Torokeru hodo ni kamaretai
yoshihisa has been dating his childhood friend takeshi for years, but becomes uncertain as to whether the alpha wants to permanently pair with him or not. i like the idea of rejecting fated pairs for true love but im sorry, this was soo boringggg. 1st story was decently cute while the 2nd gave me no interest, the only plus is the cute twins at the end. very typical abo story.
Paradigm Shift
hibiya is a beta with omega traits, and falls in love with his coworker yamagi, who isnt who he seems to be. thought the couple being a researcher pair was such a cool dynamic, along with hibiya being a defective beta. but no matter how much i tried to like it i couldnt. i had a pretty hard time following along with the story from a chronological standpoint, and things just happened so abruptly it gave me whiplash. also, why does the ml in the covers not look like yamagi at all? this woulda been 1 star but sana at the end bumped it to a 2.
Egoism Heat
to avoid an arranged marriage, shoma enlists stranger kanata to become his fake lover. i feel like so much happened here. 1) why did the kanata have to rape shoma after he took him in? 2) why were there no repercussions for emika after she successfully raped shoma? 3) why did they have to do that pregnancy jumpscare thing? i think this manga was pretty basic in the abo sphere, though i will admit i appreciated the realistic rape aftermath here. the ending was cute and i liked the two sorting their lives out but the rape in this was very difficult to get through.
The Omega Takes a Husband
i liked this, though i do feel like this wasnt fleshed out nearly enough within 5 chapters. it had all of the right story beats but i feel like the romance didnt have an adequate chance to develop. other than that, i loved the art, the character designs (THE TATTOOS UGHH) and how painfully respectful the ml was.
Alpha no Chouinshiki
wow, i dont think ive been more disappointed in a manga in a while. gorgeous art and cover drew me in and the ml being a dilf piqued my interest, but things went downhill very quickly and very tragically. legrand is basically just a child predator and groomer, who ended up getting to marry his victim and impregnating him. didnt feel like love between 'mates' at all, instead just felt like a weird obsession.
Papa to watashi to Ayumu-chan
ngl this might be one of my favorite found family abo/bl with kids, something about it is so overly charming, i loved the daughter in this, she was so cute and i feel like the family dynamics worked really well here. there is that sense of cliche and suspended realism, but this one stood out to me for some reason. i heard there are two more volumes untranslated and i am clawing at the walls waiting for them to upload here.
Papa x Papa - α To Ω De Sorezore Yattemasu
just some good ol' fashioned family fluff with mature characters and a simplistic, slice of life plot. honestly so cute and a breather from the regular stuff.
We Are Not Destiny
i feel like this manga had some really interesting ideas based off of the omegaverse theme but im not sure they were all executed properly.. just felt very messy and i found both of them so irrational
One Night Only
might be a bit of an eclectic taste but i actually enjoyed this a lot.... i feel like though the story could have had improvements with overall narrative flow, i still found the main couple to be pretty cute! tragedy that the side stories are not their domestic life, tho.
Omega to Akuma no Sefure Jijou