Hate Me, but Let Me Stay · review
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This review may discuss plot details.
First off, why do the characters care about A/B/O that much, and why are all the couples shown in the story Alpha X Omega duos? Second off, why do the kids call Naoto, a grown man, "mommy" while using "he/him" pronouns when he's supposed to be a man? If we use this logic, then female alphas should be called "daddy". And why would they call the other dad, Hazuki, Ha-kun when the suffix "kun" is used for peers (friends, classmates, etc) or towards people with lower social status than you (employee, student, etc.)? And when Asanaga asked Hazuki for dating advice, he didn't say "Howto date a teacher?" or "How to date a colleague?", he said "How to date an omega?". That's dehumanizing andleavese characters into one trait. And the kids in the story act too nice, calm, and too adultlike that they don't look like kids anymore. Normal kids would scream, kick, yell, blurt things out, and do all the chaos stuff, but the kids act like the nicest people ever or blank slates. Unrealistic. Then Hazuki's mom tends to want the main couple to have a lot of kids. That's dehumanizing. And Jun told Naoto to get naked and seduce Hazuki. Why? Why are the only few female characters this underdeveloped or sexualized? Then why would some kids bully omegas when the only differences between them and other characters are on heat and taking pills? The characters are way too much for a 5-volume series (it's 5 volumes at the time I wrote this), so that they're really undeveloped or one-trick ponies. Heck, the fact that they're not ponies makes it worse (pun intended, but still). The series makes me really uncomfortable because of the storyline. The fact that the characters don't call the romantic partner "boyfriend", "girlfriend", "partner", "husband", or "wife", and just call them "mates" makes the story feel like the author is trying to define the characters' sexual urges rather than true love. And they call each other "fated mates", which makes things worse. And the characters are all way overused cliché tropes. This series is not worth anyone's time, money, and effort.