Hēi Tiāntáng

Hēi Tiāntáng (Mandarin for Black Heaven, stylised as 黑天堂) is a Japanese gang crime drama set in the Florida underbelly

It currently has 11 volumes.

Rating
Hēi Tiāntáng is rated 18+ for “brutal torture, violence, sex, nudity, a group of motherfuckers killing enemies in cold blood, Fanservice that makes hypocrites bitch about women and many other things you’re told never to do”

Plot
The plot follows the Asian-American Xiaoying Gang or the Black Heaven Triad, a group of 15 men and women seeking revenge on religious fundamentalists, rapists and many other people and teaming up with rival gangs.

The first eight volumes are set before 2018 and featured each gang member’s backstory

Black Heaven Triad/Xiaoying Gang
Maria “Nijūichi” Tachimi: a Japanese-American runaway who ran away after her father was murdered at age 16 and became a street punk shortly after graduating school, She is the girlfriend of fellow gang member Longwei Hsiao, Speaks fluent Japanese, Cantonese, Chinese and Korean.

Longwei Hsiao: A Taiwanese-American gangster who discovered Maria living on the streets, He is very profane and foul-mouthed.

Satomi Yoshida

Zhao Xiaoying: The boss of the gang posing as a kindly headmaster to troubled Asian-Americans.

Lei Chao: the male twin out of a set of the Chao twins, he is a Macau Chinese weapon smuggler and sociopathic killer, Father of Xiu-mei and husband of Fumei, He used to be a foster child and was starved by his second set of foster parents and ran away on his 17th birthday.

Jiayi Chao The female twin out of a set of the Chao twins, she is a Macau Chinese gunslinger, she is more stable than her brother, aunt of Xiu-mei, She used to be a foster child and was poorly treated by her second set of foster parents and ran away on her 17th birthday.

Takeshi Yukihara: The former heir of a wealthy Japanese-American family who ran away from home at aged 16.

Joseph Cho: A Zanichi Korean who survived after his parents were murdered by an uyoku dantai, Was unwilling to work with Satomi and Takeshi at first.

Lee Liu Wei: A Singaporean Chinese turncoat from the rival Jiangling Boys gang, was originally disliked by the gang then warmed up to him

Tanisha Nguyen: A Vietnamese-American runaway who’s husband was brutally murdered and her brutally raped, she was found several days later still alive.

Mila Liang: A wealthy Hongkongese who ran away from home due to her parents’ overprotectiveness due to her being mute

Sang Mi-Yung: A deaf Korean-American woman who had her ears horribly mutilated by her father, left completely deaf by the attack.

Bopha Kiev: The gang’s main cook and wife of Devi and mother to Akara, She is in control of the gang’s finances.

Devi Kiev: A Cambodian money counterfeiter, He sells fake cash to criminals to use to scam people for real money.

Adil “Magneto” Ahmet: An Uyghur teenage runaway after the Uyghur genocide alongside his younger sister.

Choi “Kumiho” Gyeo-ul: A former South Korean schoolgirl turned serial killer after she was brutally gangraped, she snapped due to a teacher’s dismissal and the fact the law was lenient with her rapists and her classmate who filmed it.

Scorpion Blood
Chang Fumei: Lei’s wife he met in Kowloon, Hong Kong and was impregnated, Gave birth to Xiu-mei.

Xi Yuyan: The boss of Scorpion Blood

Chang Dongshun: Fumei’s brother, he disliked his brother-in-law for impregnating his sister.

Children of gang members
Chao Xiu-mei: Lei and Fumei’s daughter, She is a very sweet little girl who is a fan of Cells at Work! and DuckTales.

Akara Kiev: Bopha and Devi’s daughter, older than Xiu-mei by six months.

Trivia

 * The manga features a “not to be sold to children, 18+”