What’s interesting about Jigokuraku, MAPPA’s upcoming anime?

Hell’s Paradise: Jigokuraku is an upcoming Dark Fantasy anime produced by MAPPA, so what’s so attractive about this work?

Hell’s Paradise: Jigokuraku is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yuji Kaku. Set in Japan’s Edo period, the film follows the ninja Gabimaru and the executioner Yamada Asaemon Sagiri as they search for the elixir of immortality. The series was serialized for free weekly on the Shonen Jump+ app and website from January 22, 2018 to January 25, 2021. The chapters have been collected and published by Shueisha in 13 volumes. Viz Media licensed the series in English in North America. An anime television series adaptation by MAPPA will premiere in April 2023, specifically this year’s April Fools’ Day.

Regarding the plot of the work:

“Caught on an assassination mission, Gabimaru the Hollow was sentenced to death, but nothing seems to be able to kill him due to his exceptional body. Believing that Gabimaru’s love for his wife has kept him alive, executioner Yamada Asaemon Sagiri offers him the chance to be forgiven by the shogunate for all his crimes if he finds the elixir of life in Shinsenkyo, a mystical kingdom. newly discovered phone in the southwestern part of the Ryukyu Kingdom. After losing five expedition teams sent to the island, this time the Shogunate sends a group of death row inmates to find a strange cure. Each of them are convicted and must work under the orders of the executioner Yamada Asaemon, the goal of which is to find the elixir of life to obtain pardon.”

The audience’s first impression of Hell’s Paradise: Jigokuraku is definitely the eye-catching graphics. Produced by one of the most popular Anime Studio, MAPPA did not disappoint the audience by bringing to life the characters of artist Yuji Kaku. Although not much has been revealed, but surely the combat part of the movie will be extremely satisfying because MAPPA is not only famous for its visuals, but they also do extremely well in character movement.

In addition, a work of the Dark Fantasy genre like Hell’s Paradise: Jigokuraku has always been a topic of interest to fans, at a time when all anime reincarnations, school, humor, etc. can be considered as a new price when it brings a dark, heavy story but contains many touching and profound lessons. The characters in the film all have to fight to win life from the hands of death and find the right direction for themselves in the face of temptations from what is called the “Remedy for Life”.

The main character of the film will be Gabimaru, the strongest ninja from Iwagakure, where he has been trained to kill people since birth. He is known as “Gabimaru the Hollow” for always killing people with an expressionless face. However, he is very much in love with his wife, the daughter of the village chief, who treats him differently due to her pacifist nature. After trying to cut ties with the village to live a normal life with his wife, he was trapped and arrested by his teammates.

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