– Beware: This article contains spoilers for Hell’s Paradise: Jigokuraku. –
Saturday, April 8 (Friday, April 7 in some countries) saw the release of an update toYūji Kaku’s completed manga series,Hell’s Paradise: Jigokuraku. A special one-shot, titledHell’s Paradise: Jigokuraku – Side Story: Forest of Misfortunewas released, following the life of Gabimaru after the events of the original manga.
The one-shot was announced after the premiere of the first episode of theHell’s Paradise: Jigokurakuanime, produced by MAPPA, and it was published on the Shonen Jump+ app as well as VIZ’s Shonen Jump app.
RELATED:Hell’s Paradise: Jigokuraku Off To a Fiery Start
TheForest of Misfortuneone-shot is set after the events of the manga. Word of criminals who escaped from Edo has made its way across the country. At some point after his return from Shinsenkyo, Gabimaru spent some time living in the woods just outside a nearby village, where the adults are bedridden, sick with an unknown illness, leaving the children in the village to fend for themselves. Seeing him as suspicious, the children plot to kill Gabimaru to defend themselves.
Gabimaru wants tolive off the landand cultivate crops; however, the land he selected is unfit for such, so he strikes a deal with the children of the village: they are allowed one serious attempt on Gabimaru’s life on the condition that they teach him how to work the land to be fit to sustain the food he wants to grow.
The originalHell’s Paradise: Jigokurakumanga was serialized in Shueisha’s Shonen Jump+ platform from January 2018 to January 2021, and has been collected into 13 volumes, the last of which shipped in May 2021. The anime was announced in January 2021, with production by MAPPA and direction by Kaori Makita (episode director,Attack on Titan: The Final Season).
The opening theme ofHell’s Paradise: Jigokurakuis WORK by millennium parade ✕ Ringo Sheena, while the ending theme is “Kamihitoe” by Uru.The series is part of the Spring 2023 line-up, with the first episode having premiered on April Fools' Day, with each episode of the series broadcast on Saturdays at 23:00 JST. Crunchyroll streamsHell’s Paradise: Jigokurakuas it airs in Japan.
