Kazuo Kuwabara (桑原 和男, Kuwabara Kazuo) is a veteran member of the Osaka Team, making his first appearance during the Nurarihyon Alien Mission.
Appearance[]
Kazuo has a medium length, curly hair and a small beard on the chin. He has a very muscular physique. During the missions, he has no shame in appearing totally naked, or with the uniform up to the hips, due to his pervertly sexual nature.
Personality[]
Like most of the Osaka team, Kazuo is reckless and arrogant. Anzu describes him as a sex maniac who "fucks anything that has a wet hole," even raping female aliens during the missions. He is very dear to his students however, suggesting that he is gentle and charming, and only shows his true nature during the Gantz missions. Like the rest of the Osaka team, he takes drugs before and during the battle.
Background[]
Kazuo is an English teacher who teaches children. At some point Kazuo died and was brought back by the Gantz and he became a veteran of the game, having won 100 points three times before the Nurarihyon Mission.
Plot[]
Nurarihyon Mission Arc[]
Kazuo, along with the members of his team, prepares for the hunt by taking drugs. To their surprise, they find another team in Tokyo, but ignore the implications of this by simply telling the Tokyo team to stay out of their way and not steal any of their points. He is next seen with his pants down, raping a female Alien with others of his team protecting him.
Kazuo continues violating female aliens, easily dispatching their attempts to defend themselves, and with no regard for the safety of his teammates.
Together with Knob-yan and George, Kazuo tackles two of the most powerful aliens. Knob-yan declares that he'll kill one of them himself, and when the tables are turned, Kazuo and George refuse to help him, since Knob-yan declared he'd handle it himself. When Nurarihyon arrives, Kazuo and George work together to fight him. They destroy his first form, but he then transforms into a colossus composed of naked women, killing George in the process. Despite his better judgement, Kazuo cannot help himself, and fucks part of the alien's face. His arms and legs are sliced off, but he is saved from falling to his death by Masaru Katou, a member of the Tokyo team, who saves him and hands him off to Miho Yamanaka and Sumiko Yamada, two of his surviving team members, who flee the scene with him. As the Tokyo Team are fighting Nurarihyon in the distance, a delirious Kazuo asks Miho to fuck him.
Despite his grievous injuries, Kazuo survives the mission. With almost the entirety of the Osaka team wiped out, and with Miho and Sumiko deciding to leave the game, Kazuo does the same, choosing to have his memory erased and be freed of the missions.
Trivia[]
- In the film Gantz: O Kazuo scene's are cut because due to the amount of nudity and sex they would imply.
- Some think that he appears in Chapter 368, violating a Giant Alien, however it is worth remembering that Kazuo chose to be free to change from losing his memories.
Kazuo to the Gantz