i don't remember the show very well. the way that i remember feeling about it was that it was very bad, unnecessarily edgy, and just filled with really gross depictions of rape and sex and everything bad about humanity. but like with no reason or purpose for any of it but seemingly to fulfill someone's weird fetish

i heard the original manga didn't even feature aliens, it was entirely a death game sort of thing. it was supposed to be pretty good even? but the anime is my only exposure to it, and it was just really bad

still, watching the opening back, it feels like it had /something/ going on with it. btoom was another death game anime but it occupies a very different space in my head despite featuring a lot of the same themes. there's a very dreamlike quality gantz holds, and maybe that's why it sticks out in my memory.

i'm definitely not going to watch it again to find out though. the gantz anime in my head is going to be way more interesting than the gantz anime in reality and i doubt my baseline opinion of it will change.