(hides face in shame because i only got this ask by whining)

I could discuss this topic for hours. No lie.

First, let's establish what's meant by top/bottom. Some people use the terms differently, so I want us to have a baseline for where I'm approaching the topic. Top equals penetrative, bottom equals the one being penetrated. For me, that is purely all the naming order means. Who is sticking something in. Top/Bottom, to me, doesn't necessarily convey what sort of relationship dynamic a story is going to have. I will look at the tags (if available) for that.

So. That said. I love both Shuada and Adashu (or adasou, as some say). I will read both, I will feast upon both like a starving man who has never seen food, I will guzzle them both down like a wanderer in a desert finally offered blessed water. At the end of the day I want the two of them together (and ideally fucking) and I will take that however I can get it.

Buuuut...I prefer Shuada.

With a huge caveat that I love love love Shuada where Adachi is actually the aggressor, the dominant one, manipulative, bitchy, his wonderful mean self...he's just the one taking it up the ass. I do think there can be an emotionally vulnerability to bottoming that would make Adachi resistant to it, but I also think that bottoming can make one feel more powerful and in control. I love power bottom Adachi, Adachi who is a bottom and a dominant, Adachi who is exploiting Yu's desire (and his cock), and I especially love an Adachi who is both reveling and despairing at his own crisis of masculinity (as bottoming is so often seen as feminine and emasculating). Adachi who makes fun of Yu for becoming aroused when he touches him, who seduces Yu into bed but is the one being penetrated so he can then lay a lot of the blame at Yu's feet and pile on the guilt... Basically, I love manipulative awful bottom!Adachi and I love caring, genuine, adoring, and kinda stupid top!Narukami.

All this is not to say that Adashu doesn't grind my gears. The English-speaking fandom has so much good Adashu content that I consume regularly. gothpigeon released a great one recently, I love everything maeruth does and will stan forever, Adachi being an actually horrible person and fucking up Narukami is so tasty. I just love shuadashu so much. It makes me sick.

I will say this. Some of the English Shuada fic I have read isn't quite to my preference. I like it, yes, but it doesn't hit what I want. I like bottom!Adachi as an extra manipulative character. I appreciate and enjoy bottom!Adachi where Yu is just emasculating him and being mean (because he's the one person Yu can be mean with safely), buuuut I find that more fun in a play or kink scenario, where they both have signed up for it in a way. I think Adachi clearly has some issues around masculinity and adulthood that could be explored in interesting ways, especially when contrasted with Yu's seemingly effortless masculinity (which is actually very atypical and gender nonconforming).

My preference for Shuada is actually why it's hard for me to read fem!Yu content at times (is fem!yu pegging adachi? then why am I reading? jk, but...), coupled with the interest I have in exploring the gender dynamics of male!Adachi with male!Yu. (Fem!Shuadashu is different, but still tasty, to me. Just...very different.) Anyway, I'm about to start rambling about how I perceive Adachi and Yu's genders in a more broad scope so I am going to stop.