Deadman Wonderland

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Alternatives: Japanese: デッドマン・ワンダーランド
Author: Kondou, Kazuma
Type: Manga
Volumes: 2
Chapters: 12
Status: Finished
Publish: 2011-04-28 to 2011-07-30

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Alternatives: Japanese: デッドマン・ワンダーランド
Author: Kondou, Kazuma
Type: Manga
Volumes: 2
Chapters: 12
Status: Finished
Publish: 2011-04-28 to 2011-07-30
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4.2
44 Votes
48.78%
36.59%
4.88%
7.32%
2.44%
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Summary
Light novel series based on the manga Deadman Wonderland.
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Deadman Wonderland review
by
Babarek15
Apr 02, 2021
Shocking and intriguing hook, great characters, disappointing Conclusion



Deadman wonderland is an interesting, dark, and action packed manga with great character interactions but... for some reason, maybey because my expectations were so high after waiting a year before starting this manga and finding the conclusion to this intriguing mystery, disappointing. As characters are being murder, tortured, exclude and rejected by everyone thanks to the red man and the branch of sin, the answers to all of this problems and to free them self from the branch of sin is.... friendship and love?., to not get into spoiler, the ending feel out of place, super cheesy/corny and fanservicy, not to mention alot of the misterys (correct me if im wrong or if i miss/misinterpreted something) such as the chorus box, the mother gooses system, the start of the deadman experiments and the speeding of the branch of sin crystals, were not explane well or were explane but with several more question/plot holes arising from them, making the end feel rush, anticlimactic, corny and in my honest opinion disappointing. Don't get me wrong i still enjoy it and would recommended it for the character development/interactions and the impressive and beautiful battles alone but if any of the aforementioned points would leave you unsatify/disappointed I would heavily recommended to stay away for this one, specially if you enjoy and finish the anime.... some mysterys are best left unanswered.
Deadman Wonderland review
by
ichigokichii15
Apr 02, 2021
Deadman wonderland, while not perfect, is a phenomenal manga. While I adore the show, the manga ultimately outshines it in quality and quantity, tying up the story and telling stories the anime never got to. If you enjoyed the show, then the manga will go beyond that.
It's worth noting that this series is not for everyone. If you dislike gore and the dark, gory genre of manga, this might not be your cup of tea.
Story: 8/10
In my opinion, the weakest point of the manga. At first, the whole thing feels rather cookie-cutter with the death games, but it does become better as it goes on (as I think is true with most things in this series).
Art:10/10
The art from this manga is something to return to over and over again. The way each branch of sin looks is unique and interesting, and many individual panels of a fight are absolutely awesome. The art during such fights is phenomenal, and something that really makes this series stand out. When there is no action happening, the artists play around with the character's expressions to give them a lot of personality. All of the character designs, while some (shiro) are initially jarring, are all very good and fit with the character.
Characters: 9/10
Ganta gets a lot of flak, but at the end of the day, he's a yound kid thrown into a nightmare scenario. What makes him special is his dedication to his friends and refusal to give up, no matter what. It's these traits that make him someone you can root for. The manga's continued story really helps allow him to grow as a character, because this manga gets better as it goes on. This category is where the show missed out a lot: in the manga, we get the awesome characters Chaplin, Idaki, and Azami, who never got to appear in the show. Chaplin in particular is worth reading for, as she's one of the best-written and most like-able transgender manga characters. All of the characters are flawed and broke, and it's because of this that they all are so great - nobody's perfect, and deadman wonderland knows this. Despite this, you can still sympathise with and love all of them, despite their flaws (or maybe because of them).
Enjoyment: 10/10
This is, of course, subjective, but I loved this manga. I had never read a manga sereis before (just watched anime), but the show's incomplete story led me to try and read it. Ultimately, the manga far outshines the show in almost every category, and is well worth your time.
Overall: 9/10
Not perfect, but a damn good manga and something that needs more attention.
Deadman Wonderland review
by
TheRealYato3
Apr 02, 2021
Okay so after binge-reading the whole series (literally my eyes started to burn by the afternoon), I finished Deadman Wonderland.
I haven't read many or any horror mangas to be honest, but I would assume this would be in my top 10. However, this manga is not for the faint of heart especially if you can't handle blood or gore.
As told above, you start with gore within the first chapter or two.


LIKES...
# It's beautifully drawn and with such precise detail it's awe worthy. But even saying so, don't go in thinking this is the most unique or best I've seen. To each their own.

# Typically most arts trying to incorporate horror, just stuff it to death with gore. This manga excelled in my opinion because it tried to deviate from the path by having a decent plot with many twists that I didn't expect to happen. The comedic relief helped this manga not just to move it along, but provide a break from the action and horror.

# Developments & backstories. You know what took me by surprise is the characters besides Ganta. Their character developments are bittersweet because they grow into better people, but you find out their tragic pasts that no one should go through :c Yet when they are put to the test, each character overcomes their pasts and then puts their best foot forward, striving to live a better life than the ones they were dealt with. Fanta also grows into a man (oh la la~?) with each passing chapter, and he is not even comparable to his character at the start of the manga.


DISLIKES....
# Revealing the I identity of the Red Man. This is not what ticked me off, but I feel they should have waited to reveal who it was for further in the manga. It made the big revelation for Ganta to be less savory. I would have loved to find out with Ganta, instead I could tell right from the beginning who it was.

# The ending....I feel cheated....Like WTF? It was an okay ending but honestly it felt like it was ended too quickly. And I don't know if it was me or what, but it seemed as if the last chapters were out of order. I honestly could not believe that it was over when it was over.
Deadman Wonderland review
by
Supersam14928
Apr 02, 2021
(just for the record, this is a slight alteration of my anime review)

Recipe: Take a third of Battle Royale, a third of Prison Break, and a third of Akira. Stir them in a bawl until the flavor is all gone and add lots of bad storytelling around the plate it is served upon. The result is Deadman Wonderland. Or as I prefer to call it, BrainDeadman COCOland; a completely unrealistic and chaotic show, with lots of gore thrown in to attract the casual viewers with superficial entertainment. Everything is made to be as much exaggerated as possible with violence overblown forced drama in an attempt to make it look special. It can work if you shut off your brain and expect to see nothing more than gore and unexpected plotlines because of the completely chaotic nature. If you are otherwise looking for some consistency, originality, reasoning, and other elite / snobby / culturistic stuff, you are watching the wrong show.

DW is the story of a boy being accused wrongfully to be a mass murderer and being sentenced to prison. Albeit not any prison but an amusement park where the inmates fight in various death games for the entertainment of the populace and where everybody is dressed as a silly plushy animal. There, the boy needs to find a way to survive the games as well as discover the real murderer, who seems to be an inmate in the same prison. He gains psionic powers (queue for the typical hidden dark superpower of every shonen lead) and needs to train in order to survive in prison, avenge the death of his friends, and prove his innocence.
- The premise sounds a lot better than the actual plot; if the show was taking itself seriously we would have an interesting action/survival/mystery story on our hands but instead of that we get a random line of events that are purely coo-coo entertainment.
- Unlike most manga, pacing is not an issue; each chapter provides lots of progress and revelations, and the action is generally interesting, for being too gory or exaggerated. At the same time pacing is not good as many things are going by in a few minutes, which makes all character development to feel rushed and forced.
- Storytelling is terrible. You constantly see people talking or looking at very scary or dramatic events and don’t react for several minutes, even when they are full of anger or terror. You also see how the plot is random, as elements are introduced without any sort of foreshadowing.

Artwork is ok although all the focus in given to gore and even that is occasionally not that great; I have seen far more in other manga.
- The prison/amusement park may feel quite memorable to most but it’s otherwise not something that makes sense in the way it is run; you are again not supposed to think about it much.
- The characters do not look memorable in any way, nor do their special attacks; a thing that makes them very forgettable next to the setting. It makes you care more about the gore than the people experiencing it, which is a sign of lazy storytelling in my book.

The characters are practically all stupid or crazy. It is a matter of personal taste if you get to like them and I just hate them. Being crazy and being an idiot are two different things and having both in the same package does not look good without proper handling.
- For example, Ganta the lead boy, is the average low intelligence, high ideals shonen lead. There is absolutely nothing special about him and could easily be replaced with any other protagonist from any other shonen show. It is not a good thing to be indifferent about the protagonist in a show full of gore and mystery and yet he feels completely out of place with his positive childish attitude. And he is so stupid, he falls for the simplest tricks, yet he performs a comeback with equally retarded straightforward attacks, which again make him look bad and a constant winner only because the scriptwriter feels like it. What is even more inconsistent is how he is unable to grasp the most basic facts yet he learns new supermoves in just a few minutes.
- Then there is his best friend Shiro. She is nothing but a super positive girl with an IQ of a monkey stereotype. Her behavior makes no sense and she is there only to eat bread and help Ganta with her antiques. She is way too genki and stupid for my tastes; I mostly see her as fan service because of that really reveling uniform of hers. You also eventually see that she has no free will of her own; she is just there as a cheap plot devise for the story to unravel anyway the scriptwriter wants. I mean she appears and disappears anytime she feels like it and nobody questions how easily she enters dangerous places or why she is even NEXT to them in the first place.
- The warden is above the law no matter how far fetched his actions are. He is some sort of a generic villain, a power crazy maniac who organizes death games for the people outside the prison and even conducts inhuman experiments in order to harness some weird psionic power centered in a red jewel in the chest of his human guinea pigs. Guess what, Ganta is one of them. He is just there as an untouchable asshole and nothing more; he completely lacks depth or sympathy from the viewer.
- The same thing expands to the rest of the minor characters; they are all stereotypes, crazy and stupid, with hardly enough immersion to care about. I personally don’t give a dime about them or their so-called drama. And guess what, all development the secondary cast receives, is to begin as adversaries to Ganta and as soon as he defeats them, they immediately become his buddies. Don’t have illusions about the cast; despite the occasional insanity and gore, everybody is shonen stock characters all the way.

The thing which eventually ruins the show is that everything is completely random.
- Amusement parks featuring death games for families to go watch while eating popcorn? Sure, why not? Let the kids watch as well; it is very amusing.
- A warden who can do anything he likes and nobody questions him? Why of course, let him blow a school bus in daylight, then get some tickets from him, go to his prison and see people being butchered while eating pop corn.
- A prison where the inmates are allowed to leave their cells and go anywhere they like? Why of course. What is that you say? Everybody is wearing explosive collars in their necks that blow up if they do something bad? Sure, that was very helpful when dozens of prisoners rebelled. Candy drugs that are supposed to addict the inmates to them as means of control? Yes, again very helpful for the dozens of rebels. Special armored prison guards that negate the inmates’ superpowers? Very helpful, until they learn how easily they can negate the negation. Psychotic inmates being used as prison control squads? Ingenious; especially for killing your own prison guards. And why are there rebel teams in the first place anyway? Nice prison security you have there warden. How about a drug or some machine that keep them at bay INTERNALLY?
- Where are the relatives of the hundreds of people that are constantly being killed making some sort of protest? Oh that’s right, they are eating popcorn and watch their loved ones being killed in an amusement park.
- Why isn’t anyone questioning Shiro for her weird appearance, how she pops out of nowhere or most of the time not even noticing her passing by them?
I can keep asking whys and the answer never comes because the show is BrainDeadman; everything is running on Idiot’s Plot.

Not even the action is that great to deem the show worthy of watching just for that. The battles and the games are more silly than exciting; they have very little choreography and very basic strategy. They follow the typical shonen fuss of the hero losing badly, getting up full of resolve and performing a move that gives him the upper hand, followed by some lame morality monologue around friendship and justice. And for some reason he is never hacked to pieces with attacks that turn other minor characters to beef jerky. As for the people he is fighting, they too are idiots for not finishing the duel with their ultimate attack right away and just waste time in gloating. When later on they use those very same ultimate attacks to save Ganta and claim they always were so powerful. Plain ass-pulling if you ask me.

After the fuzz from the initial shock of you being thrown in a setting where people go to watch inmates being dissected in an amusement park goes away, chances are you are left with nothing else to care about. It is nothing but retarded violence, forced drama and random script, around people you don’t give a damn about. DW is a very superficial and chaotic show that doesn’t have any redeeming qualities. Even the gore scenes are ruined by a lot of silly humor and shonen archetypes that water down the feeling of dread. For all the above reasons, this manga is not recommended at all.
Deadman Wonderland review
by
elchibi10
Apr 02, 2021
10 years after a large, but really big earthquake in Japan (and this story was created before the earthquake there) the country is rebuilt, and one of the measures for this is the construction of a prison: Deadman Wonderland.

Deadman Wonderland is not a simple manga, created by Jinsei Kataoka and Kazuma Kondou, who also wrote the manga Eureka Seven. It tells the story of Ganta Igarashi, a young man who sees all his friends being killed by a man dressed in red who is flying out the window, is guilty of murder and ends up in Deadman Wonderland in prison.

Deadman Wonderland is not just a prison, it was made to look like a macabre amusement park where prisoners would be the main attraction, every day would attractions such as racing, wrestling and others to meet the wishes of blood from viewers, who think all just a show. As the name implies, the prison has only sentenced prisoners to death, and to ensure the good condition inside there are some rules:

- At least every three days an inmate should eat something they call "Sweet", a small antidote to a poison that is injected via mechanical collars, if not make them die.

- Win the race, or even survive, gives you credits, which are almost a money inside the prison, with that you can buy almost anything, indicate that you can also buy their freedom for a very high price.

Life in this prison would not be so easy, add it to discover that you have a strange power, you control your own blood, in the case of Ganta he shoots bullets blood. Thus it becomes an aberration and is mistreated. But there is that the manga begins, then we go to the secret section of the prison, where the Carnival Corpse (I do not short the rendering "Bodies Carnival") happens, the battle of the real Deadman, people infected with Sin Branch (this I agree to Branch of Sin) which is the ability to control the blood, but in each it happens differently.

In terms of powers is one thing I like is that, although not a Sci-Fy, they try to explain what happens and effects of powers. The Ganta to shoot is very anemic from lack of blood, one makes a glove of blood that is hard because of the carbon ... and so on, some explanations are somewhat fanciful, but within THEM logic makes sense.

The traces do not bother or are messy, but I also do not think genius, there manga with better features out there (Blade of the Immortal say so) but does not hurt, I saw people saying out there that would not read by do not like the dash, as I've seen talking about One-Piece and Berserk. But it should be noted, there are violent images, are not heavy gore, full of guts as Berserk, yet have heavier scenes.

The plot follows Ganta learning to use the power and having a series of crises, although the main character I can not really like it, it's very full of mimimi and many crises wonder, is like a person who likes to suffer You're welcome. Okay, it's a teenager, but still there are certain hours that it's annoying drama it is for nothing. But after the crisis, you see what's really behind Deadman Wonderland, which technically originated the branch of sin, who is the Wretched Egg (I do not know if it's Wretched Egg was called in translation) and other great mysteries that world there, including earthquake. For all who are infected with the branch of sin has a significant history with the quake.

What about characters, although the main leave to be desired have a range of much better characters and fun, starting with Shiro, who is a crazy girl who technically does not hurt and is simply happy. Senji which is the Cool Guy manga and meets VERY well that role, and even a call Drag Masaru. The secondary characters are more worthwhile and are better than the main character, but the ladder they do for Ganta ends up working very well.

In the end, Deadman Wonderland is a median trace of manga, with a great story that ends up surprising, good minor characters and an excellent plot with mysteries and twists that does not fall short. And a manga without courage to try betting on epicidade and get some profit that. For those who like a story a bit darker, it's worth.
Deadman Wonderland review
by
uranx6
Apr 02, 2021
Esse é meu primeiro review, e escolhi fazê-lo desta estória por quanto a amei.

Pois então, o que dizer sobre Deadman Wonderland?

Possivelmente a melhor história que já li.
Pois esta, em seus 13 volumes, conseguiu me deixar triste, feliz, enjoada, enojada, irritada (com certos personagens), serena, encorajada, esperançosa e com sentimento de amor honesto e latente no coração. Sem nem ao menos saber exatamente do que se tratava e sem nenhuma pretensão do que acharia no fim de tudo, comecei a ler este maravilhoso mangá. Onde o início já te dá facadas, uma atrás da outra, te deixando perdido na história e se perguntando What the hell is going on? e bem antes de chegar na metade (onde você já estaria cogitando abandonar a leitura), você percebe estar completamente envolto em seu conteúdo e querendo respostas a tantas perguntas que o mesmo traz.

Porém, já na segunda metade você terá seu coração dilacerado com tantos tiros que recebeu desde o início e se encontra com opiniões adversas e divididas. Para no final de tudo apenas perceber que você verdadeiramente nunca soube o que é o significado da frase "O amor e o ódio andam lado a lado". E que, há paz e esperança quando se encontra uma luz e uma razão para viver (e que existem vários tipos de vida). Bem quando você terminar, tudo ao seu redor nunca terá tanto sentido ou deixará de ter.

E então, a pergunta: O pica-pau ficou feliz?

Porém fica o aviso:
- se você tem um estômago frágil ou se enjoa Fácil, não recomendo a leitura deste mangá.


Desculpa pelo tamanho Y.Y
Deadman Wonderland review
by
MondoX1
Apr 02, 2021
First Manga I ever read, and now I'm starting to read manga, because Deadman Wonderland's anime was very incomplete, even though I loved the concept, and so I had the read the manga to get the answers I needed. And you should do the same.

So, a unique prison in Japan called Deadman Wonderland was built after an incident which involved an Earthquake. In this establishment, prisoners are in death row, getting slowly poisoned for 3 days and end up dying. However they can participate in circus like and entertaining events to an ignorant public from the outside world, thinking they are just "pretending" deaths. Igarashi Ganta, accused from mass murder of his classmates ends up there and meets Shiro and other characters that may help him on getting stronger, escape from the prison, claim his innocence, get revenge from the "Red Man" (the one who killed his classmates) and later with a group of characters, revealing to the public what is really going on. Some of the prisoners have special powers called "Branches of Sin". Those who have these powers are called Deadman.

The story is quite good, I really enjoyed the slow process trough chapters and explaining what could happen inside DW. When I ended up discovering more and more and unraveling more mysteries, the story gets even more interesting and I ended up reading a lot until I got to the final chapter. When a story sometimes "gets you" by surprise and ends up making your reaction being something like "Wooooooow!", then it probably is a good story.

I don't have deep arguments when it comes to manga art, since this is the first manga I have seriously read, but I quite like it, and in my opinion, it is well done, I easily understood what was going on in action scenes. I also loved the circus-like design from the prison, the bloody moments and the characters which are well made, speaking of which, Crow makes me remember of Bleach's Zaraki (xD).

Anyhow, about the characters, Shiro ends up to be more interesting than Ganta, in my opinion, because Ganta is that typical protagonist guy who wants to get stronger for a reason, and in reality, he is a weak guy. He ends up just getting very lucky for his "Branch of Sin" having something different, that's all, because he has no battle experience. It's somehow understandable that he tries to save and protect everyone (typical atitude of a protagonist too) and sometimes he ends up making decisions that brings bad consequences, but sometimes it gets a little tiring. Shiro ends up being more interesting because, despite of the sweet girl personality, quite early in the manga, you quickly understand she has "another mask", and finding out what's going on with her is just amazing. As the other characters, they are quite unique within the manga, and you end up learning about their pasts and the reason they ended up in jail and the way they somehow deal with their past thoughts. Gotta love each one's personality and traits. As I went further into the story, their importance gets even higher and I ended up loving them even more.

To sum it up, if you are one of those DW fans who got frustrated with the anime version, then read this manga, it is way better. If you are one those guys who love action, blood and also some mystery, read it too. The anime is asking for a 2nd season but since the answer is right here, at the manga chapters, I don't consider it necessary anymore. As you can see, most people made positive reviews about this manga, so it's probably worth it for you.
Deadman Wonderland review
by
TrulyAJ11
Apr 02, 2021
Deadman Wonderland definitely isn't the best manga of all time, but it isn't anything bad either. Deadman Wonderland is a manga that has an interesting concept. The characters in Deadman Wonderland can attack using their own blood, it sounds really simple at first. It's been demonstrated in several other series before Deadman Wonderland, but Deadman Wonderland is different.

In Deadman Wonderland, the main character, Igarashi Ganta is framed for killing all his friends in the classroom, because he was the only one alive. At that moment, the real person who killed his friends, struck a Red Diamond into his chest, causing him to become a Deadman. After being framed for killing his friends, Ganta is sent to a prison called Deadman Wonderland, which is where the name of the series comes from; the prison.

But this isn't any normal prison. This prison is to gather Deadmen from around the world and keep them in prison. They pretty much just gather Deadmen and pop 'em in the prison, I don't really think the Deadmen done anything wrong. But, other than that, the prison is normal, with normal prisoners. Once in a while, the prison has this thing called the 'Carnival Corpse' where two Deadmen fight until one is unable to fight or is killed. The winner of the fight wins prize money and the loser has one of their body parts taken off.

Ganta gathers friends to help get out of Deadman Wonderland and destroy the owner of it, or rather, kill the owner of it. The owner of the prison is Tamaki, a guy with glasses. That's my best description for him. For him being a villain, I actually quite enjoyed Tamaki's presence. Most of the manga revolved around the prison, and I don't think the manga would of been what it is if Tamaki wasn't in it. That's probably just me, but I think Tamaki was a great villain.

The art style for the manga was pretty good. The people who created this manga are Kataoka Jinsei and Kondo Kazuma, and they're both amazing. I never actually thought that it was created by two people, I always thought the series was only created by Kataoka Jinsei. But, suddenly learning that it was also created by Kondo Kazuma is cool I guess.

The characters are something, alright. I especially like one of the characters, Takami Minatsuki, she's probably my favourite in the entire series. But, other than Minatsuki, there are a lot of other good characters to mention. The characters had good development, but some of the characters designs were, what can I say? A bit odd, I guess.

The character design for the transgender character Chaplin Sukegawa was weird at first, but I ended up getting used to it. Chaplin Sukegawa was probably in the list of my top 10 Deadman Wonderland characters, after hearing his backstory. As I said, the characters in this series seem to have good development, but I don't know if that's with every character.

Idaki Hitara is an old man who is also a Deadman who we are told hasn't slept for around 30 years. He speaks to his daughter through his mind or something, I'm not that sure, but he does speak to his daughter. We soon learn something that shocked even me, but it is spoilers so I will not include it in here.

Sakigami Toto is my favourite Deadman Wonderland character, also one of my favourite villains. Toto starts out to be just a normal Deadman in the prison, but ends up being one of the main antagonists of the series. But, that doesn't stop how fab he is. Toto looks amazing, the name sounds amazing and he is amazing. I don't even know. He's just a great character, and he has a bit of development, but not a lot.

Kiyomasa Senji is the first Deadman other than Ganta that we meet in the series, which you now wonder why I didn't mention him first. Ganta thought at first that Senji was the "Red Man" which is the person who killed his friends. But, Ganta noticed that the smile from the "Red Man" and Senji were different, even if only by a bit. Senji teaches Ganta how to use his Branch of Sin properly, and becomes one of Ganta's friends after the Carnival Corpse.

Takami Yoh is the brother of Minatsuki. He's the only main character who isn't actually a Deadman, but he's still a good character. He cares rather deeply for Minatsuki, and would do anything to protect her and get her out of prison. I like how this character developed through the series, by getting smarter and learning how to do things easier.

Tsunenaga Tamaki is the first antagonist of Deadman Wonderland, who is the owner of the prison Deadman Wonderland. He likes to experiment on things, and he likes to view things just as a 'game'. I believe he is the one who originally created the Carnival Corpse to get body parts out of Deadmen and to experiment on them. He has an 'okay' development, but it isn't as great as someone like Ganta...

... and finally, Igarashi Ganta, I've mentioned the main-ish characters and just some Deadmen, but here's the good part. Igarashi Ganta starts off as a normal kid, who through some circumstances, has his friends killed, and turns into a Deadman. He starts off rather weak, but throughout the series, he develops a lot and becomes quite strong. Ganta's development is my favourite out of the manga series, and nothing can beat it, in my opinion.

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Let's speak about the arcs of the series. The series starts off with the 'Prison' arc which isn't anything special. But, it introduces the characters and it introduces you, yourself to the series. I'd give the Prison arc a 6/10.

The second arc in the series, the Deadman arc, introduces the Carnival Corpse into the series, which makes things a lot more interesting. The Deadman arc is also where you meet Senji, and it's where Ganta has his first win in the Carnival Corpse, quite obviously. I give the Deadman arc a 7/10

The third arc in the series, the Scar Chain arc is one of the bigger arcs. The Scar Chain arc is the arc where Ganta and his friends attempt to escape Deadman Wonderland and kill the undertaker, Genkaku Azuma. Genkaku is a pretty cool character, and other characters are also introduced, and I like each one of them. The arc shows off a couple of abilities from other Deadmen and Ganta gets a bit stronger this arc. I give the Scar Chain arc a 8/10.

The fourth arc in the series, called the Forgeries arc, is quite weird and it's well, weird. Tamaki creates Forgeries and shit, which are like Deadmen with masks that have overwhelming strength. But, Ganta and his friends find someway around it and try to get the masks off of the forgeries, so they can become normal people again. I give the Forgeries arc a 7/10.

The fifth arc in the series is called the Revolt arc. This arc starts off with Tamaki asking Ganta to help him kill the Wretched Egg "Red Man". Ganta refuses and he gets out of the room with Tamaki encountering more Forgeries. Well, he finds a way around the forgeries and gets out of there. After getting outside, Ganta learns who the true Wretched Egg is and the prison gets blown up. I give the arc a 9/10.

The final arc in the series, the Return to Deadman Wonderland arc, is a fantastic arc. It is amazing. I don't have much words to describe the arc. Simply, the characters return to Deadman Wonderland after the events of the Revolt arc to finally put an end to the true founder of Deadman Wonderland, and the Wretched Egg itself. It's quite a ride. I give the arc a 10/10, being my favourite arc in the series. Also the last one.

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I enjoyed this series quite a lot, only finishing it in 4 days. I could of finished it quicker, but I had other things to do and I also didn't want to finish it as fast as possible. The series was quite an interesting one, and it has become one of my favourites. But, as I say, favourites do not have to be rated 10. That is one of my rules; my favourites do not have to be rated 10.

Overall, besides rating the last arc 10/10, that doesn't matter, I still give the series a 9/10. This series had it's flaws and it wasn't the best series ever created, but I still love it. It is still in my favourites, and I haven't read much manga. But, this will be in my favourites for a while until I read a bit more manga, and then it might retreat out of my favourites.
Deadman Wonderland review
by
ramenkitten8
Apr 02, 2021
WARNING:MINOR SPOILERS BELOW

This gets 1/10 solely for the art alone.

Why? Let me explain:

Character development is nonexistant, backstories are not enough if the author truly wanted to write solid characters. Plus all of these backstories are incredibly boring and cliche. It seems that the author wanted to write badass characters without giving them any depth.

Action scenes were hard to follow. Seriously, the art is good, but the action and direction can be awful sometimes. Character designs are so so, but when I saw a killer loli with a gothic monk I cringed. Plus again, the author with his designs tries too hard to make everyone look cool and badass.

The story is so random. It seems that the author wrote the story as he went along. Prison guard suddenly became an ex-mercanary badass and prison chief is revealed to be an ex-hikikimori who just wanted revenge against someone who destroyed his PC. The ending was dissappointing since none of the characters were likable at all.

Shonen tropes. OMG, these shonen tropes, sometimes this manga was so stupid that I considered giving it up. It's on the same level as Bleach. In fact it's worse than the first 20 volumes of Bleach which were quite good.

Irrelevant side characters who do not contribute to the plot. i.e Yosuga and Toto Sakagami.

The reason why people rate it so high is because they decided to check the manga after the cliffhanger, so for some it's their first and the only manga they have ever read.

Despite all blood and gore, the quality of this manga is disastrous , however if you are a newcomer this will be a treat for you since you will have much lower standards than me.

I give it SHOUNEN-SHIT SEAL OF DISAPPROVAL.

Want a good shounen?

Read something like Shokugeki no Souma. Personally I found this manga a waste of time and it's dumb, but I won't deny that it's entertaining if you haven't read any manga in your life.
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