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Gantz creator Hiroya Oku is about to bring another series to a close. According to this year’s 19th issue of publisher Shogakukan’s Big Comic Superior magazine, the author’s GIGANT manga will end later this month. The final chapter will be published in the magazine’s 20th …Read more »
Over at Crunchyroll, Daryl Harding and Kaho Shibuya interviewed GANTZ creator Hiroya Oku about adaptations of his work, Hollywood, and what he thinks about overseas fans. Asked about the possibility of a GANTZ reboot, Oku said, “I wonder if a reboot anime is possible for …Read more »
This is your brain on used manga. There are two things I found particularly striking about bookstores when I first came to Japan: one, the sheer amount of places to buy manga used, and two, how many folks just stand there reading without buying anything. …Read more »
Coming at the end of a three-month hiatus of preparation, Gantz mangaka Hiroya Oku has put the gears in motion to close the series with a final arc. Gantz first began serialization in Young Jump in 2000, and will end there as well, in this …Read more »
Hiroya Oku’s manga, including the enormously popular Gantz and the fascinatingly bizarre Inuyashiki, are page-turners that begin grounded in reality before moving into increasingly fantastical territory. Gigant is no different, but whereas those series were obsessed with violence and gore, Gigant adds sex to the …Read more »
Based on the dark sci-fi manga by Gantz author Hiroya Oku, the Inuyashiki anime is gearing up for an October debut. Ahead of that we have a new promo for the adaptation, which follows a middle-aged man who accidentally finds himself turning into a cyborg …Read more »
Hiroya Oku, writer and illustrator of sci-fi manga Gantz , took to Twitter yesterday to vent his frustrations about recent live-action adaptations of manga and anime. Here's what Oku had to say: Why do these live-action manga movies continue to get made? Even if you …Read more »
What would you do if, moments after what you took to be your dying breath, you found yourself in an eerily sterile room surrounded by complete strangers… and one large, menacing black ball? Gantz may not explicitly ask that question of the viewer, but it's …Read more »
New People has a couple of special screenings in store for those in the San Diego area during this year's Comic-Con. They'll be holding multiple screenings of both Gantz films—based on Hiroya Oku's manga of the same name—at the Pacific Gaslamp 15 Theatres. Gantz and …Read more »
The New York Asian Film Festival is always a big event, and this year's 10th anniversary celebration looks like it will stay true to that tradition in every way. Among a lineup loaded with must-see flicks are the two live-action adaptations of Hiroya Oku's Gantz …Read more »
When the first Gantz live-action film hit theaters with a surprisingly wide American theatrical release (which our Dear Leader Patrick Macias covered ), the reactions were mixed to say the least. The fact that Hiroya Oku's bleak world drenched in sex, violence and bucketloads of …Read more »
Today must be Movie Theater Monday, because a lot of the news popping up has to do with a handful of exciting upcoming US theatrical showings. The latest concerns the live-action take on Gantz . Shinsuke Sato's adaptation of Hiroya Oku's manga—which stars Death Note …Read more »
We've posted about the upcoming Gantz film a few times, and while each tidbit has offered a hair more than the previous, the latest video to surface finally gives us a minute or so of solid footage. This live-action take on Hiroya Oku's manga, directed …Read more »
The YouTube video below, as originally aired on NTV in Japan, offers a brief (55 second) glimpse at what to expect from Shinsuke Sato's ( The Princess Blade ) live-action adaptation of Hiroya Oku's Gantz manga. The series, which is still ongoing in Weekly Young …Read more »
Fans of Hiroya Oku’s Gantz manga will soon be able to read it in a whole new way. The latest issue of Weekly Shonen Jump magazine announced plans to release a full-color, vertical-scrolling version of the series on its vertical manga service Jump Toon. Titled …Read more »
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