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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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  • 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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  • A Man & His Cat Vol. 2-12

    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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  • 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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  • The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash

    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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  • 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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  • Picasso: The Beauty and the Beast

    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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  • Adults’ Picture Book #1-3

    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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  • Deadman Wonderland Vol. 1-13

    Deadman Wonderland Vol. 1-13

    After a powerful earthquake nearly destroyed all of Tokyo, a prison known as Deadman Wonderland rose from what was left of the city. Privately-run through the guise and functions of a theme park, Deadman Wonderland takes in prisoners from all over Japan, using them as attractions for tourists. Little do the public know about the

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  • Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror

    Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror

    This one took me a long time to read. Not because it was bad, but because sometimes reading one story was like being hit by a bus, and then I needed a long break before I went back to it. Horror is a reflection of the writer’s struggles, a very open dialogue about the problems

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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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