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Where can I buy the digital version of Gantz manga? I searched in Dark Horse
Comics site but they don't have the digital version. Amazon also just has the
Physical version. Does Gantz not have a digital version of the manga?


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Where can I buy the digital version of Gantz manga?


Short answer, NO, there's no digital version of the US release of the GANTZ
manga.

Long answer, some authors and publishing companies in Japan back in the day
were against publishing their works digitally (like Nishio Isshin, Kawahara
Reki, Log Horizon's author whose name keeps evading me, Kadokawa back in the
day), I don't know for sure if that was the case with Hiroya Oku or Shueisha
(I believe Shueisha was against it but don't quote me on that), but the fact
is the Japanese digital version wasn't released until February 18th, 2014
[![screenshot from the the GANTZ vol. 37 bookwalker.jp
site](https://i.stack.imgur.com/n897B.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/n897B.png)

This is 6 months AFTER the last volume was physically released in Japan, which
came out on August 19th, 2013. All the volumes were released in bulk on
bookwalker that very same day. The [link
here](https://bookwalker.jp/series/12483/list/) will take you to the full list
of the GANTZ releases (site is in japanese). Nowadays, more and more older
series are getting digital releases in Japan.

Which means that there was NO digital release of GANTZ in Japan back in 2007
when Dark Horse made the license deal. IF their original deal had contemplated
the future possibility of digital releases in Japan, Dark Horse could legally
sell the digital version, but there's been no such release so far so either
they don't care or they can't release digitally without another deal.


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