Ganta Igarashi
Ganta Igarashi is a male anime and manga character who features in Deadman Wonderland.
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Biography
Ganta Igarashi (Japanese: 五十嵐 丸太, Hepburn: Igarashi Ganta) was a Japanese male born as the son of Sorae Igarashi (五十嵐 そらえ Igarashi Sorae). His conception was done so by his mother to continue her research with human testing. Shortly after his birth, Ganta's presence came to awaken the maternal instincts in his mother. Hagire Rinichirō would meet with Sorae in the maternity ward and rejoiced at the thought of continuing his experiments and goes off to prepare. Soon afterward, Sorae had begun to regret her choice of using her son as a subject for her experiments. After a conversation with her lab assistant who offered to take the newborn and leave, Sorae procured a little girl to be used as a test subject in his place named Shiro. While living at the research facility, Ganta met Shiro. He told her he liked her hair and became her friend and playmate. At that time, Ganta didn't know the cruel torture his mother and Hagire put her through so he did not understand when she would lash out at him in pain and one time broke his Aceman doll, causing him to reject her. However, she saved him from a rabid dog and their friendship became stronger. Another time, Shiro accidentally hurt him with her strength when they were playing, but he impressed her when he stood back up. Ganta would celebrate his birthday with Shiro, due to her not knowing when she was born and both would receive homemade presents from his mother. One day, while Ganta was looking for Shiro to play, he accidentally stumbled upon a room where Shiro was subjected to experimentation. At that time, Shiro already created her second personality, the Wretched Egg. Ganta, witnessing the slaughter of other scientists, ran away shocked and scared, dropping his Aceman doll which triggered Shiro to prevent Wretched Egg from killing Ganta. While the Wretched Egg was loose, Sorae sent Ganta to his father for his own protection and begged him to forget what happened with Shiro, to which Ganta replied he doesn't know who Shiro is, due to his shock causing him to forget everything about her. Once at his father's home, he began a new life and when he was old enough, he enrolled in Nagano Middle School. There he met a girl named Mimi and a boy named Yamakatsu and became best friends with them. In 2023, a year before the start of the series, Ganta and his classmates went to a waterpark for a school trip.
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, Ganta Igarashi was a Japanese male with short black hair and bluish-gray eyes. In the Deadman Wonderland game, he was given the name of the Woodpecker (キツツキ, Kitsutsuki).
Ganta was a harmless and ordinary school boy. Once in Deadman Wonderland, he was initially confused and frightened by the brutality of the prison.
During his time in prison, he learns to live with the insanity but is still determined to stop Tamaki's tyranny.
He was also quite vengeful, seeking retribution for the death of his classmates at the hands of the Red Man for most of the series. He followed the prisoners rules and trying to avoid them and not get involved. After being sent to G-ward, he is even more confused and scared of being forced to fight each other for others amusement and grossed out by Tamaki's punishment game.
His life turned for the worse when Scar Chain was betrayed by Rokuro and, again, witnessing the slaughter of his comrades, driving Ganta into a rage of wanting to get revenge and save his remaining comrades. In moments of great emotion, Ganta's character can change and he begins to curse and make use of derogatory actions.
Ganta Igarashi was born the son of Sorae Igarashi (五十嵐 そらえ Igarashi Sorae) with his father being unknown.
Powers and abilities
Ganta Igarashi was originally an ordinary human until his encounter with the Red Man (赤い男, Akai Otoko) led to his infection by the Nameless Worm (名前のないワーム Namae no nai wāmu). This allowed him to gain a Branch of Sin (罪の枝, Tsumi no Eda) giving Ganta the power to manipulate his own blood to achieve various feats thus turning him into a Deadmen (デッドマン, Deddoman).
Whilst in Deadman Wonderland, he came to join the Scar Chain (自由の鎖 (スカーチェイン) group who opposed the prison and planned to leak the truth to the rest of the world.
Notes
- Ganta Igarashi was created by Jinsei Kataoka and Kazuma Kondou where he featured in the setting of Deadman Wonderland.
In other media
Television
Appearances
- Deadman Wonderland:
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