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Sentenced to be a Hero
In a world where the title of Hero is treated as a punishment rather than an honor, the worst criminals are sentenced to the front lines of an endless war against the Demon Lords. Branded as Heroes, they are forced into military service without even the mercy of death, condemned to be revived and sent…
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The Adventure Zone #2: Murder on the Rockport Limited!
In the second Adventure Zone graphic novel (adapted from the McElroy family’s wildly popular D&D podcast), we rejoin hero-adjacent sort-of-comrades-in-arms Taako, Magnus, and Merle on a wild careen through a D&D railroad murder mystery. This installment has a little of everything: a genius child detective, an axe-wielding professional wrestler, a surly wizard, cursed magical artifacts,…
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The One and Only Crystal Druid
Ten years ago, I risked everything on a nameless boy. I came out the other side with a murder conviction, a prison sentence, and a minor case of amnesia. I forgot everything about that boy, and now I’m out on parole, just a nobody witch volunteering at an animal rescue and keeping a low profile.…
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Campfire Cooking in Another World Season 2
ISEKAI’D BY: Summoning! As always, I’m in LOVE with this series and I’m delighted to have a second season. Karen and I walk to it as it was released. And look! They kept the style of the closing! As always, it’s a beautiful anime with amazing food animation (and plenty of product placement to fund…
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Backstabbed in a Backwater Dungeon: My Party Tried to Kill Me, But Thanks to an Infinite Gacha I Got LVL 9999 Friends and Am Out for Revenge Vol. 1-9
Harem Scale H: MC is sufficiently heroic but is kind of sadistic. A: Very aware of the women always being like That. R: Ignores all of it. E: Entirely for the male gaze. Just look at the covers. M: I got invested enough in the plot and the revenge stuff. A kid named Light is…
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The Amazing Village Creator: Slow Living & the Village Building Cheat Skill Vol. 1-6
Harem Scale H: 4. this guy will sacrifice his own comfort for others and refuses to kill. A: 3. he is very aware of two women vying for his attention but he does not seem to realize the attraction. R: 0. zip nada zilch E: 4. we have loads of suggestive poses and perv moments.…
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Reincarnated as a Dragon Hatchling Vol. 1-7
ISEKAI’D BY: Summoning? Harem Scale H: Illusia’s moral compass is off the charts. A: He has absolutely no awareness that a bunch of cute girls (or lizards) are after him. R: No romance, period. E: Low ecchi levels. Most ecchi is costuming, and even then the costumes are mostly very reasonable. M: It’s a fun…
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To Your Eternity 1-21
I’ve always been somewhat in love with this series. And recently I’ve had the joy to get my digital collection up to date— for a long time I only had the ten volumes from a Humble Bundle—and since I was sick, I figured I would slam it back. And my god, did I weep exactly…
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Letterkenny Season 3
I noticed this a touch when Season 2 opened up and they just offhandedly mentioned Modean’s burnt down between seasons, but this season it jumps out at ya. Season 2’s last thirty seconds was Rosie coming out of her truck with a stud for Stormy, absolutely ringing Wayne’s bell, followed by his ex Angie who…
M's Media Menagerie
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Trope: Blue Collar Fantasy Man
This man is a hard-working man who relies on the labor of his own two hands to get work done. Even in the world of fantasy, people need their wood chopped, their houses built, and their crops farmed. Often lives modestly and is well-known in the community. He is admired for his unwavering dedication to doing a good job no matter the chore.
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:
11
Menagerie Categories
- Anime (46)
- Blog (16)
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- Comics (35)
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- Etcetera (10)
- Game (22)
- Light Novel (14)
- Magazines (1)
- Manga (184)
- Manwha (6)
- Movies (36)
- Podcast (1)
- Uncategorized (1)
- Webcomic (2)
- Webtoon (7)
- Zines (16)
Tagged in the Menagerie
Absolute Asshole NPC (101) Accidentally in Charge (50) A Fetish For Suffering (56) Can't Say No (81) Chekov's Gun (53) Childhood Friends (52) Curiosity Fucks You Up (84) Cursed (74) Damsel in Distress (70) Damsel in Distress (subverted) (99) Dangerous Reputation (97) Doting Husband (70) Double Identity (46) Everyone Loves MC (99) Evil Eyes & Big Heart (53) Fan Service (104) Grumpy x Sunshine (56) Hypercompetent MC (78) If You Love Them, Set Them Free (59) I Know a Guy (58) Last Minute Hero (117) Loss of Humanity (58) Main Character Coloring (81) MC's Skewed Metrics (80) Mean Boy (131) Mean Boy Love Interest (50) Modern Morals (53) Nat 20s (100) Not Actually Dead (90) Nuclear Revenge (78) OP Protag (96) Power of Friendship (84) Power of Love (77) Self-Sacrifice (76) Shock Value (50) Sympathetic Evil (72) The Moral is Community (66) Tragic Backstory (90) Twist! (62) Uniquely Skilled (95) Unreliable Narrator (56) Weird and Wacky On Purpose (85) Western-Style Fantasy (96) Wrong Place Wrong Time (68) Zero to Hero (89)
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