Tai's manga / #Tragedy(16)

the truly traumatizing dark prequel to various events in yatamomo (tho it was released with the main series afaik not separately). i havent finished reading yatamomo yet but when i have ill give my thoughts on it. there's not much to say about this cause it doesnt rly say much on its own it rly is just the full picture of Momo's past that we only got to see bits of in flashbacks etc in Yatamomo main series. (but it involves child pr*stitution so....u have been warned)

this shit made me cry and im still mad about it. ill give my thoughts when im done being mad but suffice to say this is a good story but its REALLY upsetting so like....seriously i cant even recommend it but i also cant say its needlessly gross like there is something of value being said here but....at what cost?!

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...)