Megumi & Tsugumi: Alphatier vs. Hitzkopf 01

めぐみとつぐみ [Megumi to Tsugumi] #1

by Mitsuru Si

Tsugumi, ein Omega, hasst alle Alphas. Er glaubt, dass sie Omegas unterdrücken und ausnutzen. Deshalb verpasst er ihnen Abreibungen, wo er nur kann. Bei einer solchen steht er plötzlich dem Alpha Megumi gegenüber, der die anderen Alphas beschützen will. Megumi scheint anders zu sein als andere Alphas – und Tsugumi ist verwirrt. Er findet sich schnell zwischen seinem Hass und einem neuen Gefühl der Sehnsucht wieder…

Genres: Manga, Omegaverse, Yaoi, Romance, LGBT, Boys Love, Queer

242 pages, Paperback

First published October 17, 2018

Reviews

[Dilushani Jayalath · Rating 3 out of 5]

I am impressed. Being one of the very few Omegaverse books I’ve read, and being a YA omegaverse, I actually ended up enjoying the book. I am still not 100% sure if I am completely interested in Omegaverse but I am somewhat sure that I will continue this series.

[hope · Rating 5 out of 5]

me reading this: 🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😳😳😳😳😳🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️

[Ben Howard · Rating 5 out of 5]

Megumi & Tsugumi, Vol. 1 was kind of everything I wanted Love is an Illusion! Vol. 1 to be and more.

It's a romance between an omega, Tsugumi who absolutely despises alphas, and Megumi, an alpha who's not the typical alphahole. But after they meet and clash, their feelings for one another become undeniable. They fight it as much as they can but their attraction to one another can't be denied.

Paired with some really great artwork and you get a near perfect package.

[L Ann · Rating 1 out of 5]

I thought that I was going to like this a lot more than I did. The premise was very promising and I really liked the art style. Unfortunately, Tsugumi's character kinda ruined it for me. He was unreasonable and childish, and even though the creator kept trying to force it, I DID NOT buy into their connection whatsoever. The story was very shallow and I was bored for most of it. 1.5 stars

[Rebecca · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was so much fun! I don't know why I waited so long to read it, but it was a cute omegaverse story about two endearing dummies in love. There's laughter, so much blushing, some genuine introspection, and Tsugumi's wonderful family. I'll definitely be picking up more.

[alex :) · Rating 3 out of 5]

aww i can see these two growing on me. omegaverse is a hit or miss sometimes, but i’m intrigued to see where their relationship goes. there was a real cute scene at the end, so hopefully there’s more of those in the next volume.

[Jesica Sabrina Canto · Rating 4 out of 5]

Es interesante en tanto originalidad del personaje del omega, ya que en su celo mantiene el control y su cuerpo no se debilita gracias a su fuerza de voluntad. He leído unos cuantos mangas/mahwas omegaverse y es la primera vez que encuentro este planteo.
Sin embargo, el comportamiento del omega protagonista es egoísta e infantil, al fin y al cabo, pero es un adolescente asique esta bien. Estoy a la espera de cómo evoluciona el personaje, dependerá de ello mi nivel de afecto.
Por otro lado, es necesario mencionar a los personajes secundarios, los dos padres de Tsugumi son geniales. Verlos ayuda a entender porque el protagonista es así, ya que en esta relación de adultos tampoco vemos la dinámica de roles común entre alfas y omegas.

[Sarah · Rating 4 out of 5]

Violently adorable.

Megumi is a rebelliously unique alpha who has nothing but respect and consideration for omegas & Tsugumi is a ferocious omega who's gut reaction to any emotion above baseline (good or bad) is to punch something (9 times out of 10 that "something" is Megumi lol).

I love them already and can't wait for more.

Also, this was a recommendation/book loan (shoutout @jadecanread) and can I just say how honored I am when friends read BL/Yaoi Omegaverse and they think, "Sarah would love this."

[Jess | jadecanread · Rating 5 out of 5]

my first time reading omegaverse manga and it's bl and wonderful.

I legit have zero complaints other than I wish I picked up volume two when I got this one lol.

Megumi is an alpha, Tsugumi is an alpha-hating omega. Because Tsugumi walks around without suppressants, he gets into trouble and keep crossing paths with Megumi.

Summary for my self, slight spoilers:
locked in sports closet
heat activities part one
meet the parents
heat activities part two
sister birthday and sleepy time cuddles

[Daesy · Rating 4 out of 5]

There were a few scenes that were borderline on rape(and huge non-cons), but the story wasn't bad and I actually liked the chars a lot, and I was glad to see also some chapters about the parents and how they met(V2). The mangaka also added that there is a possibility for a 3rd volume, so maybe we will see the boys again, and maybe a wedding and kids? One can hope.

[Brigi · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked this, both main characters are well-fleshed out. Loved the enemies to lovers storyline and the funny scenes. Just really wish the characters were older!

[Marcos “MSMDragon” · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the first time I’ve ever read an Omegaverse book so it was a little intense, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. Megumi & Tsugumi are great characters and you can tell their interactions are so much more than just physical. I’m excited to continue this series! It’s perfect for Pride month!

[MaDoReader · Rating 4 out of 5]

Súper bonita esta pareja 😍

[Dylan · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a cute first volume. Probably my favorite megaverse manga so far.

[Teralyn Elise · Rating 2 out of 5]

Ill give it two stars for good art and a good story. My issue arises with the fact that both the characters are children (15-16). They are, more than once mine you, drawn in explicit sexual situations with each other. The author could have made them college students instead of high school students, and then they would have been adults and it would have changed literally almost nothing about the story. There was NO reason why the characters needed to be children. The overall storyline was interesting but is entirely detracted from by the fact that it’s basically thinly veiled pedophilia.

[Curious Madra · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's giving me rather a 50/50 reaction butt it's a good enough yaoi omegaverse story....

[Marc D. ✨ · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5/5 estrellas.

Mi primer manga omegaverse y no he parado de reír y fanboylear, creo que arrancamos bien.

¡Me encantó! 💖

[Negin 🧚‍♀️✨💎 · Rating 5 out of 5]

Liebe es! Definitiv mein BL Highlight

[Dani (criesinanxiety) · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this series a long time ago…online and promised to buy the physical copy when it came out…I did not know it came out physically until like two months ago LOOL


I always enjoyed the omegaverse but I did like how different this one was in certain parts like a violent omega 😭 that swings a pipe 💀

Lots of funny moments and this is set in high school !
the mcs dads are sooo cute 😭

[Ethelia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Je regrette de ne pas l’avoir lu plus tôt, ce yaoi est le parfait mélange entre moment attendrissant, chaud et drôle.

[Kate♡ · Rating 5 out of 5]

4.5/5stars

THIS WAS SO FUN these characters are so stupid and ridiculous and the story is so fun i love them together

[Sera Nova · Rating 4 out of 5]

Oh this ended up being real cute!

[Ariadna Cota · Rating 5 out of 5]

Empezar a leer mangas con este is a choice, pero es una choice que parece cuadrar con mi obsession del enemies to lovers. No me esperaba nada y la verdad que me he quedado de piedra pero para bien. Como minimo me leeré el siguiente volumen, que ya es decir.

[Jessi ❤️ H. Vojsk [if villain, why hot?] · Rating 5 out of 5]

Omegaverse 👌🏻

Art ✨✨✨✨
Story 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Spice 🌶🌶🌶🌶

[Jacob Miller · Rating 3 out of 5]

TW: sex, assault, dubious consent.

In trying to explore manga, I am using recommendations from friends and from different genres I have found online. Specifically when looking for queer manga, I came across the concept of the omegaverse. It sounded like an extreme example of a type of manga that may help define some edge lines to the cognitive map of this new type of literature I'm delving into. I'm also looking to read some horror and some more slice of life. If I conflate the overall concept of an omegaverse with its representation in this specific title, I apologize, and look forward to correcting moving forward.
Initially, the expanding of our binary gender construction into 6 sounded like an interesting way to queer the subject. I was struck after finishing vol 1 by just how much the alpha, beta, omega system reinforces heteronormativity and gender essentialism. While the male/female binary is opened up, with each having an alpha, beta, and omega subcategory (with both male and female omegas able to become pregnant), each of these categories is fixed and most of the world building deals with the specific, distinct, and unchangeable biology of each identity. Gender identity is given and falls from biology. There are not more options for one to choose, rather there are narrower categories to fit people into. Treating this as some kind of xenoanthropological sci-fi study-piece, it has its fascinating moments. Relating it back to sex and relationships between humans, it feels constricting and devoid of romance; everything, include love and romance, stems from biological imperatives.

I say all of this, however, as a gay man...
This is a book series centering two men (boys, interestingly and problematically) having sex with each other, but it is now clear to me that it is written by a woman for women to read. It feels not for me. Not that I'm gate-kept from it, but in that it was not written with me in mind. The alpha and omega relationship is a way to explore toxic heterosexual power dynamics and rape culture. The fact that it is two men in this instance provides, perhaps, a bit of distance from the subject. The threat of sexual violence permeates the omegaverse; omegas are under constant threat from alphas and still form relationships with them. Through the threat of assault, omegas experience and negotiate attraction to specific alphas. This reflection of rape culture lies in the background of a series of explicit gay sex scenes that "play" with issues of consent. As a (white) man, I can comment on how problematic this is and also how "interesting" because of the privilege patriarchy affords me to have some objectivity and distance from the consequences of rape culture and toxic heteronormativity. In some weird way, the omegaverse construct may give someone without my privileges a modicum of that distance while reading Megumi and Tsugumi (and, not unimportantly, space in which to consume smut!). I want to celebrate this space being carved out. Also, it renders my opinions, if not moot, that of an outsider and one that should perhaps be taken with a grain of salt.

[Emily Ward]

I randomly stumbled across this book while browsing for manga to read and decided to give it a try.

The story takes place within an Omegaverse alternate universe (a common BL/fan fiction-type trope that I am almost ashamed to say I am quite familiar with). For those unfamiliar, the Omegaverse is an alternate universe in which, in addition to being male and female, humans are also separated into three genders: Alpha, Beta, and Omega. The universe comes with its own set of rules regarding relations between the different genders (with much of it being sexual in nature), but trying to explain all of the nuances in a Goodreads review would take way too long.

Overall, I actually quite enjoyed this story. It tells the story of Tsugumi, an Omega male who often wears a face mask and carries around a metal pipe to beat on any Alphas who try to take advantage of him, and Megumi, a delinquent Alpha male who's trying to prove that he isn't like other Alphas (i.e., sexist and rapey as all hell, which is, unfortunately, a common trope in these types of stories). The two don't really get along at first (as Tsugumi hates Alphas and both are bad at communicating), but eventually, they end up falling for each other (the good old "enemies to lovers" trope).

This story was a pleasant surprise (given my knowledge of this trope as a whole), as it took some of the typical Omegaverse tropes and flipped them around (i.e., an Omega main character who has a backbone and actually has a personality outside of their Alpha partner, an Alpha main character who isn't a borderline rapist and actually respects his Omega counterparts, Alpha-Omega parents who are shown to be loving and supportive both of each other and their children, etc.). The story still features highly graphic (somewhat dubious) sexual content (this is an Omegaverse story, after all), so be prepared for that. But the main characters are likable and I enjoyed watching their relationship grow over time.

There are at least two more volumes after this one, so I interested to see where the story goes, but overall this was a better-than-average Omegaverse-based story with likable teenage characters who are exploring first love together.

Would probably only recommend to people who like Omegaverse-based stories (and thus are familiar with all that comes with that trope), as I am aware that the trope is not for everyone (which is completely understandable). The Omegaverse is an interesting trope to explore, and I believe that as long as you can distinguish fantasy from reality, and recognize what is and isn't okay IRL, you can still have fun with it.

[Gabriele | QueerBookdom · Rating 3 out of 5]

Representation: queer Japanese protagonists, queer Japanese secondary characters, Japanese secondary and tertiary characters.

Content Warning: omegaverse, dubious consent, violence, rape attempts.

Omegaverse is a very niche genre which is nearly never my sort of thing, so I always tread carefully around it, but its essence can be somewhat related to queerness and that is why I end up reading some stories. If upon researching what it entails, you think you would like to try it out, I suggest Megumi & Tsugumi as a first bite into the genre as I think it tries to subvert the expectations of what one could presume it is going to happen in an omegaverse-set story; and I liked the way Megumi and Tsugumi need to communicate clearly, spelling out what they are thinking and feeling, in order to let the other understand them and to avoid misunderstandings.

Be warned though that it is explicit and features minors as main protagonists (I obviously did not like that).

[Cara · Rating 1 out of 5]

1☆ is being generous.

Trigger Warnings: non-consent & minors depicted in ...situations. Tsugumi says stop. And Megumi doesn't. He doesn't even let him "finish" he even admits what he did was horrible, but it's brushed over?

Perfect example of Yaoi where it's actually just mf and switched at last minute to suit the genre. And of course in yaoi, there are only have set roles in the bedroom, forcing the mf dynamic.
The fact these are kids in high school and what is depicted is also questionable how this is released and left me cringing. We have it mentioned twice they are MINORS.
Why does every kid call their parents by their first name?

Tsugumi, the uke/omega/bottom/etc is depicted as female in his intimate moments with himself, no male downstairs. I personally hate this and especially if the top is depicted as male and this case, he is. Megumi the seme/alpha/top/etc is depicted as male in all of his.
Why write mm/yaoi if this is how it's depicted?? Crying uke/bottoms/omegas make sense if it's written correctly, this was just...eh

Why is Tsugumi so against Alphas? His trauma isn't trauma. It's just a group of guys asking if he wants to get it on, then he's all anti-Alpha and beating people up with pipes? He has an omega father, yet can't speak with him at all? Why?

[Yared · Rating 2 out of 5]

Honestly, I’m kind of mad. The author went through all this trouble of having Megumi say “Oh you know I hate alphas that can’t control themselves or use omega pheromones as an excuse to assault omegas” and then the author still made him assault Tsugumi. And I’m kind of like, what’s the point then. And then they tried to cover it up by making Tsugumi say that is he would’ve stopped him or “I didn’t say I didn’t like it.” I’m like bro no you were assaulted.

[Michelle Easton · Rating 4 out of 5]

Growing up in the beginning stages of fandom culture has endeared me to the ABO genre, and this is surprisingly wholesome. Megumi just wants to be a better alpha than his father and Tsugumi has a mistrust of most alphas, and just wants to protect others. This unlikely duo is sure to face more challenges, but this was a wonderful introduction to their love story.