Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

  • Drawn to My Bad-Boy Assistant Vol. 1-2

    Drawn to My Bad-Boy Assistant Vol. 1-2

    Josei manga creator Takoyaki Maru finds herself interested in someone she’d never expect—her assistant, Ashizawa-kun! In her eyes, he’s excellent at his job and a masterful cook. The only problem is that he’s one of the “bad boy types” she seriously can’t handle! A romcom about an introverted manga creator and her high-value bad boy…

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  • Roguewood

    Roguewood

    A roguelike with simple mechanics that somehow hooked me for a solid 45 minutes of playing. And I will probably play again soon. It’s quick and simple, each game lasting between two and five minutes of play depending on how good you are at managing to survive enemy attacks. It’s entirely just hoping for a…

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  • Dragon Goes House-Hunting

    Dragon Goes House-Hunting

    In an RPG fantasy world, a red dragon named Letty is disowned by his parents after failing to guard their eggs. Now he has to find a place of his own, but unlike other dragons, Letty is meek, cowardly, and has overall low stats. Regardless, a defenseless young dragon makes for an easy target for…

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  • Mega Fauna

    Mega Fauna

    Mega Fauna is a full-colour anthology of comics about wild animals, pets, and monsters. Exciting, tragic, and hilarious stories for readers of all ages. It features 25 stories spanning over 200 pages of comics which chronicle the wide variety of interactions between humans and animals. Stories include a girl discovering a pet engineered to give her…

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  • The Big Bees

    The Big Bees

    What if bees were big and fluffy? Like, really big and fluffy. A cute and easy read that went by a bit too quickly… my favorite bits were the artisan and his bees. They were adorable. The whole thing is adorable, though, so…

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  • This “Summon Kitchen” Skill is Amazing!: Amassing Points by Cooking in Another World Vol. 1-2

    This “Summon Kitchen” Skill is Amazing!: Amassing Points by Cooking in Another World Vol. 1-2

    ISEKAI’D BY: Summoning! In another world, the skill I was bequeathed was――”Summon Kitchen”? Eh, what the heck is that?! The Office Lady that got mixed up in a high school girl’s summons to another word – Isarai Shiina. Unlike the warm welcome given to the high school Saintess, Shiina is forced to live in a…

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  • Dragon Goes House Hunting Vol. 1-10

    Dragon Goes House Hunting Vol. 1-10

    Letty is not very good at being a dragon. Actually, he’s so terrible at it that his dad went and kicked him out of the house! What’s a skittish monster of myth to do in a world where everyone sees him as material for their next suit of armor? Why, find a safe place to…

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  • The Girl, the Shovel and the Evil Eye Vol. 1-4

    The Girl, the Shovel and the Evil Eye Vol. 1-4

    ISEKAI’D BY: Truck-Kun! Tsuguto Sumihara is way too nice… or rather, was too nice. He lost his life in a bus accident after being bullied into giving up his seat, and somehow was reincarnated into a mining camp! Not only that, the mine is at the base of an impossibly tall tower. It’s there he…

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  • The Death Mage Vol. 4-7

    The Death Mage Vol. 4-7

    Harem Scale H: Goes up because now he is doing hero shit. For the good of others. Forming bonds. Etc A: He is now very aware everyone wants his baby body. R: Zip. E: You can just tell from the covers, but this is tits out and heavily sexualized. M: And yet I read it.…

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  • The Death Mage Vol. 1-3

    The Death Mage Vol. 1-3

    A tragedy wipes out Hiroto Amamiya’s whole class. A god suddenly appears and says he will give all of them special protection and skills before reincarnating them in a new world. But when the god makes a mistake, Hiroto goes into his new life without anything at all. Harem Scale H: Vandalieu listens to his…

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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: 29/50
58%
Comics Read in 2026: 99/200
48%
Physical Owned Books Read: 485/848
57%


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Absolute Asshole NPC (104) Accidentally in Charge (53) A Fetish For Suffering (56) Can't Say No (87) Chekov's Gun (53) Childhood Friends (52) Curiosity Fucks You Up (86) Cursed (74) Damsel in Distress (71) Damsel in Distress (subverted) (103) Dangerous Reputation (100) Doting Husband (73) Double Identity (48) Everyone Loves MC (104) Evil Eyes & Big Heart (54) Fan Service (106) Grumpy x Sunshine (56) Hypercompetent MC (79) If You Love Them, Set Them Free (59) I Know a Guy (61) Last Minute Hero (117) Loss of Humanity (58) Main Character Coloring (85) MC's Skewed Metrics (81) Mean Boy (131) Mean Boy Love Interest (50) Modern Morals (55) Nat 20s (103) Not Actually Dead (90) Nuclear Revenge (78) OP Protag (98) Power of Friendship (87) Power of Love (78) Self-Sacrifice (76) Shock Value (51) Sympathetic Evil (72) The Moral is Community (69) Tragic Backstory (91) Twist! (62) Uniquely Skilled (97) Unreliable Narrator (56) Weird and Wacky On Purpose (90) Western-Style Fantasy (100) Wrong Place Wrong Time (71) Zero to Hero (93)


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