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Deadman Wonderland, Vol. 1 (2014)

by Jinsei Kataoka(Favorite Author)

4.21 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1421555484 (ISBN13: 9781421555485)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

VIZ Media LLC

series

Deadman Wonderland

review 1: A teen, Ganta Igarashi, finds himself the lone survivor of the mass slaughter of his middle-school classmates. He alone saw the "red man" that laid waste to his peers. Needless to say, he is utterly shocked when he is accused and then convicted of the crime of killing all of his classmates. In this version of the future, Tokyo was previously destroyed by a giant earthquake, leaving the country devastated both functionally and economically. Somehow this lead to the construction of the first-ever, for-profit prison, Deadman Wonderland. There, prisoners are forced to run deadly gauntlets and engage in fights to the death (or debilitation) with their fellow inmates, all for the entertainment of the masses. In essence, Deadman Wonderland is not just a prison, it's a demen... moreted amusement park where the prisoners are the main attraction. Prisoners have no choice but to participate or they'll be poisoned by the suicide collars around their necks. Only by earning enough CPs (company points)can the antidote be obtained. Ganta quickly finds himself fighting for his life.This is a truly bizarre and violent manga series, but it's equally engrossing. Sure, the setting requires some suspension of disbelief, but it never fails to simultaneously entertain and horrify. It gets bonus points for introducing the concept of Foucault's panopticon to manga readers. Definitely one of the more original manga series I've come across in recent memory.
review 2: This book is for young adults who preferably like manga (Japanese comics) as well horror stories. (Age 12 to 18). In Deadman Wonderland, a young boy named Ganta, who is in middle school, one day meets a mysterious "red man" who suddenly kills all his classmates then disappears. Ganta, who is the only survivor of his class, is later convicted of murdering his classmates and thrown into "Deadman Wonderland Prison" on death row. He is found guilty. Fighting to prove his innocence he meets the mysterious "red man" again and tries to prove that he is indeed innocent. However, to keep the convicts from escaping Deadman Wonderland they place a collar around their neck that injects with them a poison. The convicts have to earn a candy, which is the antidote, every two days or else they will die. So not only will Ganta have to prove his innocence to stop himself from being executed, he also has to fight for his life by earning the antidote. I liked this book very much because I think the plot is just amazing by how Ganta is convicted of murder and has to prove his innocence. I recommend this book to anyone who likes horror manga and fantasy. The characters are very relating as well with their personalities compared to mine. less

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