Deadman Wonderland Anime Announced

An anonymous post on Japan’s 2channel message board also claims that a retailer solicitation has revealed development of an anime adaptation of Jinsei Kataoka and Kazuma Kondou’s dramatic sci-fi adventure manga series Deadman Wonderland. Reportedly the anime production will be formally announced to the public when it’s mentioned on the advertising obi found on copies of manga volume 6, scheduled for release in Japan on August 26.

Tokyopop will release its first English translated volume of Deadman Wonderland next February.

The series’ title refers to inmates in a Tokyo prison whose death sentence is carried out by a slow, steady transmission of poison into their bloodstream. The “deadmen” are forced to participate in gladiatorial combat to win antidote that prolongs their life. The manga stars 14-year old Ganta Igarashi, sentenced to death in Deadman Wonderland for a mass murder he didn’t commit.

Source: Anime News Network