TachibanaChiharu's manga / #Romance(9)

Two couples, childhood friends to adults, omegaverse. The kind Kaoru always followed along after his neighbor and friend since they were small, the popular and outgoing Yuka. In MS, Yuka stepped away from Kaoru who was kind of a gloomy loaner, and made new friends and avoided Kaoru. Then they had their 2nd gender test, only for Yuka to have his world destroyed to learn he was an omega. One of Yuka's new friends, Taiga, attacks him at the school and Kaoru forces a bite-bond on Yuka to keep him from being gang raped. Flash forward to adults, and now 20-something or 30-something Taiga is living with a teenage omega Rin for the sex, but refuses to bond with him because Rin is not his fated partner. Then Rin realizes after running across them that Kaoru is his fated pair. What will happen? Excellent series; makes very good use of the omegaverse setting, and the Fated Pair trope is used in a very interesting and unique way. All of the characters are complex and interesting, and it's heartbreaking the challenges they face and the things they are forced to go through. This is probably the best omegaverse ever written; it has complex thoughts on the subject and human nature in general. It doesn't get better than this. A+++

Characters in this setting are so great and interesting and real-feeling. Loved the first season, look forward to the second season!

Not a shouta fan, so I was worried going in. But this is both shouta and omegaverse done right; it uses both in interesting and different and shockingly tasteful ways.

The Uke's sniff fetish is amazingly great. I like the non-standard couple, who have very well defined traits/quirks. They are adorable, the story is low-drama, and it's great to see a story after the relationship becomes official but with normal life challenges rather than yaoi trope of the week.

Feels light-hearted until you figure out where it's headed. Tissues required for the ending.

Two couples: adult x adult, spirit x spirit. Mc Yohan is a shaman with a spirit master of donga the raven. He's mostly a charlatan but he does have some spiritual energy. He has a customer one day who comes in with a powerful spirit master but the customer refuses to acknowledge the spirit. Hijinks ensue as the spirit tries to get his human cohort to acknowledge him and drags Yohan into the drama. This is pretty good and I was entertained the whole way through. The plot between donga and chungho is by far the most interesting thing, which does comprise most of the story, although the other plot points are pretty good too. It does fall a little flat in that the main romance between Yohan and Yoosung's romance is kinda dry. Yohan acts like a girl which is ugh, since he conducts himself like a playboy. Yoosung is really nice, but he's very uninteresting, and also, a huge chunk of his personal plot isn't explained -- why he has a spirit sidekick when he really doesn't have any kind of spiritual power? It's never really explained in the whole comic. And also the arc where Yohan has to give up his power to save Yoosung -- first of all, Yoosung is damseled for no real reason but to add extra drama, and is basically taken out of the whole back half of the comic while interesting things are happening. Second of all, usually plots that end up with someone sacrificing something is tied in with the reason they need the thing in the first place, but Yohan was not the cause of this so there's no lesson to be learned in the sacrifice. And also Yoosung's illness is completely the fault of Chungho so why isn't it Chungho giving something up? Why does it have to be Yohan. Also, his spiritual powers are his livelihood, and then instead of the author making him grow a little and not be a snake-oil-salesman, he continues being a shaman but without any powers at all making him even more dishonest??? What is the lesson here. Also, it's weird that the Jade Emperor would bone someone that he calls "his brother"; doesn't really bother me he's gettin' all the poontang.