Gantz/Fridge

• Fridge Brilliance: When you realize that Hoi Hoi is more than just the Team Pet: It's a freaking bear in a strength-enhancing suit. This is confirmed when it manages to rack up 40 points behind everyone's back in the Osaka arc.
  • Everyone jokes about Tae being plain and homely, but after Katastrophe it becomes extremely apparent why she's a perfect match for Kei: she survives.
• Fridge Logic: The Osaka arc's storyline was to demonstrate how that Gantz team, all acting for themselves, ended up dead (see Team Spirit below), while the Tokyo Gantz team mostly survived. Until you recall that earlier on it was established that multiple Osaka members cleared (in essence, "won") the Gantz "game" multiple times, choosing to stay and keep killing aliens because they were bad people for the most part. And one assumes they didn't just adapt this "every person for themselves" attitude recently. So either the Osaka Gantz team went on a lot of nerfed missions, or their luck ran out big time when we finally meet them. Or they died of Plotus Neccessitus. Probably the last one.
  • One possibility is the Nura alien couldn't be killed via direct attack (presumably how the Osaka group had done Gantz hunts until then), it would just adapt and become stronger: you had to shoot it when its back was turned in order to do any real damage.
  • From how it looks, they've cleared Gantz as many times as they had before the shit hit the fan (more and aggressive aliens, they're all visible, and several characters noting that it's never been like that before) and if you let it get to your head enough (like how it has for the Osaka team, Nishi, Izumi), you could get arrogant, careless and stupid.
  • That's the thing: the Osaka team was essentially composed of a core group of badasses: George, Kuwabara, Knob, Kyou, and Oka. In combat, they're shown to wipe the floor with everything short of the Nurarihyon and the two 68/71 point aliens. Kuwabara was able to not only easily dodge the attacks of an alien that had killed no fewer than five suited hunters with one hit apiece, but he did so A) without a suit B) stark naked and C) while raping another alien, at least initially. The worst bit of fridge logic for this troper was the bonus chapters depicting the Osaka team shortly before and after the missions. The team basically just being normal people outside of the hunts worked well: it had an almost Taxi Driver sort of spin to it. They all function like healthy citizens possibly because they have this outlet for their more psychotic tendencies. But that fell apart in the aftermath, when it was down to four hunters, three of whom had over 100 points...
    • First, there was Miho, who was Knob's girlfriend. She chooses to free herself with her 100 because it isn't worth sticking around with Knob dead. Fridge Logic: why didn't she just bring him back with her 100?
    • Next, there was Sumiko, who had a tearful goodbye with Miho before choosing to free herself as well, even saying that she hopes she remembers Miho when she returns to her life. Obviously, since the terms of release include the clause "with your memories erased," that won't happen, so that's another 100 points wasted.
    • Finally, there's Kuwabara, who leaves simply because everyone except the new guy is gone. He apparently forgets that his apparent best friend was decapitated by an alien and that he has the ability to bring him back to life. The entire sequence was like watching a military unit sustain a handful of easily-treated casualties and then, instead of actually treating them, deciding that there's no way they can go on and using all the morphine to overdose themselves and leave their wounded comrades to certain death.