miraniki but still it has an iconic
feel and look to it wait can you guys hold on for a second stuck in your wonderland
i'm not mad i'm just disappointed alright boys and girls some of you
might have heard an adult say this to you before i'm not mad i'm disappointed that's
a line chill parents say to their misbehaving children and a man is papa berry disappointed
i'm pretty disappointed but not mad right now i have a decent amount of responsibilities i have
to do right now a new chapter in life you could say employment having a boss dead that's a big one
oh that's a big one university still i feel that's something i can control you know that's just fine
with me i can deal with that the thing that really makes me mad or in this case disappointed are
things i can't control i like re-watching some of my favorite animes whenever i feel fatigued
stressed down or depressed whatever you want to call it it makes me feel and remember a better
time in life a time when things were simple but more often than not the older you get the harder
it is to get back to that memory the harder it is to get a season 2 of your favorite old anime the
ones that never get a season 2 for the dumbest of reasons you know today we'll talk about an
old cult classic of an anime the people swear by an anime that didn't get attention in the time
it came out but over the years has cultivated an actual real following today we'll talk about why
dead man wonderland isn't getting a season 2. i've been wanting to talk about this video for however
long i made my real wars video reason being in that video i kind of hint at and why this anime
never got a season two but before we begin let me introduce myself if this is the first time you've
heard me before i'm barry and i make anime reviews and talk about why certain animes don't get season
twos whether it's a money reason personal reason as well as talking about the anime industry the
best i can and if that's something you like then please subscribe to my youtube channel
and turn on notifications after all it's free as he's having conversation with his friends
about visiting an amusement park called dead man wonderland a blood-stained dark being attacks his
class leaving his class massacred in the process leaving him as the lone survivor when he wakes up
he's charred with the murder of all his classmates after the authorities can't find anything which
as an adult is crazy you're telling me he really never had a fair shot of a trial like say in
the us or i would assume any other most tier one countries he would at least have a chance
but being in japan if you are putting a courtroom you have a 99 chance of being charged that's with
or without evidence look it up or just ask your neighborhood foreigner they'll tell you but in the
court there is no way he wins after seeing this footage of him talking to lawyer and saying this
kind of stuff which was faked by the lawyer of course and you know i figured if i'm gonna do any
i might as well do them all kind of like passing out handmade birthday party invitations yeah yeah
the weapon come on i thought we've been through this already when i hear them say innocent i'll
show you where it's hidden calling my god-given right for being the cleverest guy in the room
like he was already going to be guilty based on the laws but this just made it a definite
guilty verdict with no one giving him any sympathy anyways anyways as his punishment
he's being sent to dead man wonderland which is an amusement park that makes prisoners compete
in death games when public which is able to force inmates to compete because of these death callers
they have on them that will kill them obviously after going too long without having their antidote
they die by the way his lawyer is actually the owner of the partner obviously anyone
would hate the situation a flawed justice system every man for themselves mentality and
did she just cut that man up like some fresh sashimi things get slightly better when he meets
this mysterious girl named shiro and after he is getting stomped out on his first day he discovers
he has some sort of power realizing that there are scarier things in this park other than the inmates
i think what sticks out in people's mind is the image of a prison competing in a deaf
games like say a game show the people watching think it's fake so they laugh as people die
and their explanation to even if it wasn't fake is they're criminals so they write it off but every
justice system is flawed so there are innocent people or low offending criminals competing
in these death games as well as it just being inhumane all to itself i also like how shiro's
seemingly random actions had a actual meaning and helped god to take a step forward in terms
of developing and or just staying alive ganta has a character seems like the worst version of
midoriya meaning he cries a lot but he's the only anime character to say this i am not a freaking
murderer you think i'm scared of some loud mouth dickwad like you after the [ __ ] i've seen
so if you're going to kill me stop wasting my damn time and do it because while i'm breathing
this place and its rules can suck my dick gone to albeit physically weak as a character has
great internal dialogue shout out to the dub team what i really like about this anime is how you can
actually tell there are parts from other animes in the anime whether that's animes that came before
it that it took inspiration from or animes that came up during the time it was being released
i can obviously tell there are some different parts of other animes in this anime like eldon
live hikarashu helsing a little bit of black lagoon miraniki but still it has an iconic
feel and look to it wait can you guys hold on for a second stuck in your wonderland like this intro
just is something i can't see anywhere else low-key the reason i want to make this video
low-key the reason i want a season 2. now let's talk about something that no anime fan likes to
talk about being the blu-ray sales generally the blu-ray sales make or break your favorite anime
and if it gets to season two sure this anime still holds up after you know being gone for like seven
years in quality but blu-ray sales play more of a role in animes than fans think the blu-ray sales
kind of show the company its potential as an anime and if it bombs say in the anime sales
it's probably not gonna be able to stick around the only way it's gonna probably stick around is
if it has other factors that really show hey this one has a lot of potential for sales for example
fire four is bombed in blu-ray sales but they did well in other factors so they got a season two
so how good or how poorly did this anime do so in 2011 there were a total of 88 animes that came out
and posted sales so notable ones that you include mirainiki mayo cheeky steins gate persona 4 is
this a zombie of the dead gentama freezing dog days anahana fade zero infinite stratos
and a big hitter in madoka magicka okay out of all the years i've covered for these videos
this one is the hardest and if you remember some other past videos i said in a past video that
this one was a normal year but i was wrong this year was the toughest year i've seen this is the
release year of gentama and steins gate some of the highest rated animes in the entire community
and i mean of all time the best season of fate was out this year as well being fate zero and albeit
persona 4 infinite stratos they you know they kind of suck have a crazy fan base so they have
monstrous numbers to back up blu-ray sales with the rest of the animes that i've mentioned having
still solid and if not above average sales so who had the best sales that year so in fourth place
was persona 4 selling 4 3 946 copies in the fall of 2011 and in third place was anahana selling
46 811 copies in the spring of 2011 and in second place was fate zero and lastly the
big hitter who sold the number one copies of 2011 and won the biggest sales i've ever seen
being madoka magicka selling 80 089 copies that year so where did dead man wonderland finish
it was it had the misfortune of being one of 10 animes out of 88 animes to sell zero copies well
mostly you see you see it finished the first year selling 293 copies and then later finished with
551 copies as a total but for the majority of the year it was selling zero copies so now you can see
the problem say a executive or producer would have of trying to give this anime season two
it has very low potential of actually getting sales so this next part can be a bit tricky
to really understand and i apologize oh really right now and with that being said we're going
to try and get a little more detail to you know the reasonings so this next part can be a little
bit tricky and really hard to understand and i apologize now for that if you get confused
there's just a lot of information here and i found it just really good so that's why i'm
just going to include it here so we're going to be talking about the studios the producers and just
kind of on paper problems of you know making a season two because most people just want to look
at one part of this and be like oh i want to blame that person when really there's a lot of different
parts in this so quick shout out to the websites that did help me at the time being trinked on
their website they gave me the first half of what i was missing here but they did make a mistake and
i think the author who made the piece understands that now but maybe they didn't so i'm just going
to explain here as well as the second website used to help out being amino and the user there bear
baca this is like the second time i found some credible stuff on amino so it's kind of crazy
to use something from amino but yeah i am um but yeah there was an actual mistake as well with um
what bearbacha said but for the most part was pretty spot-on so we're gonna mention all that
stuff right now okay so let's first talk about the studios a lot and i mean a lot of anime fans think
their favorite studios own their favorite animes which is rarely and i mean rarely the case i
talk all about that kind of stuff in these videos especially this one but to just give you a summary
of those videos studios are the hired help to you know just make the anime producers are the
ones that actually own the anime dead man was made by ginsei kataoka which was published by
kodakawa shoten try and remember that name because it's gonna pop up later tokyo pop then viz media
licensed the english copies of the anime the anime aired in 2011 pulling from the first 21 chapters
funimation and adult swim were then licensed to do the english copies of the anime korokawa show to
the contracted man globe before this to animate the anime so they can give it to funimation
and adult swim manglo was an amazing studio with some of my favorite animes on the roster
samurai shampoo the world only god knows one and two gangsta but it also had some major flops
on there manglo was owned by shinshiyo kabayashi and takashi koshiyama they made the business as a
kaposhiki ginsha which is a joint company in english so this means these two were
part owners of a company with shareholders which in this case i'm guessing was sunrise
or korokawa shoten as the shareholders could be both of them or neither the president was
chinchiro if you notice kodokawa shoten is the company that also publishes the manga who is
also a producer of this anime which is rare but makes this a special case like i said now what
people point to as the big reason why this anime isn't getting a season 2 is because main globe the
company went bankrupt in 2015 and is in debt about 350 million yen which translates to 3 million 298
627.50 in u.s dollars which sucks i know but it's not the reason why dead man is not getting
a season two mangler went bankrupt of their own accord in 2015. the anime was made in 2011.
manglo never owned the anime the person who owns the anime is kodokawa shoten they own the anime
and have kodokawa showtime gone out of business no the article was partly wrong because they figured
that main globe owned the anime won and they also assumed two that the workers are now not employed
because of this when they're actually working at a new studio known as juno studio which was main
globe previously but they're now geno studio this is the same studio that works on golden cameo so
yeah that's two things wrong in this article already like i said they did mention other good
stuff and they tried so i'm not even like trying you know on to the second part being the producers
there are four producers that own part of this anime we'll be starting from the majority owner
to the least likely majority owner if you watch these two videos you know why i say that like that
it's complicated kodakana shoten kotakawa pictures japan clockwork and the hardest one to find amg
music which has also the worst name if not for anime news network i would have never found them
so kotakaba owns two out of four producers here now looking at this i know that the author nor
the studio have anything to do with the production decisions which means they don't own it and while
also looking at the production side i know that they're not also bankrupt like the studio was
reasoning being they simply were not hindered from making other animes during this time and
they would also have three million dollars to pay off the debt so this will be the last point
i explain is that funimation has licensed the stream of the anime that means the licenses
that they got are still up and they are still running and they are still giving money back to
kotakawa for having said license which makes me ask could you buy the rights to the anime giving
me the answer of yes but you have to negotiate like always the reason i say that is because i
saw something about netflix so netflix like any other company can buy the rights to make
whatever they want out of this anime but it simply would not be the same the anime isn't really worth
the trouble kuruwa thinks that for itself and it thinks hey the best we can get out of this anime
is making it a re-run type of anime and keep giving out the licenses so other other stream
platforms can have their consumers watch the anime and we make money that way rather than
making say a season two because we saw that that probably wouldn't make us as much money as doing
it this way so the possibilities are extremely low with the success rate of you making the anime
and shipping it back out the same way you did last time very low of a success rate as well
now let's talk about the manga versus the anime did they skip out of content that compromises the
manga this is what people used to weren't not watching the anime or supporting it something
people like to say that make themselves seem like they control the outcome of the series so in the
manga ganta puts up more of a fight than you would in the actual anime and i mean all around
but this is where i debunked the theory that they skipped on so much content that
they couldn't possibly make a season 2 and left out so much content and so many characters that
they couldn't possibly make a season 2 which is 100 wrong and is something people assume is the
problem dead man wonderland only skipped out on two characters with speaking roles the first one
only gave gonza a sandwich and ends up getting her arm broken her scene was added to joe's character
she was in a total of three chapters but wasn't making any real appearances longer than a couple
of scenes the second is chaplin tsukagawa who shows up after ganza's first fight in g-block and
after kanta gets injured is trying to nurse him back to health this is the [ __ ] character which
is i guess progressive in 2011 he makes another appearance later but after this he's just a season
two character so the anime didn't skip out on any content to compromise it so they couldn't make a
season two so this idea of oh they skipped out on so many characters and so much content they can't
possibly make a season two they wouldn't have the characters and wouldn't have the voice actually
any of that no cut it cut it out that was never an issue you can read all 21 chapters for yourself
and you'll you'll find the same thing it's not the problem now i'm going to talk about individual
points in the manga and anime i'll first start off with the scar group or the scar chain group
this is the group of dead man who were trying to leak out what was going on the amusement park to
the outside world giving ganta a reason to try and escape or get help which is a very reasonable plan
to do and it makes sense but they're just scared dead man who wanted to have a leader to save them
the thing is they're not willing to go all out and destroy the park itself which really holds them
back gets most of them actually killed this part was very true in both the manga and the anime i
think it was actually a good point to also mention for character development forganta realizing hey
i don't need to try and look for leader i need to try and be my own leader and try and find my own
battles and grow a little more as a character kanta has a character that's very similar to
i want to say yuki from future diaries and what i mean by that is he's a character that internalizes
everything that happens up to that point he's weak in confrontation and always mad about the
situation that their female counterparts are putting themselves into but when things get
tough also wanting that person to come back and save them the difference is that yuki
is using you know the entire time up to even the final moments thinking he's changed as where ganta
has a semi-mentor to beat that development out of him pushing him to face his challenges even though
he doesn't do anything until the final attack in the manga he puts up most or more of a fight
fighting more all around than he would be in the anime but this also is where i'm trying to debunk
the theory that they skipped out in content and they left out so many characters up to this point
which like i said 100 just wrong and something people are assuming was the problem what are my
final thoughts on the anime i think from an iconic look standpoint and feel to the world it's a three
out of five or a four out of five but thinking about how little i get i almost want to put it at
a 2.8 i think but i do think it's better than what people originally rated as especially the japanese
international audience at the time who did not rate this anime high at all i think it's more
of an acquired taste that after a period of time just gets better but i do think from how little
action i get in the 12 episodes it kind of just does piss me off like the series animation and
pacing and the quality is really good already and i don't know if it's actually going to go up if a
new studio does you know try and animate a second season i'm actually scared if that did happen the
quality the pacing everything will just go down because they'll take the last season as a failure
so they'll try and do all sorts of different things like little small things to try and make
it better and change what the first season brought us so i think it might actually get worse if a new
studio did bring it on i do think it would do better in copies and how much it would sell i
don't think there's no way they would be selling zero copies for the majority of the time i do
think you could at least sell a couple thousand to start off and then end off of maybe say 2k
i think that's pretty fair given that it only sold like zero to 500 copies the last time