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Deadman Wonderland

2011 · 1 season

It is a relentless, high-stakes descent into a brutal and unforgiving dystopian nightmare.

Created by: Tomoaki Ohta, Tatsuya Igarashi
Genres: Action & adventure, Animation, Sci-fi & fantasy
Starring: Romi Park, Kana Hanazawa, Megumi Takamoto

Overview: Ganta is the only survivor after a mysterious man in red slaughters a classroom full of teenagers. He's framed for the carnage, sentenced to die, and locked away in the most twisted prison ever built: Deadman Wonderland. And then it gets worse.

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Created by: Tomoaki Ohta, Tatsuya Igarashi
Genres: Action & adventure, Animation, Sci-fi & fantasy
Starring: Romi Park, Kana Hanazawa, Megumi Takamoto

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Tone: darkstrength 3 of 3
tensestrength 3 of 3
cynicalstrength 2 of 3
Pacing: relentless, 4 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: revenge
survival
power
death
justice
Places: prison
Era: near-future
Audience: teen
Form: serialised
animated
Content intensity: Gore strong
Language strong
Violence strong
Sex none

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	9
Horror	7
Humour	1
Realism	3
Romance	1
Tension	10
Darkness	9
Complexity	8
Emotional weight	8

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Genres: action & adventure, animation, sci-fi & fantasy
Created by: Tomoaki Ohta, Tatsuya Igarashi, Akitoshi Yokoyama, Ryuichi Kimura, Koichi Hatsumi, Yasuhiro Geshi
Written by: Yasuyuki Muto
Starring: Romi Park, Kana Hanazawa, Megumi Takamoto, Kenji Sugimura, Shohei Kajikawa, Takeshi Maruyama, Yuka Saitou, Akira Harada
Music: NARASAKI
Cinematography: Takeshi Katsurayama
Length: 1 seasons, 12 episodes, 24 min each
Network: tvk
Country: Japan
Languages: Japanese

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