Colette Decides to Die


Colette Decides to Die is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Alto Yukimura. It was serialized in Hakusensha's shōjo manga magazine Hana to Yume from November 2013 to October 2021.
The series is a loose retelling of the myth of Hades and Persephone.

Characters

;Colette
;Hades
;Dionysus
;Zeus

Publication

Written and illustrated by Alto Yukimura, Colette Decides to Die initially began publication as a one-shot in Hakusensha's shōjo manga magazine Hana to Yume on November 5, 2013. It later began short-term serialization in the same magazine on March 5, 2014. It later became a full-fledged serialization on July 19 of the same year. The series ended serialization on October 5, 2021. The series' chapters were collected into twenty tankōbon volumes from July 18, 2014, to December 20, 2021. In February 2024, Viz Media announced that they licensed the series for English publication in two-in-one volume edition releases.
An epilogue manga, titled Colette wa Shinu Koto ni Shita: Megami-hen, was serialized in Hakusensha's The Hana to Yume magazine from January 27 to October 26, 2022. The epilogue's chapters were collected in a single tankōbon volume on March 20, 2023.

Reception

By October 2021, the series had over 3 million copies in circulation.