Deadman Wonderland takes a huge turn and this is the first volume that takes place after the anime abruptly ends (and to this day doesn't have a second season). Toto/Mockingbird who is a deadman with the ability to copy the Branches of sin of other people when he licks their blood has reappeared in Sector G after a lengthly absence (so much for being a supermax prison). He picks a fight with hot-head Crow to have an excuse to copy his crow claw without revealing his true plans.

Meanwhile, as typical shounen manga fanfare, the cute female supporting character Azami that is serving a prison sentence as a regular inmate for manslaughter has been injected with nanomachines that trigger an artifical Branch of Sin. While I think this is an interesting plot device because it explains part of the reason why Tamaki removes organs from Deadmen that lose in the carnival corpse battles, it just seems like he has all of this technology that conveniently moves the plot forward with the ever predictable increasingly powerful enemies and deadly battles.

Villains don't get developed, they all seem one dimensional albeit Ganta in an attempt to stop the deadmen from killing the unwitting Azami causes everyone to unanimously hate him. This volume plotwise is a sort of hit and miss but the artwork like always is great and I liked the character development of Ganta and the other Deadmen. ( )