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re-read c1+2 on MRM (the panel order is correct over there) and c3 here and man this story was soooo promising.

Youjirou, a biter who was hidden and heavily monitored by his family which led to him being rebellious to the point he committed a crime, yet he wasn't actually punished for it because his family like to keep everything hush hush. His twisted personality was a product of the environment he grew up in, along with his desire to break free (like just compare him to Annaka Yuusei, the biter in Smokey Nectar. Clearly Anna's family has done something right because he didn't grow up to be the kinda biter that abuses their power as they please).

The other one, Isshin, comes from a family whose duty is to serve the biter's family. After being kicked in the head by Youjirou, imo he developed a fascination with biters and a twisted desire to tame them, especially Youjirou.

They, our two twisted main characters were forced (or weren't they? it's Isshin's idea after all) cohabitated, and Isshin tampered with the device to tame Youjirou, or you can say to domesticate a beast. Maybe it's the saliva of a biter in heat, maybe it's something else that the author didn't manage to include in this story, but I think somewhere along the way Isshin kinda fell first and then Youjirou followed. This "falling for each other" aspect wasn't well explained by the author at all, like chap 4 and 5 look to me like the author ran out of steam so they tried to finish up the whole thing as fast as possible. There is an extra chapter that is quite sweet though, I hope it'll get translated here. But yeah the whole story could've been more well done...

I personally was hooked on c1 and 2 of Domestic Beast when it was first translated, to the point I searched high and low for raws in so many different languages that I don't know to continue reading it. So I'm a bit disappointed at how it ended, like can the author please redo c4+5 and add another chapter to make it more, idk, whole? Maybe a sequel to explore the depth of Youjirou and Isshin's feelings for each other, that'd be nice.