Readers were left to assume that they were all just immigrants trying to make a home on Earth, and had no connection to the final invasion. First, all the aliens they had fought up until that point suddenly became pointless. The invasion made sense, but I feel that the execution was way off and could have been done better. It is only right before the final fight, when he says he cares about nothing in the world and only wishes that Tae-chan would come back, that he does. At the end of Gantz, Kurono is aiming to save the women he loves. He resolves to no longer carry the burden. These people slipped through his fingers, and he would convince himself that it was entirely his fault, such as when Kato and the rest of the team dies at the Buddhist temple. Kurono constantly lost companions throughout the series, some of which were love interests. To some, this sounds like a terrible character trait, but it is a realistic one. As a result, he dropped his hero facade and was finally aiming for what he wanted: the woman he loved. In fact, he didn't even want to save everyone.
He quickly cracked under the stress, and, having an epiphany, he realized that it was impossible for him to save everyone. He lost Tae-chan and was suddenly bombarded by people pleading for his help. At first, it seemed he would stay this way until the end, but then the invasion happened. As time went on, though, he became his old self, which his friend Kato always looked up to: the man that would save everyone and defy the odds, always succeeding in his task. At the beginning of Gantz, Kurono was a total pessimist who would never risk his neck for someone else. Finally, Kurono's quest to save Tae-chan was the climax of Kurono's character arc. This fits well with the entire theme of the manga.ģ. If the roles were reversed, humans would have done the exact same thing. To them, humans are just another food source, as cattle are to us. As we continue to the part of story where Kurono takes an alien woman hostage in order to get around safely, we find these aliens are exactly like us, and have the same sort of mentality: they, too, have problems, and are too absorbed with their own self-preservation to care about what they consider lower lifeforms. Although all military units were sent down to conquer Earth, the interior of the spaceship was an entire city of aliens just living their lives. Another aspect of the finale that worked very well was the brutality of the aliens inside the spaceship. Taking into account the earlier creation of the Gantz suits, a huge alien invasion to end the series, in theory, works.Ģ. So, although this completely changed the flow of the story, I feel it had to happen eventually to reach a real conclusion.
The creation of the Gantz suits earlier in the series was in anticipation of this invasion: they would give humanity a fighting chance against an extraterrestrial enemy with advanced technology. Suddenly, the dynamic of being sent on missions stops, and the world is invaded by aliens. The final story arc is where Gantz started to lose quality, but not everything was a train wreck. Although these holes in the plot existed, it did not detract much from the quality of the overall story.
A great example was when vampires showed up, meddled in the affairs of the main characters, and then disappeared, never to be mentioned again. As the story progressed over the years, the plot lines became more and more complicated until the story stopped making sense in certain places.