Don't Hold Back, Lord Hades. ~ The Pure Love of the Ruthless Dark Lord Is Unfathomably Deep and Heavy~ (Manga)

[Silver Sugar Duchess]

Name: Don't Hold Back, Lord Hades. ~ The Pure Love of the Ruthless Dark Lord Is Unfathomably Deep and Heavy~ (Deepl translated)
Gaman shinaide, Hades-sama. ~Reikoku na Meiou no Jun'ai wa Michishirenai hodo Fukakude, Omoi~
我慢しないで、ハデス様。 ～冷酷な冥王の純愛は底知れないほど深くて、重い～
Author: Foxies
Artist: Clione
Genre: Drama, Josei, Romance, Smut
Publisher: Libre Shuppan
Jahr: 2022
Volumes: 2 (Ongoing)
Description: "I … ..can't live without you."

A handsome man slides his moist fingers over the smooth skin of a young girl. His eyes are warm and his delicacy is such that you will believe he’s in love. The world divided between the "World of the Gods", the "Other World", and the "Earthly World", was filled with chaos. In the realm of the gods, the gods enjoyed eternal life. The goddess Persephone works hard every day to care for the plants so that her life will sprout on the earth, but the shoots she raised withered. She will be taken over by Hades, the master of the underworld, who has come to welcome "death".

Persephone laments her grief, but she is moved by Hades' encouragement, and is drawn to his quiet, calm and gentle side... Meanwhile, Persephone decides to offer her own body to save Hades, who has been caught up in the conspiracy of the divine world.

My Opinion: I‘m a huge fan of Hades & Persephone stories and am always looking for more romanticized adaptions of this myth. Unfortunately there aren‘t really any light novels and manga about it (safe for Colette Decides to Die and I love it), so I was quite intrigued when I found this. The art style is really beautiful and while it‘s an erotic story it‘s really nice to read.
Another manga drawn by the same artist got recently licensed by Seven Seas Entertainment, so it should be possible to license this (though I don‘t know, if J-Novel Club is willing to license it, since it‘s definitely a r18 title). But regardless, it‘s time that J-Novel Club get‘s a r18 label, too.

[LadyYuri]

Same here, I love reading romance stories about Hades and Persephone. That said, I‘m a avid reader of Colette Decides to Die too. I‘ll put this manga on my wishlist!

[Silver Sugar Duchess]

The manga got licensed by Seven Seas Entertainment.