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  • Bride of the Death God Vol. 1

    Bride of the Death God Vol. 1

    “You’re gonna die in seven days.” Most people would break down in tears upon hearing such words from the Grim Reaper himself. But when Aibi, a terminally ill teenager, is given her fate, she simply smiles, thanks him for the warning, and even calls him kind—leaving the Reaper utterly baffled. No one acknowledged their existence

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  • Black & White: Tough Love at the Office

    Black & White: Tough Love at the Office

    Shockingly intense yuri. It very much earns the Toxic Yuri tag. Two women who are so very similar compete with one another to climb up the rank in their corporate office. They absolutely hate one another’s guts and somehow this ends up in a contest to see who tops. 100% they are just into each

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  • 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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  • The 6th Loop: I’m Finally Free of Auto Mode in this Otome Game Vol 1-6

    The 6th Loop: I’m Finally Free of Auto Mode in this Otome Game Vol 1-6

    Harem Scale H: She can and will do things to help or save people to an insane degree, despite being constantly worried about dying. A: She is aware it is a harem game, however, she is not aware that the harem is hers now. R: You can’t see it but romance is a solid 3

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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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  • We Had to Remove This Post

    We Had to Remove This Post

    For readers of Leila Slimani’s The Perfect Nanny or Ling Ma’s Severance: a tight, propulsive, chilling novel by a rising international star about a group of young colleagues working as social media content monitors—reviewers of violent or illegal videos for an unnamed megacorporation—who convince themselves they’re in control . . . until the violence strikes

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  • 10 Things I Want to Do Before I Turn 40

    10 Things I Want to Do Before I Turn 40

    Suzume Tōjō is just three months away from turning forty and realizes there’s so much he hasn’t done with his life! So, he makes a plan: create a private list of things he’s always wanted to do and check them off before turning the big four-oh. It’s a rather simple list, filled with goals that

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  • The 100th Time’s the Charm: She Was Executed 99 Times, So How Did She Unlock Super Love Mode?! Vol. 01-04

    The 100th Time’s the Charm: She Was Executed 99 Times, So How Did She Unlock Super Love Mode?! Vol. 01-04

    Super Love Mode is actually the ability to read minds because every death stockpiled all the mana of one life into the next, over and over and over. It was actually quite amusing but not thoroughly ground-breaking.

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  • Aug 9 – Fog

    Aug 9 – Fog

    A stark, elegiac account of unexpected pleasures and the progress of seasons Fifteen years ago, Kathryn Scanlan found a stranger’s five-year diary at an estate auction in a small town in Illinois. The owner of the diary was eighty-six years old when she began recording the details of her life in the small book, a

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  • QQ Sweeper Vol. 1-3

    QQ Sweeper Vol. 1-3

    In human hearts, negative energy sometimes finds a place to dwell. This negativity can begin to take shape into monstrous creatures, which can only be dealt with by “Sweepers,” special people with the ability to banish them and bring peace. Kyuutarou Horikita comes from a long line of Sweepers, but most of his classmates see

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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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Absolute Asshole NPC (86) A Fetish For Suffering (45) Can't Say No (67) Chekov's Gun (42) Childhood Friends (50) Curiosity Fucks You Up (76) Cursed (58) Damsel in Distress (57) Damsel in Distress (subverted) (85) Dangerous Reputation (85) Doting Husband (64) Double Identity (41) Everyone Loves MC (87) Evil Eyes & Big Heart (49) Fan Service (92) Grumpy x Sunshine (52) Hypercompetent MC (72) If You Love Them, Set Them Free (49) I Know a Guy (46) Last Minute Hero (97) Loss of Humanity (50) Main Character Coloring (69) MC's Skewed Metrics (71) Mean Boy (118) Mean Boy Love Interest (47) Modern Morals (45) Nat 20s (89) Not Actually Dead (74) Nuclear Revenge (68) OP Protag (91) Petty Revenge (44) Power of Friendship (73) Power of Love (68) Self-Sacrifice (67) Shock Value (44) Sympathetic Evil (63) The Moral is Community (60) Tragic Backstory (76) Twist! (55) Uniquely Skilled (87) Unreliable Narrator (53) Weird and Wacky On Purpose (74) Western-Style Fantasy (83) Wrong Place Wrong Time (64) Zero to Hero (77)


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