Gantz 355

Kurono #2 vs. giant ugly alien on the ceiling.

Talk to the hand, puny human.

Summary:
Kurono #2 opens fire with his two X-rifles. The shots blasts chunks off of the giant alien and forces the alien to come off the ceiling. Kurono continues to fire but suddenly the triggers get stuck and the rifles disintegrate, and Kurono realizes that the alien is emitting some telekinetic wave from its palm. Kurono is lifted into the air by the wave and all the smaller alien creatures in the warehouse start floating in the air as well. Meanwhile, the rest of the Tokyo team is running away, but Reika is reluctant to leave Kurono. Takeda tries to convince Reika to leave with the team, but Reika screams and shakes him off and runs back towards Kurono.

Back in the warehouse, Kurono is lifted into the air by the giant alien's psychic wave and then Kurono gets all of his street clothing ripped off.

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This segment with Kurono #2 suddenly wanting to go mano-a-mano with the big ugly is just really strange. It's strange that Kurono #2 suddenly decided to get angsty, and it's strange that the giant alien has the funny palm telekinetic lift that rips off people's clothing. Kurono #2 is not dead yet though. On the other hand, I expected that Reika would run back to Kurono given how obsessed she is with him. I suppose the two possible endings are Kurono #2 and Reika will die together or the rest of the Tokyo team decides to come back and help Kurono kill the big monster while possibly resulting in deaths of some non-important characters. I'm leaning towards the latter, but Gantz is hard to predict.