Gantz - 1: It's The Beginning Of A Brand New Day

Title:Gantz
Episode:1: It's The Beginning Of A Brand New Day
Synopsis
Cynical, horny teenager Kei Kurono is in a bad mood after being embarassed in school. In a subway station, he recognizes an old friend, Katou Masaru, who now looks like a delinquent. When Kei sees a drunken bum fall on the tracks, his inclination is to do nothing, like everybody else. But Katou will not allow this poor man to die without lifting a finger, and calls for Kei to help him. Things don't go well, and after a little run-in with an express train Kei and Katou find themselves somehow transported to a room full of strangers and a mysterious black sphere. "Your lives are now over you bastards" it tells them. "What you do with your new lives is for me to decide. So there you have it"...
Comments
I went into this series with a good deal of trepidation, having heard all sorts of nasty things about it, and not being a big fan of ultra-violence. I found it to be a bizarre mix of violent, vulgar, risque, and disturbing elements--and yet somehow intriguing. What is this thing? What kind of lives does it expect the people to live from now on? How were Kei and Katou transported here with their bodies back in one piece? Why wasn't any trace of their splattered bodies found back at the subway station?

ggultra2764- 5/5/2013
You know a series likes this is gonna be quite bad when one of the major sights of its first episode feature the male lead, Kei Kurono, being more aroused by the sight of a naked Kei Kishimoto than concerned for her well-being as she's about to be raped by a yakuza thug and it was this sight that made me ditch the show for a while when I had it in my personal collection. It somewhat befuddles me that some reviewers think Kurono is a believable representation of modern youth, while he seems more like a flat archetype adding to the regular sight of depravity you see out of Gantz. At this point, only Katou sticks out as a likeable character within the show for me. Everyone else is either too limited in depth or a complete scumbag to bother relating to.

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