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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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Bloat

“…this thing feels trapped in its own homeland.” — dude who suspects that a kappa want to go to america and so keeps doing weird shit to young american boys After a near-death drowning accident, a young boy’s family is horrified to discover he has become possessed by a legendary demon from the depths of
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They All Died Screaming

It’s called The Scream… Once you get it, you simply cannot stop screaming. You can’t eat or sleep. It drives you more and more insane until you can’t stand to be alive a second longer. When the phenomenon hits Chuck’s city, the chronically unemployed pervert joins a band of misfits to make his final stand.
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The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash

please watch this anime Born into a loving family, Femicia appears to have a bright future ahead of her. When she finally turns five, the time comes to go to the church to have her skills appraised. However, while she does receive a monster tamer skill, it turns out that Femicia has zero stars for
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Even Given the Worthless Appraiser Class, I’m Actually the Strongest

Harem Scale H: Ein is a good shounen protag. He’s selfless, determined, does the “always stands up” thing, and sticks to his guns, always. A: Ein views this as a journey to give Yuri her family back and does not think of it as harem building. R: Yuri x Ein is clear endgame, however the
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Baghead

Following the death of her estranged father, Iris learns she has inherited a run-down, centuries-old pub. She travels to Berlin to identify her father’s body and meet with The Solicitor to discuss the estate. Little does she know, when the deed is signed she will become inextricably tied to an unspeakable entity that resides in
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Lovesickness

An innocent love becomes a bloody hell in another superb collection by master of horror Junji Ito. Ryusuke returns to the town he once lived in because rumors are swirling about girls killing themselves after encountering a bewitchingly handsome young man. Harboring his own secret from time spent in this town, Ryusuke attempts to capture
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Picasso: The Beauty and the Beast

I’m doing the presenting on an episode for WWYAT and I needed another way to really understand the people affected by Picasso and the attitude held by people. Another perspective, with a helping of historical context. And I really needed to understand the context for his art. Just reading Wikipedia and online articles does not
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Nude Model and Other Stories

HEED THE TRIGGER WARNINGS Three stories, each one hitting like a truck on their own. The first two, Nude Model and Girl deal in underage sexuality, while the last story, Kamiya, is about one’s willingness to give themselves up to be used because of love. Nude Model sets up the expectations for the rest of
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Adults’ Picture Book #1-3

With those words, Souichiro Kudou’s life was changed forever. Suddenly, he has a four-year-old daughter named Kiki, thanks to his late friend Haruki. And it only gets more complicated when he proposes to a total stranger… Husband, lover, father, and friend—only time will tell whether Kudou can reconcile his past with Haruki and learn to
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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:

10

Books & Light Novels Read in 2025: 23/50

46%

Comics Read in 2026: 55/200

28%

Physical Owned Books Read: 470/809

58%

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