ArtemisFowl's manga / #ugly power dynamics(14)

That dude is an utter dickhead. Pardon my French. The seme, not the uke.

I don't like how much hatred this dude has for this other dude. It's honestly creepy. Just because you don't like some rich people doesn't mean all rich people are horrible (which is true for other labels too). Dude's got it all except for the fact that his body is suuuuuper sensitive. He ends up trying to take out his *ahem*...frustrations... by going to the gym, only to bump into the pervert who keeps touching his body in later chapters. Thus sex galore ensues. *Reading chapter 8 for the heck of sex* Why can't he just end up with the colleague, not this douchebag loser *cries loudly*. Gah, the world is criminally unfair to manga ukes who deserve much better.

In this particular manga, the main character and his rival, aka Mr. Student Council President, end up together after a bizarre set of circumstances has him roped into pulling a prank on the Student Council President (leaving a confession note on his table) and the Student Council President catching him in the act and kissing him as a result. The very odd thing about this one is that there is a much darker element than exists on the surface -- indeed, the student council president set up the entire thing, so that the main character would end up confessing to him (by blackmailing his friend to bet him to do that). When the main character finds out it's a lie, he ends up going along with it for the egoistic reason of trying to 'bring him down.' The student council president is more than a little shady and a whole lot of bad. ~Chapter 13

Just kidding. I was all excited for this, but the ex-friend is a sleaze bag. Talk about gross, and violating personal boundaries. ~Chapter 1

Not the worst, but certainly not the best...from what I remember from reading it, this manga has awkward (and skeevy) dynamics, with the seme forcing himself on the uke (in terms of their meetings/interactions, thankfully -- at least I don't remember reading -- not sex, though both are crossing the line, in different degrees, the latter being much worse than the former). Or at least using his power (as a president) and abusing it in a malicious manner.

Ha ha ha, another mask manga for the pandemic of the century (discounting the 1918 Spanish Influenza). This story has nothing to do with a pandemic though. Sayama, regular guy with a penchant for wearing a mask, ends up in the nurse's office after some douchebag (read: the main romantic lead) falls hard (literally, not figuratively) on Sayama and doesn't even apologize properly. Therein lies the set-up for the romance, and our mask-wearing hero is pursued. Update: Sadism, weird, creepy...Saikawa's got some issues... Update on update: Like, I understand why you've got the hots for him (bc he's a good kisser and smexy and whatever) but the feels? I don't get it brah... ~Chapter 7

A guy and his childhood enemy (whose twin brother is his childhood friend) end up in a more-than-friends relationship, at the insistence of the other guy.

A business magnate is taking a pseudo-vacation at an apartment complex, and ends up getting involved with guy who is stuck in an apartment for abusive relationship reasons. The main person he's involved with (and he's involved with him for both involuntary and voluntary reasons) is also the person who the business magnate is investigating for business reasons. Both end up sleeping together, but there are some ugly power dynamics (clear power differential) involved between them because of the lack of knowledge (both from a situation and sexual information standpoint) that the uke has. Also, I think that the seme sort of forces the uke into sex with him because the uke doesn't really know what's going on (see what was said in the previous sentence). ~Chapter 8

On chapter 14. She has the completely correct reaction (as far as I’ve read). He, on the other hand, is super problematic. He is literally being so creepy and crossing so many lines!!!! He’s not sexually harassing her, but he is harassing her with unwanted attention and a complete abuse of his position as her boss. On top of all that, he fell in insta-love with her.