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tetsuo the biker punk with red and black hair


what the hell killed him... i know it was gantz but was it because he talked about gantz in front of people who don't know about it?

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Well he didn't exactly say anything in the anime. But his actions could have made people aware of gantz and its fine weaponry. He tried to pay with the gun. Then he tried to use it on the rival biker gang.

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Yeah he's right, just like how the guy in the beginning told the orginal group if you talk about Gantz your head explodes, that's exactly what he did. He mentinoed Gantz's name in front of others...

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yeah, it's gotta be saying the name. He had already showed the weaponry to other people and nothing happened

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it could have been about the effect of showing and using the weapon infront of such a crowd.
i don't know about in the anime, but in the manga he's more or less starts to die the minute he raises the gun infront of the rival gang. if he were to use it infront of them, and kill some of them. most of them would probably get away.
if he died there on the spot, the gang would assume the gun to be a toy and just leave it. Gantz killed him in order to keep his exsistance secret.

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But Kei wears the suit to beat the bully up.

'Whewww! Those acts of God really stick it in and break it off, don't they?' Seth Gecko

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but can the bullies see the suit?
they can't so there just under the impresion his stronger then he looks.

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I found that strange. We could see the suit, but the bully notices his hard-on instead.

'Whewww! Those acts of God really stick it in and break it off, don't they?' Seth Gecko

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tetsuo also showed an X-Gun and nothing happened to him. I think it has more to do with revealing the nature of gantz. Saying it's name, describing the game and what not

somebody just sees a gun or weird suit, they're not automaticly going to wonder about their origins

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Yeah, most people who initially saw the suits thought that the people wearing them were either cosplayers, otaku, or, well, both.

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yeah the biker dude died for saying the name Gantz. which he really had no need to say in the first place, he was being mellow dramatic with himself, he should of got his revenge and wasted those bikers guys with the x-gun instead he became mellow dramatic about why he was back on earth, who freakin cares, get your revenge. in the end i thought that biker dude was going to be helpful to the team, he ended up being a pussy and never once really participated in the game, just was an onlooker.

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he was circled by other bikers, and he shouted "gantz" tht it. and you can hear it in the episode

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Yeah it wasnt the weapon, It was the point where he said "why gantz! why!" and the other bikers looked him and said what the *beep* is gantz..then his head blew up just like Nishi said it would.

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If you think about it. When he said "why gantz! why!" he questioned the gantz but yeah. the fact of him questioning gantz and making them all wonder what he was talking about pissed off the gantz and killed the red and black haired biker before the other bikers could kill him and before they figure out exactly what he was talking about once they got a hold of the weapon. By any means possible. If you remember the red and green aliens back at the temple. Imagine if that were to happen and the gantz revealed itself and caused nothing but chaos.

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I always thought it was implied that Gantz killed him because he lost his will to live.

That's what I inferred, I never read the manga btw.

The anime series seemed to try and portray that Gantz (through the suit, scores, etc.) rewards passion and strong-will, so the biker giving up his morale would be viewed negatively.

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Late to the convo, but it's because he mentioned gantz in some form or another, although the anime portays gantz somewhat differently than the manga, the anime producers should have killed him differently if that was the case, its because he was showing off the powers of the weaponry and mentioned gantz that the bomb went off in his head.

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