Wash It All Away Manga Volume 10 Offers Answers

Throughout the Wash It All Away manga, Mitsuru Hattori references how Wakana Kinme is suffering from amnesia and doesn’t seem to remember much of her life before running Kinme Cleaning in Atami. There aren’t many answers! Even when Shio, a young girl who knew Wakana “before” visits, we don’t get to know too much about what’s going on. Volume 9 changed all that, and now with volume 10 we get definite answers and an initial “end” to Wakana’s story. 

Editor’s Note: There will be no major spoilers for volume 10 of the Wash It All Away manga below.

At the end of the ninth volume of Wash It All Away, we saw Shiori “Shio” Mehikari come to visit Wakana again and get an offer to come live with her in Atami after she grows up. With the start of the 10th installment, there is more of that breadcrumb trail that Hattori laid throughout the background narrative of this slice of life series. Wakana knew Shio when she was in high school and Shio was a kid. There was someone she had memories of in Atami. Kinme Cleaners existed before Wakana took it over. Shio previously suffered from some sort of illness or condition, so much so that even at the start of this volume Wakana asks if the girl got permission. This time, the response offers an even better hint. Both a “head matron” and “doctor” gave permission. 

What’s great is the lead-up to this revelation doesn’t come all at once. Instead, it feels like Hattori built up to Wakana finally being ready to accept what happened and understand her past in Wash It All Away volume 10. As a result of all the connections she made in Atami, and the relationships that developed, she seems ready and mentally capable of accepting how good or bad the results might be. Especially since we start to see her basically become family to Shio over the visits. 

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So when Wakana does go back to her previous “home,” we see her come to turns with and understand things at the same time we do. Those flashbacks from earlier volumes? They make sense. We understand why she felt connections with certain places and knew about cleaning. Moments when she experienced deja vu make sense. I also felt like it offered an even further chance to show becoming closer to Shio, since the young girl does still live there and could be around as someone to talk to while Wakana begins to remember.

But what I think I like even more than just getting answers in volume 10 of Wash It All Away is knowing that there will be another two installments of the manga still that focus on the slice of life elements we’d come to love. This volume appeared in Japan in August 2023, with Hattori suggesting there could be more, but this properly closed out Wakana’s story. But there have been two more volumes released in Japan since, and Square Enix’s release schedule means we don’t have the years-long gap between 10 and 11. 

Wash It All Away volume 10 does a good job of closing out Wakana Kinme’s story while still leaving room for the manga to continue. We got all the answers. We know what happened to Wakana. And that knowledge doesn’t change things or her. It just leaves room for more eventual stories about her and her relaxing adventures.

Volumes 1-10 of the Wash It All Away manga are available via Square Enix. Volume 11 launches on December 8, 2026. The anime can be streamed via Crunchyroll.

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