Gantz recommendation

Gantz is a seinen manga created by Hiroya Oku in 2000. This japanese comic has a total of 37 volumes and the last one was published in 2013. In addition, due to his popularity it has been adapted into many different media such as cinema, videogame and anime.

Hiroya's most famous work combines action, science fiction and personal relationships in contemporary japan. Gantz's main plot focuses on Kei Kurono and Masaru Kato, two students that die in their attempt of saving a drunk man who fell in the subway tracks. After that, they're instantly summoned in an apartment with unknown people where there's a black sphere named Gantz. Then, the sphere tells them that they're dead and they have to obey what the individual inside the sphere comands (killing aliens), in order to save their lives, but only if they survive. 

From my point of view, Gantz is a great manga, very enjoyable and not boring at all. What I liked most were the characters, most of them are flat characters except for Kei Kurono, although for me, the most interesting one was Joichiro Nishi is a veteran of the Gantz world and he's also smart, selfish and has a social Darwinist approach to life. But, why -in my opinion- has he been an interesting character? Mainly because of his hate towards society, his craving for the arrival of the apocalypse and his background story. Another brilliant aspect of the manga were some of the moral decisions they have choose because it left me thinking. Another thing worth noting was the drawing made by computers which gave realism to the backgrounds and immersion into the characters.

Nevertheless, some things may not like to everyone, for instance: the extreme use of violence which is excessive sometimes and the unnecessary and yet abundant nudity in the whole series. But in my case, I appreciated the ensemble. 

In conclusion, I highly recommend Oku's comic as well as I don't recommend it for certain people that aren't pleased with extreme violence and nudity, but for those that don't mind, they'll probably find in Gantz a very entertaining reading.