
I love this, tbh. I dropped it before because I really hated the rape in volume 1 but I gave it a chance again and it’s so interesting. Mah was initially the protagonist of a toxic yaoi series with his ex, where they did nothing but fuck and screw people over. And then the more it went on, the more Mah found himself getting tired of it and wanting a quieter, simpler life. When he meets Hitoshi, he behaves like he’s the toxic seme of a yaoi manga and is rapey and terrible, and it doesn’t work. Hitoshi doesn’t want a toxic seme, he just wants someone to stay by his side. Mah doesn’t want to have a whirlwind toxic romance, he just wants to settle down. I like that ever since that one terrible experience, the two of them aren’t depicted as having penetrative sex. Their relationship is slow, and is more about learning the other person and how they become a part of your life in ways you don’t even realize were there until they’re gone and you want them beside you.

It’s funny to read an omegaverse more interested in the world and individual characters than actually rooting for any couple. I’m not really rooting for anyone to end up together, and I think what Taketora has with Arisaka is more of a FWB situation that both of them don’t have any emotional attachment to. But the universe is fascinating — Nemui is much more interested in the society that A/B/O creates over its relationships.
I want to see what she thinks of female Alphas. If A/B/O would nullify misogyny, or if misogyny still prevails even with the existence of male Omegas and that the caste system of society has merely expanded in an A/B/O world.
I love this tbh bec it’ll make the ML petty and jealous and needy even more.
YOU GET ITTTTT