Anime Review:

Hell’s Paradise

- Episode 5 -

“The Samurai & the Woman”

Sagiri waking up after getting knocked unconscious by Shinsenkyo Island’s poisonous butterflies.

Tenza’s a pretty basic character—chivalrous warrior with a heart of gold—but it’s refreshing to meet characters who aren’t super talented or nefarious in anyway. Here he is slicing through kraken tentacles after trying to escape Shinsenkyo with Nurugui.

Nurugui is a dark skinned girl from a mountain tribe. Not sure if this is a reference to an indigenous group but the shogun’s samurai trick her into leading them to her self-sustaining community in the mountains—basically almost an Edo era Waco situation where the government massacres people who want to be left alone.

I couldn’t remember these two characters very well from the manga I read a year or so ago and was worries they’d get slaughtered in their intro episode— but they survive.

Gabimaru activating his fire jutsu.

I think this is one or two—or three—of the Tao masters in a pretty trippy lavalamp-like sequence.

A bloodstained much-younger Sagiri brandishing a samurai sword.

The Tao masters are probably one of the cooler villains to come out in recent-ish manga: I’d say more but that would be spoiling the even greater-fun the anime will hopefully reveal.

It wouldn’t be a badass anime without this popular trope, the blind swordsman. I can’t remember anything about this guy but I saw a couple episodes ago he dismembers a convict woman who tries to seduce him.

This intro is pretty dope. Glad I finally got to see it.

I guess two of them are in love—completely forgot about that.

If you like anime, fantasy, ninjas, samurai, or just awesome art and cool fights—be sure to check this series out!

Here’s a trailer from Youtube:

Image Sources:
All images are screenshots taken with my phone.