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This story evolves around a character named Ganta Igarashi. Ganta is having a typical ordinary day but that is all about to change when a mysterious person known as the 'red man' appears suddenly and slaughters his entire class, leaving him as the soul survivor. Evidence displays a recording in which Ganta shows his amusement about murdering his entire class. This scenario makes it seems like Ganta is the culprit behind the massacre. During the mass killing he loses consciousness and wakes up in the hospital where he is apprehended. Ganta is then taken to court and later is presume guilty for the murder of ... his classmates. As punishment he is sentence to death. Awaiting his execution, he wines up at a prison known as Deadman Wonderland. Now Deadman Wonderland isn't an ordinary prison. It's a place where prisoners fight for their lives in order to please the crowd that is rooting for bloodshed.

Ganta starts off as terrified and confused, but that shifts quickly when he learns that he has to adapt and become strong in order to survive this hell he has been placed in. Ganta realize that he has been framed and that his being here in this prison is no coincidence. His objective now is to find the red man responsible for everything and to prove his innocence, but before he can do that he needs to escape and avoid the many possible threats that Deadman Wonderland holds.


If there is any character as mysterious or even more so than the red man, it would have to be this girl named Shiro. Shiro, an pale girl covered in red markings seems to be Ganta's childhood friend who Ganta vaguely remembers. She appears to be unbound by the prison and goes unnoticed by the guards as if she was a spirit but her very existence is real.

The story itself feels very fast paced which affects the fight scenes and results in less intriguing characters that are poorly introduced. Main two characters that got their fair share of screen time includes Ganta and Shiro. Ganta's impression is very mature for a middle schooler. His age doesn't quite fit how he's able to deal with the situation so effectively. Shiro does a great job at keeping the audience engaged and her childlike personality compliments her well. As for the other characters, they don't leave a strong impact and the ones that dies off are hardly remembered due to lack of background stories.

Art is neither eye-catching nor repellent. Plenty of gore and violence incorporated which is remarkable and keeps the viewers entertained. Biggest issue like I said is that it's very face paced and with only 12 episodes it leaves out significant details. Disappointed with the ending in the sense that it feels incomplete and that I wanted more of an explanation. Overall, I enjoyed the anime. It's a good one if you like short animes. Just don't expect a solid constructed storyline.