Trope: Ambiguous Ending

  • Drawn to My Bad-Boy Assistant Vol. 1-2

    Drawn to My Bad-Boy Assistant Vol. 1-2

    Josei manga creator Takoyaki Maru finds herself interested in someone she’d never expect—her assistant, Ashizawa-kun! In her eyes, he’s excellent at his job and a masterful cook. The only problem is that he’s one of the “bad boy types” she seriously can’t handle! A romcom about an introverted manga creator and her high-value bad boy…

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  • Another World Where I Can’t Even Collapse and Die Vol. 1-2

    Another World Where I Can’t Even Collapse and Die Vol. 1-2

    Sumire was a high school girl before she leapt into another world the moment she fell down. Before she could collapse and die, she came across a silver-haired boy who had already collapsed and was dying. One thing led to another and she ended up working at an Adventurer’s Guild. She doesn’t have any special…

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  • Why Shouldn’t a Detestable Demon Lord Fall in Love?!

    Why Shouldn’t a Detestable Demon Lord Fall in Love?!

    This is the story of a detestable Demon Lord and his wonderful new wife, a destitute damsel! Our Demon Lord, Anima, is the strongest in all the world, feared by the denizens of the realm. He’s forced to spend his days in solitude until, completely out of the blue, he gets summoned to another world!…

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  • This “Summon Kitchen” Skill is Amazing!: Amassing Points by Cooking in Another World Vol. 1-2

    This “Summon Kitchen” Skill is Amazing!: Amassing Points by Cooking in Another World Vol. 1-2

    ISEKAI’D BY: Summoning! In another world, the skill I was bequeathed was――”Summon Kitchen”? Eh, what the heck is that?! The Office Lady that got mixed up in a high school girl’s summons to another word – Isarai Shiina. Unlike the warm welcome given to the high school Saintess, Shiina is forced to live in a…

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  • It Comes at Night

    It Comes at Night

    Secure within a desolate home as an unnatural threat terrorizes the world, a man has established a tenuous domestic order with his wife and son, but this will soon be put to test when a desperate young family arrives seeking refuge. WHAT COMES AT NIGHT?! hOLY MISLEADING TRAILER, BATMAN!! It’s a technically good film, but…

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  • Undertone

    Undertone

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    The host of a popular paranormal podcast is sent hidden messages within anonymous recordings, unleashing a demonic presence that is impossible to escape in this nerve-shredding nightmare that haunts long after the last echo fades. I expected more out of this one, especially since it managed to get a whole-ass ad episode in Radio Rental,…

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  • Monty Python and the Holy Grail

    Monty Python and the Holy Grail

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    King Arthur, accompanied by his squire, recruits his Knights of the Round Table, including Sir Bedevere the Wise, Sir Lancelot the Brave, Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-As-Sir-Lancelot and Sir Galahad the Pure. On the way, Arthur battles the Black Knight who, despite having had all his limbs chopped off, insists he can still fight. They reach…

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  • The Adventure Zone #3: Petals to the Metal

    The Adventure Zone #3: Petals to the Metal

    START YOUR ENGINES, friends, as we hit the road again with Taako, Magnus and Merle, the beloved agents of chaos from the #1 New York Times Bestselling books The Adventure Zone: Here There Be Gerblins and The Adventure Zone: Murder on the Rockport Limited. Our boys have gone full-time at the Bureau of Balance, and…

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  • Follow Her Down

    Follow Her Down

    The hunt is on.Sera Vale stalks her tormentor.Men stalk Sera.And somewhere in the dark, a killer waits. Will this be Sera Vale’s final unmaking? That depends. She’s not running. She’s collecting—tools, weapons, worshippers.They bow to her.Crave her.Kill for her.Follow her down, even to hell. Her monsters aren’t just lovers.They’re trophies.They’re jewels in her bloody crown.…

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  • Caterpillar Girl and Bad Texter Boy

    Caterpillar Girl and Bad Texter Boy

    Beautiful, smart, and kind Suzume Kikuo is perfect in every way, the girl of anyone’s dreams. But when she asks out her socially awkward childhood friend Akane, his response is a shocker: “You’re too perfect.” What’s a girl to do, except transform into a giant caterpillar and try, try again? This is like the opposite…

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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: 29/50
58%
Comics Read in 2026: 99/200
48%
Physical Owned Books Read: 485/848
57%


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Absolute Asshole NPC (104) Accidentally in Charge (53) A Fetish For Suffering (56) Can't Say No (87) Chekov's Gun (53) Childhood Friends (52) Curiosity Fucks You Up (86) Cursed (74) Damsel in Distress (71) Damsel in Distress (subverted) (103) Dangerous Reputation (100) Doting Husband (73) Double Identity (48) Everyone Loves MC (104) Evil Eyes & Big Heart (54) Fan Service (106) Grumpy x Sunshine (56) Hypercompetent MC (79) If You Love Them, Set Them Free (59) I Know a Guy (61) Last Minute Hero (117) Loss of Humanity (58) Main Character Coloring (85) MC's Skewed Metrics (81) Mean Boy (131) Mean Boy Love Interest (50) Modern Morals (55) Nat 20s (103) Not Actually Dead (90) Nuclear Revenge (78) OP Protag (98) Power of Friendship (87) Power of Love (78) Self-Sacrifice (76) Shock Value (51) Sympathetic Evil (72) The Moral is Community (69) Tragic Backstory (91) Twist! (62) Uniquely Skilled (97) Unreliable Narrator (56) Weird and Wacky On Purpose (90) Western-Style Fantasy (100) Wrong Place Wrong Time (71) Zero to Hero (93)


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