Trope: Curiosity Fucks You Up

  • After God Vol. 1-6

    After God Vol. 1-6

    Desperate for answers about her friend’s disappearance, Waka breaches the Tokyo danger zone in search of clues. Instead, she finds Tokinaga, a researcher with the Anti-God Scientific Research Institute. While Waka tries to decide if she should trust Tokinaga, he quickly realizes Waka is hiding a dangerous secret of her own—one that may just be

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  • Bring Her Back

    Bring Her Back

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    Following the death of their father, a brother and sister are introduced to their new sibling by their foster mother, only to learn that she has a terrifying secret. i found this while dickin around and had it in the backlog, but remy requested it so i moved it up the list for adding to

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  • Too Old For This

    Too Old For This

    A retired serial killer’s quiet life is upended by an unexpected visitor. To protect her secret, there’s only one option left—what’s another murder? From bestselling author Samantha Downing. Lottie Jones thought her crimes were behind her. Decades earlier, she changed her identity and tucked herself away in a small town. Her most exciting nights are

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  • Asahina Wakaba and Her Chubby-Chubby Boyfriend Vol. 1-3

    Asahina Wakaba and Her Chubby-Chubby Boyfriend Vol. 1-3

    Asahina Wakaba, a girl who is a bit clumsy and not good at socializing, gets bullied into asking out the school’s biggest, most despised, otaku, Haruto Iruma. However, this experience changes her pitch-black high school years into the ultimate young-love experience. I wasn’t sure what to expect from this series. I just sort of pick

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  • At Your Service in Another World Vol. 1 & 2

    At Your Service in Another World Vol. 1 & 2

    ISEKAI’D BY: Summons! Two years after Rin Tachibana, a romance-challenged woman in her thirties was unexpectedly whisked away to another world, she has settled into a quiet life as a clerk for the Magic Knights. But when the king secretly orders her to service her arrogant colleague Oscar Garland—a notorious misogynist—her peaceful routine goes off

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  • Unicorns Aren’t Horny Vol. 1 & 2

    Unicorns Aren’t Horny Vol. 1 & 2

    Emuko is a twenty-something virgin by choice—in fact, she’s never really dated anyone in her entire life. Her roommate is a unicorn, a mythical creature known for its attraction to virgins. This unicorn, named Sea Urchin, adores Emuko, but sometimes Emuko wonders what she might be missing by avoiding romantic love. And does Sea Urchin

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  • Scary Movie

    Scary Movie

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    when i was a kid this was peak comedy.now it did not age well.it’s an old style wayans brothers production, leaning heavy on racial jokes and weed jokes and dick jokes and juvenile humor all around. that’s fine, but we veer into like… transphobic territory, homophobic territory, the terrible depiction of autistic people, and just…

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  • The Most Notorious “Talker” Runs the World’s Greatest Clan Season 1

    The Most Notorious “Talker” Runs the World’s Greatest Clan Season 1

    Noel, a young boy with a legendary hero known as the Overdeath as his grandpa. Admiring his grandpa, Noel aspires to become the strongest seeker, but his inherent support class, “Talker” is considered the weakest. Despite his efforts to become a skilled seeker like his grandpa, Noel couldn’t bridge the gap in talent. However, with

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  • The Unaware Atelier Master Season 1

    The Unaware Atelier Master Season 1

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    Harem Scale H: the kid has the skills but he mostly isn’t aware he is making these decisions A: bro doesn’t know anything R: ignorant E: ya got boobs of all shapes and sizes and lots of innuendos M: too much lady thirst One day, Kurt, a kind-hearted boy, is suddenly kicked out of the

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  • The Do-Over Damsel Conquers the Dragon Emperor Season 1

    The Do-Over Damsel Conquers the Dragon Emperor Season 1

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    Jill breaks out of prison the night before she’s set to be executed by her fiancé, Crown Prince Gerald. She’s struck by an arrow while escaping, but instead of dying, she’s transported six years into the past—to the night she and Gerald met. Desperate to alter fate, she instead proposes to the first man she

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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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