Sleeps In Sunbeams's manga / #prostitution(7)

Half brothers Yuki and Hayato have an awful childhood background of parental neglect and abandonment. Living on their own, they only have each other to rely on and each puts all that love and desperate need to be loved in the other. That is, until Yuki scares himself with new sexual feelings for his younger brother. Afraid of his siblings reaction and hating himself, Yuki abruptly distaances himself from his brother, leaving the young Hayato confused, hurt and desperate; abandoned once again. This background sets the scene for a twisted psychopathic relationship between the brothers. Yuki becomes hyper sexual, even going so far as to sleep with older men for money. Hayato commences a relentless campaign of ownership over his older brother, ranging from restraining his brother to blackmailing and intimidating every one of his ex lovers to forced sexual submission. Reading this story, despite Hayato showing sociopathic tendencies, I couldn't help but feel sorry for this vulnerable boy desperately trying to cling to the only person he has left. Abandonment has lefft deep scars on the boy and he was a difficult to like seme. This was an uncomfortable read, but I appreciated the complexity of the characters.

Good short stories with some possessive and/or protective semes

There was an overall sad feeling with this story. The two MCs are a little broken and the history of the uke is heartbreaking. However, they find something special in each other and the ending is sweet. The side characters were interesting too and the artwork excellent.

Omegaverse stories with omega ML so often show the cruelest of people, and in this story the tiny (but tough like a weed) Sakurano lives in a town full of the intolerant. Abandoned by his mom, rejected from every part time job, this sweet little guy sells himself for money to leave town. When tall beta, Takagi moves to this town from Tokyo, the two strike up an unlikely friendship. Watching Sakurano revel in the joy of his first friend was bittersweet because he is such a gentle, vulnerable boy who had been through so much abuse but he was still able to be sweet and fun and treasure a friend. Watching their relationship grow was wonderful as the beta proved to be a strong protector and more then happy to choose the omega.

Trigger warning: Gang rape, prostitution, violence This Omegaverse was very well written and had some lovely artwork, but the plot line was one of much suffering for the uke and not an easy read because of that. Nanao (omega) was a collared, ‘owned’ piece of property available to a select group of powerful alphas and teachers at his boarding school. His hatred of alphas ran deep but he was willing to use them for money (they had been raping and abusing him anyway) that he used to buy his heat suppressants. When new transfer student Souiji (alpha) started he fell for Nanao at first sight, but refused to have sex with him. Even when he joined the circle of alphas with access to the omega’s, he chastely wooed Nanao with words of respect, treasuring him as he bought all of Nanao’s time. Through some ups and downs these two slowly developed a trusting relationship that would have been sweet (and it actually was) if it weren’t for the toxic treatment of omegas in this world (and of Nanao in particular). A quick example: Ryosuke (in charge of the alpha’s club) called Souiji in to watch him fuck Nanao. He ordered Nanao to rape Souiji with his heat. He offered up all his omegas to the entire school to be fucked if they were caught, giving no warning or time for the omegas to run. He profited off selling omega’s for sex. All that but because he was drawn to be good looking he was given a hinted love interest...bleh. All I can say is that if I had boarded at that school and was an omega treated as Nanao was, Ryosuke’s would be the first one I would slice to death in a killing spree. Two points for guessing where the slicing would start

This was ok. Mizutani (omega) was a sex worker as part of resolving left over drama with his mother’s death. He seemed to enjoy his job and there was no rape in the story because Kusaka (alpha) was very temperate, especially for an alpha. There were a few things that I question, like why was Kusaka’s dad so against his son dating an omega when he had loved an omega and found his only peace and joy with them? Legit..baffling. And is this a world where children can prostitute themselves in a common business even missing school and nobody queries it? And what’s with the alpha being ok with getting a BJ then watching the guy he likes go fuck some old guy in the room next to him? Yeah, you know it’s love when … I didn’t like how Mizutani was being so mentally condescending about Kusaka’s gentle lovemaking. Just a gross moment to have the guy you love not as good as the random guys who pay for sex. But hey, his face is sweet. I suppose I just don’t see the omega as pure in any way, and though there are sad circumstances around his mom’s death, being a prostitute for some far fetched revenge plot based on a photo and a crap ton of assumptions hit me right in the cringe. And, tbh I found the alpha kind of weak. Good points in the story include the art, the ending was nice with giving them some time before being together, and it was good the sensei was essentially chased out of the school. I was disappointed but I can see why some may like the whole retribution theme.

Not my cup of tea. The first pair with the loveable idiot got better as a story as it progressed, but simply put I didn’t like the seme. The second story had zero romance. It absolutely sucked with the promiscuous school council student President I would rate it zero of I could. The third story was ok. This wont be a manga that I reread.