Watase is a sub who wants to top, but he can't seem to find a willing partner. Resigned to his sexless life, he goes to a club to at least get some play, where he meets the dom Touma. But to his surprise, Touma is a dom who wants to bottom, and it seems like they were made for each other! But just when their relationship seems to be going perfectly, Touma starts to notice some changes in his body...I'll be honest, I think this one has a really good setup that it totally betrays with it's "twist" two separate times, so it didn't win me over at the end. Trigger warning: attempted rape.
SPOILERS:
Okay, so the setup is meant to challenge the "norm" or the idea that a bottom is naturally in the submissive position, which is interesting and something that shouldn't be set in stone, so it's great to challenge the idea. But then it totally betrays that premise by having Touma turn into a sub, thus reinforcing the idea that by bottoming, he's awakened his submissive side. Then it introduces the major conflict--Touma is a switch and he can't control when he's a sub! How can he stay with his partner who is a sub? This is interesting and could have had a really emotionally fraught but satisfying conclusion. But no, they just toss it aside with a quick, oh, actually he's a switch too! Because again, if you're topping, you must be a dom, right? It was just so frustrating for me to have it completely betray the setup by reinforcing the stereotypes it began by questioning. So good characters, but probably too frustrating for me to read again.
Good Work Watase-san