Line #14 NightmareFuel/DeadmanWonderland


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5	* The SlaveCollar that inmates have to wear is nightmare inducing, especially if you're a Death Row inmate. It produces a constant flow of poison that injects into their body on a daily basis, which is lethal if enough is accumulated in three days. The only way to get rid of the poison is eating special candies that contain an antidote. Keep in mind that even after taking it, the collar is ''still'' injecting poison into an inmate, meaning that they either have to take one candy within the three day period or take the death, which overall makes sense if you are a death row inmate.
6	* Episode 1: Exactly ''three'' minutes into the first episode you get to see a classroom of middle school kids mutilated into shredded corpses covered in glass, concrete, and their own dismembered bones and blood. And ''then'' you see [[spoiler: Mimi's]] bloodsoaked head clutched in the Red Man's hand like a trophy... with the most horrified look on her face. What does that imply? ''[[FridgeHorror She saw the whole thing and begged not to be killed.]]'' But the Red Man found it more pleasing to his sick gullet to just [[MercyKill put her out of her misery]].
7	** And then comes the trial. Not only is Ganta a helpless little kid under the mercy of an iron-fisted court, he has ''nobody'' with any moral fiber to defend him. On top of that, he's seamlessly impersonated ''and'' incriminated with evidence that he's an insane killer. After panicking at the sight of everyone ready to convict him, he looks like he's lost his mind... which of course, causes the grief-stricken parents of the victims to think he has no remorse (for a crime that wasn't even his doing), and beat the hell out of him. Next, his corrupt bastard lawyer deserts him and he gets a life sentence. Then, of all things, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking he gets egged]]. Finally, he's placed in a jail that can only be described as Satan's playhouse. Think ''you're'' having a bad day?? Like ''hell'' you are compared to this shit.
8	** It gets worse when it is later revealed that [[spoiler:Shiro]] was the one who set up Ganta to go in prison. Not only that, but [[spoiler:Shiro is the Red Man]]. So, Ganta [[spoiler:befriended Shiro and arguably loved her, just to find out she liked him back]] enough to ruin his life and put him in Deadman Wonderland.
9	*** [[spoiler: And it turns out that Shiro knew exactly what she was doing.]]
10	* The dog race from episode 2 has Ganta and other inmates forced to run through a deadly obstacle course as part of the theme park's attractions. The audience, that are watching real people die, are convinced it was all an act.
11	** In the anime, a woman asks her boyfriend how he can watch it. He replies that it isn't real, BUT EVEN IF IT IS, IT'S STILL PRETTY COOL, "'cause they are criminals."
12	* Shiro as a little girl [[spoiler: having her arm fall apart and trying to put it back together.]]
13	* The stuff that happened to [[spoiler: Shiro in her youth]]. She was infected with all manner of extremely dangerous, extremely potent diseases, viruses, and chemical weapons, repeatedly and without treatment. It left her in constant agony that she tried hide when she attempted to have some normal happy playtime[[spoiler: with Ganta]]. [[BodyHorror That is, until her body literally started rotting apart]], and she could feel every second of it. After her regenerative and blood controlling capabilities were revealed, [[TheyWouldCutYouUp she was vivisected repeatedly]], without anesthesia and [[{{Gorn}} had large chunks drilled or gouged out of her body, again without anesthesia]].
14	** Even worse, they did try to give her anesthesia, and her body's effects ''degenerated'' it. So they just went ahead without it.
15	* Ganta being tortured by being forced to watch the Carnival of Corpses. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDEDKKo5Fj4 He has a breakdown as a result.]]
16	** Speaking of Carnival Corpse, the entire idea is similar to the dog race, except that it's a one-on-one match between contestants. The preview shows a woman ''having her arm ripped off as she screams in agony.'' This is directly followed by a man having his face stomped flat. Also, if you lose and manage to survive, [[spoiler:you are tortured simply for losing. Specifically, you're forced into a punishment game where you have a random body part or organ removed, with absolutely no anesthetics used (It ''is'' called a Punishment Game after all. Kiyomasa has his right eye gouged from his head after losing to Ganta.]]
17	** On top of that, look at the machine! [[spoiler:It spins around like a gambling machine, flashing several options such as hand, tongue, stomach, etc. ''Do they remove those, too?'']]
18	** In the manga, [[spoiler:Minatsuki claims to have lost a kidney to the Punishment Game. So yes, they take those, too.]]
19	* In episode 11,[[spoiler: after Genkaku captures Shiro and Karako, he hosts a live broadcast throughout G-Ward.]] [[spoiler:In the broadcast, he threatens to have his guards rape both Karako and Shiro if Scar Chain doesn't show up, and continues to escape.]] [[spoiler:After Genkaku says that, he moves the camera to where we can see Shiro and Karako being held down by a few of the guards as the rest of the guards tear at their clothing. (A few of the guards even push the barrels of their guns into Karako's breast and other patches of already revealed skin.)]] Remember that [[spoiler: Shiro is only ~14 years old when she is being sexually harassed in the video.]] [[spoiler: The video ends soon after that.]]
20	* The entire show is based off the manipulation of your own blood as a weapon, for starters. And then, we have [[spoiler: Shiro, the wretched egg]] who maniacally goes about slaughtering people: their remains take the form of decapitated bodies, mutilated half forms, with blood everywhere, and random body parts, vividly drawn with accurate detail. Let us also recall [[spoiler: Toto, who mimics others' Branch of Sin by eating/sewing on body parts to take on their blood!]] Or how about when Toto took someone's head, and then proceeded to jam his arm up it, and make it a puppet.
21	** Not to mention that [[spoiler: the Mother Goose system, which exists to prevent Shiro from killing herself, is largely made up of cubes full of her body, the collection of which is largely to blame for her insanity.]]
22	* Chapter 53: [[spoiler:Hagire's death. Even after getting beaten to hell and back, [[Determinator he ''still' manages to hold on]] long enough for Ganta to finish him off.]]
23	** Speaking of which, [[spoiler:the Wretched Egg returns by stealing and destroying the heart (key to keeping the Mother Goose system operational). Her chilling smiles and laughter don't help at all.]]
24	* Chapter 55: All the remaining questions regarding [[spoiler:Shiro's backstory]] are answered. As the WhamEpisode trope on the main page says, the answers are as bad as you think it is.
25	** The true purpose of the Mother Goose system. [[spoiler:Yes, it does limit the powers that Shiro could muster. However, the real purpose of the system is so that Shiro will always regenerate and thus never die (as the aftermath of the Great Tokyo Earthquake reveals). Because Sorae (Ganta's mother) grew too attached to Shiro to see her die, Sorae had unwittingly condemned the poor girl to continue being used as a lab rat for even more dehumanizing experiments.]]

Context NightmareFuel / DeadmanWonderland