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4.64 AVERAGE
4.64 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
emotional
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
ok so obviously this isn’t finished yet but i’m 100% up to date with everything that is currently out and i even spent $10 so i could fast pass the latest episodes oop !!!! can’t deal with how much i love this story, my heart feels empty whenever i’m not reading it and i have no idea what to read next and how anything will even compare to this beautiful masterpiece!!!!
Could I fall more in love with this series than I already was?? Well apparently I can. I have no one to blame for the torture I am gonna endure awaiting the upcoming episodes. But it was worth it.
Season 1 was great and Season 2 takes it up a notch higher. With stakes higher and Hades and Perse coming closer, I felt like walking on the edge of a cliff. It was tense, beautiful and so deep. Hades and Kore being vulnerable together is probably the sweetest thing I have read so far this year. Oh sweet tears
Season 1 was great and Season 2 takes it up a notch higher. With stakes higher and Hades and Perse coming closer, I felt like walking on the edge of a cliff. It was tense, beautiful and so deep. Hades and Kore being vulnerable together is probably the sweetest thing I have read so far this year. Oh sweet tears
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
emotional
funny
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
The second season manages to be both too much and far too little. Despite upping the stakes dramatically from the previous season, the story is often uninteresting due to poor pacing. It goes at a leisurely pace that spreads dramatic moments too thin between lengthy scenes of talking where nothing new, or even interesting, is said.
The first half of the season focuses primarily on Persephone's trial for her act of wrath. The second half deals with the aftermath of Zeus' verdict. Both plots are littered with problems.
Morality is a complicated subject and not something I expect to be explored in-depth in a random, modernized romance version of a Greek myth. In general, literal gods cannot be expected to have the same morals as human societies. However, within this comic, all the gods are functionally the same as ordinary humans—they just also have themed superpowers. To be a modern retelling, the setting has been specifically made to resemble modern human culture with the same exact known values.
The characters considered "kind" have the expected moral concerns of any mortal being from the 2020s. Violence is bad, abuse is wrong, don't be sexist, etc. Any sense of being above basic morals due to immortality is rejected.
As a result, these characters can be held to normal moral standards.
And as a result of that, everyone in this is a terrible person.
Persephone's wrath trial hinges on the idea that you, as a reader, don't want her to get in trouble for what she did. We are meant to root for her and view the whole trial as an unfair sham set up by Zeus to spite Persephone wrongfully. This does not work because Persephone is unambiguously guilty of mass murder. She killed a whole village of mortals, and it doesn't matter what her motivation was or if she feels sorry about it in the present. She slaughtered several people and then covered up her crime in the hopes of no one finding out. Zeus specifically states he is concerned she will misuse her powers like that again, which he is proven right about more than once.
Persephone, in yet another act of anger, turns Minthe into a plant. Her incompetence and sadistic tendencies have harmed, traumatized, or outright killed multiple people, and she needs to be held accountable. I do not pity Persephone. I do not side with her. I am not going to side with her just because her romance with Hades is the focus. She is objectively in the wrong and deserves consequences.
But the comic fails to fully realize this because it treats morality inconsistently.
Persephone made a simple mistake when she slaughtered multiple people.
Her taking years off Minthe's life was another simple mistake that, honestly, the victim probably deserved, so why be upset?
Hades uses actual slave labor to make himself rich. Rich people are sexy, so it's cool.
But remember, Apollo is the scum of the earth for raping Persephone once.
I'm not saying that to trivialize rape. I'm saying the comic picks and chooses what terrible crimes are "evil" and which are minor errors that anyone can be forgiven for in an instant. Some crimes aren't considered bad at all.
The complete lack of consistency regarding what makes people "evil" causes the trial to be a joke where Zeus, the antagonist, is more reasonable than any of the heroes.
The trial itself is dragged out and boring. Whoever thought a courtroom drama would be compelling in silent comic format made a mistake.
Then we have the second half of the season... Somehow, this is the worse half.
After Zeus banishes Persephone to the mortal realm, the story becomes about the fall of the Underworld and her journey to save it and Hades. The pacing becomes even worse as the narrative slows to a crawl until the big, dramatic climax. A terrible climax, at that. This season culminates in a titan fight that is treated more as a comedic joke than a high-stakes battle. Any tension is burned away, and the end result is extremely unsatisfying.
Persephone as a character has become so intolerable and obnoxious. Both she and other characters have built her up as a kind, sweet being of love who understands Hades on a deeper level. Yet she is instead an entitled, privileged, angry, petty, shallow, rich bitch who is only interested in giving empathy to those of her own class unless they have something to offer her. Persephone is not a kind person. She is not an empathetic person. Persephone is a Mary Sue if there ever was one, and this is a famous, officially published work of fiction—not a crappy fanfic found on Wattpad. Her lack of positive character traits is baffling. She and Hades deserve one another.
The art has subtly and steadily gotten worse. It isn't bad, but it doesn't have the same dreamy, whimsical energy that was present in the first season. The line art feels harsher, colors aren't as soft and hazy, and the character designs are frequently inconsistent or even unflattering.
In summary, the comic has gotten lost in its own story that is much too grand in scale for the interpersonal drama the writer is clearly more competent with. It aimed too high and missed.
Justice for Minthe.
The first half of the season focuses primarily on Persephone's trial for her act of wrath. The second half deals with the aftermath of Zeus' verdict. Both plots are littered with problems.
Morality is a complicated subject and not something I expect to be explored in-depth in a random, modernized romance version of a Greek myth. In general, literal gods cannot be expected to have the same morals as human societies. However, within this comic, all the gods are functionally the same as ordinary humans—they just also have themed superpowers. To be a modern retelling, the setting has been specifically made to resemble modern human culture with the same exact known values.
The characters considered "kind" have the expected moral concerns of any mortal being from the 2020s. Violence is bad, abuse is wrong, don't be sexist, etc. Any sense of being above basic morals due to immortality is rejected.
As a result, these characters can be held to normal moral standards.
And as a result of that, everyone in this is a terrible person.
Persephone's wrath trial hinges on the idea that you, as a reader, don't want her to get in trouble for what she did. We are meant to root for her and view the whole trial as an unfair sham set up by Zeus to spite Persephone wrongfully. This does not work because Persephone is unambiguously guilty of mass murder. She killed a whole village of mortals, and it doesn't matter what her motivation was or if she feels sorry about it in the present. She slaughtered several people and then covered up her crime in the hopes of no one finding out. Zeus specifically states he is concerned she will misuse her powers like that again, which he is proven right about more than once.
Persephone, in yet another act of anger, turns Minthe into a plant. Her incompetence and sadistic tendencies have harmed, traumatized, or outright killed multiple people, and she needs to be held accountable. I do not pity Persephone. I do not side with her. I am not going to side with her just because her romance with Hades is the focus. She is objectively in the wrong and deserves consequences.
But the comic fails to fully realize this because it treats morality inconsistently.
Persephone made a simple mistake when she slaughtered multiple people.
Her taking years off Minthe's life was another simple mistake that, honestly, the victim probably deserved, so why be upset?
Hades uses actual slave labor to make himself rich. Rich people are sexy, so it's cool.
But remember, Apollo is the scum of the earth for raping Persephone once.
I'm not saying that to trivialize rape. I'm saying the comic picks and chooses what terrible crimes are "evil" and which are minor errors that anyone can be forgiven for in an instant. Some crimes aren't considered bad at all.
The complete lack of consistency regarding what makes people "evil" causes the trial to be a joke where Zeus, the antagonist, is more reasonable than any of the heroes.
The trial itself is dragged out and boring. Whoever thought a courtroom drama would be compelling in silent comic format made a mistake.
Then we have the second half of the season... Somehow, this is the worse half.
After Zeus banishes Persephone to the mortal realm, the story becomes about the fall of the Underworld and her journey to save it and Hades. The pacing becomes even worse as the narrative slows to a crawl until the big, dramatic climax. A terrible climax, at that. This season culminates in a titan fight that is treated more as a comedic joke than a high-stakes battle. Any tension is burned away, and the end result is extremely unsatisfying.
Persephone as a character has become so intolerable and obnoxious. Both she and other characters have built her up as a kind, sweet being of love who understands Hades on a deeper level. Yet she is instead an entitled, privileged, angry, petty, shallow, rich bitch who is only interested in giving empathy to those of her own class unless they have something to offer her. Persephone is not a kind person. She is not an empathetic person. Persephone is a Mary Sue if there ever was one, and this is a famous, officially published work of fiction—not a crappy fanfic found on Wattpad. Her lack of positive character traits is baffling. She and Hades deserve one another.
The art has subtly and steadily gotten worse. It isn't bad, but it doesn't have the same dreamy, whimsical energy that was present in the first season. The line art feels harsher, colors aren't as soft and hazy, and the character designs are frequently inconsistent or even unflattering.
In summary, the comic has gotten lost in its own story that is much too grand in scale for the interpersonal drama the writer is clearly more competent with. It aimed too high and missed.
Justice for Minthe.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Murder, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, Classism
Moderate: Alcohol