Category: Dropped

  • Stray Cat & Wolf Vol. 1

    Stray Cat & Wolf Vol. 1

    Following the death of her father, Tamaki leaves her village to attend high school in the capital. Although she had intended to live alone, when she’s offered a place at a stranger’s apartment after collapsing in the street, well… Did she mention he’s pretty hot?! i tried to read volume 1 for 5 days and

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  • The Strongest Magician in the Demon Lord’s Army Was a Human

    The Strongest Magician in the Demon Lord’s Army Was a Human

    I’m known as the Maou Army’s strongest magician. Like, I have the demonic power capable of capturing a fort alone. Clearing away enemies with immense magic, I am without a doubt a monster awed by friend and foe. However, I have a secret I can’t tell the other demons: I’m actually from Earth. Using modern

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  • Bogus Skill “Fruitmaster”: About that time I became able to eat unlimited numbers of Skill Fruits (that kill you)

    Bogus Skill “Fruitmaster”: About that time I became able to eat unlimited numbers of Skill Fruits (that kill you)

    Harem Scale H: bro does stuff even if it hurts him and has an unreasonable drive to BE a hero, on purpose A: bro carts around girls with 0 awareness R: childhood friend E: per usual M: i got bored In a world where eating “Skill Fruits” grants special powers, Light, a boy who seeks

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  • Beauty and the Feast

    Beauty and the Feast

    Having cooked too much rice one day, 28-year-old widow Shuuko Yakumo decides to share the surplus with her new neighbor, Shouhei Yamato. As an active member of his high school’s baseball club, Yamato works up an enormous appetite, and his penchant for eating a lot reminds Yakumo of her late husband. These fond memories reignite

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  • She Professed Herself Pupil of the Wise Man

    She Professed Herself Pupil of the Wise Man

    Bro I started writing this right in the middle of the episode. When does it become enjoyable? I watched through episode one. It’s one of those series that could have benefitted from in media res but here we are, just… voiceover explaining the entire concept of the world. It’s a video game, they are super

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  • The Daily Life of a Middle-Aged Online Shopper in Another World

    The Daily Life of a Middle-Aged Online Shopper in Another World

    From nowhere, middle-aged illustrator Kenichi Hamada finds himself summoned to another world. Despite arriving in an unfamiliar land, he realizes he can still connect to an online shop named Shangri-La, which he frequented back in Japan, to order almost anything. Not long after, Kenichi comes across a town and, using Shangri-La, decides to become a

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  • Goodbye, Dragon Life

    Goodbye, Dragon Life

    I got bored really fast, sorry. Maybe I’d like it more as a manga…

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  • Oda Cinnamon Nobunaga

    Oda Cinnamon Nobunaga

    It is rare that I remove books from my enormous pile. This series is one of them. “Why? What made this so terrible?” It’s a comedy manga that didn’t hit the funnybone. I have six volumes of this but I simply did not care for it. A variety of choices in the story made it

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  • The Healer Who Was Banished From His Party, Is, in Fact, the Strongest

    The Healer Who Was Banished From His Party, Is, in Fact, the Strongest

    So I only made it through 6 episodes. Usually when I drop anything, it’s because it’s offensively bad. This is not the case. I dropped this because… it’s not… great. It’s not bad, either. It’s mediocre. Middle of the road. It sure does exist and it sure does sit comfortably in the tropes. It doesn’t

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  • Let This Grieving Soul Retire

    Let This Grieving Soul Retire

    Harem Scale H: MC elects to duck out of responsibility and send people on errands, only helping when he might get in trouble. A: He knows that these women are very attached to him and there’s lots of them. He will go on dates. R: He doesn’t really look at any of them romantically. E:

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Welcome to the Menagerie.

Here is where M logs their media activity. Partly because Goodreads is forgettable and keeping physical logs is harder. Sometimes M writes a lot. Sometimes M doesn’t write enough. It doesn’t matter. This is just a for-fun little blog so that M can remember what they thought about whatever they watched or read or played or. Whatever.


What is M?

I read. Voraciously. I have subscriptions to those book things on digital retailers. I consume books at nearly all hours. The hours I don’t spend reading? I’m writing. I’m drawing. I have a problem. I have a problem in that I love to read things that are in the same vein repeatedly. Book journals don’t work and as much as I text my friends screenshots of book passages, it doesn’t scratch the itch. Now I’m going to be doing… tiny… tiny book reports.


Truck-Kun Kill Count:


Books & Light Novels Read in 2025: 19/50
38%
Comics Read in 2026: 39/200
19%
Physical Owned Books Read: 477/830
58%


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