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極楽街 [Gokurakugai] #4

Gokurakugai, Vol. 4

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「大切な人が禍になったら、殺せるか──」
首吊り死体事件の神社で、タオの目の前に現れた夜。9年間行方を追い続けて来た弟・ジンと瓜二つの姿に、激しく動揺するタオ。2人が生きた壮絶な過去とは!? 黄泉の“家族”たちが極楽街で蠢き始める──!!

200 pages, Paperback

First published September 4, 2024

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Yuto Sano 佐乃夕斗 (Sano Yūto) is a Japanese Mangaka.

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241 reviews25 followers
January 21, 2025
Chapter 14-23
This was pretty dark... I think the series improves with almost every volume.

Update: I really liked the hunted house in chapter 22&23
Profile Image for kelly.
435 reviews42 followers
November 21, 2024
it just keeps getting better
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673 reviews49 followers
May 16, 2025
The plot is shit and the pacing is whack but the drawing is so. fucking. pretty! I just can't stop ✨looking✨
I'll probably read all there is and then gaslight myself to forget it exists so I won't keep reading it
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616 reviews28 followers
July 31, 2025
They shouldn't have made the bad guys so attractive and sleepy looking if they wanted me to hate them.
Profile Image for Florence Mullot.
Author 1 book12 followers
March 9, 2025
C’est avec ce genre de tome que je suis contente d’avoir donné une seconde chance à Gokurakugai et d’avoir poursuivi l’aventure. Il faut avoir le cœur bien accroché avec ce shonen, mais plus on avance dans l’histoire, plus je la trouve prenante. Et Alma et Tao ne cessent de devenir de plus en plus attachants, ce qui ajoute un peu plus de plaisir à cette lecture.

Un tome en deux parties, si l’on peut dire, car elles ont toutes les deux Yomi comme point central, mais elles touchent nos deux héros de façon distinctes. La première est la moins gore, mais celle qui joue le plus sur la corde sensible. On découvre la véritable identité de Yoru et par la même occasion le passé de Tao. C’est assez difficile à voir, et on ne peut pas rester indifférent face à ce qu’il se passe. Mais, Alma parvient encore une fois à « alléger » l’ambiance. Alors pas avec de l’humour, ça aurait été mal placé, mais il fait front et protège sa patronne, comme l’allié qu’il voulait devenir.

D’ailleurs, malgré le sang et la violence, je suis vraiment hypée par les scènes de combats. Elles sont vraiment bien faites autant visuellement que dans les enchaînements. C’est hyper important dans un shonen de ce type, donc bravo à Yuto Sano.

La deuxième partie poursuit dans notre découvre des Maga de Yomi. Nos héros mènent l’enquête et avec les dernières informations qu’ils obtiennent, on y voit un petit peu plus clair. C’est sympa d’en apprendre un peu plus au fur et à mesure, ce qui permet aussi de ne pas avoir des combats à répétition.

La nouvelle rencontre avec un Maga est plutôt gore. Cette deuxième partie de Gokurakugai est heureusement entrecoupée avec des scènes un peu plus légères, même si le lecteur sait qu’il y a un gros danger qui plane sur nos héros. Cela fait descendre un petit peu la pression, tout en nous gardant en alerte. Un bon équilibre. Alma est égal à lui-même, prêt à rendre service dès qu’on lui demande… ce qui n’est pas toujours pour son bien. Mais j’espère qu’il ne changera pas malgré ces dernières rencontres assez négatives. Il évolue par contre au niveau combativité et il est de plus en plus badass lorsqu’il se retrouve face au danger. Là encore, on adore.

Un tome quatre vraiment top pour Gokurakugai. On entre dans le vif du sujet et le mangaka maîtrise son intrigue ainsi que la gestion des émotions, celles des personnages mais aussi des scènes qui se déroulent sous nos yeux. Hâte d’avoir la suite, c’est certain.
Profile Image for Sophia Paul.
762 reviews6 followers
January 24, 2026
TAO MY GIRL OMG her story is so sad omg like she literally did everything that she needed to do to survive and more importantly protect her brother … and the outcome is so sad omg. ALMA AND UTSU IS HYPE THO i love utsu sm like she’s so GIRL (i’m scared of her but also just want to give her a hug) love the hot protags AND hot villain
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276 reviews
November 19, 2024
it kinda unsettles me how realistic the mental health depictions of yuto sano are (at least for the ones in my experience) it was a solid volume, i cannot wait to see what happens next.

but i would advise refraining from reading this volume for the cases of manic depression and self-harm.
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446 reviews2 followers
July 12, 2025
Nadie me baja de este barco: se sabe que los mangas mejoran ×1000 cuando hay personajes femeninos (tanto si son girlboss con pasado traumático como Tao o calamidades de dudosa estabilidad mental como Utsuro)
Profile Image for Percy.
163 reviews
December 5, 2025
3.5/5 ⭐️

omg, my first plotline!
... I don't like it. You can take it back, but my edgy teenage ahh would have loved this for sure. Now it's just kinda cringe to me tbh


My main motive for continuing on with the series is ofc Yoru (THE bishōnen of all time) but ig its also kinda wholesome at times and I'm a sucker for shit like that, so...
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53 reviews2 followers
January 18, 2026
Uno de los tomos más crudos con más partes del pasado de Tao con la dureza de enfrentarse a su propio hermano...

Los Magas son cada vez más interesantes y pinta muy bien el tema de sus poderes, que cada uno tenga unas habilidades según la forma en que murió. Original.

Y Utsuro... La tóxica definitiva. La red flag de manual.
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1,382 reviews61 followers
February 19, 2025
Ch24 /// IF!!! BAD!!!! GUY!!!! WHY!!!! HOT!!!!!
waited 2 months for this one but tbh it was actually worth it

Ch 23/// still invested, still scared, also mad that I had to wait a month for this nothing chapter
Profile Image for Adam Fisher.
3,623 reviews24 followers
January 20, 2026
A little too long between Volumes...
Highlights:
- Tao and Yoru meet and he refers to her as his sister. Flashbacks show her brother Jin and how she got involved in everything to protect him, but he "vanished/died"
- Jin created the alter ego of Yoru to protect himself from his father's abuse, but adopts it fully once he becomes a maga. Tao believes he might be behind a series of very odd deaths
- Alma makes deliveries on the side to make money. Delivering to regular customer Maki, he learns of and meets his ultra-jealous girlfriend Utsu
- Alma tries to help Maki commit fully to not looking at other women and remaining faithful to Utsu, but later she kisses him and kills him.
- Utsu comes to the office and says she has fallen for Alma. He reluctantly agrees to a date, but she becomes insane
- Alma and Utsu fight, becoming increasing more violent. She refuses to die and has a strong bond with Yoru. Tao is looking for them, assuming (probably correctly) that she is responsible for the odd deaths.

Next Volume needs to come faster!
Recommend.
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76 reviews2 followers
September 8, 2025
เปิดเล่มนี้มาก็ซึมเป็นอย่างมากเลยค่ะ ปมชีวิตของทาโอะกับน้องจิน(หรือโยรุ)โคตรจะแย่เลย แบบน้องเข้าใจผิดคิดว่าพี่ทิ้งตัวเองไปอ่ะ จนคิลตัวเองแล้วก็ได้มาเจอกับโยมิหลังจากนั้น… แต่ชอบตอนจินได้เจอกับอัลมามากเลย มันเด็กน้อยสุดๆอ่ะ ฮาาา

แล้วระหว่างนี้ก็มีคดีคนตุยเพียบ ในเรื่องมันก็บอกเรามานั่นแหล่ะว่าฝั่งโยมิใครเป็นคนทำบ้าง ซึ่งในเล่มนี้เล่าถึงเคสของอุสึ/อุสึโระก่อน (มี ⚠️TW เรื่องทำร้ายตัวเอง/กรีดข้อมือด้วยนะ‼️) แล้วฉากต่อสู้คือว้าวววว รายละเอียดดีเสมอต้นเสมอปลายเลยค่ะ

ปมเรื่องกำลังสนุกเลย รออ่านต่อเล่มหน้า~
Profile Image for ˙⋆✮ Anny ✮⋆˙.
581 reviews300 followers
October 25, 2025
Honestly, this is the first manga series I stuck with, I ended up really loving it! Although this volume got suuuper dark. As always, the art is great, the story takes twists and turns and comes with lots of action (and blood), and the characters are interesting, mysterious, even funny; and gods why is everyone in this series so fucking pretty?!
Profile Image for Agnese Rosengren.
411 reviews2 followers
May 24, 2025
La trama si sta facendo sempre più interessante e sono follemente innamorata dei villain di questa serie.
Alma rimane sempre mio figlio, ma anche Jin/Yoru non scherza affatto.
I disegni sono sempre spettacolari, un vero piacere per gli occhi.
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762 reviews45 followers
December 27, 2024
This manga is so good. Waiting for monthly chapters to drop will be the death of me.
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232 reviews16 followers
July 22, 2025
Scusate ma quanto è inquietante Utsuro? Per fortuna Alma ci ricorda cosa dobbiamo fare quando lo/la spasimante non rispetta il nostro NO! 🔥

Sui social: deborah.reads
Profile Image for Savannah White.
34 reviews
August 20, 2025
5 stars for the plot…definitely not anything else 🫣
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
Profile Image for Cassandra.
2,718 reviews24 followers
September 8, 2025
So much emotional stuff happens in this volume with his friend and her brother. Also some movement in the larger plot. The art is so good.
Profile Image for Bella.
69 reviews2 followers
November 2, 2025
What Chainsaw Man could’ve/should’ve been.
Profile Image for Yamell Lizardo.
259 reviews2 followers
January 26, 2026
Utsuro está como una cabra, pobre Alma, yo no me puedo quedar así, necesito el vol 5. ya.

Es el volumen más crudo hasta el momento, ver el pasado de la señora Tao es desgarrador.
Profile Image for jules ୨୧.
69 reviews18 followers
January 27, 2026
5 ★
format ──📱
reading challenge 7/50
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I CANNOT wait for this manga to get animated. But on the other hand I want to gatekeep sooo badly.
Profile Image for Gašper Kos.
53 reviews
October 11, 2025
Emm Antonio, prebral sem 4
Zelo pridno poslušam pri predavanjih če te zanima
(Sam pol po njih ne delam nič druga ko berem, I can chill a bit)
Profile Image for Hannah Gearhart.
174 reviews1 follower
December 12, 2025
3.5 stars

speed run to reach my reading goal starts now. i really think this is one of my favorite mangas. i hope they make it into an anime.

read time: 46 minutes
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