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Himoto Sora is a transfer student with a sense of justice and dreams of becoming a knight. Upon arriving at Utopia Gakuen, she learns of a virtual reality-like game played by the male students in which they use girls as weapons in battles for status and treat them as commodities. Seeing one of these girls being abused she steps in and through some sort of error unwittingly becomes the first female participant of the game. 2wl2l

Republished in 2017 in a 3 volume omnibus

Shitsurakuen - Hangyaku no Otome no Shou
Shitsurakuen - Shinai no Otome no Shou
Shitsurakuen - Rakuen no Otome no Shou

Type

Manga

Related Series

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Associated Names

Lost Paradise (French)

Paradise Lost (NAOMURA Tooru)

Shitsurakuen - Hangyaku no Otome no Shou

Shitsurakuen - Rakuen no Otome no Shou

Shitsurakuen - Shinai no Otome no Shou

สวรรค์สาบสูญ (NED)

失乐园

失楽園

失楽園～信愛の乙女の章～

失楽園～叛逆の乙女の章～

失楽園～楽園の乙女の章～

Groups Scanlating

Horobi no Michi

Mako-Scans

otakuBLAZE

ScansRemix

Latest Release(s)

v.6 c.24 + Omake (end) by Mako-Scans 13 years ago

c.23 by Mako-Scans 14 years ago

c.22 by Mako-Scans 14 years ago

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Status in Country of Origin

6 Volumes (Complete)
3 Volumes (Omnibus)

Completely Scanlated?

Yes

Anime Start/End Chapter

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Forum

1 topics, 6 posts

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Rating

Average: 6.9 / 10.0 (371 votes)

Bayesian Average: 6.85 / 10.0

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Last Updated

March 21st, 2024 5:28am PDT - 1 year ago

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Author(s)

NAOMURA Tooru

Artist(s)

NAOMURA Tooru

Year

2009

Original Publisher

Square Enix

Serialized In (magazine)

Gangan Joker (Square Enix)

Licensed (in English)

English Publisher

N/A

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10 years ago

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Well worth reading! (I hope it's not a rip-off)

by neetfreek
16 years ago

Rating: 8.8 / 10.0

When I first read the manga, I thought it to be lauded for being a fresh, original concept (as fresh and new as you can get with a school manga...) but after reading these comments, I may rethink that. (I hate plagiarism)

In answer to Accipiter, I believe that it's mentioned in the manga (Tsuki explains to Sora) that "Iwahijiri has big influence in the world, so no one dares to oppose them."

Perhaps the children have no choice? Maybe they're threatened or coerced into doing so for fear of angering the Iwahijiri Group?
Hopefully the author will explain the girl's various reasons in future backstory. That's usually the way in manga (and right in the middle of a battle too. A volume-long flashback - LOL)

That's just my best guess. I'm not condoning it or calling the premise genius, but there's plenty of manga and hentai out there where the children of parents in debt or who are in danger of losing their job are forced into all sorts of things.

As it stands, I'll take mangum44's suggestion and check out Utena. If this isn't a blatant rip-off, I'll more than likely keep reading it.

I have to say that the school system is so heinous that I'm thoroughly behind rooting for the good guys.

I found it (so far) to be a worthwhile read. Thanks, Mako-Scans (Adone and Expel) I'm looking forward to the next release.

... Last updated 16 years ago

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Ugh!

by mangum44
16 years ago

Rating: 4.0 / 10.0

This is such a blatant rip-off of Revolutionary Girl Utena! Seriously, someone should get sued here. Let's see:

Lesbian undertones, check.
Duels where the winner owns a girl, check.
Absurdly powerful student council, very involved in the duels, check.
Bizarre academy with some sort of "virtual reality" thing going on for battles, check.
Girl that dreams of being a knight that protects princesses, check.
Said girl does not use the school uniform, but a different version with short tight pants instead of a skirt, check.
Said girl accidentally gets involved in the duels and "wins" a girl, check.
Magical weapons extracted from the chest of the girls, CHECK.
deep breath First duel in the series fought against one of the of the absurdly powerful student council, who is a complete a-hole and treats his girl/weapon like crap, hitting her around and generally abusing her, and then is defeated by the main girl by the use of a sword-like weapon that she had never used before, which results on the girl/weapon abandoning her a-hole of an owner and becoming the property of the main girl as per the rules of the duels, CHECK CHECK CHECK CHECK!!!

There are only two bits of originality here so far: the harem thing (the duelists can have many girls rather than just the one), which could go either way; and the very nasty concept beyond the whole game thing (see Accipiter's comment), which is seriously going to need one hell of a justification in order for me to suspend disbelief... which I just don't see happening, considering how poorly the author has fared so far.

I'll give it another chance to redeem itself, and then it's an 1/10 for this ripoff of a manga. It doesn't help that it's trying to ape one of the absolutely most brilliant series out there. If you find this the least bit appealing, I urge you to go watch Utena instead.

Update after chapter 2: after a plagiariciously rocky start, the series gets slightly better. The premise is still unbelievable, mostly because it's played straight: the girls really seem to be all weak and defenseless (except the protagonist), the guys really seem to be a bunch of psychopathic a-holes that think nothing of bullying an injured girl. But... well, this is manga we're talking about. We've all seen worse when it comes to completely unrealistic premises, eh?

Might be worth reading, if you can summon up enough suspension of disbelief AND if you can put up with some rather unoriginal ideas... a warning you can safely ignore if you are into harem-style manga 😉

Update after chapter 7: I apologize for having said that this manga was a rip-off of Utena. That clearly isn't the case, and I'm going to prove it if it's the last thing I do!

THINGS THAT PROVE THAT THIS IS NOT A RIP-OFF OF UTENA:

Utena is given a special ring under mysterious circumstances that, upon entering Ohtori Academy, allows her to fight duels. Sora is given a special GLOVE under mysterious circumstances that, upon entering Utopia Gakuen, allows her to fight duels. NOT A RING - A GLOVE! TOTALLY NOT THE SAME!
In Utena, a certain character seems to be the nicest guy around while in fact he's the main antagonist; he acts friendly and gets close to Utena while in truth he's just using her for his own purposes. That guys is the director of the school. In Shitsurakuen, a certain character seems to be the nicest guy around while in fact he's the main antagonist; he acts friendly and gets close to Sora while in truth he's just using her for his own purposes. That guy is the TOP STUDENT of the school. HOW ORIGINAL IS THAT, HUH??
You have to walk a long path to enter Ohtori Academy. Upon ing the main gate, you find a large self-contained area with a bunch of individual buildings, a large tower near the front, and a forest in the back, which is oddly perfectly hexagonal. Whereas you have to walk a long BRIDGE to enter Utopia Academy WHICH IS ON AN ISLAND. Upon ing the main gate, you find a large self-contained area with a bunch of individual buildings, a large tower SMACK IN THE MIDDLE, and a forest in the back AND ALSO TO ONE SIDE, and the island is PERFECTLY OCTOGONAL BUT THE FOREST IS NOT! Gosh, I'm getting exhausted just writing all the differences.
But this is all incidental. The real difference is that in Utena you could sympathize to some degree with every character, even the bad ones, and the good ones (Utena! Anthy! Juri!) were downright awesome, which is why Utena is widely considered a timeless classic. Whereas in Shitsurakuen there's hardly a character that you won't either hate or just feel sorry for, and even the best characters are weak and lame, which is why this series is widely considered a poor person's Utena (at least that's what it says on every review of this series I've read so far).

I think I've proved just how... good and... original this series is. Will the... irers please reconsider and stop voting this comment down? No? Alright.

... Last updated 15 years ago

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by Accipiter
16 years ago

Rating: 5.0 / 10.0

Fairly interesting after the the first chapter. It reminds me of an Anime from the '90s which I can't recall the name of. Whether or not I continue reading hinges on the answer to an as yet open quesiton: WHY ON EARTH WOULD ANY GIRL GO TO THIS SCHOOL?

Edit: Ah, that's it! Revolutionary Girl Utena. I've only seen the condensed movie. I guess they will try to pawn this off as an homage, but given how much straight-up plagiarism Magnum44 pointed out, it will take some serious originality in the next few chapters to pull that off.

... Last updated 16 years ago

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