Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku Vol. 3: Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku, Vol. 3
- ISBN
- 9781974713226
- Publisher
- VIZ
- English release
- Pages
- 216
Gabimaru's search for the elixir continues amid the island's dangers in Hell's Paradise. He still needs the elixir to earn his return to his wife, while other convicts and dangerous creatures obstruct the mission. For a reader choosing the next purchase after Vol. 2, the appeal is the island itself rather than another introduction to the assassin. VIZ lists 216 pages. Read the earlier books first: the expedition's personal and political bargain gives these hazards their meaning.
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The island's dangers acquire an intentional element when Gabimaru encounters beings experimenting on humans and local animals. VIZ describes these inhabitants as having lived for several lifetimes, but their importance to the buying decision is what they do with other lives. The island is a workplace as well as a threat. A creature can be evidence of someone else's purpose, which makes escape depend on more than identifying the next opponent. Continue here if that organized cruelty interests you: Gabimaru is pursuing freedom in a place where others treat living bodies as experimental material.
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