I'm not sure if the manga currently trainslated as CHAINED SOLDIER (to avoid the use of the touchy word "slave" in the original manga title) has any great depth yet or not. But it does a new gimmick with respect to the many "master-servant" narratives seen in manga.
Usually there's some filial or societal bond that requires the servant's fealty to the master, as with DANCE IN THE VAMPIRE BUND. But in MATO SEIHEI NO SLAVE, the invasion of extra-dimensional monsters, who can only be beaten back by female power-holders, has resulted in all men becoming second class citizens. Among the many super-powers wielded by the female warriors is the ability to transform male "slaves" into huge bestial servants with which to help defeat the monsters.
However, there's a price levied every time one of the warriors calls upon this power, for they're psychically forced to yield their feminine favors to whatever man they enslaved. It's not something that the male "slave" forces on the females; the "slave wages" are baked into the use of the power. So far in my reading, the male POV character Yuuki has been transformed a half dozen times, and his "master" is forced to give him some token of her sexual favors: kissing, stripping, sitting on his face.
Oddly, though Yuuki does not seem to be a masochist, in one instance the "wage" consists of some CBT treatment from Kyouka. Unless she's only stomping him because the compulsion has worn off.
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