The Beautiful Deity
The Beautiful Deity is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yomoko Yamamoto. It was serialized in Square Enix's manga magazine Monthly GFantasy from November 2022 to February 2025, with its chapters collected in three volumes.Plot
In a small mountain village, the prevailing bad weather forces the people to carry out their ancient tradition and offer sacrifices to the Great Wolf God to ward off misfortune. In an attempt to protect the village from the long winter, they decide to offer a little slave boy as a "human sacrifice". The young boy, an orphan who was abused by the villagers, happily accepts his fate and, instead of being devoured by the deity, embarks on a mysterious and tense journey with him that gradually brings the little boy and the Great Wolf God, who have always been alone, closer together.Publication
Written and illustrated by Yomoko Yamamoto, The Beautiful Deity was serialized in Square Enix's manga magazine Monthly GFantasy from November 18, 2022, to February 18, 2025. Square Enix collected its chapters into three tankōbon volumes, released from June 27, 2023. to April 25, 2025.Volumes