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The Barbarian’s Bride #5
We NEED more MEN to be NAKED in this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! god DMANAIT Anyway, very masculine as always. Talking dragons are interesting. We have a fucking C-section to do as well. I like the series at least and the author admits in this one they’re just throwing their fetishes out in this as well so. At least…
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The Apothecary Diaries Vol. 01
In the East is a land ruled by an emperor, whose consorts and serving women live in a sprawling complex known as the hougong, the rear palace. Maomao, an unassuming girl raised in an unassuming town by her apothecary father, never imagined the rear palace would have anything to do with her—until she was kidnapped…
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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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The 31st Consort Vol 2-3
I really like the 31st Consort. The conceit is having a queen who stands as an equal no matter what, changing the patriarchal idea of demure women who only fight socially. She’s forced to live within this construct but still manages despite her headstrong nature. The romance is cute, but the political infighting is what…
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Fired? But I Maintain All the Software! Vol. 1
Ai Sato is the sole engineer maintaining her company’s internal systems. It’s too bad being the linchpin who keeps it all running won’t protect her from sudden layoffs. Apparently, the new CEO doesn’t approve of cosplaying at work. Depressed and jobless, Ai unexpectedly reunites with her childhood friend, Kenta Suzuki, who makes her an offer.…
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The Hitman Stans Vol. 2
The best hitman of the underworld, Owaru Endou, leads a dark and secretive life, constantly bathing in the blood of his targets. However, his life takes a brighter turn when he becomes a fan of Kaori “Kaorin” Minaboshi, an underground idol from Rosaceae whose concerts Owaru always attends. Feeling that his hands and dirty money…
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Black Sheep
A cynical twentysomething must confront her unconventional family’s dark secrets in this fiery, irreverent horror novel from the author of Such Sharp Teeth and Cackle. Nobody has a “normal” family, but Vesper Wright’s is truly…something else. Vesper left home at eighteen and never looked back—mostly because she was told that leaving the staunchly religious community…
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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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Tantrum
this book left me paralyzed. it’s about generational trauma passed from mother to daughter, abuse that takes the form of “taming” and reliance. the beginning of the book seems grounded in reality and the discussions of feminine rage. of feeling underappreciated and overworked and having more problems on top of that. the deep boiling anger…
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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.…
M's Media Menagerie
Thoughtful Dumping Grounds
Trope: MC’s Skewed Metrics
The MC has an idea of what’s normal, and this normal is far from what everyone else considers normal.
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:
11
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- Anime (48)
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- Comics (39)
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- Manga (191)
- Manwha (6)
- Movies (37)
- Podcast (1)
- Webcomic (3)
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- Zines (16)
Tagged in the Menagerie
Absolute Asshole NPC (105) Accidentally in Charge (55) A Fetish For Suffering (58) Can't Say No (91) Chekov's Gun (54) Childhood Friends (52) Curiosity Fucks You Up (86) Cursed (75) Damsel in Distress (73) Damsel in Distress (subverted) (106) Dangerous Reputation (102) Doting Husband (74) Double Identity (49) Everyone Loves MC (106) Evil Eyes & Big Heart (55) Fan Service (108) Grumpy x Sunshine (58) Hypercompetent MC (81) If You Love Them, Set Them Free (59) I Know a Guy (63) Last Minute Hero (119) Loss of Humanity (58) Main Character Coloring (87) MC's Skewed Metrics (83) Mean Boy (134) Mean Boy Love Interest (52) Modern Morals (56) Nat 20s (104) Not Actually Dead (90) Nuclear Revenge (80) OP Protag (99) Power of Friendship (88) Power of Love (80) Self-Sacrifice (76) Shock Value (53) Sympathetic Evil (73) The Moral is Community (69) Tragic Backstory (96) Twist! (62) Uniquely Skilled (98) Unreliable Narrator (58) Weird and Wacky On Purpose (92) Western-Style Fantasy (101) Wrong Place Wrong Time (73) Zero to Hero (96)
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