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The official website for the Hell’s Paradise: Jigokuraku anime series revealed a new promo trailer on Sunday that includes four new cast members. Joining the already-stacked cast is Chikahiro Kobayashi as Shion, Yuusuke Kobayashi as Tenza, Makoto Koichi as Nurugai and Daiki Yamashita as Senta. The series revealed its second official trailer during Jump Festa 2023 which you can also watch below. Hell’s Paradise: Jigoraku is animated by studio MAPPA and will release in April 2023 on both Netflix and Crunchyroll. You can check out the staff and the main cast, along with their previous roles, below.
Yuusuke Kobayashi won the award for “Best New Actor” at the 2017 Seiyuu Awards and later went on to win the award for “Best Voice Actor Performance (Japanese)” at the 2021 Crunchyroll Awards for his performance as Subaru in Re: Zero Season 2. His upcoming co-star Yamashita also won the “Best New Actor” award just a few years prior to Kobayashi at the 2014 Seiyuu Awards.
Hell’s Paradise Cast
- Gabimaru: Chiaki Kobayashi
- Yuuichi Katagiri – Tomodachi Game
- Langa Hasegawa – Sk8 The Infinity
- Sagiri: Yumiri Hanamori
- Ai Hayasaki – Kaguya-sama: Love is War
- Nadeshiko – Laid-Back Camp
- Touma: Kensho Ono
- Testuya Kuroko – Kuroko’s Basketball
- Giorno Giovanna – Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure
- Fuchi: Aoi Ichikawa
- Nagara – Sonny Boy
- Seiya Takehaya – Darling in the Franxx
- Yuzuriha: Rie Takahashi
- Megumin – KonoSuba
- Emilia – Re: Zero
- Chobe: Ryouhei Kimura
- Koutarou Bokuto – Haikyuu!
- Ryouta Kise – Kuroko’s Basketball
- Gantetsusai: Tetsu Inada
- Endeavor – My Hero Academia
- Kurogane – Tsubasa Chronicle
- Shion: Chikahiro Kobayashi
- Sugimoto – Golden Kamuy
- Ranga – That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime
- Tenza: Yuusuke Kobayashi
- Senku – Dr. Stone
- Subaru – Re: Zero
- Nurugai: Makoto Koichi
- Sadao Maou – The Devil is a Part-Timer! Season 2
- Sakura Otome – Lycoris Recoil
- Senta: Daiki Yamashita
- Deku – My Hero Academia
- Naoto Hachiouji (Senpai) – Don’t Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro
Hell’s Paradise Staff
Hell’s Paradise: Jigokuraku is animated by studio MAPPA that is based on the original manga series created by Yuji Kaku. The series received its first trailer and key visual when the anime was announced during Jump Festa 2022 last December which you can view below the official staff list:
- Director: Kaori Makita
- Kakegurui Twin
- Saezuru Tori wa Habatakanai: Don’t Stay Gold
- Series Composition: Akira Kindaichi
- God of High School (script)
- Dororo (script)
- Music: Yoshiaki Dewa
- Call of the Night
- Idaten Deities
- Character Design: Akitsugu Hisagi
- Banana Fish (sub-character designs)
- Attack on Titan The Final Season Part 2 (sub-character designs)
- Director of Photography: Hyo Gyu Park
- Dorohedoro
- Re-Main
- Assistant Director of Photography: Madoka Yagi
- Jujutsu Kaisen
- Zombie Land Saga Revenge (Director of Photography)
- Color design: Ayako Suenaga
- takt op. Destiny
- Listeners
- Creatures Animation Director/Design: Daisuke Niitsuma
- Stone Ocean (Chief Animation Director, ep.34)
- Psycho Pass (Animation Director, ep. 5)
Manga
The manga officially ended back in January of this year with the 127th chapter and Volume 13 began shipping out three months later. Volume 13 ended up selling 39,759 copies within the first week, second behind volume which sold 45,319 copies in the first week. Back in 2018 when the series debuted, it was hailed as the most popular manga on Shonen Jump+. It ended up placing 11th in the “Web Manga” category during the 2018 Next Manga Awards.
As of December 2022, the Hell’s Paradise: Jigokuraku manga has over 4 million copies in circulation. The circulation numbers were revealed as part of a stage play adaptation announcement for the series.
Gabimaru the Hollow is one of the most vicious ninja assassins ever to come out of the village of Iwagakure. He’s ruthlessly efficient, but a betrayal results in him being handed a death sentence. There is only one hope: travel to a long-hidden island and recover an elixir that will make the shogun immortal and he will regain his freedom. Failure is not an option—on this island, Heaven and Hell are a hair’s breadth away. (Synopsis by VIZ Media)
The release date for the Hell’s Paradise anime series is April 2023.
