Trope: Cursed

  • The Invisible Man & His Soon-to-Be Wife Vol. 6

    The Invisible Man & His Soon-to-Be Wife Vol. 6

    HAPPY WIFE, HAPPY LIFE Having received the blessings of both their families, Yakou and Tounome finally begin their new life under one roof. While it may come with some adjustments and a fair bit of awkwardness, this starry-eyed couple is happier than ever! Yet these two aren’t the only ones with good things on the…

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  • They Will Kill You

    They Will Kill You

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    A woman answers a help wanted ad to be a housekeeper in a mysterious New York City high-rise, unaware that she is entering a community that has seen a number of disappearances over the years and may be under the grip of a Satanic cult. This one is on its way to cult status, I…

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  • Camp Damascus

    Camp Damascus

    A searing and earnest horror debut about the demons the queer community faces in America, the price of keeping secrets, and finding the courage to burn it all down. They’ll scare you straight to hell. Welcome to Neverton, Montana: home to a God-fearing community with a heart of gold. Nestled high up in the mountains…

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  • Sentenced to be a Hero

    Sentenced to be a Hero

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    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 Ancient Magus’ Bride Season 2

    The Ancient Magus’ Bride Season 2

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    Apprentice mage Chise Hatori is invited to enroll at the College, a prestigious learning institution for sorcerers, to examine and look for a way to remove the curses she bears. Despite the reluctance of her groom, Elias Ainsworth, Chise accepts the proposal, as she believes attending the school might help her minimize her self-sacrificing tendencies.…

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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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  • The Girl, the Shovel and the Evil Eye Vol. 1-4

    The Girl, the Shovel and the Evil Eye Vol. 1-4

    ISEKAI’D BY: Truck-Kun! Tsuguto Sumihara is way too nice… or rather, was too nice. He lost his life in a bus accident after being bullied into giving up his seat, and somehow was reincarnated into a mining camp! Not only that, the mine is at the base of an impossibly tall tower. It’s there he…

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  • The Death Mage Vol. 4-7

    The Death Mage Vol. 4-7

    Harem Scale H: Goes up because now he is doing hero shit. For the good of others. Forming bonds. Etc A: He is now very aware everyone wants his baby body. R: Zip. E: You can just tell from the covers, but this is tits out and heavily sexualized. M: And yet I read it.…

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  • The Death Mage Vol. 1-3

    The Death Mage Vol. 1-3

    A tragedy wipes out Hiroto Amamiya’s whole class. A god suddenly appears and says he will give all of them special protection and skills before reincarnating them in a new world. But when the god makes a mistake, Hiroto goes into his new life without anything at all. Harem Scale H: Vandalieu listens to his…

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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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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: 26/50
52%
Comics Read in 2026: 91/200
45%
Physical Owned Books Read: 482/848
56%


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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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