Ivor Smith

**spoilers ahead** though a really good premise (a prison turned into a theme park where the inmates are forced to perform) i can’t help but feel a little desturbed by what goes on within the plot of the show and the manga. the show starts out with the main character (that being Ganta Igarashi) being framed for the murder of his entire middleschool classroom and being put on deathrow at the ‘Deadman Wonderland’ theme park and prison facility. already quite a gruesome start, with very detailed images of a classroom filled with corpses and a rigged trial which sets up this arch of the world being against Igarashi that doesnt really go anywhere. once hes in the prison the plot diverts to being about how the system is based off of the inmates competing to get cast (the in prison currency) in order to buy candy (a nickname for the antidote to the poison the inmates are regularly injected with every three days) to stay alive. this plot of people doing anything, forced into all kinds of horrible curcumstances in order to gain cast and a chance at life also goes no where. during this section of the show the forced juxtiposition of theme park imagery and brutal frankly unnecisary displays of explicit violence which is only used for shock but is used as the main draw for the audience. then finally we get to where the name of the show and theme park comes from, the dead men. basically there was this big explosion in tokyo, and the people effected by the explosion get these insane powers and are incarcirated for wielding these powers, the inmates with these powers (the deadmen) are forced to fight with each other, and the looser of these fights have a roulette to see which part of the body is surgically removed. this section of the show is the main bulk of the show, and its revolting, there is one scene where you are forced to watch a man have his eye ripped out, and you are made to watch each little part of the optic nerve be yanked out and the screams of pain from the poor guy who has to endure this. there is one episode where Ganta meets a young girl who is very polite and presents a tragic backstory, and ganta (and the viewer) is forced to sypathise with this tragic tale of a young girl’s whose life has been torn apart through no fault of her own, oh wait never mind here she is attacking ganta while telling him how “wet” his fear makes her. stunning. the show is really horrid but does have some redeeming qualities, like the art and the soundtrack which is oretty good.

In my opinion the best out of the series, though the story takes a bit of a drop from the original, the combat, enemies and graphics are all improved, making an extremely entertaining game, and one you’d have a blast playing