Deadman Wonderland
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Cover of Deadman Wonderland volume 3 featuring Ganta Igarashi, Shiro, and Senji Kiyomasa
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デッドマンワンダーランド (Deddoman Wandārando) |
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| Genre | Action, horror, science fiction |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Jinsei Kataoka |
| Illustrated by | Kazuma Kondou |
| Published by | Kadokawa Shoten |
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| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Magazine | Shōnen Ace |
| Original run | May 2007 – August 2013 |
| Volumes | 13 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Kōichirō Hatsumi |
| Written by | Yasuyuki Muto |
| Music by | NARASAKI |
| Studio | Manglobe |
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| Original network | tvk, GBS, TVQ, SUN, TVS, Tokyo MX, MTV, CTC, BS Nittele |
| English network | |
| Original run | April 17, 2011 – July 3, 2011 |
| Episodes | 12 |
| Original video animation | |
| Red Knife Wielder | |
| Directed by | Kōichirō Hatsumi |
| Written by | Yasutomo Yamada |
| Music by | NARASAKI |
| Studio | Manglobe |
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| Released | October 8, 2011 |
| Runtime | 27 minutes |
Deadman Wonderland (Japanese: デッドマンワンダーランド Hepburn: Deddoman Wandārando?) is a Japanese manga series written by Jinsei Kataoka and illustrated by Kazuma Kondou, who also wrote and illustrated the Eureka Seven manga, and published in Shōnen Ace since 2008. Tokyopop acquired the licensing rights to distribute the manga in English and released the first 5 volumes of the manga before the company shut down its North American Publishing division in 2011.Viz Media announced that it had licensed the series for English language release in North America on July 7, 2013, and released the first volume on February 11, 2014; new volumes were released every two months there after.
An anime adaptation aired between April and July 2011, pulling content from the first 21 chapters of the manga. The anime is licensed by Funimation and aired on Adult Swim's newly revived Toonami block.
A massive anomaly ravaged Japan's mainland and destroyed most of Tokyo, sinking three-quarters of the city into the Pacific Ocean.
Ten years later, the story shifts to Ganta Igarashi, a seemingly ordinary student attending Nagano Prefecture's middle school. As an escapee, a survivor of the great earthquake, Ganta has no memories of the tragedy and has lived a normal life. 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, embeds a red crystal shard in Ganta's chest. Within days of the massacre, Ganta is subjected to a kangaroo court as a suspect and is sentenced to death at Deadman Wonderland, a prison that doubles as a theme park.
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