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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 Template:Nihongo, published in Shueisha's [[Shōnen manga|Template:Transliteration manga]] magazine Jump SQ.Rise on January 27, 2020;[1][2] the serialization started in Shueisha's Jump Square on July 4, 2022.[2] Shueisha has collected its chapters into individual Template:Transliteration volumes. The first volume was released on November 4, 2022.[3] As of September 4, 2024, four volumes have been released.[4]
Viz Media started publishing the manga digitally in English, with its first six chapters, on March 2, 2023.[5] Viz Media began releasing the volumes in print and digital formats in April 2024.[6][7]
Volumes
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- Chapter 20: "Take My Love!"
Reception
The series ranked ninth in the 2023 Next Manga Award in the print manga category.[8] It placed tenth in the seventh Tsutaya Comic Award in 2023.[9] It ranked fifth in the Nationwide Bookstore Employees' Recommended Comics of 2024 list.[10]
In North America, the first volume ranked 20th on Circana BookScan's monthly top 20 adult graphic novels list of April 2024.[11]
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