10 Worst Anime Adaptations
6. Gantz
If you were a 13-year-old edge lord when you first fell in love with anime, chances are that you came across Gantz at some point or another. But while Gantz has had more than one adaptation since its original inception, people still seem to remember the original anime from 2004. For what reason, we're not sure, since it's probably the weakest incarnation both quality and adaptation wise.
Ignoring the dub, which is one of the most try hard edge lord scripts I have ever laid eyes on, the structure itself betrays the source material. As gory bloody and needlessly cruel as the manga is (creator Hiroya Oku has an infamous hatred of teenagers whom he ALWAYS writes as cartoonish sociopaths) it has much better pacing than the anime, moving at a steady clip, allowing for slower scenes but always ready to rev up the action.
The anime, on the other hand, screws this up (probably for budgetary reasons) by having long scenes of people standing around talking to each other and trading character development for our main character (who SORELY needs it) to just repeating the same creepy perversion stuff over and over.
Messing up the pacing is one of the big no-no's of adapting anything, but Gantz is nowhere near the worst offender of this, as you'll soon see.