beta
BDSM.
MC (submissive top) can see the future. When he goes to a restaurant with his friend, he sees himself having kinky, hardcore BDSM-style sex with a restaurant worker there, the ML (dominant bottom). He can't believe it because he's totally vanilla, and BDSM isn't his style, right?
Wrong.
ML is confident and isn't a pushover. He has expectations he wants met and MC finds him too irresistible.
Omegaverse: there are 3 secondary genders: alpha, beta, omega. While alphas and omegas have pheromones and sex cycles (heat/estrus/rut), Betas don't and can't sense other's pheromones. MC (top) is a beta who is very decent. If he sees an omega in heat, he actually helps w/o sex. One day, he sees ML, an omega going into heat, and is overpowered.Trigger warning: rape by uke on top, somehow top wants to takes responsibility (the top is a nice guy)
Office setting
Deceptive uke,
Set in a postapocalyptic world, MC (top) has a major crush on a new recruit, ML (bottom) who has impressive abilities. When they are assigned on a mission together, MC must fight to keep himself in check, but when a tense situation comes up, unforgivable actions occur. Chapter 6 REVEAL
Spoiler+Trigger Warning: Date Rape Drug is used, Rape by aphrodisiac. Deceptive ML- he essentially drugs MC into topping him with the intentions of guilting MC into a relationship. Yandere bottom
MC (top)- a cop, one day saves a random passerby (ML, bottom) from an underwear thief. The next day, it turns out the random man is not only in love with him, but also a member of the yakuza (aka Mafia aka organized crime aka crime syndicate aka GANG).
Power- ML (bottom) approaches, pursued and romances MC (top).
Fluffy!
Trigger warning Bullying ,Extremely Dubious Consent... Actually, there's not much of consent in this series. NOT set in university either
MC (top) has a crush on ML (Bottom) and ML's friends basically bully MC into masturbating in front of ML for some reason??? (I know, this doesn't make any sense). Anyway it escalates as ML does take the initiative in first and other chapters and consent is consistently in a grey area in this manga.
Weak, sniveling top, cool/
Confident, Power bottom MC who knows what he wants. He lives by a set of principles to protective his heart after many disappointments in his sex-filled trysts. One rule is "Don't sleep with a coworker" but in comes ML, who he is super compatible with.
MC has a shielded heart, but he's still warm.
Cute story!
MC (top) is a small time thief who tries to rob someone on the train, but he doesn't know that it he's spotted by ML, a retired cop (bottom). Caught, MC must pivot in order to avoid being taken into the station.
Power in this case- ML is a retired cop and this does inform the power dynamic bc MC only sticks by his side and listens to him at first to avoid jail time. Young, eager top & weary, older bottom.
MC- (top) always has his girlfriends stolen by his best friend, ML (bottoms).
They both like each other. And they squabble over who bottoms.
Slightly spoilers? Explanation:
This manga is on this list because ML bottoms as a resort to essentially regain control in the relationship because he believes he feels that is MC slipping away, so he takes matter into his own hands. ML can be considered manipulative, not crazy though.
this was NOT set in a university setting though
Power bottom applies to a side character, not mc, who gets his small storyline later in the series.
He's seen as a "slut"by people in the school but has quite the backstory? I was taken aback. He has his defenses up and while he may be intimate with people, they're not actually close to him. He holds all the power in a future relationship dynamic.
I wish this was set in a college/University setting to be honest.
Puppy dog, romantic MC (top) who is an alpha is in love with a cool, aloof CEO (the ML) an omega, who bottoms. ML holds all the power in this relationship- he's richer,and in the first meeting, is dominant.
This story is a subversion of typical omegavserse tropes where omegas are "weak" and "dependent" on alphas. In this manga, things are the reverse where omegas are valued more in society and alphas are seen as "strong and dumb".
one of my favorites! ML doms m
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I will also be adding new trigger warnings such as:
Takes place in a high school setting/does not take place in an university setting
past sexual assault with outside characters (there were a few stories I recall where characters remembered poor past sexual encounters)
And I will be rereading because I do recall more stories having a possessive bottom/uke/Shou/passivo on this list than I have tagged.
Hey! Although I've made sure to include triggers for certain works, when I have time I will reread stories on the list to make sure my tags are accurate. For example there was a story off this list I reread and I realized it had briefly (one page) shown content that I hadn't included that in the warning (probably because I missed it the first time reading) and had went to fix it. To err on the side of caution, I will be going over my works to avoid triggering anybody. Feel free to alert me of anything that can do be considered triggering content that my list hadn't accounted for, it's best for people to be prepared!
Also as another disclaimer I can vouch that roles in a relationship are not as set as they are often portrayed in manga, especially yaoi. HOWEVER. I do find powerbottoms hot so!
As the Creator of this list (there's not enough characters when writing a description), I do feel like there are more things i have to clarify. Some of the lighter or fluffier stories (as of now) are listed in pages 5-8, while some of the darkest stories on this list (with the craziest or obsessed characters or messed up dynamics) are listed on pages 1-4. To clarify what I mean by "darkest" stories, I mean stories where there is sensitive or even triggering (meaning upsetting) content within. This can range from content featuring rape, dubious consent (which is when it's unclear about whether one party fully consents or does not to a sexual act- which comes in it's own range of slight dubious consent to extreme dubious consent, and can also be used to apply between sex partners who are drunk and technically can't consent fully), to mentions of suicide or suicidal ideation. Dark content can also typically refer to gore/murder, although I've found that on this list, these two haven't really shown up in the stories I've listed here, although murder may eventually happen as it's in line with a character being obsessed over the other. With the exception of a few on this list, typically the "dark" stories listed will have the defined bottom/Shóu/uke/receiver/Neko/passive/muerdealmohadas as the AGGRESSOR, meaning that if a story has been listed with a trigger warning between the two main character and the male lead, it will be the character who bottoms who will initiate the dark act. This is intentional seeing as how I did want to focus on the various ways that a man who bottoms can exert power over his partner, and how this may extend into a darker realm of things. This is why I've added yandere , manipulative, deceptive, two-faced, cruel/harsh bottoms as well since there is an element of power they're influencing over their partners, whether that means keeping others away from their partner (I'm their obsession), lying to them to keep them or keep control of them, and playing them to get what they want. Power imbalances come into play as well, as some of the powerbottoms on this list as mentioned in my description will have an advantage over their partner outside of the bedroom as well, whether that means some may have jobs or positions with more power or influence (for example, being their top's supervisor, or CEO, or a gang leader, or someone woth seniority/authority). However power can also extend in the physical realm as well: there are some stories where the powerbottom is simply stronger or intimidating to their partner, and that allows them to get away with what they want.