Synopsis
After being brutally murdered in a subway station, a teen boy awakens to find himself resurrected by a strange computer named Gantz, and forced to fight a large force of invading aliens in Osaka.
Audience Engagement
682 audience reviews — more than 95% of Japan films in our index.
Popularity sits at the 98th percentile among Japan films.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with GANTZ:O. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
3 sharedMy Hero Academia: Heroes Rising
★ 8.2 · Japan
3 sharedInuyasha the Movie: Affections Touching Across Time
★ 7.6 · Japan
3 sharedMy Hero Academia: Two Heroes
★ 7.9 · Japan
2 sharedSword Art Online the Movie -Progressive- Scherzo of Deep Night
★ 7.6 · Japan
2 sharedDemon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train
★ 8.3 · Japan
2 sharedPrincess Mononoke
★ 8.3 · Japan
Other Titles From Digital Frontier
Science Fiction + Action in Japan
324 Japan titles in our catalog blend the Science Fiction and Action genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding GANTZ:O itself).
The 2015–2017 Japan Window
GANTZ:O holds position #225 of 588 Japan films in the 2015–2017 window, below highlighted by audience rating.
The 2010s Japan Landscape
2016 was the decade’s peak output year for Japan — 213 titles released, including GANTZ:O. Bars below show how the 2010s stacked up year by year (1769 total).
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 212 other Japan films in 2016.
The 3443rd Japan title from Japan we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1899).
Our Japan catalog contains 4,579 titles in total (2,908 films).
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on GANTZ:O, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- hero · 25
- game · 7
- anime · 711
- adult animation · 101
- monster · 91
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #1,536 of 4,579 Japan films indexed here (66th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is +0.4 points above the Japan average of 6.9/10.
Among Japan Science Fiction productions specifically: #93 of 566 (top 16%).



















