Ruby wa Kyokuya Hoshi wo Mezasu
VERY wholesome and sweet but genuine stakes, so not just fluff. also interesting worldbuilding. the tan boy is beauuuutiful. no sex yet (2 chpts in rn) and idk when or how it will appear but i do know its a spinoff of a much longer BL series that i confess im not in a rush to try out (but i do intend to at some point). anyway i do enjoy my plottier BLs and fantasy genre in general so coupled with the nice art im feeling optimistic about this. it has alot in common aesthetically with sahara no kurowashi but alot more pure, wholesome and uh consensual. its also got less sex scenes overall. (tragic!) but a good story with an interesting fantasy world. EDIT: not sure if completed or on hiatus atm so just gonna put it here for now.
Sutenaide My Hero
controversial and understandably so but i give it props for trying something a little different in a very oversaturated drama taht does alot of the same things. i continue to be baffled by the take that manga and korean webtoons seem to take with Alphas not simply having biological differences in terms of size, build and ahem penal knot but in fact being somehow born with elevated intelligence or apitutde by virtue of their alpha biology which...is very Eugenics-y and not actually based on how any living species works in real life but ahem. this is like mostly porn lbr so. that in mind i found it to be hot porn. and a nice twist on the usual alphaxomega dynamics. and as someone who eye rolls over Fated Partners ish i did like that them striking out against Fate was a thing. and also that it was a somewhat bittersweet ending instead of happily ever after. however the dub and even noncon is not easily swept under the rug here, and tbh that can def be a turn off for alot of people. for me i enjoy some toxic angsty couples and super fantastical settings like omegaverse are the best place for it imo. but yeah it does bear mention. the secondary couple is arguably more wholesome but imo far more typical omegaverse and thus not super interesting overall tho i think if it had more time to rly dig into the central conflict of that couple it might have worked for me more. tbh the best part of this series may be the spicy af sex scenes haha. but i enjoy the intensity of emotion displayed throughout the work be it desire, hatred, love, jealousy or despair. (it is very flawed as a story cuz alot does happen very quickly and so in the end i couldnt quite give 4 stars even tho i did like it more than not). also...equally baffled by the "alphas when reacting to omega's heat turn into rabid beasts" take on biology as well. again...no species could sustain itself in terms of creating offspring if thats how anyone responded to being horny. using that horniness as justification and excuse for assault is one thing but it literally turning a normally non rapist decent righ tthinking person into a monster is like......pregnancy that comes from that kind of encounter is not viable or healthy. like...ahem but that isnt unique to this story unfortuantely so i couldnt fully critize it for that (but i rly do not care for that, it just feels like a lazy shortcut that doesnt NEED to exist in omegaverse to still be omegaverse imo. like...if BOTH parties became ravenously horny then maybe i would be more ok with it...)
Aniki no Ichiban Oishii Tokoro
if u can ignore the whole incest part this is a generally sweet story overall. with some decent angst and sex scenes. but that is a BIG if lol. im firmly in the camp of "anything goes in fiction" so i had no problem with it, whole also wishing that it wasnt incest based so more people overall could read and enjoy it. but oh well~
Nii-chan (harada)