The TV anime adaptation of Yuji Kaku’s Hell’s Paradise: Jigokuraku dark fantasy manga reveals teaser visual and promotional video at today’s Jump Festa 2022.
The anime is currently under production by MAPPA, the same studio that is working on the Chainsaw Man anime.
Hell’s Paradise: Jigokuraku centers on Gabimaru, who is sentenced to be executed after being captured during an assassination mission. But nothing seems to kill him due to his superhuman body. Believing his love for his wife to be subconsciously keeping him alive, executioner Yamada Asaemon Sagiri offers him the chance to be pardoned of all crimes by the Shogunate if he finds the elixir of life on Shinsenkyo, a legendary realm recently discovered southwest of the Ryukyu Kingdom.
Hell’s Paradise: Jigokuraku was serialized on the Shōnen Jump+ from January 2018. The chapters have been collected and published into 12 tankōbon volumes by Shueisha as of December 4, 2020. The manga 13th and the last volume will be published in May 2021.
