Genre: Cozy

  • 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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  • A Man & His Cat Vol. 2-12

    A Man & His Cat Vol. 2-12

    I fucking love this series. Watching people form relationships and learn how to embrace the world by openly loving a cat? Yes! And it’s just. The recovery from grief, the love this man shows to others in honor of his wife and his kids! Watching someone overcome the obstacles in his life thanks to the

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  • The Invisible Man & His Soon-to-Be Wife Vol. 1-5

    The Invisible Man & His Soon-to-Be Wife Vol. 1-5

    Yakou, a gentle human woman, works at a detective agency. Tounome is a smart and gentle invisible man. The invisible man’s ability is perfect for detective work. However, the blind Yakou can still figure out where Tounome is, even if he disappears. Before they know it, the two become attracted to each other…? THE INVISIBLE

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  • The Yakuza’s Guide to Babysitting #1-4

    The Yakuza’s Guide to Babysitting #1-4

    Tooru Kirishima is 28 years old and the wakagashira of the Sakuragi Group. He’s known as “The Demon of the Sakuragi Group” because he uses his position as a yakuza as an excuse to do whatever he wants. But one day, he ends up in charge of his boss’s daughter?! An independent young lady and

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  • A Man & His Cat

    A Man & His Cat

    There is one cat at the local pet shop that has been waiting a long time for someone to bring him home. He has reached adulthood alone in his cage, avoided by potential owners for petty reasons like not being cute enough or being snotty. His fortune changes one day when an elderly gentleman named

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  • Roommate

    Roommate

    Short, sweet, and pretty cute. One guy goes to the cafe for a seasonal cake and gets there too late… and when he sits down, he realizes his tablemate has a coveted slice of said cake. And they (become) roommates.

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  • Why Don’t You Eat Me, My Dear Wolf?

    Why Don’t You Eat Me, My Dear Wolf?

    I threw the smut tag on here but it’s not until the final chapter (thankfully). This is a really soft, gentle manga.

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  • The Herbalist and the Landlord

    The Herbalist and the Landlord

    Honestly, I think this counts as a zine as well. Where did I even get this? It’s a mystery.* I ended up reading it more than once— literally I read it, then read it again, and then when I went to write about it, I read it agia . It’s a short 21 pager. The

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  • My Unique Skill Makes me OP Even at Level 1 #1

    My Unique Skill Makes me OP Even at Level 1 #1

    A dude reincarnates into a world where EVERYTHING comes from dungeon drops. I’m not joking. They talk about how air and water come out of some monsters…

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  • My Daughter Left the Nest and Returned an S-Rank Adventurer: The Black-Haired Valkyrie #6

    My Daughter Left the Nest and Returned an S-Rank Adventurer: The Black-Haired Valkyrie #6

    She still continues her search for a woman to marry her father that she could accept as a mother. Meanwhile, new old man just dropped. I enjoy this manga as a gentle harem subversion— Belgrieve isn’t really looking for a companion, and all the characters that show up that would traditionally be part of the

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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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