Trope: Genre Savvy

  • Goblin Slayer

    Goblin Slayer

    Harem Scale H: GS is classical antihero. A: He does not know he has a harem, but it’s pointed out by other characters. R: Look at this bad bitch I pulled in with my autism E: Tits & Ass M: I am a sucker for the series A young priestess has formed her first adventuring

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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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  • Cat Massage Therapy 1-3

    Cat Massage Therapy 1-3

    Nekoyama, worn out after another long day at the office, stops at a therapeutic massage parlor…only to discover that it’s run by a cat! Not only that, but the cat actually does the massaging?! Nekoyama is a dog lover, but as this professional “meowsseur” digs soft toe beans into his aching muscles, his heart warms

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  • The Adventure Zone: Here There Be Gerblins

    The Adventure Zone: Here There Be Gerblins

    Join Taako the elf wizard, Merle the dwarf cleric, and Magnus the human warrior for an adventure they are poorly equipped to handle AT BEST, guided (“guided”) by their snarky DM, in a graphic novel that will tickle your funny bone, tug your heartstrings, and probably pants you if you give it half a chance.

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  • The Dark History of the Reincarnated Villainess Season 1

    The Dark History of the Reincarnated Villainess Season 1

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    ISEKAI’D BY: Truck-Kun! Konoha Satou has a dark history. After all, she spent her teen years writing self-indulgent fantasy romance fics-like her Dark History. But since she’s become its most despicable villainess, remembering every last detail is now a matter of life-and-death. Having avoided the first couple of death flags, Satou’s suddenly left in the

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  • No Longer Allowed in Another World Vol. 3-9

    No Longer Allowed in Another World Vol. 3-9

    ISEKAI’D BY: Truck-Kun! (this entry does not add to the total) I ended up reading all the volumes I had in a row. I enjoyed the comedy, meeting the fucked up fallen angels— and then found that there’s rewriting powers, so things get reset, except they don’t, and also Sacchan is kinda an asshole. I

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  • No Longer Allowed in Another World Vol. 1-2

    No Longer Allowed in Another World Vol. 1-2

    ISEKAI’D BY: Truck-Kun! An adventure in another world with cute girls by your side and video game-like powers–sounds like an anime fan’s dream, right? Not so for melancholic author Osamu Dazai, who would quite literally prefer to drop dead. Video games haven’t even been invented yet when he gets yanked into another world in 1948.

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  • My Status as an Assassin Obviously Exceeds the Hero’s Season 1

    My Status as an Assassin Obviously Exceeds the Hero’s Season 1

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    Oda Akira is the kind of guy who people forget is even there. His unassuming nature pays off, though, when his entire class is swept away to a fantasy world, and he slips easily into his new role as a silent assassin. Between his suspiciously high starting stats and too many details that don’t fit,

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  • The One and Only Crystal Druid

    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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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: 25/50
50%
Comics Read in 2026: 80/200
40%
Physical Owned Books Read: 477/844
56%


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Absolute Asshole NPC (99) Accidentally in Charge (48) A Fetish For Suffering (54) Can't Say No (80) Chekov's Gun (51) Childhood Friends (52) Curiosity Fucks You Up (83) Cursed (71) Damsel in Distress (70) Damsel in Distress (subverted) (96) Dangerous Reputation (95) Doting Husband (69) Everyone Loves MC (98) Evil Eyes & Big Heart (53) Fan Service (102) Grumpy x Sunshine (56) Hypercompetent MC (78) If You Love Them, Set Them Free (58) I Know a Guy (56) Last Minute Hero (114) Loss of Humanity (58) Main Character Coloring (81) MC's Skewed Metrics (80) Mean Boy (130) Mean Boy Love Interest (50) Modern Morals (52) Nat 20s (98) Not Actually Dead (88) Nuclear Revenge (76) OP Protag (95) Petty Revenge (45) Power of Friendship (83) Power of Love (75) Self-Sacrifice (75) Shock Value (49) Sympathetic Evil (71) The Moral is Community (64) Tragic Backstory (89) Twist! (61) Uniquely Skilled (94) Unreliable Narrator (56) Weird and Wacky On Purpose (83) Western-Style Fantasy (95) Wrong Place Wrong Time (68) Zero to Hero (86)


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