Damn, Deadman Wonderland is just unrelenting. It’s incredibly violent and depressing, a world controlled by venal and depraved sickos where innocent kids are tortured and abused. I can see why this show (and the manga) are not for everybody. But in order for this to work for anybody, it needs […] Read more
This adaptation continues to race along at breakneck pace, and so far pretty successfully. Some of the nuance of the manga is certainly being lost, but the realities are what they are. It’s certainly lending the proceedings a breathless excitement that should hold the attention of the viewer. This is […] Read more
We finally get our OP this week, and it’s a good one – a suitably industrial-sounding J-rock number with blood-red tinged visuals of the characters in grotesquely sultry poses. Based on the PV for episode 3, it definitely looks like Manglobe is planning to tell this story in 12 episodes […] Read more
Spring 2011’s late-bloomer profile deepens with another under-the-gun entry, this time the eagerly anticipated (be me, anyway) anime adaptation of Jinsei Kataoka and Kazuma Kondou’s excellent manga, Deadman Wonderland. And based on the first episode, it doesn’t disappoint. There are relatively few manga adaptations the prospect of which gets me […] Read more