Another manga series that got hyped recently with the new anime treatment and it is still a decent ride despite the story felt having more artificial flavor on it. Jigokuraku is a Supernatural battle manga taking an Edo setting with a Young Male Ninja and Female Samurai executioner as the main protagonists. The main premise of Jigokuraku is about a group of dangerous death-row convicts accompanied by Samurai executioners sent to a mysterious island allegedly inhabited by Chinese immortals to retrieve the secret of immortality. In search of this so-called immortality the main protaganist among these groups will encounter plenty of life-and-death fights amidst the serene yet surreal hellish landscape befitting the title of the manga.
Using Chinese theme of immortality as the main plot mover, Jigokuraku would be a fusion result of Kimetsu no Yaiba and Chainsawman, especially I felt the Jigokuraku tried its best to match up the gorefest of the Latter but short of doing so. Compared to other manga that I have read, upon finishing reading up this manga, Jigokuraku is reek of the stench of direct interference by Publishers. Just like Kimetsu no Yaiba, Jujutsu Kaisen and other mainstream manga series, the publishers tried their utmost to impose the "tried-and-tested" formulas to groom Jigokuraku into a series fit for mainstream consumption so that Manufacturers can milk the merchandise out of it. What I don't like about this trend is that majorityof Future manga series will be forcibly to fit in into the mold if they want the opportunity to get big, probably because Publishers are not too amused with Famous Mangakas with had too much leeway on their work with Hunter X Hunter hiatus being the notorious example. In any case i just pity the Japanese manga industry if they are going in this direction.
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