Joichiro Nishi is a middle-school veteran of the Gantz world, having arrived there over a year before the beginning of the series. While running away from police officers after shoplifting, he fled onto an apartment building roof where he fell to his death.    Much like how Kurono started out, he is also selfish and has a Social Darwinist approach to life. Nishi is reluctant to reveal anything about the Gantz or himself, but he runs a web site where he posts information about it (carefully avoiding Gantz&#039;s rule about informing outsiders, which would in turn prove fatal). Gantz calls him &quot;Mr. Nishi,&quot; which is rather interesting given how informally or derisively he refers to most of the other participants.      ~!Nishi is killed at the beginning of the Tanaka/Suzuki Alien mission, but after six months of existing only inside Gantz&#039;s memory banks, he is revived by Kaze at Kurono&#039;s request following the end of the Oni mission. Ostensibly, Kurono hopes that Nishi will be able to provide information about Gantz to the game players.     After being ostracized and bullied by his classmates, which ended with them hurling him out of the classroom window, he has killed all of them (except one girl who had a crush on him and did not support the rest in wanting to chase him out of the school). After this, civil armed forces are sent to kill Nishi. Nishi manages to kill many of the men sent to kill him, but after an intense battle with the armed forces he is severely wounded and was only able to avoid death because Gantz called the Hunters for a new mission.!~

Thought your life was bad? Sometimes, death is worse. There is no salvation, peace, nor god waiting to receive you into their care. But wait, a god? Maybe you are talking about that big black ball stuck in the room with you. Now you are thrown into a game, fighting green aliens and robot monsters for the chance to survive. 
When Kei Kurono is killed, he thus finds himself caught in such a game; a test of his skills, morals and will to survive. His life is not his own, his death spat and trampled upon over and over again. What happens if he does not listen? God knows. 
A word of warning: Gantz is not for the faint-hearted, but neither is it as simple as it looks. Gore, rape and violence is rampant, as are portrayals of greed, violence, and all the ugliness that one sees in society today. 
[Written by MAL Rewrite]

He claims to enjoy playing crazy or insane characters; Greed (Fullmetal Alchemist) and Asura (Soul Eater) being some of his favorites.

Vagner Abiate Fagundes is a Brazilian actor, voice actor and dubbing director. Dubbing since the 90s, Vagner has become one of the greatest Brazilian voice actors working with several anime. Among his highlights are Son Gohan (teen and adult) from the Dragon Ball series, Touya Kinomoto in Card Captor Sakura, Zim in Invader Zim, Monkey D. Luffy in One Piece, Shikamaru Nara in Naruto, and Shun Kazami in the Bakugan series. In 2007, Vagner won the Yamato Award for best voice actor of the year, alongside Marco Antônio Costa, for lending his voice to Luffy. He is the official voice actor for actor Elijah Wood in São Paulo. He is the older brother of the voice actor [Vinícius Fagundes](https://anilist.co/staff/188407/).

José Granadillo is a voice actor from Venezuela    Animated Series:      * Justin / Voces adicionales - Isla del drama y Luz, drama, acción      * Dr. Scientist / Voces diversas - Jimmy Two-Shoes      * Henry (1ª voz) - Kid vs. Kat      * Caballero Fantasma - Batman, el valiente      * Entrenador - Chica Supersabia      * Jude (2ª voz) - Locos Dieciséis (doblaje venezolano)      * Pescadería - Elías, el botecito de rescate      * Señor Ridgemount - Stoked! Locos por las olas      * Ben Boozle / Charls / Voces adicionales - Las Maravillosas Desventuras de Flapjack      * Médico Brujo - George de la selva      * Voces adicionales - Bob Esponja 

Tokyo teens Kei and Masaru are killed by a subway train but awaken in a room with an ominous black orb that gives them weapons, suits and orders. Fighting bizarre alien monstrosities in a deadly game, will they win their freedom or die for the final time? 
(Source: Dark Horse)

The story of Nishi and Izumi, before the events of GANTZ.

A special one shot that shows what Nishi does in his spare time.

Death does not have to be the end; one can live again, but only through beating the game posed by the black ball called Gantz. 
 
On his way home to celebrate his younger brother's birthday, brave and kind-hearted student named Masaru Katou is stabbed to death. He awakes in a small room with a cityscape view in the heart of Tokyo—and he is not alone. To his surprise, it is not the afterlife, but the waiting room for a high stakes game with their lives on the line. Before he has the chance to process the situation, Masaru is handed a gun and teleported into the center of Osaka to carry out one simple task: eliminate any alien on sight. 
 
Accompanied by the aged Yoshikazu Suzuki, the stunning idol Reika Shimohira, and the cold but experienced Jouichirou Nishi, Masaru must overcome his fears in order to survive the game and return home to his waiting brother. 
 
(Source: MAL Rewrite) 
 
Note: A full 3DCG movie adaptation of the manga's Osaka arc.

Height: 170 cm

Kaku Tomohiro is an actor from Tokyo, Japan.

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Rafael Cappelli Coutinho is a Brazilian actor, voice actor, and dubbing director. He is the son of [Marcelo Coutinho](https://anilist.co/staff/239594/) and Luciana Seixas, younger brother of [Bernardo Coutinho](https://anilist.co/staff/190202/), nephew of [Marcia Coutinho](https://anilist.co/staff/191629/), grandson of Maurício Seixas and cousin of [João Cappelli](https://anilist.co/staff/176916/) and [Paula Troyack](https://anilist.co/staff/283099/).

__Non-Anime Roles:__
~!- Oliver Pook (Henry Danger)
- Hunter (Adventure Time: Fionna & Cake)
- Dwayne Jr. (Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race)
- Pablo (Dora and Friends: Into the City!)
- Logan Lerman (Noah)
- Beau (ICarly)
- Marcus (Barbie in Rock'N Royals)
- Charley Witherspoon [2nd voice - 4th season], Young Bradley Hitler-Smith "Ethan", Zach Braff, Sissy and Miles (BoJack Horseman)
- Mike Kelnoff (The Sinner)
- Jackson Smith-Dungy (Family Weekend)
- Elliot Bergom (The Wilding)
- Tony Revolori (Lowriders)
- Tyler (The Visit)
- Monte (Garden Academy)
!~