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Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku Manga Gets Novel in September
posted on by Jennifer Sherman
Shueisha's Jump j Books imprint will release Sakaku Hishikawa's novel adaptation of Yūji Kaku's Hell’s Paradise: Jigokuraku manga on September 4. The 224-page novel is titled Jigokuraku: Utakata no Yume (Ephemeral Dream). The release will feature color pinup art and other illustrations from Kaku.
Viz Media is releasing the manga digitally through its MANGA Plus service. The company also announced earlier this month that it plans to begin releasing the series in print in spring 2020.
The manga centers on Gabimaru, once exalted as the strongest ninja, but who has now quit his trade, violating the laws of his village. After being captured, he claims he has nothing left to live for. However, due to his superhuman levels of training, he has inadvertently survived multiple executions, from attempts at beheading to burning at the stake. The executioner Sagiri Asaemon tells him that he has lingering attachment to life, and issues him a mission to win his acquittal: to find the elixir of immortality.
Kaku launched the manga on Shueisha's Shonen Jump+ website and app in January 2018. Shueisha released the sixth compiled book volume on June 4, and the seventh will ship on September 4.
Source: Jump j Books' website
