Genre: Cozy

  • The Glendale Archives

    The Glendale Archives

    Hello, I’m an archivist who, while working with an archival database, came across the tapes featured on this channel. The footage documents a man who appears to be entirely alone on Earth—aside from the beings he refers to as “nesters.” I’m sharing these recordings in the hope that, by bringing more attention to this seemingly

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  • Cthulhu Cat

    Cthulhu Cat

    An ordinary Japanese high school student takes home an abandoned supernatural cat left in a cardboard box. Maybe he shouldn’t have meddled with kitties beyond human comprehension—after all, it had tentacles where its whiskers should have been! But it’s too late now. With no Elder Sign on the cat door, soon the pick of the

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  • Cat Massage Therapy 1-3

    Cat Massage Therapy 1-3

    Nekoyama, worn out after another long day at the office, stops at a therapeutic massage parlor…only to discover that it’s run by a cat! Not only that, but the cat actually does the massaging?! Nekoyama is a dog lover, but as this professional “meowsseur” digs soft toe beans into his aching muscles, his heart warms

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  • Trashed

    Trashed

    Every week we pile our garbage on the curb and it disappears–like magic! The reality is anything but, of course. Trashed, Derf Backderf’s follow-up to the critically acclaimed, award-winning international bestseller My Friend Dahmer, is an ode to the crap job of all crap jobs–garbage collector. Anyone who has ever been trapped in a soul-sucking

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  • Confessions of a Shy Baker Vol. 1-2

    Confessions of a Shy Baker Vol. 1-2

    Cute and gay. It’s a food manga about making low-cal and healthy desserts, and also a realtor who is gay on the down-low. He’s dealing with being fay on the DL and being more tightly strung than others. It’s cute, it’s easy, it dives into queer issues rather neatly. The style reminds me of Detective

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  • Cat Companions Maruru and Hachi Vol. 1-3

    Cat Companions Maruru and Hachi Vol. 1-3

    An odd couple of stray cats team up to share the trials and tribulations of life in this heartwarming manga. Maruru lived a pampered life till one day, he ran after a flock of sparrows and couldn’t find his way back home. He encounters Hachi, a tough stray, who says he doesn’t need a spoiled

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  • The Concierge at the Hokkyoku Department Store Vol. 1-2

    The Concierge at the Hokkyoku Department Store Vol. 1-2

    Working retail is tough enough with regular human customers, but what about when they’re owls, wolves, koalas…and a woolly mammoth? Welcome to the Hokkyoku Department Store, where new employee Akino’s customers are talking animals–including extinct species! Just like any shopper, each has their own complicated request that Akino must strive to satisfy. From a wealthy

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  • My Son Seems to Have Reincarnated Into Another World Vol. 1-4

    My Son Seems to Have Reincarnated Into Another World Vol. 1-4

    About a mother who has lost her child and her former classmate. Going through her son’s bookshelf, she has convinced herself that her son has reincarnated in another world and wishes to find a method to meet him, enlisting the help of her otaku classmate. PLEASE for the love of god this needs to be

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  • Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill Vol. 1-3

    Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill Vol. 1-3

    ISEKAI’D BY: Summoning! Mukouda Tsuyoshi was nothing special in modern Japan, so when he was summoned to a world of swordplay and sorcery, he thought he was ready for the adventure of a lifetime. Too bad the kingdom that summoned him only got him by mistake! Not only was he not one of the three

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  • Ramen Wolf & Curry Tiger Vol. 1

    Ramen Wolf & Curry Tiger Vol. 1

    Meet your new favorite food critics: a chubby wolf named Mita Jirou and a ripped tiger named Yanagi Kagetora. Kagetora used to eat to live, but all that changed when he met Jirou–who lives to eat! Jirou is more than happy to help his striped feline friend explore the restaurants and delicacies tucked within their

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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: 23/50
46%
Comics Read in 2026: 51/200
25%
Physical Owned Books Read: 470/809
58%


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