Hero of the Week: Sakata Kenzo

This week's hero is the laid back psychic and master to other psychic, Cherry. I'm of course talking about one of Gantz's Tokyo Team's most gifted fighters, Sakata Kenzo.




















Like most of the Gantz team, Sakata was just a normal boy before his death and revival in the Gantz game. But unlike the rest of the team, Sakata actually discovered he had powers before his death at the hands of Izumi. After discovering his psychic powers, it is implied he killed a few bullies that decided to mess with him. This may not sound like a very good hero, but like most of the characters in Gantz, Sakata grows to appreciate life a bit more.

In fact, Sakata is the first to bring up a very philosophically sound argument involving the deaths of those around him. Is it right to continue to bring those in the database back to life? Even though Sakata brought Cherry back to life a few days earlier, his point is valid. From his viewpoint, bringing those back that have died honorably just cheapens their death and makes their life out to be a joke. Even when coming face to face with the 100-point alien, intending to die, he hopes he is not brought back to life. While this could be seen as an empty sacrifice as his organs were failing due to overuse of his powers, it is still a nice notion.

Currently, Sakata is dead as a result of holding off the Nurarihyon alien. Considering the nature of Gantz and his ability to revive those in the database, it is unclear if he will stay dead, but even if he does, his death was definitely heroic.