Gantz Chapter 370 Discussion

Notoriety said:
I also didn't like this chapter's philosophical element, but mainly because I can't believe so much of the chapter was spent on such basic philosophy. The existence of God and the meaning of life beyond the potentially deterministic biochemistry of the brain is something most educated or intelligent people have thought about, so I found the characters' melodramatic reactions to these "revelations" to be implausible.



In the first place, why are they taking Sebastian's word as absolute truth? If they treat its word as such, how is the existence of such a powerful, omniscient being any different from the existence of a god? Are they crying that their specific God (or the conventional Abrahamic God) is apparently not real? If so, maybe they should have been tipped off earlier, as 1) they all likely have different, mutually exclusive ideas of what God is in the first place and 2) they just spent 369 chapters fighting aliens and teleporting. Additionally, isn't Sebastian also composed of matter? What makes it more special than dust or a human? The way these distinctions are being drawn, either these indictments on human existence also apply to Sebastian, or Sebastian surpasses mere matter and is therefore a god-like being.



It would be cool if it was revealed that each teleportation/scan process involved copying the matter making up a human and destroying the original copy, like in many films/sci-fi works, but they kinda killed that by the gimmick where a person can be halfway through the scan and see the other side and react.



I did enjoy the construction of humans toward the end, as I think that is a visually interesting idea, but overall it felt like a drawn-out Baby's First Existential Crisis. Maybe the only people chosen to fight aliens are those who have never heard of existentialism. Or maybe frequent teleportation scans fry the brain.



I concur with all what you said.



I bet he's gonna start killing those new humans he made to prove he's right

I loved this chapter... I wish this was real and that all human beings would understand that they are piece of s**t and that god don`t exist...

I really don't know, if I am part of a minority here or what, but I liked this episode. Considering, that this whole manga has always exaggerated the emotions of people, this didn't come as a surprise. Also, finally, there is some explanation about all this chaos, and I hope this will come to a great conclusion.

Seriously? He's going to pull off this philosophical bullshit?

https://www.reddit.com/r/gantz/comments/yrxuuh/3_hot_babes/

I don't know what Sebastian exactly plans to do but fuck yeah, Reika is back!!



Looks like he just brought three people back, one is at least a male.

Hahaha, Gantz is just hilarious tho. Advanced aliens: "we have come all this way just to insult you and show how much we don't care!" But the humans are even more ridiculous. Their irrational desire to feel special is only outdone by their need for this specialness to be validated by some God. It's really pathetic.



Everything the aliens are saying is true. The humans are just so used to looking down on everything and everyone else in the universe that they can't think outside their arrogance. Stars are made of gas and dust - do the humans think they're better than the stars? Our bodies are ~75% water - do the humans think they're better than the ocean who gave birth to their ancestors? Everything in the universe is a conglomerate of elements, stray atoms, and various quantum particles momentarily coming together to express themselves in different forms. Humans are made of stardust and water animated by an electrical current. Is that not "amazing" enough? Yet it's no different from any other animal, nor does it invalidate any human thoughts and feelings.



Instead of trying to elevate themselves, why don't humans acknowledge their kinship with all the universe? Why not appreciate how all things are interconnected in a shared act of creation and destruction, constantly dismantling and giving rise to each other? Why not see that all of existence is amazing? None inherently "more than" or "less than" another, just different expressions.

Great chapter.