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Pathetic MCs

Unfulfilled in life, unable to be vulnerable, or crumbling under bad circumstances- these characters will either arouse pity or contempt as they flounder about in self-wallowing. 

Pathetic MCs include:
-Socially awkward / NEETs 
-Crushing on someone out of their league
- Inferiority complex / Insecurity about not being good enough 
-Bullied (and doesn't fight back)
-Dillusioned about life
- Mediocrity / plain / boring
All(200) / manga(200)

Mobius Strip

 8.4(175 voted)
Complete
Author(s): sawamotosoji
Genre(s): Drama / Psychological / Yaoi

-spent high school years being bullied and tormented
-father outwardly blames him for getting bullied
- hatches a revenge plot when he meets his former bully
- turns out the bully isn't decieved, lol

04 01,2021

Junjou Escape

 8.0(1103 voted)
Complete
Author(s): sawamoto soji
Genre(s): Drama / Romance / School Life / Slice Of Life / Yaoi

- bullied in middle school after being outted as gay
- goes from bright and popular quiet, gloomy loner
- gets blackmailed within a few months of his quiet high school life

04 01,2021

The Trigger

 8.0(148 voted)
Complete
Author(s): ISINO Aya
Genre(s): Drama / Shounen Ai

- internalized homophobia
- divorced and depressed
- blackmails his gay neighbor from high school

04 01,2021

Hoezura ni Kamitsuku Kisu

 9.2(148 voted)
Ongoing
Author(s): Himoda Q
Genre(s): Drama / Romance / Slice Of Life / Yaoi

- hides his face with a mask
- he's too attractive, accidentally steals yo girl
- lives the inconspicuous life until another classmate decides to toy with him

05 01,2021

Mask Danshi wa Koishitakunai no ni

 9.3(464 voted)
Ongoing
Author(s): Mitsuru sango
Genre(s): Yaoi / Romance / School Life

- hides his face with a mask
- foul-mouthed, decides not to talk to prevent hurting people
- bad at studying
- gamer / otaku

05 01,2021

The Law of Raising a Wolf

 8.8(482 voted)
Complete
Author(s): 梨梨圆上艹 &, 歌茗
Genre(s): Shounen Ai / Romance / Webtoons

- debt-ridden to a rich actor who constantly screws him over
- subject to homophobic insults from the guy
- sexually harassed by a bald director
- mixed signals- rich actor gets incredibly jealous when he gets close to someone else; but is also in a relationship with a pretty actress???

05 01,2021

Happy Shitty Life

 9.0(1012 voted)
Ongoing
Author(s): Harada
Genre(s): Yaoi / Smut / Comedy

- sent to the boonies over an embarrassing sex scandal
- all the employees know about the rumors
- befriends a fellow pervert, who's basically a NEET and even more pathetic than he is
- claim to be straight; doesn't stop them from bottoming each other (hell yeah)
- deals with his NEET friend's bully / stalker (who gets easily jealous and catches them doing anal together)
- pretends to be a girl on a dating website in order to get dick pics and paste them onto pictures of girls

05 01,2021

My Little Inferno

 8.8(254 voted)
Complete
Author(s): ASADA Nemui
Genre(s): Adult / Yaoi

- used to be chubby kid in high school
- was bullied, and still is bullied even in college
- attempts college debut; still gloomy and alone
- basically pushed around by this weird deliquent money launderer into giving him money and a place to stay
- also sexually harassed

06 01,2021

Hate Mate

 9.0(173 voted)
Complete
Author(s): RECK
Genre(s): Drama / Shounen Ai / Comedy / Webtoons

- heartbroken over a straight guy
- has shitty drunken sex with him (ukes have it hard - :( - ), only to be told it was a wet dream
- wallows in self-pity (and alcohol)
- gets into a relationship mainly to get his fill of affection

06 01,2021

Kiss me, Liar

 8.8(1032 voted)
Complete
Author(s): Zig, KongBaek
Genre(s): Yaoi / Smut / Drama / Romance / Webtoons

>>>omegaverse
- goes from beta omega after exposure to his alpha boss's pheromones
- serious inferiority complex towards alphas
- crushes on a shitty straight guy
- has to set up sex partners and break up with girls for the guy
- gets raped at a party, then the boss outwardly blames him ("why didn't you just let them do you? I know you secretly liked it")
- develops a panic disorder
- when they finally have sex together and gets his hopes up, he catches the boss with another woman.

06 01,2021

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tasaras fangirl January 14, 2025 4:43 pm

Do you know a story where the uke used to have petite and cute body, but he grows to be tall with glasses and "loses" his "charm" and when he reunites with seme who loves his petite body, seme didn't recognize him at first? But he still likes him cause he's still has cute personality and loves cooking for seme

Pidge February 18, 2025 2:35 pm

Did you find it? If so it kinda sounds similar to this but I'm also still looking

https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/neko_x_neko/

Pidge February 18, 2025 2:39 pm
Did you find it? If so it kinda sounds similar to this but I'm also still lookinghttps://www.mangago.me/read-manga/neko_x_neko/ Pidge

Also this,

https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/kawaii_akuma/

candi November 8, 2022 12:20 pm

i have a thing for pathetic men

Cherry June 24, 2023 6:50 am

Your not alone my guy

ivory1008 February 21, 2024 5:49 am

kim dokja pfp……i see you.

candi February 23, 2024 2:03 pm
kim dokja pfp……i see you. ivory1008

hell yeah this dude is pathetic as fuck

TransmascFudanshi May 8, 2022 5:53 pm

why do i check most of the boxes for pathertic mc naw

yaya April 21, 2022 2:41 am

you're so blunt with some of these im cracking up

aocchi March 2, 2022 7:32 am

after reading the description apparently I just discovered that I am pathetic MC.

niixop November 15, 2024 10:47 am

so real

ayaa_ July 22, 2021 2:22 pm

LMFAOOO NOT THE DESCRIPTION

HH April 24, 2021 2:04 pm

LOL. HA. THE TITLE. HA.

winnie February 11, 2021 9:06 am

BYEEHDHD THE DESCRIPTION FOR THIS LIST LMAOOO

uke pride December 31, 2020 12:16 am

Thank you for the list (人 •ᴗ•) i found so many mangas i haven't read before