chained soldier

What’s it about??High schooler Yuuki is just trying to live a meaningful life in a world where portals to a demon realm spontaneously open, and a squad of superpowered women are routinely deployed to fight monsters and keep the populace safe. He gets his chance to be a hero when he ends up caught in one of these battles and meets Commander Kyouka, a girl with the power to “enslave” and temporarily control monsters. It turns out her power also works on Yuuki and turns him into the most powerful fighter around if he consents to being chained by her magic… and if she gives him an appropriate reward afterwards. Where do we start with this one? The worldbuilding makes it clear that only women can get superpowers from exposure to the otherworld’s magic, and this has created some kind of matriarchal society where men and boys live life “on hard mode,” at least according to our male narrator. The action-fantasy set-up requires one person to “enslave” another, and at the end of that c