Trigger Warning: Child Abuse

  • A Silent Voice #1-7

    A Silent Voice #1-7

    Shouya Ishida, a mischievous elementary school student, finds himself troubled by deaf transfer student Shouko Nishimiya. Despite her genuine attempts to befriend her new classmates, Shouko only proves herself to be an annoyance for Shouya and his friends, provoking them to ridicule her at any possible chance. Soon enough, their taunts turn into constant assault—yet

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  • How to Sell a Haunted House

    How to Sell a Haunted House

    When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home. She doesn’t want to leave her daughter with her ex and fly to Charleston. She doesn’t want to deal with her family home, stuffed to the rafters with the remnants of her father’s academic career and her mother’s lifelong obsession with puppets and

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  • A Life Turned Upside Down: My Dad’s an Alcoholic

    A Life Turned Upside Down: My Dad’s an Alcoholic

    A moving autobiographical manga about her father’s alcoholism that inspired a critically acclaimed live-action film. Mariko Kikuchi tells the painful story of her father’s alcoholism and her own journey through guilt to understanding her father’s illness. She rejects the common belief that family members can and should be forgiven for anything they do, no matter

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  • The Obsessed Mage and His Beloved Statue Bride: She Cannot Resist His Seductive Voice

    The Obsessed Mage and His Beloved Statue Bride: She Cannot Resist His Seductive Voice

    Lara Bradley, a renowned mage, sets off to defeat a low-risk monster with her young apprentice Alistair, who never stops proposing to her. But instead of a minor threat, they encounter the world’s most dangerous creature—a dragon! In a desperate bid to save Alistair, Lara faces the dragon alone and casts a spell that turns

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  • V/H/S/Beyond

    V/H/S/Beyond

    Time for aliens! Especially the cosmic horror of faster than light travel!

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  • Father, I Don’t Want This Marriage

    Father, I Don’t Want This Marriage

    Another isekai villainess manwha? A romcom? A— what did you say? Read until the end, you swear? What do you mean the male lead isn’t even the favorite male character? What do you mean you wept at the end??? What?!

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  • Fourth Wing

    Fourth Wing

    WE GET IT YOU THINK HE’S HOT AND WANT TO BOINK HIM, I GET IT, I GET IT, I GET IT, PLEASE THINK OF ANYTHING ELSE FOR FIVE SECONDS

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  • Delico’s Nursery

    Delico’s Nursery

    This anime was actually recommended to me by my brother, so of course I just watched it the whole thing. I’m wondering if they wanted to make another season? I’m on stand by. The trailer gives you a sort of whimsical sense, right? Right? WRONG IT’S ONLY LIKE THAT FOR MAYBE TWO EPISODES, THIS IS

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  • Nettle and Bone

    Nettle and Bone

    “…and the history of the world was written in women’s wombs and women’s blood and she would never be allowed to change it.”

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  • Dragon Daddy Diaries: A Girl Grows to Greatness #1

    Dragon Daddy Diaries: A Girl Grows to Greatness #1

    “Hi Daddy!” “?!” And then an ancient dragon adopts a little human girl.

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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: 23/50
46%
Comics Read in 2026: 55/200
28%
Physical Owned Books Read: 470/809
58%


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