Jinsei Kataoka & Kazuma Kondou - Deadman Wonderland Manga

When a massive explosion destroys his classroom and kills all of his friends, middle-schooler Ganta Igarashi is found at the scene—alive, confused, and accused as the sole perpetrator. Despite his innocence, the courts sentence him to life imprisonment in Deadman Wonderland, a privately owned prison that doubles as a grotesque theme park where inmates must perform dangerous stunts to entertain the public.

Inside its walls, survival is a game of cruelty, corruption, and manufactured spectacle. Prisoners wear lethal collars that inject poison unless they earn antidote candy through deadly “events” staged for profit. But Ganta soon discovers something even more horrifying: a mysterious girl named Shiro who seems to know him, and a hidden section of the prison where certain inmates—called Deadmen—possess the ability to manipulate their own blood as a weapon.

Dragged into the underground gladiatorial battles known as Carnival Corpse, Ganta must unravel the truth behind the Red Man who massacred his class, the secrets of the Deadmen, and his own connection to the catastrophe that destroyed his life.

Deadman Wonderland blends dystopian brutality, body horror, emotional trauma, and high-octane action, creating a dark, relentless thriller about survival, identity, and the cost of truth.

Kataoka and Kondou worked on the Eureka Seven (manga adaptation)

Japanese Name: デッドマンワンダーランド
English Title: Deadman Wonderland
Story: Jinsei Kataoka
Art: Kazuma Kondou
Original Publisher: Kadokawa Shoten (Shōnen Ace)
English Publisher: VIZ Media
Release Years: 2007–2013
Volumes: 13 (completed)
Age Rating: Older Teen (OT) / 17+
Genre: Dark Fantasy, Dystopia, Body Horror, Action Thriller, Psychological Drama

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