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Deadman Wonderland Omnibus (2-in-1 Edition) #1
Deadman Wonderland 01
Ein gewaltiges Erdbeben hat Tokyo zerstört. Ganta Igarashi überlebte. Als »The Red Man« – ein riesiges Robotermonster – jedoch alle seine Klassenkameraden umbringt, wird Ganta unschuldig zum Tode verurteilt und in ein bizarres Gefängnis gesteckt. Das »Deadman Wonderland« ist ein Vergnügungspark, in dem die Insassen ums Überleben kämpfen ...
420 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 2011
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July 10, 2017
Batshit crazy Manga yet again! Awesome art and a crazy story means that this original series will be taking more of my money for months to come! Bring it on!
December 29, 2014
I have had this manga series on my to be read list for a while and was excited get it for Christmas. This was a wonderful start to this manga series. It is engaging, very creative, and a bit bizarre.
Ganta Igarashi is a middle school student who is wrongly accused of murdering his classmates (something that was actually caused by the appearance of a strange Red Man). As punishment he is sent to Deadman Wonderland. Deadman Wonderland is a prison complex that doubles as an amusement park for the general public. Basically in Deadman Wonderland the inmates participate in bizarre shows and contests to help fund the rebuilding of Tokyo after its destruction in a great earthquake.
This book is a bit science fiction and a bit horror with some dystopian elements. The whole book takes place ten years after the Great Tokyo Earthquake. Tokyo is struggling to rebuild and a big part of their financing comes from the Deadman Wonderland amusement park.
There are a lot of characters introduced but the main ones are Ganta and Shiro. Ganta is a very confused and horrified middle grade student who was witness to unspeakable horror and then accused of being the person who caused that horror. Shiro is a strangely happy and innocent girl with odd white hair that befriends Ganta inside of Deadman Wonderland. They are both incredibly interesting and mysterious characters that I am dying to know more about.
This book just introduces us to the series and, oh my, what an interesting set up it is. Deadman Wonderland is fascinating in its own right, the idea of inmates being slaughtered in contests for public entertainment is so very Roman. You find out that Deadman Wonderland has some other very dangerous secrets and then there is the who mysterious Red Man who causes mass slaughter. Add to that the mysterious way Ganta seems to be able to stay alive and you have an amazingly addictive story.
This is a pretty gruesome, gory, and creepy book, so I would recommend to older teen and adult only (I think it’s rated older teen).
Overall I absolutely loved this intro to this creepy sci-fi story with dystopian elements. It’s a fascinating set-up with some big mysteries and some engaging characters. It was an awesome read and I can’t wait to read the next one. I recommend to those who like horror/sci-fi manga.
Ganta Igarashi is a middle school student who is wrongly accused of murdering his classmates (something that was actually caused by the appearance of a strange Red Man). As punishment he is sent to Deadman Wonderland. Deadman Wonderland is a prison complex that doubles as an amusement park for the general public. Basically in Deadman Wonderland the inmates participate in bizarre shows and contests to help fund the rebuilding of Tokyo after its destruction in a great earthquake.
This book is a bit science fiction and a bit horror with some dystopian elements. The whole book takes place ten years after the Great Tokyo Earthquake. Tokyo is struggling to rebuild and a big part of their financing comes from the Deadman Wonderland amusement park.
There are a lot of characters introduced but the main ones are Ganta and Shiro. Ganta is a very confused and horrified middle grade student who was witness to unspeakable horror and then accused of being the person who caused that horror. Shiro is a strangely happy and innocent girl with odd white hair that befriends Ganta inside of Deadman Wonderland. They are both incredibly interesting and mysterious characters that I am dying to know more about.
This book just introduces us to the series and, oh my, what an interesting set up it is. Deadman Wonderland is fascinating in its own right, the idea of inmates being slaughtered in contests for public entertainment is so very Roman. You find out that Deadman Wonderland has some other very dangerous secrets and then there is the who mysterious Red Man who causes mass slaughter. Add to that the mysterious way Ganta seems to be able to stay alive and you have an amazingly addictive story.
This is a pretty gruesome, gory, and creepy book, so I would recommend to older teen and adult only (I think it’s rated older teen).
Overall I absolutely loved this intro to this creepy sci-fi story with dystopian elements. It’s a fascinating set-up with some big mysteries and some engaging characters. It was an awesome read and I can’t wait to read the next one. I recommend to those who like horror/sci-fi manga.
September 8, 2020
Empfehlung für alle Fans von "blutig und verstörend"!
Ich hab's geliebt!
Das Setting ist außergewöhnlich und als Spielwiese für die verschiedensten Charaktere geradezu perfekt!
Ganta mausert sich von verängstigten Feigling ziemlich rasch zu einem sympathischen Protagonisten, Shiro sorgt beim Leser schnell für Neugier auf bislang ungelüftete Geheimnisse und vermag es außerdem mit ihrer manchmal überraschend naiven Art für den ein oder anderen heiteren Moment zu sorgen.
Die übrigen Charaktere sorgen für eine gute Portion Vielfalt und Wahnsinn und ich hatte vor allem in den ersten Bänden immer mal wieder Momente, in denen ich dachte "Worauf zum Teufel hab ich mich hier eingelassen" - aber ich hab's total genossen!
Ich hab's geliebt!
Das Setting ist außergewöhnlich und als Spielwiese für die verschiedensten Charaktere geradezu perfekt!
Ganta mausert sich von verängstigten Feigling ziemlich rasch zu einem sympathischen Protagonisten, Shiro sorgt beim Leser schnell für Neugier auf bislang ungelüftete Geheimnisse und vermag es außerdem mit ihrer manchmal überraschend naiven Art für den ein oder anderen heiteren Moment zu sorgen.
Die übrigen Charaktere sorgen für eine gute Portion Vielfalt und Wahnsinn und ich hatte vor allem in den ersten Bänden immer mal wieder Momente, in denen ich dachte "Worauf zum Teufel hab ich mich hier eingelassen" - aber ich hab's total genossen!
October 13, 2023
Ganta ist ein 14-jähriger Junge. Eines Tages wird seine ganze Klasse von einem roten Mann umgebracht. Er überlebt als einziger und wird als Massenmörder zur Todesstrafe verurteilt und ins Deadman Wonderland verfrachtet. Nur hier wird die Strafe etwas anders ausgelegt.
Die Geschichte fängt sehr spannend an. Mit und mit erfährt man was über die „Welt“ in der dieses Buch spielt. Manchmal erfährt man ein wenig mehr als Ganta, das sind dann aber meist sehr mysteriöse Sachen, die einem zunächst nicht viel sagen.
Die Charaktere sind bisher sehr unterschiedlich. Oft haben sie einige seltsame Macken und man weiß nicht so recht was mit ihnen los ist.
Die Panels finde ich gut ausgearbeitet. Mir gefällt der Manga und er wird auf jeden Fall zügig weiter gelesen.
Die Geschichte fängt sehr spannend an. Mit und mit erfährt man was über die „Welt“ in der dieses Buch spielt. Manchmal erfährt man ein wenig mehr als Ganta, das sind dann aber meist sehr mysteriöse Sachen, die einem zunächst nicht viel sagen.
Die Charaktere sind bisher sehr unterschiedlich. Oft haben sie einige seltsame Macken und man weiß nicht so recht was mit ihnen los ist.
Die Panels finde ich gut ausgearbeitet. Mir gefällt der Manga und er wird auf jeden Fall zügig weiter gelesen.
April 29, 2018
one of my best pick ups to date. this manga was crazy from start on page 1 to the ending of the first volume. it had me hooked if you want a fast pace story line that makes you get into a seat and take you on a crazy ride this is the book for you. I was so upset I only had volume 1 I went out and bought 2 and 3 the same day so worth the read what people say about this manga is right batshit crazy fun so worth the money and time this is a must grab.
December 16, 2018
I felt like I was missing some pages, the characters would be saying one thing amd before they could finish a thought we are moved to a different square moving on before I could understand what just happened. Loved the anime and wished to know how it continued on but I feel like the graphic novel is missing vital parts of the story in order to connect it all together as well as it feels like there are missing key points of what is going on leading up to a crucial part of the story.
April 12, 2022
3,25*
Das war wirklich ein spannender Start in diese Reihe, da ich jedoch kein großer Fan von zu vielen Action Szenen bin, war mir das Buch an manchen Stellen einfach etwas zu viel.
Nichtsdestotrotz finde ich die Grundidee unglaublich spannend und werde definiert das 2te Buch lesen
Das war wirklich ein spannender Start in diese Reihe, da ich jedoch kein großer Fan von zu vielen Action Szenen bin, war mir das Buch an manchen Stellen einfach etwas zu viel.
Nichtsdestotrotz finde ich die Grundidee unglaublich spannend und werde definiert das 2te Buch lesen
December 19, 2017
This is some fucked up shit. I liked it.
March 17, 2019
I really enjoyed reading this and I already have a soft spot for Shiro.
April 26, 2022
Good Manga just nor for me
August 23, 2022
Muy bueno
February 4, 2023
I'm starting this series again, after nearly 10 years. Let's see how far I come this time. I forgot how bloody and graphic this was.
July 13, 2015
This was a completely random buy for me. I had a one week working experience in Graz (Austria), so when I finnished early on the last day, I took myselft shopping! And of course the first store that I went to was a book shop. I don't really speak or read german well enough to be able to successfully read an actual 300+ pages piece of work, but when I saw the manga section (I must explain that manga is not being translated into my native language, so I end up reading it in english anyways), I took myself up on a challenge and bought the single biggest manga they had to offer (in german of course)!
As you can see, I read the whole thing - in a matter of days if I say so myself (which quite surprised me) - but whether I liked it is anothe matter. It was definitely not bad, it was just not my cup of tea. The art is so beautiful and there are quite a few big full double-sided images and we've got some color going on, but that was just not enough for me. The description on the back was so intriguing, but the story turned out to be something completely else.
The biggest problem I had with this manga were the characters. I could not for the life of me get interested for any of them. Ganta is 14, allways mumbling the same things and trying to be a good person. Shiro has the body of a 16 year old but the mind of an 8 year old at most. Makina the guard woman (or whatever she is) is just the character with the boobs... There was no main character that stood out to me characteristically.
Although the story is based on mystery, there was nothing that would make me want to read the sequel. The lack of character depth and development honestly made this seem almost childish to me (despite the brutality with blood and guts everywhere). And don't get me wrong now - I love graphic novels and manga, but this just was not it for me. The art is really nice. Everything you would have expected from a standard manga, while still having its own twist on the style, but storywise was this nowhere near enough for me. Just having a good plot idea is not enough to develop an interesting story and this work is the proof of that to me.
I would believe you, if you told me, that this gets really interesting. It has huge potential for that! But if I don't care for any of the characters after the frist two volumes at all, than I think it's safe to say, that it's better for me to spend my money on something else.
As you can see, I read the whole thing - in a matter of days if I say so myself (which quite surprised me) - but whether I liked it is anothe matter. It was definitely not bad, it was just not my cup of tea. The art is so beautiful and there are quite a few big full double-sided images and we've got some color going on, but that was just not enough for me. The description on the back was so intriguing, but the story turned out to be something completely else.
The biggest problem I had with this manga were the characters. I could not for the life of me get interested for any of them. Ganta is 14, allways mumbling the same things and trying to be a good person. Shiro has the body of a 16 year old but the mind of an 8 year old at most. Makina the guard woman (or whatever she is) is just the character with the boobs... There was no main character that stood out to me characteristically.
Although the story is based on mystery, there was nothing that would make me want to read the sequel. The lack of character depth and development honestly made this seem almost childish to me (despite the brutality with blood and guts everywhere). And don't get me wrong now - I love graphic novels and manga, but this just was not it for me. The art is really nice. Everything you would have expected from a standard manga, while still having its own twist on the style, but storywise was this nowhere near enough for me. Just having a good plot idea is not enough to develop an interesting story and this work is the proof of that to me.
I would believe you, if you told me, that this gets really interesting. It has huge potential for that! But if I don't care for any of the characters after the frist two volumes at all, than I think it's safe to say, that it's better for me to spend my money on something else.
July 22, 2016
Me gusta mucho el sistema de los presos. Me enamore de la prisión en sí, pero no puedo decir lo mismo de los protagonistas. Me huele a Yuki de Mirai Nikki en Ganta, pero es la reaccion mas comun: todos nos ponemos a llorar si nos toca eso, aunque capaz que yo después me resigno porque me autoconvenzo de que es imposible matar al Hombre Rojo para cumplir con mi venganza.
Lo único que me gustó, en fin, fue la prisión. A ver cómo sigue, es re obvia la identidad del Hombre Rojo.
Lo único que me gustó, en fin, fue la prisión. A ver cómo sigue, es re obvia la identidad del Hombre Rojo.
July 30, 2014
Teenager Ganta Igarashi is accused of killing his classmates and ends up in a prison-slash-amusement-park. Just another day in MangaTown...
December 3, 2015
So far, just like the anime!
July 16, 2016
Sangriento.
February 5, 2017
mangas are fast reads this for sure. and this shit is crazy. but i like. but crazy.
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