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>I KNEW IT!

I KNEWWWW EET!

I knew the three of us we’re going to go “kyaaaah!” and “omgomgomgomg” and “Ninooooo!” and “MatsuKennnn!”

What I didn’t know was that we’d be going, “SHOOT!! FOR HEAVEN’S SAKE” and “OMG. BADASS NINO. 8D” and “BROMANCE!!!kashfakhf!” and… uh, well, you get the idea XD

A lil cut for a loooooong post.

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You guys can skip this first part– I only write it for a self-satisfaction XD Scrooooooll down for my thoughts on the movie, till you find bolded orange text XD Because Yellow is a crappy colour to be put against a white background

SO! Let’s start with this morning! Woke up the Mini-Mini, Dila, for school and after a quick nap, I started doing housework. Since kaachan let me go out for a trip on a weekday, I thought I’ll give her the joys of having a clean house. In layman’s terms, it is known as brown-nosing XD

And today, everything went smoothly. My chores (*coughiddenagenda*) were done in a mere few hours, instead of the usual three hours. Mini-Mini was cooperative enough to go to school without much of a fuss, as well as she didn’t make as much mess as usual.

By 3, I had already started feeling jittery with anticipation– spamming my Twitter in the process XD And at exactly 4:40, Kaachan came home to fetch me (Thank you, bonda, for taking the time from work to send your daughter off to watch her affair kill aliens on the big screen. *chu*) and sent me to Kepong KTM station.

The KTM has an amazing reputation of being slow and late and generally untrustworthy, so as I waited for it to come, my heart was doing a tribal drum beat, thinking that I was going to be late. |D But Tashii sent me a text with mumbo jumbo, and what do you know! The train came not five minutes after that! Arashian-to-Arashian-mumbo-jumbo has its qualities~ XD

So! I went off to Coffee Bean to meet up with Tashii first. She was already giggly and hyper over caffeine rush (Two mugs of joe. TWO! D8) and we chatted while waiting for Meena, aka Riida to come. By 6:50, we headed off to GSC, with the caffiene already starting to work its way into my system.

Riida was slightly late– she got caught in the rush hour, so the both of us were in front of GSC, tortured and tormented with the high of caffeine XD The movie was supposed to start at 7:10, and by 7:22, and no sight of Riida, we got even more jittery!  D8

BUT! When Riida finally came at 7:30, and when we rushed into the hall, the movie was just about to start! Awesome timing or what!? XD

SO!

Here starts the craziness!

As soon as Nino’s voice appeared– NINO’S VOICE, NOT HIM YET– Tashii and I started giggling. Meena was seated one seat away from me, so I have no idea how she reacted |D We tried to muffle our giggles, but it was futile! NINO’S HOT AWESOME SELF PROJECTED ON THE BIG SCREEN! How can we NOT giggle?! XD

I spent the whole 2 hours in the hall with my hands clasped over my mouth, or my body jerking and cringing at the aliens’ attacks, or squeezing Tashii’s arm beside me! XD Oh god, the way my body reacts to Neen is… indescribable XD

I’ve calmed myself down a bit, so I hope I won’t be TOO biased XD

Since I’ve read the manga, I anticipated for it to be just as climatic and suspenseful as it. I have to say, it wasn’t as good as the manga. In the movie, Kurono is a university student (as opposed to a perverted, hormone-driven high school student in the manga LOL) so quite a few parts were changed. Not too much as to make it completely different from the manga, but I just needed to state that.

I found myself not so satisfied over the first half of the movie– the director cut a lot of the climatic and suspenseful parts. One of it was the short battle between the players and Onion Alien. In the manga, it was shown that Kurono was running away from the Onion-papa with it chasing him with his sharp claws and gruesome face, adding suspense into every page. In the movie, however, the battle was cut short, and it ended maybe in 10 minutes? |D

The feeling of infatuation between Kishimoto and Kato wasn’t portrayed well enough, in my opinion. I really didn’t feel like Kishimoto was attracted to Kato as much as the manga, and it seemed… rushed. I couldn’t really feel like Kurono was attracted that much to Kishimoto either. :/ If Gantz didn’t analyse Kurono’s performance as, “Stop staring at Kishimoto,” there would be no hint at all that he liked her. :| That was a bit of a lowdown, I think, for some people who don’t read the manga.

BUT! The movie regained itself in the second half. More of the second half were original script, instead of taking it from the manga. And this was a refreshing breather for me– I didn’t really have to compare it to the manga much :D

Yoshitaka Yuriko (Oh god, I LOOOOOVE HER! She’s way too adorable!) plays as Kojima Tae in this. Her character is WAAAAY different from the manga, so I naturally assumed that she was an original character– But I just checked, and Wiki told me otherwise. Oh well, it fitted well with the second half of the story, and maybe this kind of character is crucial for Part Two~? :D

Kato’s backstory in this was well portrayed (Yay, MatsuKen!) and I could feel that he really loved his little brother, Ayumu. Spoiler, so highlight if you want to read, but when Kato died towards the end of the movie, I felt SO SAD for his brother T^T Guh. I SO wanted to scream when it happened, but of course, my screams were muffled. 

Ah! And the with the aliens in the second half of the movie– the two giant statues and 1000 armed Buddha (yes, armed, like with swords! 8D) was really well done! The fight with the two giants could have been a little longer though XD But! The fight with the Buddha statue inside the museum was just jaw-dropping… or squeak-inducing! I found my feet propped up on the seat, covering my self from the awesoooome CGs or grabbing on to Tashii’s arm squeaking together! XD I wished I could reach out and grabbed Riida too! XDD

The CGs in this was purely amazing! And I could not spot a moment where I could say, “Hey, that’s CGI!” like I usually do in movies. XD And the fact that most of the aliens died by exploding into gooey alien-blood made me go *______* The props– X-gun, Y-gun, and a sword Kato used was just so similar to the ones in the manga, so MAJOR PROPS for that (LOL, unintended pun) The BGM did its job well; it added more depths to the scenes, like that part when Nino was snivelling as he cried for Kato when he was announced dead. Oh gosh, T^T *squishes Neen*

LASTLY! THE CLIFFHANGER AT THE END OF THE MOVIE = fhakfhakslfhaklhfalkh!! It really hit the spot! Ending it with an image of Kato, unhurt and still alive!! OMG LIKE WHAT THE HELL IS GOING TO HAPPEN!!?! skjhaskfhakfhkahf *cough* Perfect Answer is coming out in SEPTEMBER! And all of us Malaysians have to tahan until then! D8 *dies*

Conclusion: I’ll give the movie an overall rating of 7.75/10 :D (Yes, I love decimals, so what. XD) Not flawlessly perfect, not godawful-terrible :D It could do more justice for the manga, but the original script really regained itself. Some parts that really made me laugh, made my heart sink T^T, made me smile, made me snigger. There were moments when I could just SQUEEE– Tae/Kurono fluff, and Nino/MatsuKen bromance!! XD!!

Review over ^^;;

After the movie, the three of us camwhored with the GANTZ poster! MINI PICSPAM AHEAD!

Riida and Neen! OHMIYA! XDD

Tashii looking much like a CM model XD

And lastly, some Yama~ XD

We didn’t manage to take much pictures since I had a curfew and had to leave ): Meena kindly sent me to Taman Jaya LRT station and I went back home, all jittery and still Nino-high! XD


PERFECT ANSWER, WE SHALL BE WAITING! 8D