Hiroto Ōishi is launching a fresh manga project. The artist's new series, Akutoku no Rakuen (Immoral Paradise), will debut in Kodansha's Morning magazine on June 19, featuring a color opening page.

The story centers on Tatashi, who falls victim to a part-time job scam and finds himself forcibly recruited by a criminal organization operating in Southeast Asia. Working at their base becomes a twisted gamble—success means survival and reward, but failure means destruction.

Ōishi brings solid credentials to the project. He previously adapted Shinichi Okada's Boku to 23-nin no Dorei novels into manga form, launching the adaptation on Everystar in 2012. Futabasha later collected the series across 10 volumes. The property proved popular enough to attract both film and anime adaptations—a live-action movie starring Sayaka Akimoto and Kanata Hongō released in Japan in June 2014, followed by a television anime that premiered in April 2018. That anime found audiences internationally through HIDIVE, which streamed both English subtitled and dubbed versions. Sentai Filmworks later released the series on Blu-ray.

With that track record, Akutoku no Rakuen enters the market with an artist who understands how to develop stories across multiple media formats. Whether the new manga will follow a similar path to anime and live-action adaptation remains to be seen, but Ōishi's history suggests it has potential beyond the page.

Fans interested in checking out the series can find Akutoku no Rakuen starting in Morning magazine's next issue on June 19.