Formerly, the Fallen Daughter of the Duke #1-5


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Claire, a daughter of the esteemed duke, is faced with a sudden annulment of her engagement to Prince Asbert, the Prince of the great Kingdom of Noston. Being scorned as the fallen duke’s daughter and labeled as the villainess, Claire leaves everything behind and heads towards a new place in order to gain her true self back.

“I’ve got an otome isekai—” Say no more, I’m on it.

I ended up absorbing five volumes of this Kirby-style and I’m just waiting to get #6 because I am aching, I am dying. I’m a fan of the time loop stuff in the final loop. When it’s not the final loop, I am aghast. “Look at everything she will be losing!” And she fucking… she fucking gave it all up… to fix everything… she resets the loop a few volumes in and I

Waaah

I find this take on the otome isekai interesting. The heroine is stuck in a save file, moving between her true self (the person in the otome) and a woman on the outside, also herself, and yet not. If she leaves the world alone, then she proceeds with life, but loading a game means resetting the loop. Harsh, bro.

But with her experience with everything, she’s determined to better life not just for herself, but for all the people that became her beloved friends. They helped her gain power and made her feel cherished, so of course she is going to save the world!

It’s a bittersweet read.

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: 23/100
23%
Comics Read in 2025: 90/100
90%
Physical Owned Books Read: 403/665
60%


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