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  • Ajin – Demi-Human Vol. 1-17

    Ajin – Demi-Human Vol. 1-17

    The first Ajin appeared 17 years ago and quickly became the most important discovery to mankind. While they appear to be human, Ajin are rare, immortal beings that are feared by the populace. Only 46 are known to exist in the world, and most try to hide their existence, for capture means being subjected to…

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  • Shoresy Season 5

    Shoresy Season 5

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    This was a good season.After season 4’s stick slap to the ice ending, it’s been on my mind endlessly. This season’s “winning culture” ideal has been rotating like fucking tacos al pastor in my brain since I watched it. Shoresy made a strong coach, making a case for bringing hockey back to the traditional core…

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  • Backrooms

    Backrooms

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    Well this thing is an essay waiting to happen (written probably by someone else).

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  • An Observation Log of My Fiancée Who Calls Herself a Villainess

    An Observation Log of My Fiancée Who Calls Herself a Villainess

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    The crown prince, Cecil, excels in everything so his life is too easy. One day, when he gets engaged to the daughter of the marquis, Bertia, he’s told something peculiar all of a sudden: “Prince Cecil! I am a villainess!!” As she says, according to memories from her previous life, they are in a dating…

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  • Furyou Taimashi Reina

    Furyou Taimashi Reina

    Reina Suzuno, a transfer student with a sukujan, blonde hair and loose socks looks totally like a criminal. Is Reina Suzuno a stalker? It turns out that Reina is not a stalker, she is actually an exorcist, an excellent exorcist, the intimidating behavior she has is actually a unique method of exorcism, which exterminates the…

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  • Isekai Office Worker: The Other World’s Books Depend on the Bean Counter

    Isekai Office Worker: The Other World’s Books Depend on the Bean Counter

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    Seiichirou Kondou gets caught up in a summoning ritual and is transported to a parallel world called Romany Kingdom. Having worked day and night, he demands a job and joins the Royal Accounting Department. After narrowly surviving a tonic’s deadly side effects with the aid of magic, Seiichirou entrusts himself to Aresh, captain of the…

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  • Lout of Count’s Family Vol. 4

    Lout of Count’s Family Vol. 4

    NEW FACES, NEW POSSIBILITIES Cale Henituse is a man more eager to top off his wine than topple his foes, but adventure always seems to find him! This time, he befriends a kind yet sheltered necromancer, an ancient gold dragon, and twin saints on the run. But the stakes rise when the fierce Tiger Tribe…

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  • Dave the Diver

    Dave the Diver

    Pre-Jungle DLC. DAVE THE DIVER is a casual, singleplayer adventure RPG featuring deep-sea exploration and fishing during the day and sushi restaurant management at night. Join Dave and his quirky friends as they seek to uncover the secrets of the mysterious Blue Hole. I love Dave the Diver. I don’t think the trailer does it…

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  • Dragon Goes House Hunting Vol. 1-10

    Dragon Goes House Hunting Vol. 1-10

    Letty is not very good at being a dragon. Actually, he’s so terrible at it that his dad went and kicked him out of the house! What’s a skittish monster of myth to do in a world where everyone sees him as material for their next suit of armor? Why, find a safe place to…

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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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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: 32/50
64%
Comics Read in 2026: 158/200
79%
Physical Owned Books Read: 460/823
56%


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Absolute Asshole NPC (112) Accidentally in Charge (59) A Fetish For Suffering (63) Can't Say No (101) Chekov's Gun (59) Childhood Friends (54) Curiosity Fucks You Up (90) Cursed (79) Damsel in Distress (80) Damsel in Distress (subverted) (111) Dangerous Reputation (112) Doting Husband (78) Double Identity (54) Everyone Loves MC (109) Evil Eyes & Big Heart (56) Fan Service (116) Grumpy x Sunshine (60) Hypercompetent MC (88) If You Love Them, Set Them Free (62) I Know a Guy (71) Last Minute Hero (128) Loss of Humanity (60) Main Character Coloring (91) MC's Skewed Metrics (93) Mean Boy (140) Mean Boy Love Interest (56) Modern Morals (59) Nat 20s (112) Not Actually Dead (96) Nuclear Revenge (85) OP Protag (101) Power of Friendship (93) Power of Love (86) Self-Sacrifice (82) Shock Value (59) Sympathetic Evil (78) The Moral is Community (77) Tragic Backstory (100) Twist! (64) Uniquely Skilled (101) Unreliable Narrator (60) Weird and Wacky On Purpose (99) Western-Style Fantasy (107) Wrong Place Wrong Time (76) Zero to Hero (104)


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