Unromantic Romance

upsidepenguin Apr 19, 2022

6.5

This black-and-white manhwa certainly starts on an interesting premise of omega and alpha reversal roles. And the couple is kinda cute. Buuuuuut I'm sad to say I have some issues with it. 1) The beginning is kind of dubious consent. The omega uses his pheromones to make the alpha submit. 2) Just my personal taste but I don't like how the alpha is quite dumb and naive. He treats the omega like a devoted lover... which is embarrassing because they've only met like, twice before that. He expects way too much out of a one-night stand. 3) The pacing is sometimes too fast. SPOILERS:... for example... The alpha comes home and finds his house trashed because of a stalker. Instead of using this moment to portray his distressed face and show more thoughts about how devastated he is, the author draws one panel of the ruined room then immediately cuts to him stalely calling the omega, then staggering a bit into the omega's arms. Then he's happy he's staying with the omega and gives absolutely no thoughts about his bloody ruined house. The emotional pacing gave me whiplash. The characters are one-dimensional, sometimes act out of character, and there were a lot of times when I felt confused about what was happening due to bad pacing or cringy dialogue. The art is alright, though not on par with what I expected from the cover. I'm stalling this, likely not picking it up again, at chapter 25.

Hyun21 Apr 8, 2023

6

The author had a good idea in mind but failed to execute it. I loved how the entire omegaverse hiarchy was reversed but man, the author just reversed the roles but the toxicity was there. Basically, the alpha is the omega and the omega is the alpha. Lol. (Thoigh the way they reproduce is the same ). 1) RAPE- no one addresses this but the omega does rape the alpha on their first encounter. The entire matter was brushed off, in fact the site I read this one, the comments literally said," It's fine since the alpha got raped and not the omega." Like wth dude?! It was rape  and the idiotic alpha (just the way bottoms behave in other comics ) falls in love with the omega after that.  2) TOXIC TOXIC TOXIC AND EMBARRASSING- even though they changed the plot a bit  the toxicity remained. Man the omega is plain toxic. There's nothing else to his character, he's good looking and TOXIC and treats the alpha like garbage. The alpha in return is an idiot. Yupp. He is naive, stupid, unprofessional and immature. Literally after meeting the omega for the first time, he stsrtd behaving as if they are a couple. I mean, man I would be disgusted by a person like that personally. He behaves so embarrassingly that I almost felt that the omega took pity on him. 3) SHALLOW CHARACTERS AND UNFINISHED IDEAS- so, the alpha and the omega are just two characters there. There is absolutely no depth to their character. Passion or anything. It's just them seeing each other, tje sex and then the relationship fiasco. They literally ha e nothing else than that. Also, throughout the comic you'll see stuff happening but then, they are just cut off and it's back to focusing on the main characters. Like, huh?? Overall, I had high expectations from it but man i was disappointed.  It's the cliche story except replace the top and bottom.  The only redeemable part of this was when the omega gets pregnant. That's tje part i liked the most apart from that I pretty much found the entire thing a headache. (It's kinda like surge towards you just worse.)

klnXX Jan 20, 2023

5

I like that in the universe the author created the omegas to be the ones in power and the alphas were looked at as over excited Labrador retrievers; it was a nice switch. However, the writing has a weird flow and I'm not sure what the original storyline draft was, but a lot of the ideas aren't fully flushed out or fully explained. Also the main characters personalities all seem surface level and I don't understand their motives at all. The only character I understood immediately was Seongjin YOO (sunbae) who only showed up in a few chapters, but instantly I could tell he is someone who will do whatever it takes to get ahead and get his story. I couldn't say anything about the main characters other than they're pretty.  Overall read if you're interested, but understand you'll need to get over some execution and writing humps to fully enjoy. Unless you're looking for just smut which it executes well.