Gokurakugai

Gokurakugai (極楽街) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yuto Sano. It has been serialized in Shueisha's manga magazine Jump Square since July 2022.

Premise
Tao and Alma run Gokurakugai Troubleshooter Agency, a "problem solver" agency, in Gokurakugai, a working class city district populated by humans and beastmen. The duo take up odd jobs, such as missing persons cases and retrieval of incriminating evidence for businessmen. Unease in the city grows as disappearances increase and disfigured animal corpses are found. While investigating disappearances, the duo are attacked by maga, monsters who were once human. The duo's cases continue to explore further into the hidden dark side of the city.

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), published in Shueisha's manga magazine Jump SQ.Rise on January 27, 2020; the serialization started in Shueisha's Jump Square on July 4, 2022. Shueisha has collected its chapters into individual volumes. The first volume was released on November 4, 2022. As of December 12, 2023, three volumes have been released.

Viz Media started publishing the manga digitally in English, with its first six chapters, on March 2, 2023. Viz Media began releasing the volumes in print and digital formats in April 2024.

Chapters not yet in tankōbon format
These chapters have yet to be published in a volume.
 * Chapter 14: "'Tis Folly to Be Wise"
 * Chapter 15: "'Hesitation"

Reception
The series ranked ninth in the 2023 Next Manga Award in the print manga category. It placed tenth in the seventh Tsutaya Comic Award in 2023. It ranked fifth in the Nationwide Bookstore Employees' Recommended Comics of 2024 list.

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