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. Its chapters have been collected in six volumes as of February 2026.
Premise Tao Saotome and Alma operate the Gokurakugai Troubleshooter Agency, a problem-solving service in Gokurakugai, a working-class district inhabited by humans and beastmen. Tao is a tall woman with long braided hair, while Alma is a red-haired, fanged half-human youth. Their cases range from locating missing persons to retrieving sensitive materials for clients. However, the district faces rising unrest as disappearances multiply and mutilated animal corpses appear. During an investigation, they encounter —monstrous entities that come from dead humans and animals. Their work gradually exposes the city's hidden darkness.
Characters Saragi
A 15-year-old half-, half-human hybrid. His combat powers are locked behind a stake of "karmic restraint", but he undergoes training to learn how to pull the stake by himself.
Alma's partner, a human who uses firearms shooting bullets made from Alma's blood.
A wolf-man who is responsible for research and development.
A human woman who is responsible for research and development.
A -wielding human woman who is a "competitive overachiever", happy to take on more jobs than others, so that she can be praised constantly. Orphaned at the age of 6. Although at 16, she is physically younger than all the others, save Alma, she has a lot of experience and resents being called "kid".
A human man who trained Tao and Nei before retiring; he returns to teach Alma how to remove his stake of restraint.
Civilians
A young waitress at Hourai Restaurant downstairs.
A talented artist whose family's wealth has left his isolated, socially.
A cat-man who is Luka's first friend.
An information dealer who is hopelessly charmed by women he meets, including Ms. Tao. Alma and the others refer to him derogatorily as "the money-grubber", as he charges at least for information, but he offers a substantial discount to his favorite women.
A young man who caught his greedy father after he had murdered Isato's gentle grandfather for money; he meets Alma and Tao on a visit to his grandfather's grave, in a graveyard reputed to be haunted.
Yomi's maga family
Leader of the "family" who wants Alma to join them. He turns the dead into his by feeding them his blood; most of the time, it results in a monstrous mutation, but those who can retain their human shape are welcomed into the family.
A young man who targets women, killing them by strangulation. He is an alternate, cruel personality hosted in the body of Tao's younger brother Jin, who died by hanging, and he wears a black choker to conceal the ligature scar.
Kanata's human host was a student who died in a hit-and-run collision during high school; as a , she tries to resist her hunger for human flesh, but when she is overwhelmed and cannot control her urges, she targets men who have hurt others.
She wears an eye patch and stays close to Yomi.
A woman, nicknamed Utsu, who forms strong bonds with men easily; they then are subject to her paranoid jealousy and violence. She believes that if they die, they belong to her forever, repeating what her human host heard as a child while watching her mother stab her cheating father. Utsu's human host died from blood loss following years of self-harm, and her victims die from uncontrolled bleeding. Chihaya Described by Utsu as a creepy kid who is always thinking about food. His victims die by starvation.
He kills victims with crushing force.
Publication Written and illustrated by Yuto Sano, Gokurakugai was preceded by a one-shot chapter, titled , 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 February 4, 2026, six 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.
Volumes
Chapters not yet in tankōbon format These chapters have yet to be published in a volume.
Reception By February 2026, the manga had over 1.4 million copies in circulation. The series ranked ninth in the 2023 Next Manga Award in the print manga category. It was also ranked seventh and won the U-Next Award in the 2025 edition in the same 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. It ranked seventh in AnimeJapan's "Manga We Want to See Animated" poll in 2025; it ranked ninth in the same poll the following year.
In North America, the first volume ranked 20th on Circana BookScan's monthly top 20 adult graphic novels list of April 2024.
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