Gantz Omnibus Volume 8

(Paperback)

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A frightening adult science-fiction vision of a world gone mad, Hiroya Oku's shocking alien-invasion epic has sold over fifteen million copies in Japan and inspired three feature films and an anime TV series. The Tokyo Gantz squad of alien fighters join with the battle-hardened Osaka team to face the insanely powerful boss class of offworld horrors. But when facing the beautiful but deadly shape-shifting "100 point" boss, the Gantz warriors soon discover that even the combined firepower of two teams may not be enough to prevail-or survive! This value-priced collection features 632 pages of shock and awe! Collects Gantz volumes 22-24.

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Drawn with eye-popping realism. Entertainment Weekly

Author Bio

Hiroya Oku is a manga artist who is the creator of Gantz, Zero One, and HEN, all of which have been serialized in Young Jump magazine. His manga often contain explicit violence and gore, as well as sexual situations. He won the second prize of the Youth Manga Awards in 1988, under the pen name Yahiro Kuon. He also designed a character for Bandai Namco's Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 fighting game Soulcalibur IV, named "Shura." The author lives in Tokyo, Japan.