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“Three ex-yakuza become idols "Gokudols," hiding their rough past while entertaining fans in this irreverent idol gag manga.”
Back Street Girls
Back Street Girls ～ゴクドルズ～
6.87
11,886 rank · 8,811 readers · 44 favorites
Seinen
Magical Sex Shift
Organized Crime
Workplace
Comedy
Ecchi
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Synopsis
Three ex-yakuza become idols "Gokudols," hiding their rough past while entertaining fans in this irreverent idol gag manga.
Would you give up being human—or would you become... an idol? A trio of yakuza achieve the impossible and debut as idols—and become a big hit to boot! Under the guidance of their fiendish and overcontrolling boss, three former yakuza men undergo a complete makeover and debut as the back street girl idols "Gokudols." In their dressing room, they drink alcohol and gamble, but in front of their fans, they're idols through and through. The idol gag manga "without honor" that everyone's talking about has finally been released. Is this what Japan's idol industry has come to?! (Source: Kodansha Comics USA)
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Derived from 4 sampled reviews
8.0
/10
What 4 readers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 8
mode 8
σ 0.71
Agreement
Strong agreement
σ 0.71 · scores cluster tight
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↓ 1.00
Running avg · Dec 2017 → Sep 2025
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 8 “I refreshed my memory of this series since I vividly remember reading some chapters years ago and watched a few episodes of it on Netflix. I believe this is one of the very few titles that managed...”
- 7 “So...... I read it !! I don't even know my actual opinion on this. It's such a weird thing to read. It's more like a right of passage then anything. Comedy is out there. I at least was laughing...”
- 9 “Here's my take after reading the 9 of the manliest hardcore chapters of Back Street Girls by Jasmine Gyuh. How would I start with this to not make it sound gross and creepy... Back street girls is...”
Verbosity
Short · 75%
Medium · 25%
Long · 0%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 144 × 12 ch × vol
- Total read 19h 12m approx
- Published Mar 2015 – Sep 2018
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M38038 catalog