The series started in Issue 2018 - 7 of Weekly Shonen Champion. It is the first series of many that should come this year.
It had been put out as a Hell survival series. From seeing the author's name and knowing Shigemoto Hajime's past works which were all in a battle special power genre, I came into this manga with certain expectations. Weekly Shonen Champion doesn't really have anything in this genre right now apart from possibly Prisoner Riku which is heading towards a conclusion in the next few weeks so it shouldn't have any competition apart from itself obviously.
The manga's art has a strong shonen feel. The artstyle is quite old fashioned which some people might pick on as a weakness but it should not be a significant issue in Weekly Shonen Champion.
Overall the art throughout the first chapter is generally good an improvement from his previous work.
The key panels looked were ascetically pleasing. There are some area in a couple of panels in the background which have weaker art but this is common in manga. Chapter 1 in this aspect did not do anything wrong, of course this could be reworded to it did everything right.
Composition, when talking about the chapters overall is acceptable as the chapter flows reasonably well. Gyakushuu Inferno's story is rather hard to judge from just from the first chapter. The chapter is used as a set up chapter to introduce the characters and relationships and end with what is meant to hook the readers into continue reading. There is no excessive exposition or introductions ,which in turn allows for a light read, this however might be left to succeeding chapters.
If I were to give a rating to the first chapter. It would be good, therefore it is 6/10
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