OMG. Guys, you don't know how bad you need to read this manga! I gave it a quick look before going to sleep last night I couldn't stop until I finished it! It's Sating the Wolf, by Troy Arukuno. Thanks to the publisher for sending me a review copy!
- Mangaka: Troy Arukuno.
- Publication Date: 21st July 2023.
- Publisher: TokyoPop.
- Print Length: 192 pages.
- Genres: Adult, Comedy, Fantasy, Gay, Omegaverse, Romance, Yaoi.
- 5 / 5 stars.
Noah, a wolf with no family, was banished from his beloved pack after presenting as an Omega. While wandering alone in a village of herbivores, he meets Henri, a rabbit who lives alone with his little brothers. In a town where carnivores are feared, Henri bravely takes Noah in and offers him a job. When Noah accidentally goes into heat, it suddenly awakens Henri's Alpha instincts.Will a world divided between carnivores and herbivores accept the relationship between a little Alpha rabbit and a big Omega wolf?This book contains explicit sexual content. It is not intended for anyone under 18 years of age.
Just the synopsis is good enough, and I will not listen if you want to tell me otherwise. What's interesting about the omegaverse genre is that it often plays with the issue of consent to create drama and tension in the relationship; a few of them try to romanticize it as a form of "acceptable" abuse, but this is the whole opposite.
We see Noah's inner struggle, his insecurities, his fear and trauma due to his rare condition, the way he feels because of being rejected as an abnormal member of the pack that raised him yet easily discarded him as if it didn't matter. You can say he's by far my favorite character, because not only he fights his inner struggles, but also his own body.
Henri's is another character I fell in love with due to how sweet and understanding he is whenever necessary. He's the one that makes communication as a form of support a must in this relationship, letting Noah feel safe and leading him on a path of acceptance. Not to mention, a twink top? Yes please! It's something I haven't seen in... forever? It challenges the expectations on yaoi and gay media, and we so need more of that!
Sating the Wolf is a manga that plays with social expectations, what's accepted and not, but also shows body shaming, self-image, and inner homophobia under a different light to let the readers know that it's okay to fill whichever "box" they might be in as long as it makes them happy: it doesn't matter what you might look outside, but what's inside of you.
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