Genre: Cozy

  • Bofuri: I Don’t Want to Get Hurt, so I’ll Max Out My Defense Vol. 1-8

    Bofuri: I Don’t Want to Get Hurt, so I’ll Max Out My Defense Vol. 1-8

    She may be new to gaming, but Maple has found the secret to invincibility! Just put all your skill points into defense until you can’t even move. That works, right? She doesn’t want to experience any pain in the VRMMO game she started playing, and somehow it works better than anyone expected. Now she’s got

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  • Ako and Bambi Vol. 1-2

    Ako and Bambi Vol. 1-2

    When amateur novelist Bambi moves into a new, cheap place, he’s shocked to find it’s already occupied—by the ghost of a high school girl. With one amnesiac ghost girl Ako haunting the apartment, the stories practically write themselves! But as the days pass and they get closer, he starts wondering exactly who she is…and what

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  • All My Neighbors are Convinced the Female Knight from my Rice Field is My Wife Ch. 1-54

    All My Neighbors are Convinced the Female Knight from my Rice Field is My Wife Ch. 1-54

    ISEKAI’D BY: Portal! Jin Mita lives as a farmer in a small town in the countryside. One morning, he discovers a female knight collapsed in his rice paddy. Her name is Seraphim, and it appears that she has come from another world. She knows nothing about how this world works and has nowhere to go.

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  • Lil’ Leo

    Lil’ Leo

    Sue me, I got bored, I still finished it. Too bored to fill in tropes. read along The fury I felt at the localization of pudding to flan. I mean. I know they’re virtually the same because theyre made the same way (steamed eggs with sugar) and that the US pudding is entirely different but

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  • Doomsday with My Dog Vol. 01

    Doomsday with My Dog Vol. 01

    An apocalyptic event has transformed Earth into a desolate wasteland, leaving a young girl as the sole human survivor. On her journey across this dystopian environment, she is followed by a quirky companion: a talking pet Shiba Inu! This eccentric dog, named Haru, has an arsenal of tricks up his sleeves, easing the solitude of

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  • Raised by the Demon Kings! Vol. 01

    Raised by the Demon Kings! Vol. 01

    Hell is ruled by three Demon Kings: Death Mask, Giant Lock, and Dark Night. Using their authority to live as they please, they command the sinful dimension’s denizens to do their bidding and make sure to punish any humans who enter their territory. This all changes, however, when their minions find a human child during

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  • I Married My Best Friend to Shut My Parents Up

    I Married My Best Friend to Shut My Parents Up

    Machi Morimoto is a girl who is expected to settle down, get married, and become a stay-at-home mother. Her parents nag her about finding a suitor but she is neither interested in nor understands love. In an attempt to stop her parents from controlling her life any more than they do, she marries her best

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  • She Loves to Cook, and She Loves to Eat Vol. 1-2

    She Loves to Cook, and She Loves to Eat Vol. 1-2

    Cooking is how Nomoto de-stresses, but one day, she finds herself making way more than she can eat by herself. And so, she invites her neighbor Kasuga, who also lives alone. What will come out of this impromptu dinner invitation…? I have two more volumes to read later but I figured I would tackle this

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  • The Amazing Village Creator: Slow Living & the Village Building Cheat Skill Vol. 1-6

    The Amazing Village Creator: Slow Living & the Village Building Cheat Skill Vol. 1-6

    Harem Scale H: 4. this guy will sacrifice his own comfort for others and refuses to kill. A: 3. he is very aware of two women vying for his attention but he does not seem to realize the attraction. R: 0. zip nada zilch E: 4. we have loads of suggestive poses and perv moments.

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  • That’s My Atypical Girl Vol. 1-5

    That’s My Atypical Girl Vol. 1-5

    Yokoi is a manga artist who spends his nights delivering newspapers just to make rent, since his original works just don’t seem to sell. Suddenly, one day he gets a visit from Saito-san, a self-proclaimed fan of Yokoi’s work who made the long journey to meet him. Yokoi quickly realizes that the things Saito-san sees,

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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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