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  • Sacrificial Princess and the King of Beasts

    Sacrificial Princess and the King of Beasts

    One hundred years ago, a grave tradition was born in a land where demons live among people: a human must be sacrificed to the King of Beasts. But when Sariphi, the 99th sacrifice, is offered to the King, she isn’t afraid at all! Intrigued by her calm and cute nature, the King decides to spare…

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  • The Ogre’s Bride

    The Ogre’s Bride

    “You’re the bride I’ve been searching for all this time.” The ayakashi and humans coexist in harmony. The ayakashi, having superior abilities and beautiful appearances, sometimes find their partner among human women, making them their “bride”. The bride, in exchange for bringing prosperity, receives absolute love from the ayakashi. Yuzu is constantly compared to her…

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  • Match

    Match

    After Paola is matched with a handsome online suitor, she arrives for a first date to discover a house full of dark and terrifying secrets. “Some movies are bad, some movies are meh okay, and some movies are good. This was a good movie.” (an approximation of what Remy said) So I got a fucking…

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  • Blood on the Tracks

    Blood on the Tracks

    Seiichi Osabe is just a normal if not insular 14-year-old boy with a beautiful, loving mother and a hardworking father. The bond between him and his mother is iron-clad, but when an accident involving his cousin sows the seeds of doubt in his head, Seiichi begins to question whether his mother’s doting nature is normal,…

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  • Another Typical Fantasy Romance

    Another Typical Fantasy Romance

    ISEKAI’D BY: A God’s “Mistake”? It actually took me a solid week of reading to catch up to the current update (we’re in season 5) and I LOVE this series. It’s so funny and so thoughtful that I was knee-deep in absolute adoration for the story and characters. healthy relationship.jpg good god sirs this is…

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  • Before You Discard Me, I Shall Have My Way With You Vol 1-4

    Before You Discard Me, I Shall Have My Way With You Vol 1-4

    Agnès is engaged to the crown prince, but much to her dismay, he declares that their engagement is off. Since the prince will not return her love, Agnès decides that she must do what is necessary to protect her family and herself. She commits an unfathomable act, but surprisingly, the prince becomes fixated on her!…

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  • Abu-Normal Vol 1-8

    Abu-Normal Vol 1-8

    Eiko Abu, 29 years old and single. She divides everything in the world into two categories: “normal” or “not normal.” In her quest for normalcy, her obsession slowly destroys the relationships she had built. What is normal? What is abnormal? Logic is questioned and normalcy challenged in this psychological suspense. I just read 77 chapters…

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  • Who Wants to Marry a Billionaire? Vol. 1

    Who Wants to Marry a Billionaire? Vol. 1

    Down on her luck and pushing 30, shut-in NEET Yuuna needs a plan to excavate herself from her mountain of debt. Fortunately, she knows just the thing: Who Wants to Marry a Billionaire, the infamous reality TV show where women compete for the right to marry into riches! She may not be the prettiest or most…

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  • Camp Damascus

    Camp Damascus

    A searing and earnest horror debut about the demons the queer community faces in America, the price of keeping secrets, and finding the courage to burn it all down. They’ll scare you straight to hell. Welcome to Neverton, Montana: home to a God-fearing community with a heart of gold. Nestled high up in the mountains…

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  • The Ancient Magus’ Bride Season 2

    The Ancient Magus’ Bride Season 2

    Apprentice mage Chise Hatori is invited to enroll at the College, a prestigious learning institution for sorcerers, to examine and look for a way to remove the curses she bears. Despite the reluctance of her groom, Elias Ainsworth, Chise accepts the proposal, as she believes attending the school might help her minimize her self-sacrificing tendencies.…

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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: 40/50
80%
Comics Read in 2026: 222/200
100%
Physical Owned Books Read: 460/823
56%


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Absolute Asshole NPC (126) Accidentally in Charge (65) A Fetish For Suffering (71) Can't Say No (115) Chekov's Gun (66) Conveniently Cut-Off (58) Curiosity Fucks You Up (98) Cursed (88) Damsel in Distress (87) Damsel in Distress (subverted) (122) Dangerous Reputation (125) Doting Husband (84) Double Identity (61) Everyone Loves MC (114) Evil Eyes & Big Heart (58) Fan Service (125) Grumpy x Sunshine (65) Hypercompetent MC (95) If You Love Them, Set Them Free (68) I Know a Guy (82) Last Minute Hero (136) Loss of Humanity (64) Main Character Coloring (102) MC's Skewed Metrics (104) Mean Boy (146) Mean Boy Love Interest (62) Modern Morals (64) Nat 20s (121) Not Actually Dead (103) Nuclear Revenge (91) OP Protag (105) Power of Friendship (100) Power of Love (95) Self-Sacrifice (86) Shock Value (67) Sympathetic Evil (88) The Moral is Community (83) Tragic Backstory (107) Twist! (69) Uniquely Skilled (110) Unreliable Narrator (62) Weird and Wacky On Purpose (106) Western-Style Fantasy (117) Wrong Place Wrong Time (78) Zero to Hero (112)


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