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Boy Meets Maria
Taiga dreams of becoming an actor, so the first thing he does upon entering high school is join the drama club. There, he meets the beautiful, enigmatic Maria and immediately falls in love with her. Not long after, Taiga is told that she is actually a boy–but is that all there is to Maria’s story?…
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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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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 Ancient Magus’ Bride
Chise Hatori was a child nobody wanted. Told by her own mother that she should never have been born and passed from one neglectful guardian to the next, the young girl has grown up feeling lost, hopeless, and emotionally numb. At age fifteen she sells herself into slavery, desperate for a home where somebody –…
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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
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
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
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
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
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.…
M's Media Menagerie
Thoughtful Dumping Grounds
Trope: Japanese Work Ethic
The Japanese will work hard, harder, HARDEST! Until they die and are reincarnated into another world, where they have to be taught to take a break once in a while.
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:
13
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Tagged in the Menagerie
Absolute Asshole NPC (126) Accidentally in Charge (65) A Fetish For Suffering (71) Can't Say No (115) Chekov's Gun (66) Conveniently Cut-Off (58) Curiosity Fucks You Up (98) Cursed (88) Damsel in Distress (87) Damsel in Distress (subverted) (122) Dangerous Reputation (125) Doting Husband (84) Double Identity (61) Everyone Loves MC (114) Evil Eyes & Big Heart (58) Fan Service (125) Grumpy x Sunshine (65) Hypercompetent MC (95) If You Love Them, Set Them Free (68) I Know a Guy (82) Last Minute Hero (136) Loss of Humanity (64) Main Character Coloring (102) MC's Skewed Metrics (104) Mean Boy (146) Mean Boy Love Interest (62) Modern Morals (64) Nat 20s (121) Not Actually Dead (103) Nuclear Revenge (91) OP Protag (105) Power of Friendship (100) Power of Love (95) Self-Sacrifice (86) Shock Value (67) Sympathetic Evil (88) The Moral is Community (83) Tragic Backstory (107) Twist! (69) Uniquely Skilled (110) Unreliable Narrator (62) Weird and Wacky On Purpose (106) Western-Style Fantasy (117) Wrong Place Wrong Time (78) Zero to Hero (112)
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