Trope: Grumpy x Sunshine

  • Otaku Vampire’s Love Bite Vol. 1 & 2

    Otaku Vampire’s Love Bite Vol. 1 & 2

    Hina Arukado is a modern vampire who drinks blood from bags instead of humans. But she’s also a complete shut-in who hasn’t left the house in 30 years. In an effort to reach her, Hina’s worried dad does something that changes her life—he gives her the complete box set of the Vampire Cross anime series!

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  • Catch These Hands Vol. 1

    Catch These Hands Vol. 1

    During her high school years, Takebe was the top dog at her school. But with her old friends now living as happy riajuu, Takebe was faced with an impending sense of crisis. Takebe thus resolved herself to quit delinquency, but the result of that was a fated meeting with her old rival, Soramori. Losing a

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  • For My Adorable Fiancée’s Sake Vol. 1 & 2

    For My Adorable Fiancée’s Sake Vol. 1 & 2

    The world, it seems like it is that of the Otome game “Welcome Princess,” but there’s something off!? Elliot, the eldest son of a Marquis family and one of the targets you can go after is an insanely handsome young man, both cool and wicked, master of both pen and sword. His only weakness (?)

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  • Go For It, Nakamura!

    Go For It, Nakamura!

    Okuto Nakamura is a timid and gloomy-looking student who cherishes only two things in this world: his pet octopus and his kind-hearted classmate, Aiki Hirose. Ever since the school entrance ceremony, Nakamura has admired his jovial classmate, albeit from a distance due to his poor social skills. After mustering up all the courage within him,

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  • An Archdemon’s Dilemma: How to Love Your Elf Bride Vol. 1-11

    An Archdemon’s Dilemma: How to Love Your Elf Bride Vol. 1-11

    With an aloof demeanor, intimidating appearance, and tremendous power, Zagan the mage is seen as an evil sorcerer and feared by all around him. As he goes about his daily routine of studying magic and punishing any ruffians he comes across, he accepts an invitation to a mysterious auction featuring various items of a late

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  • Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard Vol. 1-12

    Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard Vol. 1-12

    Office worker Kiyoshi Adachi has gone 30 years of life without ever having his cherry popped. Due to this profound accomplishment, he becomes a wizard with the ability to read minds through physical contact. However, he thinks his newly attained skill is hopelessly lame and has caused him to dislike crowded places. On the way

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  • The Four Seasons

    The Four Seasons

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    The decades-long friendship between three married couples is tested when one divorces, complicating their tradition of quarterly weekend getaways. This one caught me off guard. Sometimes my buds will turn something on when I’m about to get up and wander off to my own home (da basement), usually something they know I’m not gonna be

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  • The Red Ranger Becomes an Adventurer in Another World Season 1

    The Red Ranger Becomes an Adventurer in Another World Season 1

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    The Red Ranger, Tougo Asagaki, finds himself transported to another world in the middle of a fierce battle against forces of evil. Upon arriving, he quickly makes a name for himself as an adventurer and takes on a job from a young mage named Yihdra Arvoln. With his eccentric powers and frenzied personality, Tougo blazes

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  • King’s Rising

    King’s Rising

    The epic conclusion to the internationally acclaimed Captive Prince trilogy. Damianos of Akielos has returned. His identity now revealed, Damen must face his master Prince Laurent as Damianos of Akielos, the man Laurent has sworn to kill. On the brink of a momentous battle, the future of both their countries hangs in the balance. In

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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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