Gokurakugai

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Got Recommended about it on TikTok, so i had to check it out. I didn't know what I was really expecting but the art style is SO PRETTY! It definitely fits my style and the story itself seems super interesting. Will be following up close with the chapters!!

The characters introduced, Tao and Alma are interesting enough that they will appeal to you. There's action, comedy, drama, and supernatural and if I'm not wrong, is shounen.

For those who like fantasy based, this will be right up your ally!
Being my first review, im really looking forward for this manga and further characters

Gokurakugai follows the daily lives of Tao and Alma, who run the Gokuraku Troubleshooter's Office, an out-of-the-way business that aims to "solve problems." They appear to be nothing more than a lovable goofball and his serious female counterpart getting into shady business, until the series bares its true supernatural fangs near the end of chapter 1. Though I'm not typically interested in shounen series to begin with, I find that this series has a lot of potential as its stunning art style and impressive balance between "cool" and "funny" work greatly in its favor.
Though there may only be 3 chapters translated as is, I think ... Alma's background of being half-"calamity" will surely make him into a very interesting character as the series examines the troubled mind of someone who is constantly made to kill his own kind, akin to the story of Alucard in the Hellsing series.
The dynamic between Tao and Alma is something I also think can (and will) be expanded on greatly, as the two of them have already been shown to be very likeable characters and appear to have a deep history and connection that the reader will surely be made aware of as the series progresses.
I think this series has the potential to reach the heights of modern shounen mainstays, and if you get in on the ground floor you'll have bragging rights over your friends for years to come.

Found the artist on twitter and just got swept up by how good the art is, had to read the manga, didn't disappoint, great character designs, very expressive faces, good panel layout, great environment, amazing art all around, fights aren't good though, there isn't much choreography and it's not particularly engaging, and so far the magic system doesn't seem suited for a shonen series, now that i think about it, there wasn't even a single proper fight yet.

Story is very generic and just bleh, i don't really have a better word for it, bland, boring, shallow, uninspired, even when something interesting shows up, nothing is ... really done with it, monsters that don't wanna eat humans, even though they have to? glossed over, demi-human racism? glossed over, domestic violence? glossed over, self-h*rm? glossed over, unaliving? glossed over.
Every other chapter, a thread shows up, but it's not followed upon, maybe the author thinks that by just mentioning or showing something is the same as tackling it, i wouldn't complain about this if the manga had an interesting story and was developing clear themes for the reader to think about and these threads were just to give an idea of the wider world, maybe it's too early for this with just 4 volumes, maybe not.

The characters are another problem, they're either super boring, completely generic or outright annoying as hell, the guy who sells them info is legit all three at the same time.

So far i don't see many reasons to keep reading and i can't see that changing in the near future.