Trigger Warning: Manipulation

  • Captive Prince

    Captive Prince

    “This was Vere, voluptuous and decadent, country of honeyed poison” Damen is a warrior hero to his people, and the rightful heir to the throne of Akielos. But when his half brother seizes power, Damen is captured, stripped of his identity, and sent to serve the prince of an enemy nation as a pleasure slave.

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  • The Apothecary Diaries Manga Vol. 1-4

    The Apothecary Diaries Manga Vol. 1-4

    In a certain imperial court, it has been a few months since a 17-year-old girl known as Maomao was kidnapped and forced to work as a low-level servant at the emperor’s palace. Still, she manages to retain her curious and pragmatic spirit, planning to work until her years of servitude are over. One day, however,

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  • Alpha Wolfgirl x Omega Wolfboy Vol 1 & 2

    Alpha Wolfgirl x Omega Wolfboy Vol 1 & 2

    heed the trigger warnings Hentai for the aggressive fucking folks out there. There’s so much to dig into here. It’s like a cake of incredibly thorough A/B/O worldbuilding.

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  • My Sister Took My Fiance and Now I’m Being Courted by a Beastly Prince Vol. 01-03

    My Sister Took My Fiance and Now I’m Being Courted by a Beastly Prince Vol. 01-03

    Cordelia, daughter of a countess, can’t seem to get married–mostly because her little sister Priscilla keeps stealing the hearts of her suitors. Ready to resign herself to a spinster fate, Cordelia is surprised when a handsome man suddenly courts her–and he’s a prince, no less! Prince Leonhardt, who possesses the power of a legendary lion,

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  • I’m Not Meat Vol. 1-3

    I’m Not Meat Vol. 1-3

    Harem Scale H: Kunio does the bare minimum of heroism; he’s generally the victim here. A: This dude has terrible luck and is the prey of a bunch of carnivores. R: He’s in love, though, he legit falls in love. E: Maybe I should have put a 5 for ecchi. It’s JUST short of hentai.

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  • Outbride: Beauty and the Beasts Vol 2 & 3

    Outbride: Beauty and the Beasts Vol 2 & 3

    Harem Scale H: Our lead does not have many opportunities to be heroic, as she is an unwilling victim in this series. A: She is very aware that she is obligated to fuck four different dudes. R: Romance elements are there but the focus is on the hentai. E: It’s hentai. M: I knew what

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  • Incidents Around the House

    Incidents Around the House

    A chilling horror novel about a haunting told from the perspective of a young girl whose troubled family is targeted by an entity she calls “Other Mommy,” from the New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box To eight-year-old Bela, her family is her world. There’s Mommy, Daddo, and Grandma Ruth. But there is also Other Mommy, a malevolent entity

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  • They All Died Screaming

    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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  • Even Given the Worthless Appraiser Class, I’m Actually the Strongest

    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

    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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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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