I do agree with most of what you have said. I still gave this 5 stars as imperfect as it is, because, well the pros do outweigh the cons. And if you think about the amount of trashy yaoi and omegaverse ones that saturate the genre, it's saying something.
Dude you literally Resumed everything... you did ur homework
I enjoyed reading this one despite its flaws. The Omegaverse has so much potential, and I am still waiting for a really well-thought-out, unique take on it. But in the meantime, I can still enjoy these pretty good ones that at least flex one aspect of the setting pretty well.
(They best Omegaverse I've read so far has been "Shounen no Kyoukai", but it is an agonizing read I will admit)
Here, there are 4 omegeverse stories with 9.5, the highest in these mangas, this, Kashikomarimashita Destiny, Love Shuttler and Love is an Illusion. Which I don't get it lol
Lol. This is a pretty straight forward omega verse tbh. The main goal for it is to deliver that omega can be happy with the right person and the right people ie all the people that surrounded the omega except when he was raped. For the sake of storytelling, we can just assume that both the omega and alpha eventually get to know each other way past their bond, which is evident from the extra chapt. I mean I get it, it's important to be critical. But this is one of the few omegaverse that really warms the heart with its family setting (apart from Tadaima Okaeri).
Kashikomarimashita Destiny gets a 9.5 because of the way it's written and I am not talking about the alpha-omega pairing. It's the alpha-beta pairing that tugs people heart with how much shit they had to go through to finally have a beautiful ending. It goes beyond the cliche fate of omegaverse genre
I had to laugh when thinking about the ages of the characters. For people they meet (in the future) that don't know that Shizuku is the product of something that happened before the alpha x omega met, you end up with the following logic playing out in someone's head:
21 yrs old omega - 5 shizuku's age -1 gestation = 15 years old when omega got pregnant
17 yrs old alpha - 5 shizuku's age -1 gestation = 11 years old when alpha impregnated him (if you don't realize that Hazuki is not the person that did it)
LOLWUT
Anyway, this story was almost great, but I had a few issues.... (also incl are things I liked after spoiler space)
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1. The comic tries to tout a theme of "being an omega shouldn't matter" but alpha is literally in love with omega because he's an omega (alpha knows nothing about him and instantly confesses the moment he sees him for the first time). I was trying to figure out if this was supposed to be a "Fated Pairing" that was trying be conveyed but because the word choice was different, I am still unsure if this is the case. STILL, if it was the case, alpha can only blame alpha/omega biology for his "love" for the omega, since they don't even know each other at all.
2. Omega was put in the position of damsel and victim far too much. I really don't like it when this happens because omegaverse is a mirror for putting certain subsets of men (omegas) in women's place in the real world, and I don't like the idea of needing to be constantly rescued by a "better gender" than mine. Addendum to this item - needing a man to take care of you ("getting a life partner"), which is what omega is encouraged to do over and over in this comic, feels kind of cringey when I think about it for more than a few seconds.
3. They attributed daughter's noble traits to "probably being an alpha" instead of just saying she's a good person, which again, goes against the theme the comic seems to be trying to convey on the surface of "your second gender shouldn't matter".
4. What is the purpose of the omega going to match-making events if he hates alphas? Either you want a life partner or you don't. Was he expecting to find a beta life partner? I don't really get it.
Now for The Good things
1. Older omega x younger alpha
2. Omega has a kid by another guy and new alpha on the scene is absolutely fine with it. It being a high schooler with this view of the situation seems to be a bit of a stretch, but I'll give it a pass. Anyway, I love it when the reality of the omega gender being for breeding is not ignored in a story.
3. Alpha doesn't seem to be absurdly rich, powerful, old money, only-son-of-whatever-conglomerate group, etc. He's just like a normal kid from a more wealthy than average family. I guess his family owns a fancy hotel, but it's not really played up in the story at all. He's basically treated as a normal kid for most of the story.
4. I love the mom helping out. It's great to have parents present and doing what they can to help the protags.
5. Grandpa cleaner guy was great. An alpha with a low-class job? That's so unusual in this setting!
6. Sometimes kids in a story can become the kiss of death for the story, but the daughter was pretty good and well-used in the story and didn't seem to disappear from the story when inconvenient (grandma was said to be babysitting any time she wasn't around in the evening, which was at least explained)
7. I like that the comic didn't pull any punches about the omega's fear of alphas after what happened to him in (high school? middle school?). Going through something like that would definitely cause PTSD.
8. I like that the omega made the conscious choice to keep the child produced by rape. It's a hard choice, especially at his his age (21 present age - 5 shizuku's age -1 for gestation = 15-16 years old). I'm glad that his mom supported his choice.