The end of days is here! “Two curvaceous smokeshows with bazongas for days are going at it in high heels – pro-wrestling, hair-yanking, skin-flashing, catfight style!!” Or perhaps it’s just another typical encounter between the airheads of good and evil, Eniale and Dewiela. No one, and no place, is ever safe when the two of them are together, but it’s also never a boring time either!
Eniale & Dewiela, aka our gender-swapped Good Omens story, really could’ve gone on for as long as Kamome Shirahama wanted and so while I’m sad that it’s complete in just three volumes, it’s been a very good three volumes. In fact, I think some of the gags in this final one were the best yet! We start out with Eni once again “borrowing” something of Dewi’s that she shouldn’t have, this time a quick growth tonic that Eni hoped would regrow a bald patch on her wings, only to end up looking like a literal puffball when she grew not more feathers but extra wings instead! And, since the hierarchy of angels is based on how many wings they have, Eni jumps all the way to the very top of Heaven as a seraphim, which involves far too much work for this layabout angel (Of course, Eni accidentally created more work for herself in the first place with her ascension but you probably already guessed that.)
This isn’t just Eni’s story which means we also have new tales of Dewi getting in over her head as well; with Dewi we get a fun story of her secretly signing contracts with a whole slew of stage performers, orchestrated by the show’s producer who’s realized that she doesn’t need to sign her soul away to Dewi to get her devilish “miracles,” as long as the performers do instead! Dewi is completely willing to go along with this under-handed arrangement — she is a demon after all — but when the performers themselves realize what has happened and that they can get Dewi to do whatever they want, as long as they give up more of their lives, it was a hilarious about-face from how stories about selling your soul to the devil usually goes.
Then, to wrap the series up, Dewi ends up getting very mixed up with the exorcist that’s been dogging her and Eni ever since the first volume with the stunts they pulled to reunite the missing baby with its mother (remember that giant poodle?), not that Dewi wants to get close to anyone wielding that much holy water. I was more surprised however with how much ship-tease there was with Eni and Dewi at the very end of the story; it’s still far from canonically calling them a couple but it’s also rather hard to read that interaction in a “straight” kind of way. As I understand it, some of Shirahama’s early works were Tiger and Bunny doujinshi and I can only hope that this series fueled doujinshi of its own, continuing the cycle of fans becoming creators themselves.
Eniale & Dewiela has been a delightful read from start to finish, filled fun fights, more bawdy comedy (completely unlike what you find in Witch Hat Atelier), and more great fashion than you can shake a stick at. Heck, Shirahama can’t seem to resist taking every chance to dress up her characters and there’s practically a fashion show in this volume! I’ll certainly miss this silly, blasphemous manga, but I’m still utterly delighted that we got it published over here, as short as it may be.