Deadman Wonderland volume 2 - Jinsei Kataoka and Kazuma Jondou

 In the next manga I have been reading, we return to the Deadman Wonderland prison slash amusement park.

And Ganta still struggles with his fate as he desperatly tries to survive and figure out the truth of the Red Man whom he encountered at the end of the previous volume.

He ponders his new found power of using his blood as a weapon, when he learns there are more like him in the G ward of the prison.  He sets out to look by it, followed by a robot Warden Makina send after them to apprehend him.  But it turns out even she doesn't know about this G ward.

As the robot is about to take out Shiro, another inmate from G ward intervenes and destroys the machine.  They learn his name is Crow, and that all the inmates of G ward are so called Deadmen, people who can use their blood as weapons, a power called the Branch of Sin.

Ganta is taken to a hospital wing, where he learns not only that he is now part of an experiment to learn about these powers, but that he was framed by his lawyer at the trial, who is actually the master of the prison's Deadmen program.  The red man is indeed part of this as well, as he is officially called The Wretched Egg, and he is forced to duel Crow.  He wins through a smart rouse, but learns the price of the loser is donating a body part instead...

Meanwhile, Shiro and another inmate, the one that framed Ganta in the beginning when he arrived, are out to rescue him, but as Shiro is caught she slays all the guards in a gruesome manner, smiling as she goes...

So this has been a rather gruesome and hard volume once again, as we can't call this a calm series.  Onwards to the next volume!