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Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Deadman Wonderland


Deadman Wonderland is based off of Jinsei Kataoka's manga Deadman Wonderland. A massive earthquake ravaged Japan's mainland and destroyed most of Tokyo. The story takes place ten years after the earthquake. The story follows Ganta Igarashi an ordinary student attending Nagano Prefecture's middle school. He is a survivor of the earthquake, and has no memories of the of the earthquake or anything that happened before the earthquake. His normal life changes forever when a person covered in blood and crimson armor floats in front of his classroom windows.The "Red Man" as Ganta refers to him massacres his entire class but instead of killing him, embeds a red crystal shard in Ganta's chest. After the Ganta is declared the sole suspect. Following an unfair trial, Ganta is sentenced to death and is incarcerated in a privately owned prison called Deadman Wonderland, which is a prison theme park. All death row inmates are fitted with a collar that monitors their location and life signs. Because of his 'crime' Ganta has to live out his imprisonment under Deadman Wonderland's 'Death Sentence'. A lethal poison is constantly injected into his bloodstream through the collar, but it can be neutralized by consuming a  candy-like medicine every three days. The candy can be acquired by participating in deadly games that people come watch for fun. While trying to survive as an inmate on death row, Ganta becomes increasingly obsessed with the 'Red Man' and tries to find him so he could clear his name. Ganta begins to develop the ability to manipulate his own blood, to the point of and is able to use it as a weapon. Ganta has become one of the prison's 'Deadmen', a segregated group of prisoners possessing the "Branches of Sin" which makes them capable of controlling their blood. After his ability is discovered, Ganta is forced to participate in brutal gladiatorial death matches known as "Carnival Corpse". The anonymous spectators pay large amounts of money to watch the combatants kill each other. While in the prison Ganta reunites with a childhood friend Shiro, who is always very nice to him, and protects him. The irony of this is she is the "Red Man" that Ganta is trying to find and kill. Overall I really liked the tv show and the storyline that it had. I wish they had finished the show instead of stopping at episode twelve and then making only one ova that didn't help complete the show.

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