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Thus goes the tale of '''''Deadman Wonderland''''', a monthly [[Shonen]] manga written by Jinsei Kataoka and illustrated by Kazuma Kondou (who both worked on the ''[[Eureka Seven]]'' manga). The manga received an anime adaptation from [[Manglobe]] in the [[Spring 2011 Anime|Spring 2011]] season, and Crunchyroll simulcast the series (with English subtitles) an hour after broadcast in Japan. [[FUNimation]] licensed the anime in the US and Canada, and its dubbed version premiered on [[Cartoon Network]]/[[Adult Swim]]'s [[Toonami]] block on 26 May 2012.

 

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* [[Absurdly Sharp Blade]]: Haiji cuts through a tank at one point.

* [[Action Girl]]: Most girls in the series, but Kanako sticks out.

* [[Adult Child]]: Would-be director Tamaki looks a lot like Willy Wonka, plays with dangerously modified toys, and has a dancing flower in his office.

* [[Amnesiac Dissonance]]: {{spoiler|Shiro. Also, Nagi and his unlocked memories.}}

* [[Amusement Park of Doom]]: Deadman Wonderland itself, though the doom applies more specifically to the employees and prisoners than park-goers.

* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]]: Makina slices Yoh in the chest in the first chapter with her sword for "compensation" for stealing.

* [[Ax Crazy]]: Genkaku, Hibana, {{spoiler|Minatsuki}}, {{spoiler|Nagi}}, {{spoiler|Shiro}}. Most characters are, actually.

* [[Badass Normal]]: The Undertakers are unmutated [[Ax Crazy]] humans. It's their "Axes" that the Deadmen have to watch out for.

* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: {{spoiler|Anyone who appears pleasant and friendly. One of the Group A Counterfeits is a polite lady whose Branch of Sin has a ''butterfly'' theme.}}

** {{spoiler|And Toto in 25.}}

** {{spoiler|''EVERYBODY'' in 32.}}

{{quote|{{spoiler|"Just for once, let me have a chance to look cool, alright?"}}

{{spoiler|"[[Apologetic Attacker|My apologies]], [[You Shall Not Pass|but this passage is]] ''[[You Shall Not Pass|closed]]''."}} }}

** Tokyopop managed to use both "Skull Chain" and "Scar Chain" within ''the same volume''.

* [[Blood Knight]]: Senji.

* [[Bloody Murder]]: Bloody murderers, bloody murder weapons.

** They use blood as murder. Let's face it, if you can combine the words 'blood' and 'murder' in a sentence this manga's probably got a visual description in it somewhere.

{{quote|'''Senji:''' ({{spoiler|after slicing two Undertakers into little pieces}}) "Where are the strong ones?"

'''Random Scar Chain member:''' (pointing at the dead {{spoiler|Underakers}}) "Probably... down there." }}

* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: Most of the Deadmen and a few others as well.

* [[Dark Magical Girl]]: Minatsuki, subverted due to {{spoiler|the fact that she ''caused'' her [[Parental Abandonment]]}}) and possibly {{spoiler|Shiro}}

* [[Deadly Upgrade]]: Branch of Sin is blood-based. Ganta doesn't have a lot of blood, although {{spoiler|whether the blood diamond caused or merely unlocked his Branch of Sin powers is unknown. Additionally, the Counterfeit Deadmen: normal people who were given a virus plus a mind-control chip.}}

* [[Death by Irony]]: {{spoiler|The Director is killed by Shiro, whom he's been perfecting as a weapon. He doesn't stay dead, though.}}

* [[Defeat Means Friendship]]: Ganta manages to do this with Senji and, in a way, {{spoiler|Minatsuki}}.

* [[Defrosting Ice Queen]]: Minatsuki has become much less of a [[Blood Knight]] and has even become a bit more optimistic, compared to her original personality.

** {{spoiler|Toto is also way too calm about killing, being injured, and consuming specimens of other Deadmen.}}

* [[The Ditz]]: Shiro.

* [[Dramatic Irony]]: Ganta promising himself to trust and believe in Shiro from now on, not knowing that {{spoiler|Shiro is actually the Red Man}}.

* [[Driven to Suicide]]: {{spoiler|Hitara's disfigured daughter Yuki, after she interprets her dad's stoicism for uncaring. Tamaki shot himself in the head after discovering that he'd been played the whole time by the Chairman.}}

* [[The Dulcinea Effect]]: Ganta experiences this very quickly with Minatsuki. However, {{spoiler|Minatsuki is [[Ax Crazy]] and actually manipulated and ''planned'' for [[The Dulcinea Effect]] to kick in so she could kill him easier}}.

* [[Expository Hairstyle Change]]: {{spoiler|Minatsuki}}, who is a little less antagonistic after {{spoiler|losing her hair in the Carnival Corpse punishment.}}

* [[Extreme Omnivore]]: Masu.

* [[Four Is Death]]: The earthquake happened on 4/4/2014, measured 11.4 on the Richter scale, and 148,000 people died/went missing.

* [[Frankenstein's Monster]]: Shiro and Toto.

* [[Friendship Moment]]: Ganta will stand up to a lot of abuse to protect Shiro.

* [[Gag Boobs]]: Makina, who is completely up front about her ''G-cup'' breasts when asked.

* [[I Just Want to Be You]] (non-[[Irritation Is the Sincerest Form of Flattery]] version): {{spoiler|Hagire Rinchinchou to Shiro. Shiro is like 10 at the time and Hagire is the head scientist experimenting on her.}}

* [[If I Can't Have You]]: {{spoiler|Genkaku to Nagi.}}

* [[Impossibly Cool Weapon]]: One of the creators stated [http://kazuma14.jugem.jp/?eid=94#comments in his blog] that even he's not sure if Genkaku's double-gun-guitar would be technically possible.

** The anime takes it even further, turning it into a compressed-air cannon capable of removing most of a target's torso.

{{quote|'''Makina''': I'm going weasel hunting (cut to Tamaki, playing with blocks)

'''Tamaki''': Feels like something bad's about to happen. }}

* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: Senji.

* [[Kangaroo Court]]: Ganta's trial is ridiculously one-sided. He was the sole survivor of a mass murder, gets charged immediately without any chance to defend himself, and is sentenced to death even though he is Middle School aged. All within the first 10 minutes of this show.

* [[Madness Mantra]]/[[Survival Mantra]]: Of a sort: Azami's "I'm alright. I'm alright. I'm alright." was just something to get her through her crapsack life, now it's what gets her through {{spoiler|being a brainwashed Counterfeit.}}

* [[Manic Pixie Dream Girl]]: {{spoiler|Shiro is a [[Deconstruction]] of this.}}

** And {{spoiler|Toto/Chairman Hagire}} is manipulating ''everyone''.

* [[Marshmallow Hell]]: Unintentionally done to Makina's sidekick during a sneaking romp.

* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: {{spoiler|Nagi, for a moment, before Karako hugs him out of it}}.

** {{spoiler|When Ganta unleashes a megaton version of his "bullet" and just about kills ''everyone''}}

** ''Inverted'' with Shiro who {{spoiler|still doesn't realise she's killed her grandfather or even that he is dead even after she walks past his decapitated head.}}

* [[Names to Know in Anime]]:

** [[Romi Paku]] as Ganta Igarashi

* [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]]: Happens to Ganta a ''lot''.

* [[No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Dine]]: Tamaki to Ganta.

* [[Not Brainwashed]]: {{spoiler|Nagi emphasizes to Karako that he is ''quite sane'' right before he mauls her, then goes on to rampage against a few other members of the Scar Chain.}})

* [[Not So Stoic]]: Inverted. Hitara can't not be stoic to save his daughter's life. {{spoiler|over ''literally''}}

* [[Playing with Fire]]: Hitara's power seems to involve igniting his blood.

* [[Power Dyes Your Hair]]/[[Power Makes Your Hair Grow]]: Played with in the Anime, part of Minatsuki's "Whip Wing" makes it look like her hair has got longer and turned red at the ends at the back.

* [[Psycho Serum]]: {{spoiler|All of Genkaku's injections help reawaken Nagi's suppressed memories and tip him into an insane berserker rage.}}

* [[Put Them All Out of Their Misery]]: Genkaku qualifies even if he seems to be [[Complete Monster]]: {{spoiler|he seems to believe that killing people is the best way of saving them. Being raped and beaten by a group of bullies who hung around the temple did not help his sanity and when the Great Tokyo Earth hit and they were trapped under the rubble he saw fit to butcher them all. Strangely it was not out of revenge but because he wanted to grant them salvation, being free of pain in death being better than living in pain. He apparently came to this conclusion because of warped Buddhist ideas and having seen how peaceful a dead kitten was as opposed to when said kitty was wounded yet alive.}}

* [[Sealed Evil in a Can]]: The Deadmen in Sector G.

** {{spoiler|The Red Man can be re-sealed and Ganta's blood is the key.}}

* [[Self-Made Orphan]]: {{spoiler|Minatsuki.}}

* [[Shallow Love Interest]]: Inverted: {{spoiler|Minatsuki passes herself as this to trick Ganta into hurting himself for her so that she'd have an advantage during their fight.}}

* [[Sociopathic Hero]]: Several of the Deadmen, but Senji and Minatsuki deserve special mention.

* [[Spoiler Opening]]: The anime opening hints at later plot twists by showing {{spoiler|Senji with his eyepatch and Minatsuki sporting a [[Slasher Smile]]}}.

* [[Stage Money]]: Just because DW's "cast points" sound suspiciously like "Disney Dollars".

* [[Stalker with a Crush]]: Genkaku.

* [[Talkative Loon]]: Shiro acts like this quite often.

* [[That Man Is Dead]]: {{spoiler|The Red Man says this about Shiro. It's revealed to be a lie}}.

* [[The Tokyo Fireball]]: An 11.[[Four Is Death|4]] earthquake, after which the "Branch of Sin" powers appeared.

* [[Tournament Arc]]: Carnival Corpse matches.

* [[Torture Technician]]: The sadist doctor.

* [[Tragic Keepsake]]: Nagi, with his dead wife's scarf, which he apparently managed to grab just before {{spoiler|her body was taken to remove his child as experiment fodder.}} For better or for worse, {{spoiler|it's later used to cover his face after he dies.}}

* [[Traumatic Haircut]]: Minatsuki's haircut.

** Also, {{spoiler|Chaplin's later on.}}

* [[Walking Shirtless Scene]]: Senji.

* [[War for Fun and Profit]]

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: {{spoiler|Madoka, revealed to be one of the Group A Counterfeits, was bullied so severely that he got to thinking that pain "helped" the world in that if one person was in pain, another person wasn't (imagine an "idealistic" [[Johnny the Homicidal Maniac]]). Considering that he put Shiro in an Iron Maiden and ''crucified'' Ganta, he probably prevented the next mega-quake.}}

** {{spoiler|Tamaki, at least to himself; he justifies being a [[Manipulative Bastard]] on the grounds that he's looking to defeat the Red Man and avenge the people who died in the earthquake}}.

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Chapter 26 is essentially one extended [[What the Hell, Hero?]] for {{spoiler|Ganta, who can't even remember what he did. Even nameless [[Muggles]] get in on the action. Ganta should consider himself lucky that that the Deadmen just yelled at him/vandelized his room/beat him senseless rather than just kill him}}.

* [[Whip It Good]]: Minatsuki's "Whip Wing".

** Its also suggested he body-swapped into the older body.

* [[Your Days Are Numbered]]: Every prisoner on death row has a collar with a timer initially set at exactly three days. When the timer runs out, the prisoner gets immediately killed by this collar. It is possible to gain extra three days added to the remaining time by eating candy, which prisoners receive as a reward for winning in all those hellish tasks and games imposed on them.

 

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