Summary: The story takes place on Christmas Eve in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Middle-aged has-been Gin, aging transvestite Hana, and teenage runaway Miyuki are homeless friends who have formed a makeshift family structure bond. That bond is tested when they find an abandoned baby while searching for food in a trash dumpster. They try to care for the infant themselves, and travel throughout the city in search of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004

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Summary: A heartwarming comedy about coal miners' daughters who took a once-in-a-lifetime chance to escape their monotonous lives, only to become unwitting heroes to their depressed mining town. Based on a true story.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Pictures 2007

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Oku, Hiroya

Summary: "As masses of helpless humans are brought aboard the gigantic alien mothership, the horror on the ground below looks like a picnic compared to what the monstrous invaders have in store for their prisoners. But despite the odds, Kei Kurono has infiltrated the mothership and its alien city, and he may have only one chance to find his lost love before she suffers a bizarre fate worse than...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2014

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Oku, Hiroya

Summary: "As masses of helpless humans are brought aboard the gigantic alien mothership, the horror on the ground below looks like a picnic compared to what the monstrous invaders have in store for their prisoners. But despite the odds, Kei Kurono has infiltrated the mothership and its alien city, and he may have only one chance to find his lost love before she suffers a bizarre fate worse than...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2014

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Oku, Hiroya.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse 0000

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Oku, Hiroya.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Manga 0000

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Oku, Hiroya.

Summary: The shape-shifting, 100-point alien boss has finally been destroyed - along with much of Osaka - and Kei Kurono is back on the team, resurrected after his second death. But good times never last as the Gantz orb reveals a countdown clock showing that Earth has just over a week before catastrophe strikes, and the Tokyo team is whisked to Italy to face a new set of deadly foes on what may be...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Comics 2013

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Oku, Hiroya.

Summary: Two teenagers, struck and killed by a subway train, find that their new "lives" are controlled by a sadistic alien.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Comics 2008

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Hiroya, Oku.

Summary: The crazy world of Gantz just ramped up to a new level of lunacy. First, people at the moment of death were conscipted to fight aliens living on earth, The battles having taken place beyond human sight. Kei Kurono has survived many of these battles, but now something strange is happening. People can see the Gantz warriors! This ragtag collection of street punks, fighters, and schoolkids are...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Manga 2011

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Oku, Hiroya

Summary: "The devastating war against the alien invaders is over! A new day of peaceful coexistence is dawning! Olive branches for everyone! Of course, before tranquility can be attained, something must be done about the nasty Gantz 'terrorists' monkeywrenching the works. Fighting monstrous extraterrestrials is tough enough, but how about taking on the entire human race?"--Page 4 of cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Manga 2014

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Oku, Hiroya.

Summary: "Gantz is getting absolutely intense! Our protagonist, an eternally awkward otaku boy named Kei, has hunted a bevy of odd and dangerous aliens living in Japan. The Onion Alien was strange enough, but then there were the dinosaur aliens, and eventually some vampires who might not be aliens at all. Gantz moves along at a furious pace, drowning readers in blood and violence, but then holds back...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse 2011

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Oku, Hiroya.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Comics 0000

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Oku, Hiroya.

Summary: Two teenagers, struck and killed by a subway train, find that their new "lives" are controlled by a sadistic alien.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse 2011

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Oku, Hiroya.

Summary: "A gang of vampire guys...who can grow samurai swords from their very flesh! And to add to it, these vampire yakuza guys might not even be aliens! This isn't a mission. These guys seem to know who is working for Gantz, and are coming after them. On the streets where they work and live. In the daylight. All of a sudden the wall between everyday humanity and Gantz's nighttime, extradimensional...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Manga 2010

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Oku, Hiroya.

Summary: Two teenagers, struck and killed by a subway train, find that their new "lives" are controlled by a sadistic alien.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Comics 2010

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Oku, Hiroya.

Summary: A spectacle without precedent unfolds in the streets of Osaka, leaving a path of complete and utter destruction as the battle with the aliens in Dotombori continues to escalate. Beset by a growing number of ghouls, each more deadly than the last, even the battle-hardened Gantz warriors find their numbers dwindling. In the midst of the mayhem, Kato must choose between saving innocent bystanders...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Comics 2009

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Oku, Hiroya

Summary: "The truce with the alien invaders begins to crumble, and this time the humans are gaining the upper hand. Kei discovers that his beloved Tae still lives, and the race is on to save her before she and her goliath alien protector are brought down in the rapidly spreading destruction!"--Darkhorse.com.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Comics 2015

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Oku, Hiroya.

Summary: Graphic Novel. As the mind-boggling 100-point alien boss unleashes its horrors upon the overmatched Osaka Gantz team, the Tokyo team is forced by the Gantz orb to join the battle - but even their numbers fail to turn the tide! When all hope seems lost, the legendary alien fighter Hachiro Oka returns from exile and enters the battlefield with his fearsome arsenal of weapons. But if the mighty...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse 2012

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Oku, Hiroya.

Summary: "It's hard to tell who the heroes and villains are in Gantz these days. Some members of the alien-hunting team are trying to kill protagonist Kei's girlfriend, and it's possible he might not be able to stop them! Plus, Kei finds out about a very powerful secret related to his achieving the one-hundred point goal" -- p. [4] of cover.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Manga 2011

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Oku, Hiroya.

Summary: Two teenagers, struck and killed by a subway train, find that their new "lives" are controlled by a sadistic alien.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse 2010

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Oku, Hiroya.

Summary: Two teenagers, struck and killed by a subway train, find that their new "lives" are controlled by a sadistic alien.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse 2012

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Oku, Hiroya

Summary: As the world burns, the Tokyo Gantz team manage to find their Gantz orb and use it to communicate with fellow warriors from across the globe in order to recruit them for a last-ditch assault to free the humans imprisoned on the leviathan alien mothership. And while the orb can still create powerful weapons and teleport the Gantz fighters, it informs them that it no longer has the power to heal...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Comics 2014

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