I know most people are loving this manga, because it comes across as "they chose love over fate". I actually really didn't care for this manga too much, because the only one who chose love over fate was Kaoru. His decision to bite Yuka in high school (without Yuka's consent) changed all of their lives. It may have been for the better, but it felt more like everyone just settled for what they got. Both Rin and Taiga were obsessing over other people while having sex with each other up until the last few chapters. Yuka and Kaoru didn't even have a sexual relationship except when Yuka was in heat. That may have changed in the end, but it was Kaoru meeting his fated omega that pushed his and Yuka's relationship to change. I have no problem with an omegaverse story choosing love over fate (there is a butler couple in another one that did just that and I loved it), but I felt like this one was poorly constructed. None of them really showed any strong romantic feelings for their partners except for Kaoru.
I totally agree with you. I didn't felt that yuka has a romantic feelings for kaoru at first. When rin asked yuka if he loves kaoru and replied with " he's my precious childhood friend" ( or something like that ), the same with Taiga to Rin. I think taiga is just jealous (?) of kaoru because he got all the attention and rin–who used to be really attached to him doesn't want him anymore. I think the three of them decided to just settle with the situation they're in because they can't do anything about it anymore
But I'm happy that they ended up being happy with their partnes.
This story is actually deeper than just "they chose love over fate". Maybe this story will came across as brutal, what with the rapey start. But actually the author paint the omega universe situation the closest to reality. What i love about this story is how all the character mature through all the circumtance, the are not accept it just as it is because actually Kaoru can choose Rin all he want. Taiga is downright asshole. Even if he was the one bonded with kaoru, he looked down on kaoru, and he just saw kaoru as breeding machine, what relationship is healthy that way? (even though they are fated). But his way of thinking change, when he realize his fated partner being robbed from him. He did care for Rin from the start, thats why he told Rin to be bitten by someone Rin believed will care for him from the start. Because Taiga knows he is not Rin's fated pair and he knows how it feels to lost his fated pair. And Rin asked Taiga to bit him first before his brain foggeg by the fated ridden lust he has for Kaoru. This universe show that fate is bullshit and hormonal. Maybe Yuka start off not having as big love as Kaoru have for him. At first he allow Kaoru to be with his fated pair assuming Kaoru met his fated pair in the future (where Kaoru kiss him to shut him up, omg the cutest). But he grew to love Kaoru and he is happy with the possibility that Kaoru is his fated pair. Thats why he is hesitating when Rin ask him to give Kaoru to Rin. This story actually really deep. Taiga still show that he is an asshole when he ask Kaoru to choose Rin, eventhough he did it based on his love, but he didnt even considering that Yuka will be all alone if Kaoru did choose Rin. All of them blind by love and not by their hormones only, i love it. And well i know the butler manga you are talking about. And i absolutely love that piece of work too, but you cant compare those and this. The butler manga try to show that it is possible to love someone who is your fated partner AND who is not your fated partner. But you cant compare them because the alpha butler didnt even met the omega he is fated with, he just met the omega forced to be his fate one by chemical. But they are happy nonetheless so it is okay and i am glad he never did met his fated omega.
And this one actually did the complete opposite from the butler manga. This manga shows that you actually can be happier by choosing someone you actualy love rather that someone you are fated with
I just don't like stories about one lover dying and the one left behind falling in love with their brother or son or anyone that they were both close to before the death. I know it's mostly insecurity, but I just can't get past the whole "second choice" scenario. If it were me in a relationship like that I wouldn't be able go a single day without thinking "if so and so hadn't died, my lover wouldn't look at me twice." Having to live with that kind of pain on a daily basis, I find the characters more pitiful than anything else.
I know right !! especially when two siblings fight with each other over someone
I'm sorry, but all of these comments condemning the only adult who has ever shown any kindness or respect for this kid are annoying. Didn't anyone notice that the reason he slapped him was because he was putting himself down so severely? It was a way to shock the kid into realizing what he was saying about himself. I don't condone abuse, but in my honest opinion this was far from the abuse that everyone seems to think it is. He was concerned for the kid and defending his right to have a little self-respect. It was obvious to me. I'm sorry if everyone else saw it differently than I did.
Why is nothing ever said by the characters about coming home from being with a woman to having sex or making out between the main characters. If I were in the position of the uke of this story, I would have punched the seme in the nose for making a move on me after being with those girls. It's not about possessiveness or anything like that. It's about how absolutely disrespectful it is to the person you're supposed to love to be with one person (or two in this case) and then immediately be with the person you're supposed to love. I know it sounds silly and time wise doesn't make that much of a difference, but please at least don't do this in the same day (much less with only an hour or two between the encounters). I know it isn't technically cheating when they aren't actually in a relationship with any of the people involved, but it's just nasty and absolutely horrible to all of the people involved. I've seen this exact situation come up in more than one manga, and the characters always just go along with it even knowing where the other had been just a little while before. There's no way that conveys any type of love for the other character. If anything, it just conveys a distinct lack of care about their feelings at all.
I kind of wish we had gotten to see when the older brother found out about their relationship. With the way he loves to tease Sumiyoshi, it had to have been entertaining.
I actually really want Tomoharu to quit the police and become a yakuza. You always see all these stories where the "bad guy" turns to the straight and narrow for their love. I want a story where the "good guy" turns to the dark side. It doesn't happen very often.
me tooooooo!!! wanna see him in yakuza lol!!!
Everyone's mad at Jin because of the Alex thing, but honestly, I was getting fed up with him before Alex even made an appearance. The way Jin keeps pushing Hamura to run track regardless of what Hamura actually wants to do really bothers me. He keeps telling Hamura how he fell in love with his running, but what happens if Hamura chooses not to run (or even possibly gets hurt and can't run)? Also, he kept harping on Hamura for not listening to Jin, but I didn't notice Jin doing much listening of Hamura either. I thought Hamura made it very clear how much he loved him and regretted losing him in high school. Hamura was very straightforward about how much he wanted to treat Jin better this time around. Even with all that Jin still managed to push everything off as being Hamura's fault. As far as the things that happened when they were younger,I feel like quite a bit of that was Jin's fault, too. It feels as though the story is trying to push it as Hamura is the only one that needs to make up for the past, though. Hamura is extremely insecure about their relationship, and Jin isn't doing a dang thing to help that situation at all.
yap it was Jin fault, cause Jin trigger him with his words knowing it will hurt him in the past. Hamura was a playboy but he needed Jin support back then, but instead, Jin chooses to say the words that he knows will make him snap and lose control, making him lose his eye.
of course, Jin doesn't blame him cause he has no right to blame him and not cause he is a good person, cause it was his fault has well it happen to his eye.
Jin is actually not a good person at all, he is the worse! and he kept doing things to trigger Hamura knowing it will hurt him.
I wish Hamura could wake up and forget about him for good.