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4	* [[HoYay/DeadmanWonderland Ho Yay and Les Yay]]
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6	!!Other YMMV Tropes:
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8	* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation : Fans can't seem to decide if Shiro and [[spoiler:her Wretched Egg personality truly were one and the same, or if Wretched Egg was indeed a case of a SuperpoweredEvilSide being played straight, eventually resulting in a SplitPersonalityMerge.]] Fans have been clamoring for the WordOfGod to finally put this debate to rest, but so far, to no avail.
9	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Virtually everyone agrees that the anime's theme, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pZ-UpjtlXY "One Reason" by DWB feat. Fade]], is nothing short of ''badass'', fitting the show's [[{{Gorn}} dark, violent,]] and [[NightmareFuel heart-pounding]] nature. For crying out loud, the video for theme alone has over ''40 million views'' on [=YouTube=]!
10	* BetterOnDVD: Being able to listen to the dub without the horrendous amount of {{Narm}}-inducing censor bleeps, for one.
11	* CargoShip:
12	** A very small minority of fans have started shipping Rokuro with his calculations. And even smaller one ships him with the wall he punches in episode ten.
13	** Genkaku and his guitar due to the fact that he holds a ''funeral'' for it after Shiro breaks it.
14	* CompleteMonster: ''Manga/DeadmanWonderland'' is a HellholePrison, thanks in no small part to the {{psychopathic\|Manchild}} assistant [[WardensAreEvil warden]]; the BigBad; and a MadDoctor:
15	** [[SmugSnake Tsunenaga Tamaki]], [[FromNobodyToNightmare formerly]] a reclusive and indifferent {{otaku}}, becomes a tyrant who cares for absolutely nothing but himself and his [[BloodSport games]]. When the Great Tokyo Earthquake occurs, he leaves his mother to die so he could find a backup generator. He is also responsible for designing the prison and forcing prisoners to participate in [[DeadlyGame Death Games]] by poisoning them upon arrival and only awarding antidotes to their winners. As a sadist who sees defeating the Wretched Egg as a game, he also creates the Forgeries, prisoners who are turned into artificial Deadmen and brainwashed into obeying Tamaki's orders.
16	** [[MadScientist Rinichiro Hagire]], the [[PrivateProfitPrison prison]]'s real director, is a sadistic sociopath who will do anything [[ForScience for his research]]. Using Shiro as a guinea pig for research on how to improve a person's immune system, Hagire becomes obsessed over his subject's ability to regenerate. From crucifixion to vivisection, Hagire grows fond of [[PlayingWithSyringes conducting brutal experiments]] on her and becomes directly responsible for her becoming the Wretched Egg. He also manipulates [[CreepyTwins Chan and En]] to use their Branch of Sin to [[BodySurf invade and override other people's bodies and personalities]] when he's on the verge of death, and cannibalizes the remains of defeated Deadmen.
17	** [[TortureTechnician Rei Takashima]] is a {{sadist}}ic surgeon employed by Deadman Wonderland. Happily removing the body parts of any Deadman who loses their fights, Rei is enraged when unable to harm one young girl. Rei also creates countless artificial Deadmen sapped of free will, and when hero Ganta gets in her way, tortures him [[NightmareFetishist to her own arousal]].
18	%%* DracoInLeatherPants: Though not significantly, this is starting to happen to Genkaku, Toto and of all people Tamaki. Rokuro isn't far behind either...
19	* DiagnosedByTheAudience: Rokuro Bundo's neck-cracking tic, and obsession with calculations, to the point where in the original Japanese version [[spoiler: his initial meltdown resulted from them being "destroyed", rather than the bomb not killing the remaining Scar Chain members as seen in the dub could be used to indicate that he has something else wrong with him other than just being another run-of-the-mill psychopath.]]
20	%%* EnsembleDarkhorse:
21	%%%%** The antagonists from the Scar Chain arc, [[spoiler:[[MusicalAssassin Genkaku]] and [[MadMathematician Rokuro]] have rather sizable fanbases.
22	%%%%** The antagonist, Ikazuchi Akatsuki, from the Ninben arc is a favorite among fans, for his interesting power and battle [[spoiler: and backstory]] with Senji being a slight TearJerker.
23	* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: While the manga remains popular in Japan, the anime was not received well by Japanese audiences during its original run. Meanwhile, the anime had become a SleeperHit in the United States and rivaled ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' as the biggest draw for the recently revived Creator/{{Toonami}}, while the English manga release withered to do poor sales and was discontinued after only 4 volumes. Although given the anime's high ratings in the States, it's little wonder why Creator/VizMedia has decided to crank a NetworkToTheRescue [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2013-07-07/viz-media-adds-deadman-wonderland-gangsta-manga for the manga.]] It should be pointed out that Bleach was currently airing [[{{Filler}} the Zanpakutou]]/[[AudienceAlienatingEra Sword Beast arc]] in the U.S. along with ''Deadman Wonderland'', but Americans loved the sadistic prison anime nonetheless.
24	* HarsherInHindsight:
25	** Ganta's fake confession becomes a whole lot scarier with the advent of deepfakes in real life, allowing people to paste your face onto a different person's body in real time, or simulate your voice, meaning that a false recorded confession could actually be used to frame you for a crime you didn't commit in the near future.
26	** '''All''' of Shiro's antics and childlike behavior throughout the anime adaptation and a big chunk of the manga become these [[spoiler:once Chapter 55 was released. It turns out that there was no SplitPersonality in the first place, proving that ''both'' her bubbly, kind persona and her bloodthirsty "Wretched Egg" persona were fake. In reality, Shiro is a jealous, violent {{Yandere}} that [[DeathSeeker wants nothing else than for her childhood friend and lover Ganta to kill her.]]]]
27	* HilariousInHindsight: One month after the manga's release, we got [[WesternAnimation/{{Superjail}} another series]] revolving around [[CrapsaccharineWorld a brutal prison with a funhouse theme]] ran by an amoral PsychopathicManchild with severe daddy issues.
28	* JerkassWoobie:
29	** Minatsuki in spades, once [[FreudianExcuse her]] [[ParentalAbandonment backstory]] is revealed
30	** [[spoiler:Shiro also counts, if you consider her and her Wretched Egg personality to be one and the same - and the manga ultimately reveals this to be the case.]]
31	%%* MemeticMolester: Genkaku for [[DepravedHomosexual obvious reason]]. Also Rokuro. [[note]]Rokuro's expressions tend to get rather rape facey.[[/note]]
32	* MemeticMutation:
33	** SHINY SHINY [[note]]Taken from the upbeat ending theme. Placing the words over a particularly violent/gruesome moment from the episode or playing it over said moments.[[/note]]
34	** G-Cup titties. [[note]]In Episode 1, when an inmate asked what Makina's breast size was, she simply said "I'm a G".[[/note]]
35	** "DON'T MESS WITH THE HUMAN CALCULATOR!" [[note]]In Episode 10, during Rokuro's massive freak out, he tells Senji this when said person's branch of sin doesn't work.[[/note]]
36	*** Rokuro in ''general'' is starting to become this. [[note]]Rokuro's over the top mannerisms and narmy animations which are ''very'' similar to Higurashi in style coupled with how many funny lines he has in the English dub have led to this.[[/note]]
37	** "DEATH IS ROCK AND ROLL!" [[note]]During Episode 12, Genkaku's line in the English dub is switched from "DEATH IS SALVATION!" to said line. It's pretty obvious why.[[/note]]
38	** "Heyooh fahking guyz!" [[note]]Genkaku's Engrish in Episode 9 right before shoots and kills some of people from Scar Chain.[[/note]]
39	** "I WANNA LIVE!" [[note]]Ganta screams this in the first episode. Usually this is said when someone's playing a video game and they keep on dying.[[/note]]
40	* MisaimedFandom: Ganta punching Shiro was meant to highlight the parallels between Nagi and Ganta. Once the both of them lose hope, they lose all motivation to go on, and hurt the people closest to them, regardless of the reason or how they feel now. However, due to the alteration and removal of several scenes building up to that scene, for several fans, Ganta went from the BaseBreakingCharacter to TheScrappy in less then 5 minutes.
41	* MoralEventHorizon:
42	** [[spoiler:For Shiro, murdering Ganta's classmates out of pure jealousy. It is for this reason that she feels that Ganta must absolutely kill her.]]
43	** Takami's mother not only leaving her daughter to die just to save herself, but preferring to save a bunch of flowers rather than her flesh and blood.
44	* {{Narm}}:
45	** The bleeps in the English broadcast tend to make serious conversations [[BlackComedy absolutely hilarious]]. The best is when Kozuji's line of "Someday I'm gonna fuck you in half" is almost entirely bleeped, creating:
46	--->'''Kozuji:''' Someday I'm gonna ''BLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP''.
47	** Watch Episode 6 in the English Dub and just ''try'' to take the rant Minatsuki has about her mother abandoning her for the flowers seriously.
48	** Ganta walking out from his court sentence ''would've been sad,'' if not for the fact that someone just decides to up and ''egg him'' while he's being escorted away.
49	** [[spoiler:Rokuro's VillainousBreakdown / FreakOut in Episode 10. It was ''supposed'' to be unsettling, we think, but since his craziness went ''that far,'' came literally out of no where, with almost no hint that he actually like this, and the fact that ''both'' voice actors, Creator/JunFukuyama and David Trosko, are ''clearly'' [[ChewingTheScenery having too much fun]] during it, cemented the scene's status into this trope forever]].
50	* NoYay: A subset of the fanbase ships [[FoeYayShipping Genkaku with Nagi]]. Genkaku killed Nagi's ''pregnant'' wife in cold blood, as well as torturing him and making him remember that his unborn child was dead. He then stabbed his friend, and then killed him. Most fans love the pairing regardless.
51	* ParanoiaFuel: A mad bomber/slasher/whatever busts into your third-story classroom through the window and kills everyone in your class except you. You wake up injured to the bloody mess left behind as the murderer gloats by showing you your girlfriend's severed head. You pass out and wake up in the hospital where you are then arrested for the murders. You protest your innocence, but everyone who could corroborate your story is dead, and no one, not even people who have known you your whole life, believes you - you aren't even sure whether or not you believe yourself. You're sentenced to death for a crime you didn't commit, and your friends' parents have to be restrained to keep them from beating you to death on the spot, only for your cell phone to drop out of your pocket and reveal a video you know nothing about incriminating you by showing you bragging about the murders to your lawyer. The frame-up is so convincing you start to believe you're insane.
52	* {{Squick}}: Chapter 43 of the manga [[FanDisservice treats]] us to the sight of [[spoiler:Wretched Egg laying on a bed, naked, casually going over a summation of her recent fight with Ganta. Cue Hagire [[DirtyOldMan touching her naked body]].]] To make matters worse? [[spoiler:Wretched Egg doesn't seem bothered by it. At all. To recap, this is a guy that has put her through hell, to the point where he's responsible for that side of Shiro even existing, and she's apparently so used to him molesting her that she doesn't even ''think'' to resist or even object.]]
53	* SugarWiki/SuperlativeDubbing: The dub was seen as good for it's time (Despite a few [[InconsistentDub inconsistencies]]) that it managed to cause the anime to become a breakout hit in America with ''many'' people wanting to see it get a second season. It added a lot more humor, and witty dialogue, and the voice acting is very good, and some would argue even superior to the original.
54	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Rokuro. The fact that he was a OneSceneWonder and a classic case of WhatHappenedToTheMouse only makes it worse, when a lot of fans would have at least liked to see what became of him. Or even ''how'' he became so crazy to begin with.
55	%%** Yosuga, too. Where ''was'' she when Toto/[[spoiler:Hagire]] first reappeared?
56	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: After Genkaku was [[spoiler:revealed to have survived Ganta's Ganbare Gun]], he is never mentioned again. Quite a few fans didn't appreciate being teased that an [[spoiler:EnsembleDarkhorse could have made a comeback in the future]] but were left hanging, and will now probably never know his ultimate fate.
57	* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: Despite the graphic nature of the manga, and the foul mouthed nature of the English Dub, Deadman Wonderland actually ran in Monthly Shonen Ace, a magazine with less restrictions than a [[Manga/WeeklyShonenJump weekly manga anthology]].
58	%%* TheWoobie: Any of the protagonists could make a claim, but the mother of all Woobies would have to be [[spoiler: young Shiro. Goddamn.]]
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