Trope: Japanese Work Ethic

  • After God Vol. 7

    After God Vol. 7

    You know what, I feel bad for Obikawa. He’s caught in this weird web of friendship and manipulation, and as my favorite character and the biggest rat-man in the series, I do not think he should have become a liquidated mass of meat. (not that I think the story should go differently, i truly wonder

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  • Cutie & the Beast

    Cutie & the Beast

    Unlike her friends who are into pretty boys, Momoka has a crush on a giant professional wrestler named Kuga who plays a villainous heel on TV. But in real life, Kuga is a big softie, and he really appreciates her fan mail! In this lighthearted romantic comedy, a little TV crush for a very big

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  • Campfire Cooking in Another World Season 2

    Campfire Cooking in Another World Season 2

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    ISEKAI’D BY: Summoning! As always, I’m in LOVE with this series and I’m delighted to have a second season. Karen and I walk to it as it was released. And look! They kept the style of the closing! As always, it’s a beautiful anime with amazing food animation (and plenty of product placement to fund

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  • Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill Vol. 1-3

    Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill Vol. 1-3

    ISEKAI’D BY: Summoning! Mukouda Tsuyoshi was nothing special in modern Japan, so when he was summoned to a world of swordplay and sorcery, he thought he was ready for the adventure of a lifetime. Too bad the kingdom that summoned him only got him by mistake! Not only was he not one of the three

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  • Ramen Wolf & Curry Tiger Vol. 1

    Ramen Wolf & Curry Tiger Vol. 1

    Meet your new favorite food critics: a chubby wolf named Mita Jirou and a ripped tiger named Yanagi Kagetora. Kagetora used to eat to live, but all that changed when he met Jirou–who lives to eat! Jirou is more than happy to help his striped feline friend explore the restaurants and delicacies tucked within their

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  • All My Neighbors are Convinced the Female Knight from my Rice Field is My Wife Ch. 1-54

    All My Neighbors are Convinced the Female Knight from my Rice Field is My Wife Ch. 1-54

    ISEKAI’D BY: Portal! Jin Mita lives as a farmer in a small town in the countryside. One morning, he discovers a female knight collapsed in his rice paddy. Her name is Seraphim, and it appears that she has come from another world. She knows nothing about how this world works and has nowhere to go.

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  • The Amazing Village Creator: Slow Living & the Village Building Cheat Skill Vol. 1-6

    The Amazing Village Creator: Slow Living & the Village Building Cheat Skill Vol. 1-6

    Harem Scale H: 4. this guy will sacrifice his own comfort for others and refuses to kill. A: 3. he is very aware of two women vying for his attention but he does not seem to realize the attraction. R: 0. zip nada zilch E: 4. we have loads of suggestive poses and perv moments.

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  • 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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  • 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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  • Uglymug, Epicfighter

    Uglymug, Epicfighter

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    His looks are -255, touching girls causes him pain, and sexual acts will literally tear him apart. Just what can our ex-salesman Shigeru get in the other world in exchange for such inconveniences…? This is an epic tale of one very ugly, but ridiculously strong man! i actually ended up liking this a lot. it

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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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