DEADMAN WONDERLAND
STATUS
COMPLETE
EPISODES
12
RELEASE
July 3, 2011
LENGTH
24 min
DESCRIPTION
Ganta is the only survivor after a mysterious man in red slaughters a classroom full of teenagers. He's framed for the carnage, sentenced to die, and locked away in the most twisted prison ever built: Deadman Wonderland. And then it gets worse.
At Deadman Wonderland, convicts are forced into brutal deathmatches for the amusement of the masses, the cheers of the crowd drowning out the screams of the dismembered. Even when Ganta befriends Shiro, an unusual female inmate, his dark fate crushes all hope —until he discovers the strange ability to wield his spilled blood as a weapon. Ganta learns his new skill might be related to the murderous man in red and uncovers disturbing secrets that could expose those who stole his freedom. He's determined to see justice served —but first he'll have to fight for his life in a prison that holds a million ways to die.
(Source: FUNimation)
CAST
Shiro
Kana Hanazawa
Kiyomasa Senji
Masayuki Katou
Ganta Igarashi
Romi Park
You Takami
Yuuki Kaji
Kiwako Flügel Makina
Takako Honda
Minatsuki Takami
Iori Nomizu
Toto Sakigami
Miyuki Sawashiro
Karako Koshio
Kumiko Itou
Nagi Kengamine
Daisuke Ono
Genkaku Azuma
Toshiyuki Morikawa
Bundo Rokuro
Jun Fukuyama
Kyoko Kasuga
Chika Horikawa
Hibana Daida
Natsumi Takamori
Mimi
Megumi Takamoto
Rinichirou Hagire
Hiroshi Naka
En
Yuka Saitou
Chan
Shouhei Kajikawa
Tsunenaga Tamaki
Junichi Suwabe
Rei Takashima
Mina Kasai
Kazumasa Kouzuji
Takeshi Maruyama
EPISODES
Dubbed
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REVIEWS
ChillLaChill
65/100Behind the scenes ain't so pretty, both for story and for Deadman's productionContinue on AniListDeadman Wonderland is really something special, no I mean it really is something out of the ordinary, no sarcasm intended. There's an edgy flare that I just can't help but be entranced by. However perfect the premise, and opening might be, we get a show that just ends up going nowhere by the end.
Deadman Wonderland takes place in what is "the future", the main character Ganta is convicted with murder after being framed for killing all of his classmates. However, rather than go to prison he is sent to the place known as Deadman Wonderland in which the prisoners are sent through various games to entertain the masses. While not obviously apparent to the adoring crowds, people's lives are on the line as they struggle to survive a Battle Royale-like survival game for the sake of entertainment. Deadman Wonderland is a good idea that breathes tension into a world that's hopelessly against its cast. I would've liked to see more of the story developed over the course of the show. For some reason the creators decided to wrap up Deadman Wonderland fairly quickly, sweeping everything under the rug for an ending that feels rushed. There is so much more I'm curious about and I can't exactly say watch this without reading the manga, which will most likely be a requirement.
Deadman Wonderland has a very interesting selection of characters because most of them consist of convicted criminals or insane authority figures. Ganta is nothing really all that special, he is just there surviving and overcoming some obstacles. Shiro, the girl with the white hair, might be somewhat annoying but can be useful at some parts in progressing the story. This is my main problem, so much of the characters rely on the story and vice versa so it is very very hard to delve into analyzing both properly. Again the problem is that there just isn't enough room for you to see more about them, which weakens the overall plot and back story.
I had a good time watching Deadman Wonderland, it's a very different show from the usual. There was a point in the show where I wanted to watch more but was cut off by the last episode, and that's just it...the show just ends because they never bothered to animate more of the manga. My enjoyment could have been pushed a little further if I had at least seen a little more of both the world and of the characters. It could have been something more but as soon as it picks up it ends. There isn't much I can say because it's not the show's fault for ending it at that point, sure I'm gonna read the manga but it would've been nice to get some closure considering they're never going to make more of this ever.
Legrenzi
65/100A 288-minute long summaryContinue on AniListDisappointment: that's the word that fully describes this anime. A lot of potential being wasted as the episodes progress leaving a bitter taste in the mouth.
Ten years before the story begins, a massive anomaly called the Red Hole caused an earthquake that destroyed most of Tokyo (Japan: a giant magnet for unexplained disasters).
Returning to the present, the story shifts to Ganta Igarashi, an ordinary student that is a survivor of the Red Hole. During a normal day of school a mysterious figure, the Red Man, massacres his entire class, leaving Ganta as the sole survivor and implanting a mysterious red crystal in his chest. Ganta was immediately named as the main suspect in the carnage and, after a sham trial, was sentenced to death at Deadman Wonderland, a private prison that is also a theme park runned by the warden Tsunenaga Tamaki who posed as Ganta's lawyer.
A lethal poison is injected into the prisoners by a special collar, only one candy taken every three days can guarantee salvation, but you can only get it with Cast Points. To obtain Cast Points, prisoners must participate and survive in deadly games. Fortunately, Ganta meets a girl, Shiro, who apparently knows him, and who will help him several times (let's say all the time) during the story.
During his stay in the prison Ganta develops a strange power: he can manipulate his own blood and use it as a weapon. For this reason he is taken to a hidden branch of the prison where experiments are carried out and 1vs1 fights (the so-called Carnival Corpse) are fought to the death between the owners of the Branches of Sin (the Deadmens).The idea and the development of the plot in the first episodes is really interesting.
Who's the Red Man? Why did he kill those boys? Why did he let Ganta live? What really caused the earthquake that destroyed Tokyo 10 years before? Why the false trial? These questions permeate the series, giving it a very fine atmosphere suffused with mystery.
Unfortunately, however, as the episodes pass, the story becomes confused. Too much! Not in the sense of not understanding the reasoning of the characters or the various events. It's as if it began to lose its narrative power, becoming, all of a sudden, an almost banal series. Nothing happens to keep you glued to the screen. It's just boring, the pace is no longer sustained and the events become monotonous.Ah, the characters...
Let's start with the main character, Ganta Igarashi: whiny, without being particularly understandable or humane in his choices, obnoxious, illogical and very, very transparent. His actions are all dictated by the plot, not by the personality of the character.
Paradoxically the co-protagonists, Shiro and Yoh, result much more incisive because, in a certain way, both of them seem to "follow" the role of Ganta's dead friends, inducing the spectator to think that the boy will rebuild his life inside the prison with the strangest and morally ambiguous versions of his friends. Instead the character of Shiro seems to have been put as an assistant who appears in the moment of need to advance the story, while Yoh, although he is probably the most characterized and multifaceted character of the whole anime (he is a kleptomaniac who wants to free his sister, also locked up in the prison, buying his freedom with the money he steals...) after about five episodes will be defenestrated into oblivion.The rest of the characters are nothing but a jumble of muscle men, oversized policewomen, guys with super powers and characters that, once introduced, disappear in the great nothingness that is this anime (just think of the characters of Promoter Tamaki and the super-crazy monk).
The drawings and anatomies are well realised, the grotesque and sometimes disfigured faces are perfect for the setting in question.
It even deserves a 9 in this aspect
As far as the soundtrack is concerned, the opening and ending are very good (the dominant use of red in the opening introduces the viewer to the bloodstained world of Deadman Wonderland while the ending gives a feeling of almost unnatural calm and tranquility) while the OST is rubbish. The main theme is catchy only for the first part, while the rest doesn't remain impressed.
Furthermore, it can certainly be said that this anime manages to use splatter in a more than decent way, managing not to be ridiculous or annoying and at the same time entertain lovers of this genre very well.
The idea of the prison-amusement park was very original but the conclusion came in a flash, blocking a story that could have provided so much more backstory, a pity because such a plot, if well exploited, could have resulted in something of much higher quality.
It can be summed up by saying that Deadman Wonderland is a halfway successful anime, as if it were a stepping stone that entices you to read the manga.
The final mark is an average between the vote at the start (75) and the vote at the end (55).Dkcritizism64
55/100Ecco uno degli anime più tronchi ma divertenti che abbia vistoContinue on AniListDEADMAN WONDERLAND IL MIO NUOVO GUILTY PLEASURE Il pregiudizio nelle fasi precedenti all'approccio di quest'opera è assodato: prima sicuramente non sapevo, non sapevamo il motivo, ma quando l'anime è stato completato (di forma legale per una volta), almeno un tassello del puzzle in più si aggiunge a quel raccapricciante 2000 pezzi trovato nello scantinato. Se quest'anime dovesse trovare un paragone, il puzzle ci andrebbe anche bene, oltremodo un puzzle storto è incompleto, con qualche tassello rotto a furia di esser stato incastrato con pezzi non corrispondenti a quello, un puzzle concepito per giovani adulti, da alcune centinaia di pezzi, ma svolto da un bambino, incompetente e impaziente.
Ragionando su questa divagazione potremmo fare un collegamento: pensiamo al puzzle come si era detto come al prodotto finito, al bambino come ai produttori, ai tasselli rotti come a ogni singola lacuna dell'anime: in breve, questo è un anime non finito, con una storia molto sintetizzata solo per spaziare argomenti e personaggi tra i quali alcuni sembrano inutili, con il difetto di non spiegare il plot più importante della storia: io mi terrò appunto legato al dito il fatto che Shiro non si sia mostrata per quella che è, una yandere schizzata che dalla metà della serie identifichiamo come Wretched Egg o l'uomo rosso, un super plot che avrebbe rinfrescato le parti finali dell'anime essendo lei la responsabile della morte dell'intera classe di Ganta (un plot che probabilmente avrebbero risolto con "okei Shiro...anyway"), soffermandomi da un altro lato sull'aspetto trash, che viene composto da una innocenza nella scrittura e dall'abuso di sconquassamenti di corpi umani, posso dire che mi ha parzialmente preso, anche per un eccessiva quantità di personaggi etichetta (cattivo/pazzo/ingenuo/ingenuo ma pazzo), resi in modo macchiavellico per intendere un certo senso di tossicità e follia all'interno del carcere, elemento in cui si svolgono le vicende, il bellissimo deadman wonderland, con una struttura a circo che avrebbe dovuto far divertire i turisti facendo morire i prigionieri (a volte nemmeno condannati a morte) con giochi all'altezza di squid game o un qualsiasi survival horror sotto oppioidi.la citazione ad arancia meccanica usata a caso per ferire i miei sentimenti da fake-cinefilo
Il motivo per cui ho detto all'inizio che questo è uno dei miei pochi guilty pleasure è dato dal fatto che dopo un inizio che non ho trovato interessante, ho avuto l'illusione di un espansione di quella suddetta lore del circo: tanti complotti, tanti personaggi, tante belle frasi; ma resta appunto un illusione, questo è un prologo per me, non presenta quindi nulla di chiaro, il protagonista Ganta non riesce ad avere un finale degno ne come personaggio shonen, che da inetto passa a diventare dominatore del sangue a tutto campo (alla fine riesce a fare una cosa figa ma non capiamo come ci riesce ne perché ci riesce anche Shiro) ne come personaggio che vuole riconciliarsi ed è in cerca di libertà, pare appunto aver accettato questa vita insieme ai suoi nuovi amici e Shiro l'omicida, che mi è sembrata un personaggio talmente vago e mal scritto, per quanto potenzialmente intrigante. Poi se devo parlare del miglior personaggio credo che Senji meriti questa posizione, anche se come ogni comprimario, resta molto annebbiata la sua caratterizzazione e per quanto sia bello creare un aria misteriosa, ogni tanto sapere un pò di più semplifica la nostra empatia verso un personaggio, e qui l'empatia non si può provare a meno che non viene confusa con la compassione, quella che sentiamo ogni volta che quell'imbecille di un Ganta deve far capire a tutti quanto è insignificante e debole o quando quel buono d'animo di Nagi impazzisce del tutto perché si ricorda che sua moglie è deceduta, ma poi dopo aver sterminato ogni forma di vita dentro una stanza capisce che comunque dentro il circo ha trovato un amica da difendere: qui la compassione la provi per gli sceneggiatori, e per carità, non sempre ci sono brutti dialoghi, o meglio, monologhi: le motivazioni che spingono alcuni personaggi a compiere determinati gesti sono okei (altri semplicemente non lo scopriremo mai perché si sono ridotti così), Ganta all'inizio per esempio manifestava un senso di colpa sottile nei confronti dei suoi compagni e doveva ripeterselo di non essere colpevole per non dimenticare la sua innocenza, poi però personaggi come il villain Tamaki sono solo dei bastardi edgelord in cerca di casini, ma per quale motivo?. Nell'ambito visivo i disegni simil-eureka seven sono buoni alle volte, poi ci sono fish-eye pazzerelli e la magia finisce, ma in generale non si tratta di una brutta scelta stilistica e la regia funziona, anche se in un luogo così buio e poco strutturato come l'interno del circo fare una buona animazione nei combattimenti è il minimo sindacale.
Il difetto principale di Deadman Wonderland quindi per farla breve è l'assurdità con cui la sceneggiatura deve farci bere delle cose; la sospensione dell'incredulità viene rotta costantemente e io mi sono sentito stupido guardando questo anime, ma tralasciando questo e rimanendo nel chilling citando un saggio, può essere un ottimo anime da guardare in compagnia e da perculare nel mentre, non lo consiglio per chi cerca un horror serio, ma se volete del gore "censurato benino" e non con i fasci divini, dategli un occhiata.
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