May 14, 2008
Dark Horse Comics to Reprint GANTZ
Posted by Zack under Uncategorized | Tags: Anime, Comic books, comics, Dark Horse Comics, Gantz, Hiroya Oku, Manga |LEARNING ABOUT THE GANTZ MANGA COMING FROM DARK HORSE
by Zack Smith“Your lives are over. What you do with your new lives is up to me!”
Gantz. For years, this has been the manga series that American fans have longed to see reprinted in the U.S. This darkly satirical, action-packed story of recently-deceased souls resurrected by a mysterious force to kill for it is one of the most popular weekly series over in Japan. Demand for it in the U.S. has reached a fever pitch – and last summer, Dark Horse Comics announced that it had finally gotten the license to reprint it in the States.
With the first volume set to drop in June, we talked with Michael Gombos, Dark Horse’s Director of Asian Licensing, about what it took to bring Gantz to the fans – and what they can expect when it arrives.
May 25, 2008 at 7:59 am
[...] writer Zach Smith writes that Dark Horse is reprinting a very cool series called Gantz. The idea, the art, it all looks very cool and I’ll have to check it out when it’s [...]