Gokurakugai

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 five tankōbon volumes as of May 2025.

Gokurakugai
First tankōbon volume cover, featuring Alma (front) and Tao (back)
極楽街
Genre	Adventure[1] Supernatural[1]
Manga
Written by	Yuto Sano
Published by	Shueisha
English publisher	NA: Viz Media
Imprint	Jump Comics SQ.
Magazine	Jump Square
Original run	July 4, 2022 – present
Volumes	5

Premise

Tao Saotome and Alma operate the Gokurakugai Troubleshooter Agency, a problem-solving service in Gokurakugai, a working-class district inhabited by humans and beastmen. Tao is a tall woman with long braided hair, while Alma is a red-haired, fanged half-human youth. Their cases range from locating missing persons to retrieving sensitive materials for clients. However, the district faces rising unrest as disappearances multiply and mutilated animal corpses appear. During an investigation, they encounter Disaster Beasts (禍, Maga)—monstrous entities once human. Their work gradually exposes the city’s hidden darkness.

Publication

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 May 2, 2025, five 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
1	November 4, 2022[9]	978-4-08-882740-7	April 16, 2024[8]	978-1-9747-4356-8
Chapter 1: "The Troubleshooters of Gokurakugai" (極楽街の解決屋, Gokurakugai no Kaiketsu-ya) Chapter 2: "Home" (ホーム, Hōmu) Chapter 3: "A Dud" (ハズレ, Hazure)
2	April 4, 2023[10]	978-4-08-883462-7	June 18, 2024[11]	978-1-9747-4579-1
Chapter 4: "Ignorance is Bliss" (知らぬが仏, Shiranu ga Hotoke) Chapter 5: "Nei the Child Prodigy" (寧馨児, Nei Kōji) Chapter 5.1: "A Day Off" (忙中有閑, Bōchū Yūkan) Chapter 6: "Young Girl’s Yearning" (少女の憧憬, Shōjo no Dōkei)
3	December 4, 2023[12]	978-4-08-883725-3	November 19, 2024[13]	978-1-9747-4976-8
Chapter 7: "Groan" (呻吟, Shingin) Chapter 8: "Encounter and Rampage" (遭逢と暴走, Sōhō to Bōsō) Chapter 9: "The Person Who Made It Happen" (叶えてくれた人, Kanaete Kureta Hito) Chapter 10: "Salvation" (救い, Sukui) Chapter 11: "Boozer" (飲兵衛, Nonbee) Chapter 12: "Boiling Mad" (怒髪衝天, Dohatsu Shōten) Chapter 13: "Reunion" (再会, Saikai)
4	September 4, 2024[14]	978-4-08-884042-0	September 2, 2025[15]	978-1-9747-5835-7
Chapter 14: "Tis Folly to Be Wise" (知るが煩悩, Shiru ga Bon'nō) Chapter 15: "'Hesitation" (逡巡, Shunjun) Chapter 16: "Tons of Trouble" (多事多難, Tasatsu Tanan) Chapter 17: "Cute Girlfriend" (キュートな彼女, Kyūtona Kanojo) Chapter 18: "Girl Trouble" (女難, Jonan) Chapter 19: "Let's Make a Suicide Pact" (重度な恋情, Jūdona Renjō)
5	May 2, 2025[5]	978-4-08-884290-5	—	—
Chapter 20: "Take My Love!" (愛を喰らえ!, Ai wo Kurae!) Chapter 21: "Family" (家族, Kazoku) Chapter 22: "The Case of Mysterious Deaths at a Certain Mansion" (とある屋敷の連続不審死事件, To aru Yashiki no Renzoku Fushinshi Jiken) Chapter 23: "Family Killer" (仇, Kyū) Chapter 24: "Why?" (どうして, Dōshite) Chapter 25: "Relation" (縁由, En'yu)

Chapters not yet in tankōbon format

These chapters have yet to be published in a tankōbon volume.

• Chapter 26: "Agony"
• Chapter 27: "The Snake Pit"
• Chapter 28: "Alarm Bells"

Reception

The series ranked ninth in the 2023 Next Manga Award in the print manga category.^[16] It has also been nominated for the 2025 edition in the same category.^[17] It placed tenth in the seventh Tsutaya Comic Award in 2023.^[18] It ranked fifth in the Nationwide Bookstore Employees' Recommended Comics of 2024 list.^[19] It ranked seventh in AnimeJapan's "Manga We Want to See Animated" poll in 2025.^[20]

In North America, the first volume ranked 20th on Circana BookScan's monthly top 20 adult graphic novels list of April 2024.^[21]