Gantz - Vol. 36 Ch. 372 - Where the Missing Mass Goes

[MangaDex]

 

[Gambino]

well, that's one way to get rid of the clone

 

[oedon]

so humans are just things and are worth no more than an ant but also souls weigh 21 grams (which is bullshit) and are perpetually reborn
aight

 

[LuckySevens]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21_grams_experiment

By this logic, those ants that were talked about would have also had a soul, just much lighter. I guess.

 

[Tarlo]

Well, It's basically buddhism

 

[OG_Calculus]

Just walk through space lol. The vacuum here is useless.

 

[Trevelyan]

Gantz balls are just convenient plot device at this point. Its functionality changes whenever the author needs to create or discard a situation.
21 grams thing is, as someone says, pretty bs, and Kishimoto and Kurono's relationship is pretty much non-existent. The old Kurono (current one doesn't give a damn) only cared about Kishi's body, and Kishi treated Kurono as if he didn't even exist.
The aliens also treated "souls/information" as indestructible. However, by creating clones, the aliens also showed that "souls/information" can be replicated. Essentially, it is something that can be created but not destroyed, which contradicts their earlier method of proving that humans are simply things (a faulty method in the first place, but anyway). They couldn't/didn't destroy the information when trying to prove their point.

 

[Ez-8]

Yeah the one thing I have hated is the totally inconsistent rules concerning the Gantz balls

 

[Kit_Kat420]

Holy fuck so many contradictions in plot holes. Most people just nitpick to nitpick but @Trevelyan actually makes good points and gives proof and reasoning for his argument. And its a real shame since before the Katastrophe this series has been S tier.

 

[thatfinefellow]

dumbass god aliens need to go take back to philosophy 101 lmao
"Sentience? Never heard of her."

 

[killua_15]

I got some good idea to comment but i'm so exhausted and sleepy
maybe next time if i got the time and idea

and some of the comments below are interesting enough

 

[Nrtoxop]

Now I understand what people mean Gantz went bad forwards the end

 

[Kampfarsch]

This is some of the dumbest most pretentious sewage ever put to paper
The thing goes on for pages about how human life isnt special and they are all just meat and then goes "well actually there is an immortal soul in a higher dimension" like fuck off is the author genuinely schizophrenic or something
This shit is straight up contradictory

Also "We didnt do it for you we are just like super racist and wanted these refugees to die" woah great fucking rebuttal my dude jesus

 

[Marxofcain]

Yeah a soul is the only real way to reconcile both truths at once-if there must be reconciliation. Reincarnation seems the most obvious form of that. Think of it this way, if they were omniscient beings, why would they have to go to war. I'm sure even those aliens have a sense of unknown. The soul thing is decently consistent with the law of conservation of mass and energy. I don't think that they are replicating the souls moreso just recycling them.

Edit: also everyone knows the 21 grams experiment is bullshit, I think the value here is in the philosophy not the physics

 

[Marxofcain]

The fact of the matter is this is less confusing than chainsaw man part 2, love me some schizophrenic literature man