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.



Pretty much exactly how I felt while reading it.

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                        So Sebastian really was the mastermind behind the whole thing and the supposed "god" or devil (whichever way you perceive it). His perception of humans as ants is quite understandable; seeing as how he can create/revive them out of nothing. Is his power limitless? The way I see it, he can revive the thousands who have died or will die quite easily.



Reika's back! I hope she's still her old herself but altering her personality could be more interesting. Though her revival is definitely a suitable way to to reintroduce the idea that human lives are meaningless. I wonder who else was revived, maybe Kishimoto?

What Now?

Will this turn to a Positive Existentialism VS Negative Nihilism ???

enough of this shit

let's get back to fighting

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.



This. The author had the opportunity to go deeper. Well, he might still do, we'll see.



Anyway, Great chapter, I really hope we'll have a good conclusion.