MNGR João da Silva is assigned to the Homestead mining colony on Titan after their previous MNGR becomes suddenly ill, and the station returns another unprofitable quarter.  What he finds is a station on the brink of exploding, with tensions high between the Terran management and their Titan workers. The Titans were genetically modified long ago to be stronger and larger than Terrans, able to withstand the harsh conditions on Titan.  João decides that what the workers need are trackers so that he can analyze immense amounts of data to figure out where the inefficiencies lie.  The Union workers, through their liaison Titan Phoebe Mackintosh, disagree with João’s assessment whole-heartedly, and instead assert that the station needs upgraded machinery.  Phoebe and João try to work together to save Homestead, while others decide a violent coup will fix the problems of the mining colony, and finally bring liberation to all Titan. 

Vol 5: Imperial Phase: Part 1, illustrated by Jamie McKelvie and Kevin Wada, colored by Matt Wilson
 
The Pantheon has to deal with the repercussions of Persephone’s actions from the previous volume, and a disagreement on how to proceed has them in factions. Some favor taking their enemy head on, some favor researching their options more, while others believe a path of anarchy is the best.

This volume is prefaced with an interesting edition of "Pantheon Monthly," a magazine that presents as one written in-universe, and that gives insights to how the remaining pantheon members feel about what’s happening. This also serves as a recap of sorts for some of the major incidents of previous volumes.

Illustrated by Ian Bertram, colored by Matt Hollingsworth

Little Bird's village comes under attack from the American Empire, but her mom has a great plan: squirrel her away until the violence is over, then set her on freeing a great warrior named Axe.  Axe will save the people, and save the North, aka Canada, the last bastion of resistance against the Empire.  Little Bird's family lineage is not what she was originally led to believe, and the Bishop who's coming after her now has more secrets than all of them combined.  

Vol 4: Rising Action, illustrated by Jamie McKelvie, colored by Matthew Wilson
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There is no way to summarize this volume without spoiling the ones that come before, so I'm not going to try.  I will instead just provide my review.

This volume provided a lot of clarity to some action in previous volumes, but the underlying motivation of our "bad guy" is still unknown.  Every new chapter gets us closer, gives some small tidbit, but there's still a big mystery to solve.  The art is back to normal, without guest artists and colorist, so that was a major improvement from Volume 3. 

Vol 3: Commercial Suicide, illustrated by Jamie McKelvie, Tula Lotay, Kate Brown, Stephanie Hans, Leila del Duca, Brandon Graham
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We are reaching the point where reviews will need to be super vague because of spoilers to previous volumes and future volumes. 

This volume provides some serious flashbacks into how some of the other pantheon was awoken by Ananke.  To this point, we know nothing of Tara, but we see her awakening.  We also see the beginnings of The Morrigan and the love of her life, Baphomet.  Amaterasu makes another appearance, as we haven't seen her since volume one.  There are some insights into some of the mysterious happenings from the first two volumes. Not all is revealed, and the reader is left with more questions by the end, but more to continue wanting to read the series.

Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku is a forthcoming manga series set to begin publication in the US in March of 2020.  There are currently 8 volumes in Japan, but the series is ongoing.

Gabimaru is a reluctant but skilled and nearly indestructible ninja.  He is sentenced to be executed, which is no easy thing.  They try boiling him, burning at the stake, and various other tactics, before he gets recruited for a suicide mission: to find the Elixir of Life on a mysterious island.  So far, all missions the shogunate has sent to the island have resulted in total loss of life, so why not send a rag-tag, cutthroat group of murderers on death row?  Each criminal is assigned a baby-sitter in the form of elite executioners, just to keep them from wandering off.  The prize for the one who finds the Elixir? A full pardon!