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What Happens At The End Of Daemons Of The Shadow Realm, Vol. 1?

Just finished the first volume—that cliffhanger with the masked figure left me needing spoilers for the finale. How does the daemon arc conclude? Unsure about reading order for the Hiromu Arakawa series.
2026-01-21 15:49:32
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Jr Zavala
Jr Zavala
This volume wraps up with a rather big revelation: Kael, the demon Elara had summoned to protect her, was bound to her by an even older and far more dangerous contract. Now, as they’re starting to struggle with their uneasy partnership, a new summoner appears, trying to take Elara away. In the ensuing battle to protect her, Elara and Kael will be forced to fight side by side. As they do, their relationship will undergo a significant change. The volume ends with a real cliffhanger, and I’m excited to see where the story goes from here. It reminds me a bit of The Demon Contract, a supernatural action manga about a desperate mage who unknowingly binds a powerful entity to himself. Now, the two must survive as a team, locked into a wary partnership where each side is always worried about the other betraying them, while struggling to stay one step ahead of even greater threats to their lives. I loved this, and was eager to read on to find out what happened next.
2026-08-04
Ben
Ben
The end of this volume of manga was amazing. Yuto’s angry fight with the Shadow King was so epic, but even more impactful was Rina’s quiet moment of revelation just before she died, whispering “the realm is a lie”. But then her body was suddenly possessed by an entity called “the First Hunger” – really creepy. I see that the manga has already been explaining the lore of ancient daemons that had been sealed away, and I sense that Rina’s new “form” will somehow make Yuto question the very things he’s been fighting for. That final panel of Rina smiling unnaturally has left me unable to sleep.
2026-01-22
Nathan
Nathan
Ending Volume 1 with a bang, Rina’s apparent sacrifice in the fight against the Shadow King is short-lived, as we get a jolt when her eyes fly open in the final panel. Her eyes now glow with an otherworldly energy and with the foreshadowing we’d gotten of ‘corrupted souls’, it’s clear that Rina has in fact become a corrupted soul. We had suspected all along that someone was pulling the strings of this particular tale, but it’s not at all who we’d expected. Art takes a sharp turn into horror for these final pages, and it’s brilliant. As always, great hints are dropped along the way – in this case the greater hunger waiting in store for the realm. But more importantly, has Rina saved herself, or is she anymore than she was before?
2026-01-23
Yasmine
Yasmine
The ending of 'Daemons of the Shadow Realm, Vol. 1' is an emotionally rollercoaster ride and follows several revelation. Although Yuto and his team can barely hold on in the fight against the Shadow King, they are in the end even crushed by it. The largest blow to them however is the death of Rina. The moments of quiet bond before her death made her loss even harder to the team. However, in the final panels her body is manipulated by an unknown and eerie force. And beyond the action, the political consequences of their mission into the Shadow Realm start to unfold and the human kingdoms are aggressively at war with Yuto and his team blaming them for the instability going on in the Shadow Realm. The author does a great job of making the personal feelings of loss of the characters balanced with the ever growing consequences of their actions to the world around them. And it is also very obvious that the ‘daemons’ of the Shadow Realm are not the true villains.
2026-01-23
Dean
Dean
I just read the ending of the first volume of 'Daemons of the Shadow Realm'. It was so awesome and also so sad. Yuto and the others managed to do it in the end – they had brought down a part of the stronghold of the Shadow King. But the price was terrible. In the end Rina had to sacrifice herself for the others. Her last words were used to activate a seal, which would bring some time. After that her corpse started to move again and she is now so much worse than before. Her white robes are now all stained black. It was such a cool ending. After it I read some parts back again, because there had to be some clues before. And the way the power relations change in the epilogue is very promising for Vol. 2, especially because there the human nobles start to develop a scheme for a war.
2026-01-27

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