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"Ever get blamed for your classmates getting murdered? Now you know how Ganta feels."

A survivor of the devastating magnitude 11.4 earthquake that sunk 75% of Tokyo (which he has no memories of), middle school student Ganta Igarashi lives an ordinary and peaceful life — until the day a mysterious man in blood-soaked crimson armor comes into Ganta's school, slaughters his entire class, and implants a strange red crystal on his chest. Ganta becomes the only suspect in the slayings; even though he proclaims his innocence, the court convicts Ganta and sentences him to life imprisonment at Deadman Wonderland, a privately-owned penal facility (the only one in Japan) disguised as a theme park to attract tourists.

While serving his sentence, Ganta befriends Shiro, a strange albino girl who knew Ganta as a child, and discovers the truth about Deadman Wonderland: the facility houses "Deadmen" — people endowed with an ability to turn their own blood into a weapon (the "Branches of Sin") — and the sadistic proprietors of the prison force the Deadmen to fight each other to keep them occupied…and to entertain the tourists willing to pay large sums of money to watch them fight.

As the days drag on, Ganta — the Only Sane Man in the facility — finds himself forced to make a choice: he can either lose whatever remains of his sanity or learn to stand up for himself.

Thus goes the tale of Deadman Wonderland, a monthly Shōnen manga written and illustrated by both by Jinsei Kataoka & Kazuma Kondou (who both worked on the Eureka Seven manga) that ran from May 2007 to August 2013. Tokyopop initally had the rights to the manga and published the English translation of the first five volumes before going under in 2011. However, Viz Media later picked up the manga, republishing the previous volumes starting February 2014 before going on to release the remainder of the series by February 2016.

A 12-Episode Anime adaptation from Manglobe started in April 2011, with Crunchyroll simulcasting it. FUNimation licensed the anime in the US and Canada, and its dubbed version premiered on Toonami as part of the programming block's revival in May 2012. Due to airing a few years before the manga's end, the anime ends its story around Chapter 21. An OVA followed for the DVD and Blu-ray release a few months later, which deals with Senji (aka Crow) and is set two years after the Red Hole event (8 years before the main story).

Not to be confused with DC Comics' soul-possessing, former-circus-performer superhero who bears a similar name.


Deadman Wonderland contains examples of the following tropes:

  • 12-Episode Anime: Technically 13 if you count the home release-exclusive OVA.
  • 20 Minutes into the Future: The story takes place in 2023, excluding flashbacks and the OVA which shows Senji's past.
  • Absurdly Sharp Blade: Senji's BFS, said to be able to slice the world in half. He may have been bragging, however.
  • Actor Allusion:
  • Adaptation Distillation:
    • The anime is this for the manga (with the one exception being the court scene, which was actually expanded on a bit).
    • The English dub considerably changes the interactions between Hummingbird and Ganta. In the manga she is more cunning attempting to injure Ganta before the fight, while making it look like an accident, for the purpose of weakening his stamina. Furthermore, while still sexually explicit, it seems to be more of a tactic to weaken Ganta's morale. In the English dub she's just crazy: triggering an accident for shits and giggles, manipulating him purely for fun, genuinely being turned on by Ganta's pain and suffering, and has an actual brother complex (or is just turned on by any suffering period). Additionally, in the manga she has a breakdown, because her brother knowing her crimes loves her anyway. In the dub she just decides to kill Yoh because the opportunity presented itself, also because his suffering doesn't "excite" her anymore. This is one of the few cases where a dub rather than censoring actually increased graphic content.
  • Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole: In the Final Episode, The Wretched Egg awakens to defend Ganta, despite the fact that there was no mention of The Mother Goose System being turned off, and the scene only exists to justify Ganta's sudden-power up.
  • All of Them: "Toto, just how many branches of sin did you copy?"
  • All There in the Manual: Chapter 0 has joke schematics for Necro Macro robots, where they're shown to be powered by three hamsters and are the offspring of Ultraman parents.
  • Ambiguous Gender: Toto, deliberately, although s/he tends to slip up and use gendered "I"s. May have to do with all those body parts s/he has to keep replacing... and the fact that s/he's actually the elderly Chairman.
  • Amnesiac Dissonance: Shiro. Also, Nagi and his unlocked memories.
  • Amusement Park of Doom: Deadman Wonderland itself, though the doom applies more specifically to the employees and prisoners than park-goers.
  • Animal Motif: Arguably all the various species of birds Deadmen are named after, but woodpeckers in particular.
  • Anti-Magic: The Worm Eater in the Undertakers' weapons are this to the Branches of Sin, the magic in question. It has a scientific explanation in that it instantly rusts the blood before it can reach them.
  • Anyone Can Die: It might not be obvious at first due to the anime adaptation only covering part of the story and removing some characters, but those who've read the manga know that the series goes on to develop a fairly high body count. For example, in the 12 episodes of the anime, two major characters get killed off suddenly Nagi and Hibana, along with numerous members of Scar Chain and various one-shot characters. In the manga, more die in addition to the previous two; Azami, En and Chan and Tamaki. Some other characters get crippled or lose limbs, but in a metaphorical sense another character dies when her evil Split Personality fully takes her over, turning Shiro from a Nice Girl who sometimes becomes evil briefly, into a monstrous sociopath seemingly permanently.
  • Armies Are Evil: The overall depiction of Major Aohi of the National Defense Ministry and the JSDF in general. To better clarify, Major Aohi is the one secretly funding the titular prison and is perfectly willing to turn a blind eye to psycho prison warden Tamaki's illegal actions in exchange for the production of an army of obedient disposable super-soldiers, the Ninben.
    Tamaki: What an awfully anachronistic idea. Turning criminals into disposable soldiers. Typical military inefficiency. But... who cares as long as we get research funding.
  • Artifact of Doom: The "Blood Diamond" that gave Ganta his powers, which seems to be a larger version of whatever infected the rest of the Deadmen.
  • Asshole Victim: Lots of cases but probably none more so than Tsunenaga Tamaki. Just a few examples of his exemplary awfulness: Amidst the earthquake and long before Deadman Wonderland (which he plays a big role in starting up), walking over his own severely injured mother as she's crying for help, to continue his video games. This on top of human experimentation, gratuitous psychological torment of the Deadmen and prisoners in general, regarding their suffering as a game and being incredibly smarmy and self-satisfied on top. So there's little sympathy when Tamaki meets his own comeuppance when Hagire reveals he'd been playing Tamaki all along for his own aims, Tamaki himself having been manipulated in Hagire's game, which sends Tamaki over the edge.
  • Authority Equals Asskicking: Makina slices Yoh in the chest in the first chapter with her sword for "compensation" for stealing.
  • Ax-Crazy: Genkaku, Hibana, Minatsuki, Nagi, Shiro, and definitely in the latter chapters, Hagire as Mockingbird. Most characters are, actually. The only character so far that hasn't been Ax-Crazy at some point is Tamaki, and he's just psychotic.
  • Badass Normal/Mage Killer: The Undertakers are unmutated Ax-Crazy humans. It's their "Axes" that the Deadmen have to watch out for since it disables their powers.
  • Beware the Nice Ones: Anyone who appears pleasant and friendly. One of the KO-Unit's Ninben is a polite lady whose Branch of Sin has a butterfly theme.
  • Berserk Button: The Deadmen each receive a mask that makes fun of them by poking at the horrible things that caused them to end up there. They don't take it well.
    Minatsuki: I'll slice bits off them until they're just a piece of meat!
  • Bifurcated Weapon: Genkaku's guitar splits into two guns.
  • Big Brother Instinct: Yoh is in Deadman Wonderland in order to earn the freedom of his sister Minatsuki, who killed their father.
  • Big Damn Heroes
  • BFS/Whip Sword: Hibana. It is not explained how a little girl in 2nd grade can easily wield a sword her size, when a much older male seems to have difficult dragging it around.
    • And now we have Senji with his BFS blood sword as well.
  • Black-and-Gray Morality: Whether you're in the 'black' or the 'grey' bit is basically determined by whether you torture anyone.
  • Black Comedy: Most humour in the series tends to be this.
  • Blade Below the Shoulder: Senji has a variation of type 1; it comes from his lower arms, and it's removable, yes, but that's only because it's made from his own blood. This still includes his BFS version as well.
  • "Blind Idiot" Translation:
    • One example out of many, this one from the manga:
      Ganta: Is there only bad stuff in reality? (Are there only bad things in the world?)
    • Tokyopop managed to use both "Skull Chain" and "Scar Chain" within the same volume.
  • Blood Lust: Mockingbird, apparently. It's because drinking other Deadmen's blood allows him to gain their powers.
  • Bloody Murder: Bloody murderers, bloody murder weapons. They use blood as murder. Let's face it, if you can combine the words 'blood' and 'murder' in a sentence this manga's probably got a visual description in it somewhere.
  • Body Surf: Toto is really the original chairman, who downloaded his brain into Toto's body, and he's now attempting to do the same thing to Ganta. His ultimate goal is Shiro ("Could this be 'love'? I want to become her!"), seeing as he's the original scientist who experimented on her to create her powers.
  • Book Ends:
    • In the anime, the first and last episode has a character sing the Woodpecker Song.Shiro sings it in the last episode and the Red Man sings it in the first episode. Guess who Shiro's Split Personality is?
    • In chapter one, Ganta said he wanted to die, and Shiro convinced him otherwise after pressing her hand to his heart. It happens again in Chapter 56-b, with the roles completely reversed.
  • Brainwashed and Crazy: Ninben. Unfortunately, that includes Azami.
  • Break the Cutie:
    • Happens to Nagi after Genkaku reminds him that he has no hope of seeing his child by escaping out of Deadman Wonderland. And then there's Genkaku himself, who was shown in the past to have been a timid, cute monk that got repeatedly beaten and raped by bullies, with the elder monk in charge being unsympathetic and uncaring, and seeing the little wounded kitten he was taking care of die - all of this causing him to go insane.
    • Considering what happened to Genkaku, it's understandable how he became the Ax-Crazy psychopath. A serious example of what happens when the cutie snaps.
    • Ganta's been repeatedly broken as the manga progresses.
    • Madoka gets his whole "pain-sponge" ideology from his Freudian Excuse below.
    • Shiro creates her second personality, the Wretched Egg, as a direct result of the pain of the experiments she was subjected to. As if that wasn't enough, the experiments were so dehumanizing and the realization of her being a replacement for Ganta was so devastating, she grows to wish that Ganta will put her out of her misery.
    • Azami. Neglected by her parents, she becomes part of a delinquent girl gang who then leave her to take a murder rap, leading her being consigned to Deadman Wonderland which in turn results in her becoming a Ninben and being killed by Hagire. Jesus.
    • Senji, of all people. Turns out that trying to enforce order and justice amidst anarchy in a pseudo-post-apocalyptic society can get you and all your cop buddies killed.
  • Breather Episode: In Chapter 25, the Deadmen are allowed to go outside. There is much rejoicing, everyone parties and Ganta for the first time appears at peace.
  • Calling Your Attacks:
  • The Call Knows Where You Live: And will apparently slaughter all your classmates to throw you into the story (traumatic flashbacks included).
  • Cassandra Truth:
    • Shiro, after destroying a crucial data chip because she'd been told it was rigged with a bomb by The Mole, gets punched out for it and told to never show herself again. Despite the data chip exploding after she tossed it in the furnace, making it blatantly obvious she was telling the truth.
    • Nobody ever believes Deadman Wonderland, or the Corpse Carnival, even exists, despite the place being a tourist attraction. Though, when asked, people watching the event state that they clearly wish it does.
  • Catchphrase
    • Senji: "Zuppashi!" (Japanese Version)/"Dead Center!" (Funimation Dub)/"Bang!"(Fan Translations)/"On Target!" (Tokyopop Translation)/"Ssssslice!" (Viz Translation)
  • Censor Shadow: Retains this on the Home Release, much to the chagrin of many.
  • Chained by Fashion: Minatsuki goes around with her wrists loosely chained together for seemingly no apparent reason. Evidence seems to suggest it's because she 'likes' it. It's dropped by the Final Arc, however.
  • Character Development: Very evident in the ending, which incorporates and concludes the central lessons each of the main ensemble learned over the course of the series through a series of short scenes focusing on each character. They typically involve the concept of determination.
    • Idaki is no longer apathetic, and emphasizes the concept of the will to survive when lecturing his class on existentialism, which came to him after coming to terms with his daughter's death.
    • Karako still shows the philosophy of Sweet and Sour Grapes that she learned through dealing with the loss of her friends.
    • Makina regains the use of her legs and when instructing the army, she seems to have softened some and emphasizes the importance of personal strength over weaponry, a stark contrast to her formerly militant reliance on firepower and violence.
    • Sukegawa is a playwright and director, and seems to embrace her femininity in a healthier manner, no longer playing to the aggressive transgender stereotype to deal with trauma. She's come to terms with her status as a (reluctant) murderer and a Deadman as being a result of her love of life and her will to survive.
    • Yoh can finally catch his sister's lies and is no longer fooled by her attitude, and is otherwise more laid back.
    • Minatsuki is going to veterinary school, a profession involving empathy and care, and desires to continue her education even though she finds it difficult rather than avoiding her troubles.
    • Senji no longer relies on his violent Branch of Sin, embracing what strengths he has and overcoming his amputee status, drawing on Ganta's example of stubbornness and drive. He also refuses to run away from his past like he did when he previously embraced being a Deadman.
    • Ganta persists in living his life happily while caring for a comatose Shiro, in contrast to when he first escaped Deadman Wonderland facing depression and PTSD. Notably, he states that the song of the Woodpecker isn't finished yet and that he'll continue it past all the destruction and despair that previously defined the song.
    • Shiro finally gets to live a life outside of her prison and the last images of the series are of her genuinely smiling for what is probably the first time, alongside a falling feather finally coming to rest on the ground.
  • Chekhov's Gun: Ganta's symbol that he draws on his most prized possessions. He draws one on Shiro in Chapter 56-b, after refusing to finish her off in the Final Battle.
  • The Chess Master: The Chairman, who was using/toying with Tamaki the whole time.
  • Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Shiro and Toto.
  • Cluster F-Bomb: The English dub. It was obviously censored when shown on Toonami, turning it into a Cluster Beep Bomb. In the second half of the series, the more obscene lines for the Toonami broadcast were rewritten.
  • Cold-Blooded Torture:
    • Genkaku to Nagi, via drugs. The nasty aftereffects are illustrated quite clearly.
    • And that creepy sadistic doctor with a fetish for making people scream.
  • Combat Commentator
  • Conspiracy Redemption: Ganta, Ganta, Ganta.
  • Cooldown Hug: Karako to Nagi after his berserker moment.
  • Cool Old Guy: Hitara.
  • Crapsack World: Ganta watches his entire class get slaughtered, is found guilty, and sentenced to capital punishment. And that's just the start. He learns he was framed so he could be forced to fight in death matches.
  • Crash-Into Hello: Yoh Takami and Ganta, although Yoh is just trying to steal from Ganta, as he was ordered to keep an eye on Ganta as his "friend".
  • Creepy Child: Daida "Punishment" Hibana.
  • Creepy Twins:
    • Ichi and Hajime, who at first seemed to be a single, creepy Ninben child with a lollipop.
    • Chan and En, the two guardians of DW's upper management. Their Branch of Sin involves manipulating connections, so they can use their blood to mind-meld to one another or "download" the chairman into other people's bodies.
  • Critical Existence Failure: The poison injected into the death row inmates causes no physical ill effects until enough has been injected to kill them (estimated to three days), at which point the result is sudden death. Special candies can be bought to prevent this as they contain an antidote.
  • Curb-Stomp Battle: Chapter 17.
    Senji: (after slicing two Undertakers into little pieces) Where are the strong ones?
    Random Scar Chain member: (pointing at the dead Undertakers) Probably... down there.
  • Cute and Psycho: Minatsuki is arguably more this than Yandere as what she does isn't a result of a love interest or any love-motivated ideas. She can act happy and cute (at times)... but beware the Ax-Crazy Psycho for Hire (although lately she's leaning closely to Sociopathic Hero).
  • Cuteness Proximity: Minatsuki to an armadillo, which she actively tries to fight.
  • Dark Magical Girl: Minatsuki, subverted due to the fact that she caused her Parental Abandonment, and possibly Shiro.
  • Deadly Upgrade: Branch of Sin is blood-based. Ganta doesn't have a lot of blood, although whether the blood diamond caused or merely unlocked his Branch of Sin powers is unknown. Additionally, the Ninben: normal people who were given a virus plus a mind-control chip.
  • Death Course: The Dog Race—winners get 100,000 cast points; participants get sweet, delicious bread...if they're still alive to eat it!
  • Death Seeker:
    • Yosuga, before becoming Toto Sakigami's Morality Pet. To the point where she actually questioned if her Branch of Sin was keeping her alive against her will.
    • Chapter 55 reveals that this was Wretched Egg's entire motivation for empowering Ganta and dogging him since the very beginning of the series. Ganta's Branch of Sin is the only one that could possibly kill her; she can't even kill herself, and yes, she's tried.
  • Defeat Means Friendship: Ganta manages to do this with Senji and, in a way, Minatsuki.
  • Defrosting Ice Queen: Minatsuki has become much less of a Blood Knight and has even become a bit more optimistic, compared to her original personality.
  • Delinquents: Anyone in Deadman Wonderland who isn't an adult; Azami was an actual girl gang leader she took a murder rap for one of her members.
  • Deliver Us from Evil: It takes Ganta's birth for his mother to realize that maybe experimenting on live babies and children is bad.
  • Depraved Homosexual: Genkaku towards Nagi.
  • Didn't Think This Through: Yeah Rokuro, just announce that the data chip was a bomb to Scar Chain when they had absolutely no clue that it was. What could possibly go wrong?
  • Dirty Cop: Not Senji, but the other cops in his precinct.
  • Disproportionate Retribution: Shiro destroying Genkaku's electric guitar is apparently a worthy enough offense in his eyes to order his men to rape and cut her up. Some of it was due to him feeling angry and jealous that she was Nagi's friend, but most of it was because of the guitar.
  • Dissonant Serenity:
    • Shiro is shown smiling very happily after ripping up a bunch of guards.
    • Toto is also way too calm about killing, being injured, and consuming specimens of other Deadmen.
  • The Ditz: Shiro.
  • Does This Remind You of Anything?: When Ganta is getting his "entrance examination", the table he's strapped to is almost the same as the ones used for executions by lethal injection.
  • Downer Beginning: Read the page description's opening paragraph. Jesus Christ.
  • Dramatic Irony: Ganta promising himself to trust and believe in Shiro from now on, not knowing that Shiro is actually the Red Man.
  • Driven to Suicide: Hitara's disfigured daughter Yuki, after she interprets her dad's stoicism for uncaring. Tamaki shot himself in the head after discovering that he'd been played the whole time by the Chairman, although that may have had something to do with avoiding whatever the Chairman had planned for him next.'
  • The Dulcinea Effect: Ganta experiences this very quickly with Minatsuki. However, Minatsuki is Ax-Crazy and actually manipulated and planned for The Dulcinea Effect to kick in so she could kill him easier.
  • Dysfunction Junction: Almost everyone in Deadman Wonderland.
  • Elites Are More Glamorous: Seriously averted. A JGSDF commando unit was massacred by Toto when they were securing DW Wonderland after the premises were abandoned.
  • Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Subverted. Tamaki might have been in shock and she might not have been a nice person, but no one likes being second fiddle to the internet after being crushed by a pillar.
  • Expository Hairstyle Change: Minatsuki, who is a little less antagonistic after her Carnival Corpse punishment was manipulated at Ganta's behest so she only lost her hair rather than a body part that wouldn't grow back.
  • Executive Meddling: invoked In-Universe example, Genkaku mocks Ganta by revealing that Ganta's favorite show, Ace Man, was supposed to end with the villains uniting and killing all of Ace Man's close friends and Ace Man taking brutal revenge. Genkaku laments that the end would have taught kids how the world works.
  • Extreme Omnivore: Masu.
  • Eyepatch of Power: Senji loses an eye—part of the randomized punishment for losing a Carnival Corpse match but not dying.
  • Eye Scream:
    • Hitara, via a fork held by his enraged daughter Yuki.
    • In the anime, Tamaki shows Ganta the ropes of Carnival Corpse by strapping him down to a chair, holding his eyes open A Clockwork Orange style and making him watch footage of previous battles.
    • Even earlier than Hitara's backstory in the manga, we see Senji's right eye being removed by the doctor as part of the Punishment Game.
  • Face–Heel Turn:
  • Fake Memories: Turns out that child Nagi was fighting to see was never really outside; his wife was still pregnant when she was killed, and the baby was placed in a test-tube for laboratory purposes.
  • Fake-Out Opening: Episode 1 begins with Ganta planning to go to Deadman Wonderland with his classmates in a manner similar to an average, run-of-the-mill Slice of Life. That is, until the Wretched Egg arrives and proceeds to brutally slaughter all of his classmates onscreen.
  • Fan of Underdog: Senji to Ganta, after the former shows up at the latter's match with Minatsuki.
  • Fanservice:
    • Despite the rather dark lyrics and design of the opening, we get to see a lot of shirtless characters, and Minatsuki has some minor bouncing to make up her somewhat censored fanservice-scene in the opening.
    • Makina suiting up for the prison inspection in "Scar Chain", combined with Male Gaze.
    • An example of Fan Disservice, however, is found all throughout the Return to DW arc, particularly in Chapter 43; Wretched Egg was depicted completely nude, with almost everything exposed... while Hagire Rinichiro touched her bare flesh. She barely made any kind of reaction to this, and almost seemed okay with it, while continuing to talk about her recent fight with Ganta.
  • Ferris Wheel Date Moment: Ganta promised to take Shiro on one. He keeps it, in a manner of speaking.
  • Finish Him!: Carnival Corpse is often treated like a fight to the death, but there's no real requirement for the winner to kill the loser, although the audience prefers it over merely beating them into submission, and a lot of the contestants are happy to oblige.
  • Forgotten Childhood Friend: Shiro was Ganta's best friend when they were very young, but after being reunited ten years later, it takes a while for him to start remembering that he knew her. Toward the end of the manga, it's revealed that Ganta forgot about Shiro ten years ago, repressing all memories of her due to mental trauma from watching her Superpowered Evil Side slaughter a bunch of researchers.
  • Four Eyes, Zero Soul: Tamaki, of course.
  • Four Is Death: The earthquake happened on 4/4/2014, measured 11.4 on the Richter scale, and 148,000 people died/went missing.
  • Frankenstein's Monster: Shiro and Toto are both stitched together from spare body parts after experimentation led their original bodies to start falling apart.
  • Freudian Excuse:
    • Minatsuki loves to make these up as justification for slaughtering people, but what she doesn't tell anybody is that, during the earthquake, she was shaken off and abandoned by her mother as their home collapsed around them, only to find her dead later.
    • Not to mention Genkaku. See Break the Cutie above for details.
    • Madoka as well. When he was a kid, bullies used his back to play Othello with thumbtacks and had a blast of it, giving him the deranged "pain-sponge" ideology he has today.
  • Friendship Moment: Ganta will stand up to a lot of abuse to protect Shiro.
  • Genki Girl: Shiro.
  • Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: Happens to Nagi. It also happens to Chaplin in the form of a Groin Attack.
  • Good with Numbers: Rokuro. In episode ten, he gets so frustrated at Shiro stopping his USB-bomb that he snaps and begins ranting at a level that can only be described as narm. He even shouts (while constantly cracking his neck at what is certainly an unhealthy rate), "DON'T FUCK WITH THE HUMAN CALCULATOR!"
  • Heroic BSoD: Ganta has two:
    • Following Nagi's death and a week in solitary confinement, he can no longer taste things and has ceased to see the point of going on. He gets better when he realizes how hard Shiro is trying to cheer him up.
    • Much later, Ganta completely switches off after he finally learns Shiro is the Red Man, moments after blasting her out of the sky.
  • Hostage Situation: The Undertakers threaten to kill the remaining members of the Scar Chain if their leader, Nagi, doesn't turn over to the Undertakers' side.
  • Human Shield: Shiro is willingly Ganta's and Yoh is unwillingly Minatsuki's. He forgives her, though. Later, Ganta also returns the favor to Shiro.
  • Humongous Mecha: The dangerous robot sentinel let loose after the Wretched Egg escapes.
  • I Didn't Mean to Turn You On: Genkaku seems to be quite turned on just by watching Nagi crush someone's skull.
  • I Have You Now, My Pretty: Genkaku makes it quite clear what he intends to do to Karako and Shiro unless the Scar Chain want to risk coming in to rescue them.
  • I Just Want to Be Normal: Shiro finally admits this is also the case for her in Chapter 56-b, but believes it's not only impossible for her, but that she's too dangerous to even be given the chance to try.
  • I Just Want to Be You (non-Irritation Is the Sincerest Form of Flattery version): Rinichiro Hagire to Shiro. Shiro is about 4-5 at the time and Hagire is the head scientist experimenting on her.
  • Idiot Hair: Shiro also has a small hair that sticks up, which gets longer when in her alter ego.
  • Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: The chapters sometimes rhyme ("Kill My Will") or have Alliterative Titles ("Faced With Fate", "Past The Passion").
  • Impossibly Cool Weapon: One of the creators stated in his blog that even he's not sure if Genkaku's double-gun-guitar would be technically possible. It gets taken even further when it gets "repaired" into a compressed-air cannon capable of removing most of a target's torso.
  • Improbable Hairstyle: Hibana's ridiculously long ponytail somehow stays standing almost straight up.
  • In Love with Your Carnage: Genkaku gets really turned on when he sees Nagi kill, and is willing to kill anyone to make Nagi revert to being berserk.
  • Insistent Terminology: Genkaku is not just a monk, he's a super-monk.
  • Instrument of Murder: Genkaku's guitar can turn into a pair of machines guns, or a single gun capable of punching significantly-sized holes through people.
  • Ironic Echo Cut: In episode 7.
    Makina: Fox Hunt. (cut to Tamaki, playing with blocks)
    Tamaki: Feels like something bad's about to happen.
  • Kangaroo Court: Ganta's trial is ridiculously one-sided. He was the sole survivor of a mass murder, gets charged immediately without any chance to defend himself, and is sentenced to death even though he's only 14. All within the first 10 minutes of this show. This was done with false evidence used by Tamaki to make sure the judges would find him guilty of murder. Near the end of the manga, this is averted with him and most of the DM Wonderland prisoners. Ganta is not the only one to be placed in this kind of court...
  • Karma Houdini: Wretched Egg... Kind of.
  • Karmic Death: The Torture Technician doctor.
  • Kids Are Cruel: Normal kids can be fantastically cruel, and in at least one case this was before the chaos of the mega-quake. Genkaku's tormentors beat/raped him, and Madoka's played Othello on his back with thumbtacks.
  • La Résistance:
    • The Scar Chain.
    • Later, Makina and her fellow guards.
  • Law of Disproportionate Response: Genkaku not batting an eye when a bunch of people (including his own soldiers) die, yet breaking down crying when Shiro destroys his electric guitar. He even goes as far as to say he'll have to hold a memorial service for it.
  • Lawyer-Friendly Cameo: Ganta and Shiro bear close resemblances to Eureka Seven's Renton and Anemone. Although considering it's drawn by the same artist, it could be an accident.
  • Lecherous Licking: In one scene, Genkaku licks the blood from Nagi's severed arm. In a later scene, Mockingbird licks the blood from Senji's arm which turns out to be how Mockingbird copies powers.
  • Lens Flare Censor: In Episode 2 during the dog race.
  • Lethal Chef: Shiro doesn't have much experience with regular food. She eventually improves to the point that her food is edible, although most people find it too sweet.
  • Little Miss Badass: Hibana is the quintessential Badass Lolita.
  • Lovecraftian Superpower: The Deadman have the power to animate their own blood and use it to kill people. Even more so for the Ninben, whose blood is also poisoned and does stuff like melt people's flesh.
  • Love Hurts: Nagi, who tried to save his wife from the Carnival Corpse by losing to her on purpose, got his vocal chord chopped out in the penalty — and she was killed anyway.
  • Love Martyr:
    Chen & En (the creepy twin guards): We loved you...
    Toto/Chairman Hagire: But I never loved you.
    C&E: We know.
  • Lyrical Dissonance: That cheerful lullaby with very disturbing lyrics that Shiro sings.
  • Mad Eye: Practically a visual motif. Everyone gets this at some point.
  • Mad Scientist: The lady doctor who supervises the Deadmen is a complete sadist.
  • Made of Iron: Shiro.
  • Made of Plasticine: Any normal human who happens to be in the path of a Deadman.
  • Madness Mantra/Survival Mantra: Of a sort: Azami's "I'm alright. I'm alright. I'm alright." was just something to get her through her crapsack life, now it's what gets her through being a brainwashed Ninben.
  • Manchild: Would-be director Tamaki looks a lot like Willy Wonka, plays with dangerously modified toys, and has a dancing flower in his office.
  • Manic Pixie Dream Girl: Shiro is a deconstruction of this.
  • Manipulative Bastard:
    • When word of the Deadmen and the Carnival Corpse tournaments gets out, Tamaki takes a gamble by releasing the Deadmen into the general population while saying that they all need to be sealed away. He then creates the Ninben: Deadmen Forged from GenPop prisoners and makes the Carnival Corpse tournaments open to the internet. Because death matches aren't wrong if everyone thinks the fighters should be dead anyway, right?
    • And Toto/Chairman Hagire is manipulating everyone.
  • Man Behind the Man:Chairman Hagire to Tamaki
  • Marshmallow Hell: Unintentionally done to Makina's sidekick during a sneaking romp.
  • Marked Change: Ganta's about to blow shit up.
  • Meaningful Name:
    • Mockingbird can mimic the powers of other Deadmen the same way the bird mimics sounds.
    • The Undertakers: Any Deadman that gets out of line is buried by them.
    • The Kanji for Ganta can also be pronounced as "maruta", which meanings "barkless wood". Because Ganta was planned to be the subject to all the experiments, until Ganta's mom switched him with Shiro.
  • Memento MacGuffin: Nagi has two of these - one being the locket that has a photo of his baby in it, the other being his late wife's scarf which he ties around his waist. The locket is actually empty; Nagi's simply insane.
  • Mind Rape:
    • Genkaku does this to Nagi while interrogating him.
    • Also, Tamaki to several inmates, via his Ninben masks.
  • Miss Swears-a-Lot: Minatsuki Takami, if the English dub is to be believed.
  • Mistaken for Murderer: Ganta.
  • The Mole: Yoh, and to a slight extent Tamaki, as he was posing as Ganta's lawyer to get him into Deadman Wonderland in the first place, as well as Rokuro, who is a Mole in the Scar Chain leaking information to the Undertakers.
    • Makina intended to make Azami into one, too. It didn't end well.
  • Morality Chain:
    • Apparently, the only thing really holding Genkaku (while he was a child) back from going completely Ax-Crazy was his little kitty. So much for that.
    • It's only implied (in the anime), but there's the general vibe that if Ganta died, very bad things would start happening in Shiro's vicinity.
  • More than Mind Control:
    • What Genkaku does to Nagi (with the help of some drugs).
    • The Ninben say their mind control is "better than drugs or women".
  • Mummies at the Dinner Table: Hibana appears to have taken orders from her own dead mother.
  • Murder the Hypotenuse: What Genkaku keeps trying to do with every woman that comes into Nagi's life.
  • My God, What Have I Done?:
    • Nagi, for a moment, before Karako hugs him out of it.
    • When Ganta unleashes a megaton version of his "bullet" and leaves a giant hole where Genkaku's shrine used to be. Somehow, Genkaku survived, albeit he was still in critical condition by the manga's end.
    • Completely averted with Minatsuki. After she reconciles with her brother and realises that she might have been a little wrong about humanity being completely shit, she is still absolutely fine with all her life decisions, including the murders of a puppy who pissed her off, her school counselor, her father, her manipulation of her brother so he could beat up their father because she liked to watch.
    • Inverted with Shiro who still doesn't realise she's killed her grandfather or even that he is dead even after she walks past his decapitated head.
    • Played straight whenever Ganta realises the full impact of his actions these include: what happened to Crow after he beat him (the punishment gig), what happened after he tried to defend Azami (nearly destroying everyone), after the Scar Chain escaped (where he went into a Heroic BSoD for a while)...just a lot.. He doesn't seem to think ahead.
    • In Ganta's backstory, when his mother realized what she was originally going subject Ganta to and switched him with Shiro for experimentation, crying the entire time out of knowledge about what is about to happen to poor little Shiro.
  • Nanomachines: The Nameless Worm femtomachines.
  • Nietzsche Wannabe: Genkaku, who believes that "saving" people is killing them. In bloody ways.
  • No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Happens to Ganta a lot.
  • No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Dine: Tamaki to Ganta.
  • No-Paper Future: All of Yoh's Cast Points — over 90 million — are on one card.
  • Not Brainwashed: Nagi emphasizes to Karako that he is quite sane right before he mauls her, then goes on to rampage against a few other members of the Scar Chain.)
  • Not So Stoic: Inverted. Hitara can't not be stoic to save his daughter's life. over literally
  • Obi-Wan Moment: Despite everything that happened, Nagi at least gets a peaceful, dignified death.
  • Oblivious Younger Sibling: Inverted and subverted, as Yoh is an oblivious older sibling who really only appears oblivious.
  • Older Than They Look: Toto is actually the Chairman, who's the same age as Ganta's mom but looks older due to all the surgery he's done on himself, in a new body.
  • Oracular Urchin: Shiro.
  • Otaku: Tamaki is a gaming Otaku, and he wants to destroy the Wretched Egg because he sees it as a Final Boss to defeat.
  • Overdrawn at the Blood Bank: Turns out that having the power to shoot blood out like bullets leaves the user at risk of dying from blood loss. Imagine that.
  • Parental Abandonment:
    • Ganta, the Takami siblings, and Shiro are orphans, and Azami's parents were neglectful.
    • Minatsuki was literally abandoned by her mother when the earthquake started and Minatsuki latched on to her, only for her mother to push her off and run to save herself.
  • Pet the Dog: Namely, pet the cat. Genkaku was shown in his childhood to not have always been a complete bastard (compared to a lot of children over in DW) because of his sweet care for the kitty. At least, until it dies.
  • Pilot Movie: The anime's OVA takes place before the series starts, and stars Senji in an anime-orginal story.
  • Plot-Based Photograph Obfuscation: A certain family photo in the prison director's room shows a young Ganta and Shiro with Ganta's mother.
  • Playing with Fire: Hitara's power seems to involve igniting his blood.
  • Power Copying: Toto, AKA Mockingbird, can copy the powers of other Deadmen.
  • Power Dyes Your Hair/Power Makes Your Hair Grow: Played with in the Anime, part of Minatsuki's "Whip Wing" makes it look like her hair has got longer and turned red at the ends at the back.
  • Prehensile Hair: Minatsuki's hair — she uses blood to manipulate it.
  • Private Profit Prison: Deadman Wonderland itself at the surface level, an amusement park for the public, "staffed" by convicts.
  • Proper Lady:
  • Psycho Serum: All of Genkaku's injections help reawaken Nagi's suppressed memories and tip him into an insane berserker rage.
  • Psychopathic Manchild: Tamaki views his schemes as a "game" and himself as the one holding the controller. He also left his mother to die in the earthquake without an emotional reaction, but was tramautized by his Gaming PC being busted shortly afterwards. Tamaki started his whole scheme in the first place because of viewing the Wretched Egg as a final boss for him to defeat and be a hero.
  • Put Them All Out of My Misery: Genkaku qualifies: he seems to believe that killing people is the best way of saving them. Being raped and beaten by a group of bullies who hung around the temple did not help his sanity and when the Great Tokyo Earthquake hit and they were trapped under the rubble he saw fit to butcher them all. Strangely it was not out of revenge but because he wanted to grant them salvation, being free of pain in death being better than living in pain. He apparently came to this conclusion because of warped Buddhist ideas and having seen how peaceful a dead kitten was as opposed to when said kitty was wounded yet alive.
  • Rape as Backstory:
    • Minatsuki, by her father. Subverted in the manga, as it's later revealed to be a lie as part of her ploy to make Ganta let his guard down before their fight.
    • Genkaku, of all people. However, it seems that the rape was only the buildup to what turned him into a death-loving killer. The death of a kitten was the final nail in the coffin.
  • Regional Redecoration: The Great Tokyo Earthquake, a magnitude 11.4, sank approximately 75% of the city. The titular prison/amusement park was created as a way of bringing in revenue to help rebuild. This was later revealed to be Shiro/the Wretched Egg attempting to kill herself.
  • Reasonable Authority Figure: Makina is the closest you get in a series like this. Of course, in her first appearance, she sliced Yoh open with her sword, seemingly without provocation. Later it was because Yoh was stealing Ganta's candy, which everyone needs to live.
  • Redemption Equals Death: Ganta's mother felt horrible about her involvement in Shiro's experiments culminating the Great Tokyo Earthquake and sealed Shiro as a result of it. When Hagire tries to get her to reverse the process, she shoots herself in the head.
  • Related in the Adaptation: The English Dub has several lines that flat out say that Tamaki and the Administrator of the prison, Rinichiro Hagire, are father and son, despite this clearly not being the case in the Japanese version or the original manga.
  • Refuge in Audacity:
    • The ever-deadly Dog Race is played out in front of cheering crowds who have no idea that the competitors really are dying. They're convinced it's all special effects, because there's no way that a prison would get away with wantonly killing the inmates like this, right?
    • During the Dog Race, Ganta imagines what would have happened if his class hadn't been massacred. He pictures himself in the audience, sitting next to Mimi, with both of them enjoying the show utterly clueless that it's all real. He's disgusted that anybody thought this was a good idea for a field trip.
  • Regional Redecoration: The Great Tokyo Earthquake caused 75% of Tokyo to sink into the ocean.
  • Required Secondary Powers: Played With. For a projectile-based Branch of Sin user like Ganta, anemia is very much possible from overuse due to only having so much blood in him. Thankfully, the chances are lessened once his body gets used to his power, and he even develops the Supersonic Ganta Gun at Crow's instruction. As for Deadmen like the Red Man/Wretched Egg/Shiro, having a powerful Healing Factor means never having to worry about running out.
  • Rock Me, Asmodeus!: Genkaku the supermonk seems rather fond of heavy-metal rock.
  • Sad Battle Music: The Dark Reprise of the 'Woodpecker Song' in Chapter 56, during the Final Battle between Ganta and Shiro.
  • Sadistic Game Show: The Carnival Corpse has specially selected participants, or "Deadmen", face off in a Death Match. If the loser survives, they are forced into a punishment game where they have a random body part organ surgically removed, with no anesthetics involved.
    • Inmates occasionally participate in a dog-style race full of lethal obstacles.
  • Scenery Gorn: The smears, and splatters of blood on the walls are done very well in the anime, to the point where they almost look realistic.
  • Sealed Evil in a Can:
  • The Red Man can be re-sealed and Ganta's blood is the key.
  • Sealed Inside a Person-Shaped Can: The Red Man inside Shiro, which is later subverted, as it turns out the Red Man and Shiro as we saw her in the beginning never existed in the first place. So there was no sealing, just an angry little girl.
  • Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: The Woodpecker song.
  • Self-Harm–Induced Superpower: All Deadmen are able to manipulate their own blood as a weapon. But since they need an open wound to draw the blood from, many of them will bite their thumbs or use other implements to injure themselves. Ganta in particular cannot recycle his own blood, as he shoots it as a deadly projectile rather than circulating it around him. As a result, his ability to engage in protracted fights is limited by the amount of blood he can risk losing without passing out.
  • Self-Made Orphan: Minatsuki.
  • Satellite Love Interest: Inverted. Minatsuki passes herself as this to trick Ganta into hurting himself for her so that she'd have an advantage during their fight.
  • She Is Not My Girlfriend: Ganta gets asked if Shiro and Azami are both his girlfriends. Both of them. Azami and Ganta blushingly deny it, and Shiro is too innocent to realize what they were talking about.
  • Shirtless Scene: Senji, often.
  • Shoo the Dog: Ganta to Shiro.
  • Shout-Out: One scene in an early episode looks like something out of A Clockwork Orange.
  • Shrinking Violet: Minatsuki. Very subverted.
  • Single-Target Sexuality: Arguably, Genkaku towards Nagi.
  • Slasher Smile: The Wretched Egg.
  • Slipped the Ropes: Ganta does this using his own blood.
  • Sociopathic Hero: Several of the Deadmen, but Senji and Minatsuki deserve special mention.
  • Spoiler Opening:
    • The anime opening hints at later plot twists by showing Senji with his eyepatch and Minatsuki sporting a Slasher Smile.
    • May give way to Evolving Credits, if you've read the Manga and look closely at the words that appear beside the silhouettes near the end of the credits they appear to match other deadmen.
    • The ending theme is also a spoiler ending, as the last image shown in it is Ganta and Shiro together with Ganta's Mom when they were younger.
  • Stage Money: Just because DW's "cast points" sound suspiciously like "Disney Dollars".
  • Stalker with a Crush: Genkaku.
  • Stealth Hi/Bye: Shiro in her first appearance in the manga.
  • Stealth Pun: When Ganta gains the ability to control his blood, he is forced into an underground fighting ring against other prisoners who can similarly control their blood to fight. One might even say he was forced into bloodsports.
  • Stepford Smiler: Yoh and Shiro.
  • The Stoic: Hitara, even before entering DW, even when his own daughter stabs him in the eye with a fork. He just wipes it off and returns it to her, which she unfortunately takes as a sign that he doesn't care about her.
  • Storyboard Body: The random English letters on Senji's face are actually a memorial to his four friends who got killed by criminals.
  • Stuff Blowing Up:
    • How Rokuro, The Mole, managed to fit a bomb into a USB-drive sized data chip is an unsolved mystery — especially since it explodes with enough forced to blow out a pair of metal doors.
    • Ganta, once he figures out how to use his power.
  • Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum: The Great Tokyo Earthquake wasn't an accident. It was Wretched Egg trying to destroy her own body faster than it could regenerate, which would have required every ounce of power she had (which is a whole-freaking-lot). It didn't work.
  • Suicide Pact: Yosuga forms this with Toto. Though it's less of a suicide pact, and more of a 'mutual homicide pact,' meaning they they agreed to be killed only by each other, and therefore have a mandate to survive anything and everything they face until then.
  • Super-Empowering: The Red Man empowered all of the Deadmen in the series, though Ganta is the only one we know of who was intentionally empowered.
  • Superpowered Evil Side: Shiro is also the Red Man, AKA the Wretched Egg.
  • Sweet Tooth: It's implied that Shiro eats nothing but sweets. On the other hand, the Wretched Egg hates sweets.
  • Taking You with Me: Nagi does this to Genkaku, holding him down so that Ganta can kill him. Genkaku doesn't seem to mind, and appears quite happy.
  • Talkative Loon: Shiro acts like this quite often.
  • Talking the Monster to Death: Apparently, Ganta's strategy for dealing with the Wretched Egg, who, without the Mother Goose System, is virtually unstoppable. But now that Ganta knows the truth about Shiro, he might finally feel some sympathy towards her.
  • That Man Is Dead: The Red Man says this about Shiro. It's revealed to be a lie.
  • Theme Naming: All the Carnival Corpse fighters have bird-themed names: Ganta "Woodpecker", Minatsuki "Hummingbird", Senji "Crow", Nagi "Owl", Karako "Gamefowl", Hitara "Condor", Toto "Mockingbird"; naturally Chaplin's is "Peacock".
    • Similarily, each Branch of Sin seems to be called after a reference to its respective Deadman's theme bird, and a descriptive alliteration: "Ganta Gun", "Crow Claw", "Whipping Wing", "Condor Candle", "Peacock Pike", "Owl Orb", etc.
  • Thicker Than Water: Why Yosuga sides with Hagire, whom she apparently still thinks of as Toto. Semi-subverted in the sense that they aren't really related.
  • The Tokyo Fireball: An 11.4 earthquake, after which the "Branch of Sin" powers appeared.
  • Torso with a View: Nagi dies this way. A little bit of dark humor is had as he passes along some candy, wryly saying he no longer needs it as the camera focuses on the giant hole where his stomach used to be.
  • Torture Technician: The sadist doctor, Rei Takashima. Removing a body part or an organ from a living person ('without anaesthesia') is her favourite part of the job. She likes it so much she's hugely disappointed when she can only cut Minatsuki's hair as a punishment for losing a match because it's not "exciting".
  • Tournament Arc: Carnival Corpse matches.
  • Tragic Keepsake: Nagi, with his dead wife's scarf, which he apparently managed to grab just before her body was taken to remove his child as experiment fodder. For better or for worse, it's later used to cover his face after he dies.
  • Traumatic Haircut:
    • Minatsuki's haircut. Subverted somewhat by the fact that it was the best possible outcome of her punishment game.
    • Also, Chaplin's later on, when Deadman Wonderland is closed down and she's sent to a regular prison.
  • Trigger-Happy: Genkaku, with his double machine gun electric guitar.
  • Tsundere: Minatsuki, specifically after her Heel–Face Turn.
  • Tyke-Bomb: Daida Hibana, the kindergartener killer.
  • Unlucky Everydude: Ganta, or so he thinks.
    • Given the new knowledge regarding the nature of his Branch of Sin... yeah, yeah he is.
  • Unwitting Pawn: In the early chapters, Ganta can't seem to go through a single day without becoming someone's pawn, but in actuality the biggest sucker of all turned out to be Tamaki.
    Rinichirou Hagire: Boy, you were a well-made clown.
  • The Virus: The blood of the Ninben causes your flesh to expand until you explode.
  • Walking Shirtless Scene: Senji.
  • Well-Intentioned Extremist:
    • Madoka, revealed to be one of the strongest Ninben, was bullied so severely that he got to thinking that pain "helped" the world in that if one person was in pain, another person wasn't (imagine an "idealistic" Johnny the Homicidal Maniac).
    • Tamaki, at least to himself; he justifies being a Manipulative Bastard on the grounds that he's looking to defeat the Red Man and avenge the people who died in the earthquake.
  • Wham Episode: Chapter 55. The destruction of the Mother Goose System lead to unexpected consequences.
  • What Happened to the Mouse?: A rather jarring example at that. In episode 8, Yoh, who had been a main character up until this point, is last seen unconscious and getting his wounds treated in the Scar Chain hideout. After this he's never seen or mentioned again. He was seen getting carried out of the Scar Chain hideout in the same episode (episode eight) by two other Scar Chain members for about a second or two. After that, he was still never seen again and was only mentioned once by his sister in episode 11.. As luck would have it, the manga just happened to have him out of commission for that period; he still plays a part after the point at which the anime ends.
  • What the Hell, Hero?: Chapter 26 is essentially one extended What The Hell Hero? for Ganta, who can't even remember what he did. Even nameless Muggles get in on the action. Ganta should consider himself lucky that the Deadmen just yelled at him/vandalized his room/beat him senseless rather than just kill him.
  • With Catlike Tread: As Shiro and Yoh begin their infiltration of G-Ward, Shiro is loudly cheering for Ganta. Yoh promptly puts a stop to this.
  • With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: {{Inverted.}} Most of the Deadmen are portrayed as mentally unstable killers by the public, but the normals who try to handle them aren't much better.
  • Wolverine Claws: Madoka, although he doesn't use them the "normal" way.
  • Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Now that we know the entire backstory? Shiro/Wretched Egg. Even Ganta agrees, and by Chapter 54 onward, his feelings towards her lean much more towards 'pity' than 'hatred.'
  • World Half Full: Ganta ultimately survives and while Shiro is in a coma in a prison hospital, she does eventually wake up. The surviving members of La Résistance move on to fulfilling lives with no apparent ill effects.
  • Yank the Dog's Chain: In chapter 25, during a Breather Chapter, the Deadmen are finally allowed to go outside into the fresh air after being kept underground for most of the series, everyone is partying. Ganta has a moment where Shiro asks him if he's having fun, he mulls on the friends he's made in DW, mentally comparing them to his massacred classmates, and for the first time appears to be at peace. in the very next chapter he nearly kills the other Deadmen when he unintentionally activates his Ganbare Ganta Gun trying to save a Ninben, and is loathed by those same friends and even beaten
  • Yandere:
    • Genkaku, Genkaku, Genkaku.
    • Hagire's feelings for Wretched Egg qualify, as well, as the manga progresses.
  • You Are Worth Hell: Is this really a spoiler considering all they've done for each other? Shiro and Ganta.
  • Younger Than They Look: The Chairman isn't that old, he's just had a rough life of getting maimed by Shiro/Red Man's earthquake and later experimenting on himself. He's actually around the same age as Ganta's mom.
    • It's also revealed that the body we first saw him in wasn't his original. This may explain his apparently advanced age when the series starts.
  • Your Days Are Numbered: Every prisoner on death row has a collar with a timer initially set at exactly three days. When the timer runs out, the prisoner gets immediately killed by an accumilated poison injected into them. It is possible to gain extra three days added to the remaining time by eating antidote candy, which prisoners receive as a reward for winning in all those hellish tasks and games imposed on them. Played straight with Ganta. His Branch of Sin is so unique that Makina, Karako and company don't know how to save him from it shutting down his involuntary systems, like say, his nervous system or his circulatory system.



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