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  Deadman Wonderland recounts the story of Ganta Igarashi, who is just another middle school student. He is a survivor of a great earthquake that took place a decade ago in Japan and submerged three-quarters of Tokyo in the Pacific Ocean. But he can hardly recall the tragedy and has lived an ordinary life ever since. Ganta’s ordinary life takes a grim turn when one day a man covered in blood floats through the window into his classroom. Before anyone could do anything, the Red Man massacres the entire classroom with a menacing grin on his face. For some strange reason, he lets Ganta live and embeds a red crystal in his chest. He is then placed on a trial just a few days after the massacre as a suspect. He later finds out that all the evidence has been rigged against him and later he is sentenced to death in a prison that doubles as a theme park called Deadman Wonderland. The warden of the theme park who was also Ganta’s lawyer helped plant evidence against his own client.  ...