Deadman Wonderland: A Season Too Short

Deadman Wonderland was an anime that had its original run in 2011 and then a few years later it was part of Toonami’s revival schedule and had good ratings especially considering how late it aired. So if you don’t know what this show was about, I’ll lay it down for you. Ten years before the story starts there was a massive cataclysmic event that sunk three-quarters of the city of Tokyo into the ocean. Ganta a regular, extremely non-threatening looking dude is in class chilling when all of a sudden this scary ass dude with a smile on his face and clothed in crimson armor covered in blood comes into Ganta’s classroom and kills the entire class except for him. He lets Ganta survive after putting a red crystal shard in his chest.A few days after the Massacre, Ganta is taken to an extremely fair court where he is found guilty of murdering his class. He’s sentenced to Death at Deadman Wonderland which a prison/theme park hybrid. When he arrives he has a collar put on him that is constantly injecting poison into his bloodstream which would kill him unless he eats a “candy” at least once every three days. The way you earn the candy is by performing for the audience in the games and surviving. Luckily, a weird but cute girl named Shiro helps Ganta out which creates a strange but enticing friendship. Ganta’s goal is to find the “Red Man” who murdered his class to clear his name in this prison. He develops an ability to control and manipulate his blood and shoot it out of his hands. He …