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Hell's Paradise is set in Japan's Edo period. Gabimaru, the strongest shinobi of Iwagakure village, sits on death row, but every attempt to execute him fails. Sagiri, an executioner from the Yamada Asaemon clan, brings him an offer from the shogunate: a full pardon if he brings back the elixir of life from Shinsenkyo, a legendary island southwest of the Ryukyu Kingdom. Other condemned criminals get the same deal, and each one travels tied to a clan executioner who watches them and will cut them down if they run. This page covers 16 characters in three groups: the convicts, the Yamada Asaemon executioners, and the strange inhabitants of the island. Every profile stops where the character is introduced, so there are no spoilers.
Gabimaru the Hollow is a former shinobi of Iwagakure, considered the strongest of his clan and raised from childhood to be the village's weapon. He was captured and sentenced to death after trying to leave that life to live with his wife. He acts as if nothing matters to him, but he takes the mission to the island because he wants to get back to her. Japanese voice: Chiaki Kobayashi.
Sagiri is a swordswoman of the Yamada Asaemon, the family that serves as the shogun's executioners and sword testers. She is one of only two women in that role and holds the 12th and lowest rank. She recruits Gabimaru and goes with him to the island. She takes her duty seriously but struggles with what it means to take lives. Japanese voice: Yumiri Hanamori.
Yuzuriha is a kunoichi known as Yuzuriha of Keishu. Cold and cunning, she once slipped into a castle and overpowered every one of its retainers. On the island she cares mostly about getting off alive and keeps alliances only as long as they help her. Her executioner is Senta, a gentle scholar, and the two have little in common. Japanese voice: Rie Takahashi.
Aza Chōbei, known as the Bandit King, runs a village of outlaws in the mountains of Iyo. He is cruel and reckless, and he has lived through many dangerous situations thanks to how quickly he adapts. He treats the island as one more place to take over. He is the older brother of Tōma, the executioner assigned to him. Japanese voice: Ryōhei Kimura.
Tōma is the Yamada Asaemon executioner assigned to Chōbei, who is also his older brother. Unlike the other pairs, the two have known each other all their lives and act almost as one, which makes them one of the strongest partnerships on the island. He is a capable swordsman of the clan. Japanese voice: Kensho Ono.
Tamiya Gantetsusai is a famous swordsman called the Peerless Sword Dragon of the Eight Provinces, now on death row. He can be shallow and showy, yet his sword matches the best executioners of the clan. His goal is to achieve great deeds and be remembered by future generations. His executioner is Fuchi. Japanese voice: Tetsu Inada.
Nurugai belongs to the Sanka, a mountain people with their own culture who refused to submit to the shogunate. She was condemned after she accidentally led shogunate samurai to her village. She is young and often mistaken for a boy. Her assigned executioner is Tenza. Japanese voice: Makoto Koichi.
Shugen is the 2nd-ranked executioner and leads the second team sent to the island after the shogunate loses patience with the first. He is fiercely loyal to the clan and holds a rigid sense of duty with no room for exceptions. He arrives as one of the family's strongest swordsmen. He appears in season 2. Japanese voice: Ryōta Suzuki.
Fuchi is the 9th-ranked Yamada Asaemon executioner, assigned to Gantetsusai. He has deep medical knowledge and knows anatomy well, carrying surgical tools at his waist and his two swords over his shoulder. That knowledge becomes useful when the group needs to understand the island's creatures. Japanese voice: Aoi Ichikawa.
Shion is the clan's 4th-ranked executioner. He is blind, yet he is a first-rate swordsman who reads his surroundings through smell and sound, and he is known for his sharp puns. He took in and trained Tenza. On the island he guards another convict from the expedition. Japanese voice: Chikahiro Kobayashi.
Senta is the 5th-ranked executioner, a studious young man in glasses who knows a lot about religions and old legends. He wanted to be an artist and hates killing, but followed his family's path. He is assigned to Yuzuriha and finds himself drawn to her free spirit. His knowledge helps the group read the island's signs. Japanese voice: Daiki Yamashita.
Tenza is the 10th-ranked executioner, a young man who was taken in by Shion and looks up to him. He is assigned to Nurugai, the youngest convict on the expedition, and their bond soon goes beyond guard and prisoner. He is sincere and full of energy, and takes everything Shion taught him seriously. Japanese voice: Yūsuke Kobayashi.
Eizen is the 1st-ranked executioner and the highest-ranking Yamada Asaemon on the first expedition to the island. He supports the family's sword school and gives advice to the other disciples. He is assigned to Rokurōta, a huge and extremely strong convict known as the Giant of Bizen. Japanese voice: Makoto Furukawa.
Jikka is the 3rd-ranked executioner, known as the laziest member of the Yamada Asaemon. He avoids effort whenever he can and seems uninterested in the mission, but his high rank is no accident. He joins the second expedition to the island alongside Shugen and enters the story in season 2. Japanese voice: Kōji Yusa.
Yui is Gabimaru's wife and the eighth daughter of the Iwagakure village chief. She is strong-willed and places great value on an ordinary life, away from the village's missions and violence. She showed Gabimaru that another life was possible, and getting back to her is the main reason he agrees to the journey to Shinsenkyo. Japanese voice: Mamiko Noto.
Rien is the leader of the Tensen, powerful beings who live in the Hōrai at the center of the island. The Tensen have mastered Tao, shift between male and female forms, and seem almost impossible to kill. Anyone who reaches Shinsenkyo also has to deal with their servants and monsters. Japanese voices: Junichi Suwabe and Yūko Kaida.
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