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Deadman Wonderland

Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 1:32 am
by Starnum
I recently discovered this interesting new manga that just came out not too long ago. So I thought I'd give everyone a heads up. Check it out if you get the chance, and chat about it here! XD

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"Ganta Igarashi has been convicted of a crime that he didn't committed, and sent to a new, privately owned and operated prison, where the inmates are the main attraction in a modern day twist to the gladiatorial coliseums of ancient times. Throw in a healthy dose of weird little girl, some new-found super powers, and a little conspiracy theory, and you have Deadman Wonderland."

Re: Deadman Wonderland

Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2009 7:36 am
by papasith
im suprised no one else has commented on this yet... but i just read through what is out so far... wow i really like this one... although most the undertakers are seriously scary

Re: Deadman Wonderland

Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2009 1:00 pm
by Starnum
Undertakers you say, interesting! I haven't read it all yet, actually, heh. I'm only on chapter 12 or so. Anyway, I should catch up, because it had just started getting pretty good where I left off. Thanks for posting, I thought I had made this thread in total vain, but meh, it happens, heh.

Re: Deadman Wonderland

Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2009 5:30 pm
by uncempt
So is the weird little girl wearing nothing but a collar the whole time? That seems kinda gratuitous...

Re: Deadman Wonderland

Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 3:34 am
by Starnum
Heh, no I think she's wearing a skin tight bodysuit. That's at least a little better, right? Oh, and she's not really a little girl, she's a scary monster. XD

*edit*

Just read up to chapter 15, pretty crazy shit, but it's good and interesting at least.

Re: Deadman Wonderland

Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 9:39 am
by papasith
mabe it says something about me. but i love stories that have people faceing huge HUGE problems (like this, gantz, zetman, berserk) and have the charcaters matureing, changeing, and eventually riseing to try to overcomes things no matter how dark they get. This is another story that does that quite well. Quite a few suprises and a few plot facts you find out before the charcaters find out that just make you wonder whats gonna happen when everyone finds out....

Re: Deadman Wonderland

Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 10:05 am
by Starnum
Conflict is crucial in good storytelling.

Re: Deadman Wonderland

Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 4:31 pm
by Grahf
I haven't kept up wit this one. I actually stopped reading at the part where girl comes back. After they had seperated from one another.

This is truely one main character in a manga that I truely feel sorry for..

Re: Deadman Wonderland

Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 10:36 am
by DrPepperPro
I stopped after the first chapter.

Re: Deadman Wonderland

Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 5:46 am
by Starnum
DrPepperPro wrote:I stopped after the first chapter.
Then you're missing out, cuz it gets better.

Re: Deadman Wonderland

Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 6:14 am
by DrPepperPro
I don't like this kind of manga. To narutoish.

Re: Deadman Wonderland

Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 6:25 am
by Starnum
DrPepperPro wrote:I don't like this kind of manga. To narutoish.
:lol:

This manga is nothing like Naruto, you're way off. They're not even in the same genre. Naruto is shonen and DW is listed as mature or "seinen".

Re: Deadman Wonderland

Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 6:38 am
by DrPepperPro
Starnum wrote:
DrPepperPro wrote:I don't like this kind of manga. To narutoish.
:lol:

This manga is nothing like Naruto, you're way off. They're not even in the same genre. Naruto is shonen and DW is listed as mature or "seinen".

It's too shounenish then, regardless of what it's marked as.

Re: Deadman Wonderland

Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 9:55 am
by Starnum
Heh, not...really. :?

Re: Deadman Wonderland

Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 1:30 am
by papasith
i can see where you would think this after seeing only the first chapter, but it changes, once you think it has established a routine, then it changes on you. trust me after the 2nd or 3rd chapter alone (i think, im not double checking) then the story goes in diffrent directions

Re: Deadman Wonderland

Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 3:16 am
by Starnum
Right, you can't really judge this manga from the first chapter alone. I can kind of see where you're coming from as well, but trust us when we say that this manga is more mature than Naruto, and they don't really have very much in common at all, I assure you. The art isn't only more mature, but so is the story,and the lives of the characters are much more finite as well, heh.

I'm up to chapter 20 now, man what a crazy ass cliff hanger. Everything really has gone to hell. Just when you thought things were going to work out they stab you in the back and then twist the knife, bastards! I can't wait to read more of this deliriously good manga. ;)

Re: Deadman Wonderland

Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 5:04 am
by papasith
sweet someone else finally picked this up. i was thinking it feel to the way side

Re: Deadman Wonderland

Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 7:11 am
by Starnum
Really? Good to know. I was wondering when some new chapters were going to be available. I'll check around.

Re: Deadman Wonderland

Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 4:12 pm
by Grahf
I really stopped reading this. I'm guessing once my computer gets up and running again I'll pick this up again.

Re: Deadman Wonderland

Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 9:12 am
by Dominion
sage for naruto

- 14 year old protagonist
- exceedingly large cast of young children/adults with (only) handsome features
- every other character has super powers, or maybe it's just every character, and said powers have some sort of limit that is dramatized as much as possible

i surmise that if two popular characters end up fighting each other that one of the following will occur:

- neither will lose/win
- one will die but miraculously return from the dead

really though shounen mangas are all about comparisons between the characters; the one(s) the reader empathizes with and how the relate to the other characters in the manga. its sort of a way to introduce the reader to the idea that everyone is unique and different and this fact should be cherished... too bad everyone in real life have no super powers or i'd have agreed that DmWl is a seinen-type manga


check out this manga if you want to know what i would consider a seinen manga: http://imangascans.com/index.php?site=s ... taticID=10 - better synopsis here: http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=14739
too bad is the only gem in the group's pile... leona explosion has good artwork though :lol:

Re: Deadman Wonderland

Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2010 12:11 am
by Rolos
Dear sir, I would like to congratulate you for getting it. Getting what?
Oh, you know. You get it, after all. Few people do, and you're now part of that select club.
Hear that guys? He gets it.


Do you have any other seinen series/mangas you'd like to recommend?

Re: Deadman Wonderland

Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2010 12:36 am
by Starnum
Meh, so DMW's not the most seinen manga ever. I'll concede to that. That's just how it was listed. *shrugs*

Re: Deadman Wonderland

Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2010 12:53 am
by DrPepperPro
Dominion wrote:check out this manga if you want to know what i would consider a seinen manga: http://imangascans.com/index.php?site=s ... taticID=10 - better synopsis here: http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=14739
too bad is the only gem in the group's pile... leona explosion has good artwork though :lol:
That group also does Ikigami, quite a good seinen. Actually the official english releases are probably gonna pass them up, which is fine.

Re: Deadman Wonderland

Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2010 1:32 am
by Rolos
Ikigami is awesome*. Do you know anymore relatively obscure mangas like that?


*= my only problem with it is that some of the supporting characters in the "mini-arcs" are very, very stereotypical, which in its own way is also kinda cool, because I know people like that.

Re: Deadman Wonderland

Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2010 6:27 am
by DrPepperPro
I don't have any suggestions because I don't remember what I read anymore.