Reviews

Story:The story of deadman wonderland is good...to begin with.The first few episodes set up the premise of the very well,telling the story of Ganta Igarashi, a student attending Nagano Prefecture's middle school. This all changes when a strange person covered in blood and crimson armor floats through his classroom windows. Grinning madly, the 'Red Man' massacres Ganta's entire class but instead of killing him,he plants a red plot device in Ganta's chest.a few days after the massacre, Ganta is sentenced to death and is incarcerated in Deadman Wonderland, a massive theme park-like prison for killing all his classmates.Because we all know that a fourteen year old boy would have no problem conducting a mass murder such as this.

Sadley the story takes a turn for the worse, new plot lines are intoduced and never explained properley and the result is an ending that leaves a lot to be desired.

Art:the character designs here are very good and so is the animation.Effects for the Branches of Sin (a power that ganta and some other inmates have that lets them controll their blood)are great too.

Sound:the soundtrack is overall very good with a heavy metal feel to it.This suits the animes darker tones and general feel.The ending theme is nothing special but the opening is pure awesome,and the english dub is okay,and i say okay because although most of the dub is good but ganta's voice is annoying as F***.

Character:The characters in this anime are a bit hit and miss.Our protagonist ganta is bitchey and yes although i felt sorry for him at first he never develops and gets over his hardships and just moans instead.A real shame because he does get some development in the manga.on the other hand we have shrio a crazy naked albino girl from ganta's past.She provides light hearted comic relief and insane robot dropkicking homicidal badassery that provides a nice ray of light into the dark tale that is deadman wonderland.The supporting cast of characters are underdeveloped and for the most part boring and forgetable.

Enjoyment:make no mistake, deadman wonderland is gory, dark and borderline insane.If you liked elfen lied or berserk then you might enjoy this,but the amount of Enjoyment you may get from this will be tainted by flaws that are too great to ignore.if you like the premise then read the manga instead,its much much better.

Overall:Decent but too flawed to fully recomend as an anime or over it's manga counterpart.
7/10