After losing his parents, Daath and his little sister Bella--both omegas--grow up under the Church's care. As his first heat draws near, Daath secretly sells his body to save enough money for them to escape. But when he discovers that the orphanage has been trafficking omegas in the black market, his fragile world shatters.

Desperate to protect his sister, Daath takes on a dangerous job--only for his first heat to strike at the worst possible time. Just as his body gives in to instinct, a dark-furred beastman appears before him: Juda, a wolf alpha who wants nothing to do with humans or omegas. Yet their encounter ignites a bond neither can resist, one that will change both their destinies forever.

Remnant: The Beastmen Omegaverse Saga has a story and art by Hana Hasumi. English translation is done by Jacqueline Fung and lettering by Ray Steeves, with an adaptation by Casper Kazor. Published by Seven Seas Entertainment (June 30, 2026). Rated M.

Content Warning: dubcon, sexual assault

Rebecca Silverman
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Omegaverse and BL have, historically, enough problems with reputation without stories that indulge in rape. The silver lining to this book is that the actual rape happens without any hint of romance – protagonist Daath is assaulted by the beastman priest who took him and his sister Bella in rather than by his fated mate Juda. Mind you, all of the sex scenes between Daath and Juda are dubcon at the very least, but at least sexual assault isn't being directly played off as romance. We must find comfort where we can.

It's a shame, not just because I go into every book I read hoping to like it, but also because creator Hana Hasumi has clearly put a lot of thought into the worldbuilding. In Remnant's world, beastfolk were created specifically to curb humanity's worst impulses by having them interbreed with nominally purer species, and the three secondary sexes of omegaverse were put in place in order to facilitate this. But as with all things, time has corrupted the system, and when the story opens, orphaned omegas (who are all human; beastfolk omegas don't exist except in legend) are housed in church-run facilities, ostensibly for their own good. Needless to say, “for their own good” has turned into “for the church's bottom line,” and Daath is horrified to discover that upon reaching maturity, the omegas are sold into the sex trade. Since he's been hiding his own activities in that sphere in hopes of making enough money to get himself and Bella out of the orphanage, this is particularly upsetting. At least he went into it voluntarily.

Mistreatment of omegas and the self-absorption of alphas is hardly new ground in the genre, but Hasumi takes it to a particularly upsetting level. Juda is furious that he's bumped into his fated mate and won't even agree to help Daath get his sister out of a bad situation. Daath feels like a prisoner (and he basically is) and is desperate to find Bella, and the only thing he has even a modicum of control over is his own body – and even that's barely there, because of the whole fated mates thing. All he can do is demand payment from Juda in exchange for sex, something Juda seems to be unwilling to understand. It is, hands-down, one of the unhealthiest relationships I've seen in a romance story, and upsetting to boot.

It's also worth mentioning that beastmen in this story can be classified as furries – not just animal ears and tails, but humanoid animals. That, alongside the sexual aspects, means that this is likely a book for a very specific audience. If you're not part of it, I'd steer clear.

Bolts
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So it's an omegaverse story…just with furries. No, that's really it. I was genuinely excited to read this story as somebody who has taken up the mantle as one of the resident furries of the Anime News Network team. But when I found out that the furry subculture in this story is ultimately superfluous, the amount of disappointment that washed over my face was definitely palpable. The only reason why there were furries thrown into the story is just so the story could add another subculture to the omegaverse sex system that is commonplace in all of these stories. It does hit on a lot of familiar dramatic narrative beats that you have seen in stories like this before like classism, racism, lack of humanity in the way that sex is seen in larger society, etc. But that's it. Outside of the fact that there are also furries here that fall into sex categories, there really isn't anything new here.

So can I enjoy the story for what it is? Honestly, it's still kind of hard because the main emotional crux of the story is so fractured that it becomes very hard for me to latch onto anything. I do empathize with the main character Daath because it feels like he is just constantly dealt a bad hand. He grows up in a church that constantly takes advantage of young children, he wants nothing more than to help his sister who at one point can't stand to look at him anymore, and he's forced to mate with somebody that he doesn't like. The person he's forced to mate with in question, Juda, is just sort of the stereotypical hard ass who the book barely spends any time on developing outside of the fact that…he's kind of an upper class hardass.

This is a volume that is trying to lay out a foundation for a much larger story, but it is really emphasizing how fractured and broken everything is. While that definitely can eventually yield a very emotionally enriching story, I don't want to watch that story unfold based on how this volume goes. I should still want to see the two romantic leads get together, but this is an example where they are strictly driven by their biology and everybody screaming that they're fated to be together. I want an actual emotional connection and chemistry between the characters, but there is none of that here. I do feel bad for the unfortunate circumstances of the setting and a lot of the typical tropes, but outside of that, there's very little to latch onto here.