Gokurakugai
Japanese manga series by Yuto Sano From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gokurakugai (極楽街, lit. 'Paradise District') is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yuto Sano. It has been serialized in Shueisha's shōnen manga magazine Jump Square since July 2022. Its chapters have been collected in four tankōbon volumes as of September 2024.
| Gokurakugai | |
First tankōbon volume cover, featuring Alma (front) and Tao (back) | |
| 極楽街 | |
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| Genre | |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Yuto Sano |
| Published by | Shueisha |
| English publisher | |
| Imprint | Jump Comics SQ. |
| Magazine | Jump Square |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Original run | July 4, 2022 – present |
| Volumes | 4 |
Premise
Tao and Alma run Gokurakugai Troubleshooter Agency, a "problem solver" agency, in Gokurakugai, a working class city district populated by humans and beastmen. The duo take up odd jobs, such as missing persons cases and retrieval of incriminating evidence for businessmen. Unease in the city grows as disappearances increase and disfigured animal corpses are found. While investigating disappearances, the duo are attacked by Disaster Beasts (禍, Maga), monsters who were once human. The duo's cases continue to explore further into the hidden dark side of the city.
Publication
Summarize
Perspective
Written and illustrated by Yuto Sano, Gokurakugai was preceded by a one-shot chapter, titled Gokurakugai Sanban-doori no Ken (極楽街三番通の件, lit. 'Paradise District's Third Avenue Incident'), published in Shueisha's shōnen manga magazine Jump SQ.Rise on January 27, 2020;[2][3] the serialization started in Shueisha's Jump Square on July 4, 2022.[3] Shueisha has collected its chapters into individual tankōbon volumes. The first volume was released on November 4, 2022.[4] As of September 4, 2024, four volumes have been released.[5]
Viz Media started publishing the manga digitally in English, with its first six chapters, on March 2, 2023.[6] Viz Media began releasing the volumes in print and digital formats in April 2024.[7][8]
Volumes
| No. | Original release date | Original ISBN | English release date | English ISBN | ||
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| 1 | November 4, 2022[9] | 978-4-08-882740-7 | April 16, 2024[8] | 978-1-9747-4356-8 | ||
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| 2 | April 4, 2023[10] | 978-4-08-883462-7 | June 18, 2024[11] | 978-1-9747-4579-1 | ||
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| 3 | December 4, 2023[12] | 978-4-08-883725-3 | November 19, 2024[13] | 978-1-9747-4976-8 | ||
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| 4 | September 4, 2024[5] | 978-4-08-884042-0 | — | — | ||
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| 5 | May 2, 2025[14] | 978-4-08-884290-5 | — | — | ||
Chapters not yet in tankōbon format
These chapters have yet to be published in a tankōbon volume.
- Chapter 20: "Take My Love!"
- Chapter 21: "Family"
- Chapter 22: "The Case of Mysterious Deaths at a Certain Mansion"
- Chapter 23: "Family Killer"
- Chapter 24: "Why?"
- Chapter 25: "Relation"
Reception
The series ranked ninth in the 2023 Next Manga Award in the print manga category.[15] It placed tenth in the seventh Tsutaya Comic Award in 2023.[16] It ranked fifth in the Nationwide Bookstore Employees' Recommended Comics of 2024 list.[17] It ranked seventh in AnimeJapan's "Manga We Want to See Animated" poll in 2025.[18]
In North America, the first volume ranked 20th on Circana BookScan's monthly top 20 adult graphic novels list of April 2024.[19]
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