Description
A massive earthquake ravaged Japan's mainland and destroyed most of Tokyo, sinking three-quarters of it into the ocean. Ten years later, the story starts with Igarashi Ganta, a seemingly ordinary, unassuming middle school student attending Nagano Prefecture's middle school. An escapee, a survivor of the great earthquake, Ganta has no memories of the tragedy and has lived a simple, normal life. This all changes one day when a strange man covered in blood and crimson armour appears, floating, out of his classroom windows. Smirking madly, this Red Man massacres Ganta's entire class and, instead of killing him, embeds a red crystal shard in his chest. Within days of the massacre, Ganta is declared the sole suspect and, following a suspiciously quick trial, is sentenced to life imprisonment in Deadman Wonderland, a massive theme-park-like prison.
Initially, the series surprised me, it looked like something really new in fiction, and novelty is difficult to achieve now, in a world of satiety. But it lasted all three series, then the templates and the kindergarten began to fall out. If you take Tokyo Ghoul and put these two series side by side, then you can play 10 differences. Snot-fight-snot-fight – 80% of the narrative. Rag-kun is a super strong and mega suffering guy for the finale. Bloody shit for a fight. Terribly ridiculous enemies, implausible, not thought out, too formulaic and crude, like a picture without a story, empty and pretentious. And if at first the bloodiness somehow spurred on the development of a fantastic fendom and plot, then there were just bloody fights. Monotonous. Dull. Disgusting. Blood for blood's sake.
I want to write out everything similar to these two anime and go around for hundreds of kilometers. I understand that there are people who like this, but I love intellectual fiction that creates new worlds, new foundations, reveals new facets of the worldview and creates strong psychological situations not in such a stupid bloody massacre.
The series, as they say, began for health, and ended for peace. After watching the first episode, which I was not particularly impressed with, I thought about quitting, but decided to watch the rest: there are only twelve episodes, I thought, you can master it in a day.
I stretched it out for two months, because watching more than one episode a day was unbearably sickening. It's sickening in the sense that everyone seems to be running somewhere, but they stay in place. How many questions were given to us (and with each episode there were more and more)? And which have we received an answer to? What have we learned about this world, the structure of the prison, the Branch of Sin, and so on? Absolutely nothing. There are a lot of heroes, very different, with a complicated backstory, with their own motives and values, but they were not developed. It was shown in one or two episodes and forgotten. As it should be.
The main character was incredibly infuriating with his whining and eternal misunderstanding of what was happening. I'm tired of rolling my eyes at the pretentious deathbed speeches. Boring, sickening, monotonous.
I admit, the idea is not bad, you can make a candy out of it, but what they showed us is terrible.
Again, I'm disappointed.
It's just a pity that they didn't show enough bloody games with prisoners. I was hoping there would be more of them.