Maddies Manga

It’s the dawn of a new day, and the start of a new holiday: Hades’s special day! The one day a year that Hades will grant everyone one wish. Whatever will the residents of the underworld ask for!?

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You can read a free sample of volume one of this series below!

You can check out volume 17 of this series for yourself below!

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My thoughts on this volume (Spoilers!)

This volume had a little bit of everything, which is exactly what I have come to enjoy with this series! While I sadly wasn’t able to enjoy the chapter that introduced a new apothecary, thankfully she won’t be a returning character.

We start the volume with a lovely chapter involving the skeleton servants. We get some more backstory of how they came to work for lord Hades, and we learnt more about exactly why they’re so obsessed with him. I really enjoy the chapters that humanize the skeletons more, as I find them to be such fun characters! While they are obsessed with Hades to the point of being a little strange, they are not always used as just comic relief. They all work incredibly hard for the underworld, and they’re happy just being acknowledged for their hard work.

Of course things go a little bit off the rails when Hades promises to grant them one wish—they all had incredibly outlandish wishes—but rather than allow them to request their crazy wishes and having a short but funny moment, we’re instead shown a slightly deeper side to them. Being shown that there’s more to the skeletons than just comic relief allows the comedy to flow even better, as now they offer some rather touching scenes.

Once the story makes its way to Colette in the human world, we are also introduced to a new apothecary entering the village she was staying in. Perhaps my standards have been raised from the last few volumes, but I didn’t really vibe well with this new character. Her biggest personality point was that she has short hair and wears mens clothing. While this would indeed have been a large faux pas in the manga-verse, especially in this town, I just was unable to emotionally relate to the story. It felt slightly shallow, as her whole arc felt as just “people sometimes think i’m a man when they see me from behind”. When you compare that to the young man who ran away from home just to come back as his mom was dying… It’s difficult to compare.

Thankfully I was able to really become emotionally invested in Colette’s journey in this volume, as Hermes took her to visit her hometown—the hometown that was destroyed by a plague. This volume really doesn’t hold back in showing what happened to her village, and boy was it devastating. Watching the villagers start with thinking it’s just a common cold to having to bury someone new every night… It was very difficult to get through.

And just as things becoming almost too sad to handle… Hades makes an appearance and things start to calm down.

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Things I particularly enjoyed (spoilers)

❤️ The skeletons all coming up with a delusional request for Hades… but then all collectively holding back from asking. It’s nice that they at least recognize they’re delusional! I would have liked to see the kabe-don though…

🧡 The first time Hades made contact with the skeletons!! My god he was so beautiful with his long hair?? I understand why the skeletons are so obsessed with him.

💛 Kotsume’s wish for Hades just being to be able to take a bath together again—he’s so cute oh my goodness.

💚 Everyone comforting Colette after she finished telling them about what happened to her village—Dio is such a good friend, he seemed more heartbroken than Colette did.

💛 Hermes knowing to grab Hades just in time to calm the very sad situation down, another very good friend.