sim38 - 2013-08-09 02:06:53

Booooooooooooooooooom headshot, now all your friends are dead and you go to prison because everyone believe you killed them. That is the first episode. The action starting without any hesitation. A bloody massacre as start for a very mad and violent anime.

The crazy world of Deadman Wonderland is supported by thrilling sounds and nice animation. Many charackters are very,very insane and mad! But they didn´t overextend it(irony ;)).

This anime is not for the slice of life fans, who want real life reflected in anime. This is for people who like watching crazy shit and action fights. You can enjoy Deadman Wonderland if you don´t need authentic story and prefer gripping mad happenings.

By the way open ending, but it doesn´t care because the story is not what is fascenating you about Deadman Wonderland.

carolyn.hand - 2013-07-30 16:10:15

Well I'm not sure what to say about his anime, don't get me wrong i think it was pretty good but there were some disappointing points I will try not to state for the reason of spoilers.

Story:

The story I think was well crafted with suspense and mystery surrounding the whole plot line putting questions in my mind like "Who is Shiro really?" or "What is this lullaby that keeps what sounds like a alternate ego to Shiro?"

Animation:

The animation well I can't really say because I am not a expert on this and can not pick out minor details and all but from a viewers perspective it was great. The bruising of the characters looked great the blood and gore the blood attacks they all really draw you in.

Sound:

The sound track was okay but could improve in some areas and though I only watched it in dub I believe that the actors for Shiro and Ganta did excellent jobs making Shiro sound like a really cheerful 10 year old and Ganta sound like a traumatized boy right at the beginning and make him sound like he gains a small amount of confidence by the end.

Characters:

Over time more and more characters come into the story with characters with a obvious motive like Crow or mysterious others like Mocking bird for example. Throughout the anime there are many different personalities with tiny tiny amounts of character development here and there.

Enjoyment:

I very much enjoyed this anime in all aspects and though may make it sound like I'm complaining about things above I'm really not because this was a really good anime i have watched. The factors of the plot line slow introduction of characters development of Ganta's powers and plot twist all boosted how much I enjoyed this anime.

Recommendation:

I would recommend this anime to any one who is looking for an action anime that is shrouded by mystery, THOUGH also be warned this anime is intended for older audiences.

marjolaine.weimann - 2013-07-24 08:58:25

Deadman Wonderland. Some people are terming it "The most gory anime of 2011" , well I may have to agree. It's got gore, but is that what it's relying upon to be anything better than just an average Anime?Deadman Wonderland starts off with Ganta Igarashi, just a normal schoolboy...until his entire class is killed by a mysterious power wielded by the antagonist later known as the Red man. Ganta is pinned for the murder by ridiculous "evidence" and is thrown into Japan's first, privately owned prison, Deadman Wonderland. In prison, Ganta learns that he now wields the mysterious "blood power" (branches of sin) and he will be forced to fight against other users, and compete in brutal, childish games to survive.The story isn't bad. For the most part it kept me interested and staying on to the next episode. The story does, however, try to be serious and fails because the world encompassing it is so silly. I do feel that it is pandering to a demographic that craves excessive gore, but it is not so amazing as to be what keeps viewers coming back. It's been done better in Hellsing, Elfen lied and even Highschool of the Dead.The character designs are probably the main point of what diversifies it, art-wise, from other Anime's. I, personally, don't care much for the look of the characters.As for sound. Deadman Wonderland does have some ominous backing tracks which helps to bring out the full potential of various scenes in the series. The opening is rather interesting as well. The voice acting is your typical deal, nothing special. I do feel that Hanazawa Kana was a lot better in Angel Beats! as Kanade than Shiro in this series.Character development was where the series fell quite short for me. The protagonist Ganta is weak, pathetic and generally just a pain to listen to. He gets down on himself, he is a hindrance to the other characters. This is all well and good, but these are the cliché characteristics of a generic archetype and are suppose to be developed away from. The series loses touch and scenes where Ganta actually does something mildly heroic are too little, too late. I just couldn't relate to Ganta and that is the main reason Deadman Wonderland fell down for me.If you are looking for mindless gore this isn't a bad series for it and all in all, its okay.P.S: Telling from the ending this series had, this is definitely going to get another season.

yrunolfsson - 2013-07-06 14:04:49

The review is on my youtube channel in the link or on my hummingbird page.

Thanks

-animebox

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-vneKf8SOU

fritsch.dora - 2013-06-29 02:36:39

Deadman Wonderland is a a series that showed a lot of promise after a couple of episodes, but ultimately falls to the 12 episode only bug. While the series has an interesting concept, and a great deal of shock value, it falls flat on execution. Our story involves around Ganta, a typically middle school kid who is framed for the murder of his classmates, who were really killed by what he refers to as "The Red Man". He gets sent to a private prison known as "Deadman Wonderland", which is more like a gladiator holding place than a prison. His goal is to find the Red Man and kill him. Oh, he also gets this weird blood power which allows him to use his own blood as a weapon. The main issue with the show are the characters. Ganta is a kid in a brutal world, but he does not show any real growth at all. Shiro on the other hand is more like a flaw to Deadman Wonderland itself. Her upbeat and rather innocent personality almost represents hope in the show.Besides Ganta and Shiro there are not many characters worth mentioning. Crow, is probably the coolest character in the show, but only gets a side character spot. Another problem is that the pacing seems off. There are a few pick me up moments near the start of the show where the viewer can latch onto and think there's hope, but those are totally gone as the show progresses and it basically turns into a suffering with the main character ordeal. On top of this, the closing episodes reveal several things that are never resolved (but does leave room for a second season)The art and sound are good. Maybe not the greatest ever, but not distracting at all. Voice acting is fine too, I can't really think of a character whose voice annoyed me. There is one character, Mockingbird, whose voice is questionable, but you only see him a few times. This is a series that will probably hook you after the first couple of episodes and drag you into it and then you'll be more or less obliged to complete it. Deadman wonderland is not a terrible show, but offers little in the way of substance. It's just lifeless.

wunsch.meaghan - 2013-06-26 00:04:04

Watching Deadman Wonderland on Adult Swim, I must warn you before you read this that I unfortunately missed about 2 episodes it seems. However, having seen the last episode and most others, I must say that this show is very enjoyable, however it has many problems. The plot is very broken. Very little is explained in great detail, and there are a lot of questions that the viewer may bring up that are never answered. The plot itself seems good, but so many unanswered questions and the speed at which it moves along makes it hard to say this is a great show. It's ending leaves a HUGE opening for more, and seems like its not really an ending. The last episode was a great episode, but it doesn't really feel like an ending. This show would be better if it didn't feel so rushed and didn't end abruptly. That said, this show is very enjoyable. Good music, nice action, and a decent story really help this show. The action, while good, often makes things too easy, as whenever the main character, Ganta, gets into trouble and is about to lose/die, he suddenly becomes tough and wins the fight at the last minute, surviving and moving forward. The show has some cool characters, however many of them are psychopaths, however this is to be expected in a prison for those sentenced to death. The show is very rewatchable, and I'd gladly buy it. Please note though: This show is not for children. It contains a lot of harsh content, especially strong language and blood and gore. Still, overall, a good show. I recommend watching it.

georgianna36 - 2013-06-08 02:14:12

I finished Deadman Wonderland yesterday, and I enjoyed it very much. So I decided to write this small review, in order to convince some people to watch this.Story (9) - The story is about a high-school student, Igarashi Ganta, whose friends get murdered by a Man In Red. Ganta ends up being blamed by the murder, and he gets sent to a special prision - Deadman Wonderland. But this prision is no normal prision, if you don´t eat a special candy every 3 days, you die by a poison that is connected to a device they put on your neck. Ganta will find more about his powers in his time there. Pretty good plot here.Art (8) - The art was good for the anime it was: a survival game. There´s not much else to say here, but I actually liked it.Sound (9) - A great opening, a decent ending and a superb OST. If you see the anime, there will be one OST that will always play on your mind when someone talks to you about Deadman Wonderland. You will know what that OST is when you finish the anime. The sound in this anime was great, and in the battle scenes the soundtracks were beautifully used.Character (8) - As they are in prision, and are forced to fight for their own survival, many characters end up losing their minds and going crazy. This almost happened to the main character, Ganta. He fights not only for himself, but for his friends aswell. His final goal was to leak information about the prison to the outside world. Shiro is the female main lead, and she saves Ganta many times during this short anime, although Ganta also saves her once. She is shown to have some kind of special power, but the anime ended before we could learn more about it. I like how they show some of their past together as the anime progresses. So overall, we have a nice team of main characters.Enjoyment (9) - As a survival game fan, I enjoyed this anime very much. The fights were awesome, I liked the main characters, and not even one episode was wasted, since there was always a fight in most episodes. The anime got even better after we learn about the Deadmen. Overall (9) - Well, I recommend this anime to any people who like survival games, it really is a unique anime with a great plot, and I ended up becoming a fan od the anime pretty fast. It was short, and it´s "incompleted" since the manga still goes on, but I have hopes that we see a second season someday, although thats not very likely.

qerdman - 2013-05-22 09:19:55

There was a trend back in the Good Old Days of anime (as in you only thought they were Good because you weren't Old enough to know any better) of hyper violent OVAs. Deadman Wonderland feels like a tread back to those days. It has the over-exaggerated violence, the ridiculous amounts of blood, the awkwardly crowbarred in sexiness and, most noticeably of all, it’s utterly shit.Time has changed a few little aspects though. The OVA market of old has turned into the late night 12 episode anime series of today. This means it has more space to tell a coherent and fulfilling story, a capability which Deadman Wonderland approaches by totally ignoring it. 12 episodes are enough to tell a neat story with a beginning, middle and end. It gets the beginning right, tossing our protagonist into a scenario in which society have become so totally ignorant of the prison sector, so that even when hell is being created right in front of their eyes, they think it’s an elaborate piece of CGI.However, upon reaching the 'middle' segment, Deadman Wonderland tosses that whole story aside and becomes about super powers. Instead of developing the characters introduced in the beginning, it decides to quadruple the size of the cast, each and every single one having a hastily constructed backstory introduced right in the middle of a fight to the death that ends up having either little or no relevance to the actual battle happening in the present day. Neither does Deadman Wonderland get the 'end' part right either. This is partly due to the fact this is an ongoing manga, but plenty of other adaptations of ongoing manga have managed to construct some sort of conclusion in their respective stories. Usually this is in the form of the main character growing and learning something (see Arakawa, Spice and Wolf or Genshiken), which Deadman Wonderland tries to do, but royally cocks up because the main character has fuck all personality.Yes, this is something else that comes with modernity. Instead of the macho men that spout 'witty' quips like they're in an American first person shooter game (that is, when they ever talk at all), Deadman Wonderland sports a bland spineless teenage boy as its main character. To be fair to Ganta, he does actually do something other than make reaction noises while other characters monologue exposition at him, as is the trend in certain other modern day anime. He reacts to situations by either whining, crying or sobbing. It really isn't much of a personality, as any bland male would react to the cartoonish level of hell that exists in that prison in a similar fashion, and he really has nothing beyond that. There is chance for him to grow into a hero, and Deadman Wonderland tried to do that. Other characters would spout lines as to how much he's grown a spine and standing up for himself, but I failed to see that myself. He started off as a crybaby who could shoot off magical blood bullets when he felt threatened. By the end, he was a crybaby who shot off magical blood bullets when he felt threatened, except this time he could shoot off his magical blood bullets even faster than before. That's not character development! That's like saying a character has developed because he is now slightly better at picking his nose. Another thing the late night 12 episode anime has changed from the hyper violent OVAs of old is, now that they're on TV, they need to be censored. I can't really criticise Deadman Wonderland for this though, which is a shame because it's a really easy target. The gun that shot black balls of censorship through people’s chests was one of the most unintentionally hilarious things I've seen all year. But if you were to watch the dvd release, the censorship would (presumably) be removed. It would be like criticising it for the screen being upside down because you watched it while standing on your head. It's not the anime's fault you watched it that way. But the fact that it needed the level of censorship it has tells us how much blood and gore there is. Often the gore has no point other than to show how sadistic the anime is. It's really just repulsive and juvenile, like a child who tries to show everyone what a big man he is by killing the class rabbit.Deadman Wonderland is like a modern day MD Geist. It's aggressively stupid and only appeals to those teenagers and manchildren who think sheer bloody mindedness is what is required to make something cool. People might defend this by saying a hyper violent anime is preferable to the insipid harem moe nonsense of the modern era, which is a load of cowpat. They are both as brainless as each other, just appealing to different sorts of immature mindsets. If you gave me a choice between Deadman Wonderland or, say, Fortune Arterial, I'd instead choose repeatedly slamming my fingers in a car door.

hailey.hartmann - 2013-05-18 10:39:35

Before the Spring 2011 season began, most of the talk seemed to revolve around "C" and "Deadman Wonderland". But all that talk died out pretty quickly, and by the time we were a few weeks into the new season, those two shows seem all but forgotten. I've not seen "C", but I can tell you that there's a good reason why "Deadman Wonderland" sunk so fast: bluntly put, it's a bit sh*t.The show is about the main protagonist Ganta's adventures in the world's only privately owned prison, Deadman Wonderland, a place where dark secrets resides and sadistic experiments and gladitorial style bloodsports takes place. Oh, and the "Deadman" in "Deadman Wonderland" refers to the special prisoners who have gained special powers that allow them to use their blood to do weirdass stuff like turn into blades. And of course, the shady dudes entertain themselves by making these special prisoners duel one another. The premises of the show is utterly preposterous. I know almost all anime require the viewer to suspend their disbelief to some extent, but "Deadman Wonderland" asks for way too much. Considering the inhumane things that goes on in Deadman Wonderland (the prison not the anime), it's a miracle that it's allowed to exist at all, privately owned or not. As if to mock the stupidity of the general public that exist in the show, Deadman Wonderland even openly flaunts its cruel treatment of prisoners. It does this through its facade... as a fricking THEME PARK in addition to being a prison, a theme park where the audience gets to see gory spectacles such as convicts running through dangerous gauntlets, with the less fortunate ones getting decapacitated and that kind of stuff. Believe it or not, it even has kids visiting on school trips. Everything the audience sees is real, but they get away with it because they tell the audience that it's NOT real. Cunning, eh? Yeah. Those gullible public... they'd believe anything you tell them, heh. Anyway, even ignoring the dubious practice of allowing school kids to see gory entertainment taking place in a prison (which would have real parents up in arms faster than you can say "Deadman Wonderland"), it's a miracle that they manage to fool anyone with the lame facade. So it's a miracle of titanic proportions then, that only the odd human rights group smells something fishy about Deadman Wonderland and comes along to protest occasionally outside their gates when they're bored. Even after you look beyond the crappy premises, the problems never stop appearing. A lot of them stems from the fact that the characters mostly possess astounding observational skills comparable to the blind, and phenomenal thinking skills comparable to the retarded. The result is that the size of plot holes to size of plot ratio is similar to the size of eyes to size of faces ratio of the moe girls in "Clannad", as well as "twists" that are executed so badly that you can see them coming at least an episode or two in advance. I could go on and on and on about the catastrophic failings of the story, but then this might end up as the longest review ever. Plus, I need to pace myself and save some sarcasm for the remainder of the review, so I better move on now."Deadman Wonderland" (the anime not the prison) gives off quite a strong "Elfen Lied" vibe with its appetite for mindless violence. A lot of the time the story feels like it's being driven by the need for more violence. In fact it is so graphical that they frequently do things like blur out a serious wound or make the screen annoyingly dark (so dark in fact, that you can't actually tell what's going on a lot of the time), presumably so that they'd be allowed to even broadcast it. This leads to some odd scenes such as rooms that were brightly lit only moments ago suddenly becoming very dark when the blood starts to fly. I was kind of expecting the ending to be like "Elfen Lied" too, but it's not ... because the show doesn't even HAVE an ending. It just kind of finished leaving about three quarters of the plot strands still hanging.Other similarities to "Elfen Lied" can also be found in the rather extreme, psychopathic characters, for whome we're apparently meant to feel sorry for after they show us a 5 minute "tragic" slideshow backstory that's complete horsesh*t. Given the characters in "Deadman Wonderland", you'd think the competition for "worst character" would be fierce - the painfully generic never-give-up type hero Ganta? The oh-so-original sadistic cute girl? The typical evil tyrant assistant warden? But no, the competition was blown away by the presence of one character, one who doesn't even need a hacked together backstory (mainly because they failed to explain it before the series finished) to win the "worst character" crown hands down. I am of course, talking about Shiro. Her character design is actually really cool, and was one of the things that attracted me to this series... and then she spoke, and things quickly went downhill from there. Perhaps the makers of "Deadman Wonderland" were trying to create the most irritating character ever, but I have a feeling that they were actually going for an "endearing little retard" type character, but accidentally ended up with "annoying little sh*t" instead. And how is it that hardly anyone found her presence to be strange as she wanders around the prison almost unopposed?!The only the thing that stops "Deadman Wonderland" from sinking without a trace is the great production values. Some of the bloody action scenes are vaguely exciting to watch, though others are pretty generic. Its horror aspect can also be quite effective... or at least it would have been if the silliness of the plot did not constantly undermine it. Aside from that, there's not much to see here. With its unreasonably senselss violence, unreasonably extreme characters and unreasonably bullsh*t story, the only fascinating thing about "Deadman Wonderland" is how it gets exponentially more stupid the more you think about it - it seems to contain stupidity within stupidity within stupidity. It's not every day you get to see such intricately recursive stupidity, and "Deadman Wonderland" pulls it off effortlessly.

cynthia67 - 2013-03-19 06:40:41

This anime isn't that bad.

Note: It's bad, it's just not THAT bad.

Some of the characters are interesting, like shiro, hummingbird, and crow, but it's an extremely shallow story.

Like really shallow.

The first episode makes you feel like something awesome is going to happen, because this guy is chillin in school, then some crazy floating monster comes and destroys everyone he knows, then he gets blamed for it all, and ends up in prison.

And that's when I thought of how awesome kaiji was. Some normal guy in a terrible situations that somehow overcomes it with cleverness. But instead, it turns out he's got a special power and he never gives up and so he's super awesome and kind and a baby.

Ugh I hate the main character.

But he's got some cool, insane female friend who for some reason is hanging out at the prison and is ultimately powerful. Eventually it gets to some point when he's in a death match with people and the  first guy there is some ultimately powerful guy that reminds me a lot of the karate guy in kenshin, except he's like...the most powerful guy.

Then there's a lot about him going into some secret group that are freedom fighters, and they're not really exciting, except that their leader is totally insane but seems really not.

Then, near the end, you meet this other cool powerful insane person that reminds me of a cross between Envy and Stein, but you don't get to learn too much about him, and it doesn't really matter anyway because the backstories all suck.

I watched this on fast forward the whole time and I strongly recommend doing it that way.