mpiesyk's manga / #Interesting(23)

Indebted dominant omega signs up to be the surrogate/egg donor for a wealthy family’s alpha son. The relationship is not supposed to extend outside hospital artificial insemination tries but they become sexual partners, despite the alpha being pretty toxic. Omega breaks things off eventually and the alpha falls apart, with his family planning to send him abroad permanently just as the omega becomes pregnant. The omega denies that the baby is his to protect the alpha’s future. Due to some sort of dispute, the author bailed out on the series well before the actual planned ending. Definitely some lost potential.

Famous athlete tracks down his high school sunbae and uses business to re-involve them. Relationship turns sexual despite the sunbae’s clear lack of romantic interest, with the future outcome unclear and the present is somewhat tragic. The sunbae is unshakably heterosexual, divorced, stubborn, disinterested, gets panic attacks for which he is medicated and he is close with his longtime friend who is also secretly sexually interested in him. The sunbae goes along with things (though with significant resistance when it comes to the hoobae) and is often oblivious - all likely due to low self-worth from past trauma that just compounds with life’s misfortunes. The hoobae is kinda meh. It isn’t totally clear who will be seme/uke and switch is possible. There’s a reason it took me so long to sum it up - this story has more complexity and plot than most do, with better art, more unique settings and less smut. Can’t wait to see where it goes, because it’s not as predictable as most.

Guy with supernatural smell ability detects his soulmate, another boy in his school, through scent. They get together. Minus 1 point because it could have been a little longer, but honestly it’s good even for its short length.