Gantz

source?
also which chapter are you referring to?

Did the Italy mission only serve to kill those 2 people off? It was already established Gantz was all over the world by this point.

i miss osaka team :(

other than anzu and virginkun they were a bunch of nutjobs and rapists

It was established but nobody knew the magnitude of it, an international mission was truly a whole new level of difficulty and definitely achieved to show a new level of terror in the series, as always.

I'm sorry, I don't have it anymore or remember where it was from, but the author released different pages like omakes talking about himself and the future of Gantz, he even mentioned that he was getting ideas from Transformers while doing Katastrophe.
The chapter was the ending of the Italy mission, when Gantz start giving points the first one to show up is Sakurai and it says "F1N".

sakuraoka was best girl.
Tae a fucking piece of motherfucking shit.

That was definitely the last point where Gantz was still good, because right after that, everything goes right to shit when Reika resurrects a second Kurono.

Explain why you thought it was anticlimactic?

If everything is pointless then having them live is equally pointless, it's just some human life who gives a fuck.

I think you're all fucking tripping, very early on Gantz was already a trainwreck. If you were holindg it up to some higher standard of writing by that point then you were just grasping at straws. Gantz is a really enjoyable manga but it became complete nonsense quite quickly.