rd gantz one. Man it used to be hox etc that would basically liveTL/scan and that would be a storytime, someone would pick something that's finished and either dropped or completely unTL'd.

Dont forget your Taedogs

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>>281261534
No, It really wasn't. But who read at that time got stuck with the eternal kei-chan hell, in memory. Have in mind that was two weeks between chapters, final arc with a lot of unanswered questions and then you have a chapter with Kurono not seeing Tae in the giant kid hands and taking 3 to shot a fucking aquarium. Besides the awful CGI appearing more and more Damn, the alien that kills Reika, what was that
People got mad.

>>281266242
>. Have in mind that was two weeks between chapters
there were hiatus in the middle,if it was a consistent 2 weeks wouildn't been that bad

>>281246405
nah, there's nothing out there that scratches the Gantz itch
not even other works in the same genre
it's just different, idk how to explain it

Gantz storytime has been a daily highlight, I will replace it with the gym. And then lapse and fail.

>>281266534
amazes me noone had the guts to even try making a death game manga nearly as weird as gantz

When the Gantz storytime ends i will do a planetes storytime so keep up bros

>>281266710
I'm on a scifi kick and remembering loving the anime, I'll read too

>>281266574
Start going now. Imagine you're training to fight the aliens

>>281266574
ho ho ho simpleton simpleton

>>281268409
FUCK YOUUUUU

>>281246405
Most of the storytimes are literal shounen dogshit. The quality of storytimes has went to shit. Emma storytime i do recommend though. Shes quite cute, and pretty nice as well.

With dubs, i manifest Gantz remake with super shooter as the OP. GETS!
https://youtu.be/SJ5ICtGn6u8

>>281268620
>no dubs
Owarida. As usual.

>>281268620
recommend something good for a storytime

>>281268892
First series that came to mind is: Soil. Either this is a cult classic by now or i was left out of the loop and thats why i only learned of it recently. It is pure fucking mystery kino. David Lynch just spawned and decided to make a manga, its nuts. The only problem storytiming it is that it starts somewhat slow.

I'd really like to see /a/'s reaction to ''Freesia!'' storytime. Or ''The World is Mine!'' storytime. Those just might become insant classics in some eyes. JUoshi Kouhei could be good too, but its a bit ''way out there'', no matter its quality.

>>281269133
Soil! One of my favorite manga. Always disappointed that it's not more well known.
To be fair it's very different from most people's idea of manga

why Oku didn't keep Izumi to the end?

>>281269324
Great taste, anon! More than disappointed, im simply surprised its not more well known. It has all the marks of a instant classic. Bet one of these days it'll become a classic for /a/nons, just gotta wait a decade or so. Sad.

>>281269377
He would oneshot everything... he was simply too kewl....

>>281269133
i really dislike soil art

>>281269409
Thats just like, your opinion man. I respect it.

>>281269381
see this >>281269409 is what I meant with very different from most people's idea of manga.
the art is amazing, but it's not what you typically see in manga

>>281269486
It's just too clean for me? I can sorta tolerate the different character designs but i just can't feel the weird,the mystery it's feels to clean for me i don't know why.

>>281269133
We had a set of Jiro Matsumoto storytimes just a few months ago that went pretty well. Personally, I'd like to see narutaru again

>>281269431
It looks like a comic book without coloring

>>281269965
I feel so bad for missing those, gotta read go back and read the threads.
Thanks.

>>281270216
*Gotta go back and read those threads.

>>281265359
Not sure if we get an answer, but we return to that room a few times including gantz guy

>>281262138
thoughts on Izumi?

insane that the best spread of the entire manga went to the worst character

Volume 31
>>281271221

I'm starting early since it's almost double the length of previous volumes

>>281268892
Akumetsu, Shin Angyo Onshi, Psyren, something out of the usual lineup.

>>281271601
Id? Kek

>>281246231 (OP)
dont worry they'll be another 8 more storytimes going in at the same time
/a/ will never be the same

>>281246231 (OP)
the ending is trash anyway, the manga peaked on the osaka arc, its all downhill from there

>>281273658
It didn't. On reread i noticed how lame osaka is for the most part. It's just osaka jobbing over and over again.
But people will just keep spamming the "ending bad!" until the end of time.

>>281246231 (OP)
Okay