Trope: Mean Boy Love Interest

  • The Unsinkable Ship of Fools

    The Unsinkable Ship of Fools

    Fuck Capitalism and then Fuck Each Other The author lives that pure anarchist punk life and fuck, dude, I honestly think that they got it right. All those pretty ideals that psuedo punks, wishful punks, talk about. Those little touches that bring it in and make it vibe. This is full-on an anarchist sex train…

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  • I’m the Villainess, So I’m Taming the Final Boss

    I’m the Villainess, So I’m Taming the Final Boss

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    Y’all have no idea how jazzed I was to see that this is an anime. I’ve read the manga a few times, but the manga stops right after she successfully stops the Demon Lord from changing. Imagine my surprise at the second half of the series!! And I also am collecting the light novel series…

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  • Would You Like to Be a Family

    Would You Like to Be a Family

    This is actually a collection of a couple stories, all of which are pretty cute one shots. I picked this one up because I’m a sucker for dark hair/dark eye mean lookin’ types. And family stuff. It’s cute. Look how petty he is. It’s so funny. That said, there are some, uh. Style drawbacks… In…

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  • A Beast’s Descent into Love

    A Beast’s Descent into Love

    When thief Karim sneaks into a clandestine auction, he finds Asena, a beautiful young man with animal ears and a tail. On impulse, Karim steals him from the bidder who bought him for a hefty sum and decides to take responsibility, making arrangements to live with him for a month while he waits for the…

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  • Outbride: Beauty and the Beasts 1

    Outbride: Beauty and the Beasts 1

    ISEKAI’D BY: Truck-Kun! Noel is endgame for me. That said, I totally think Mashiro reacts appropriately to being resurrected to be a breeder with four dudes, one of which tries to fuck her like, right away, until another one barges in and basically says, “that’s not fair, bro, we gotta talk about who gets her…

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  • Don’t Let the Forest In

    Don’t Let the Forest In

    *Once upon a time, Andrew had cut out his heart and given it to this boy, and he was very sure Thomas had no idea that Andrew would do anything for him. Protect him. Lie for him. Kill for him.* High school senior Andrew Perrault finds refuge in the twisted fairytales that he writes for…

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  • Kenka Bancho Otome: Girl Beats Boys

    Kenka Bancho Otome: Girl Beats Boys

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    Harem Scale H: MC has a lot of empathy and is the type to defend A: MC is not angling for it. She’s in an all-boy’s school, so being surrounded by men is par for the course. R: It’s a companion anime to an otome game, so… there’s the kinda romantic and yet masculine relationships.…

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  • The Obsessed Mage and His Beloved Statue Bride: She Cannot Resist His Seductive Voice

    The Obsessed Mage and His Beloved Statue Bride: She Cannot Resist His Seductive Voice

    Lara Bradley, a renowned mage, sets off to defeat a low-risk monster with her young apprentice Alistair, who never stops proposing to her. But instead of a minor threat, they encounter the world’s most dangerous creature—a dragon! In a desperate bid to save Alistair, Lara faces the dragon alone and casts a spell that turns…

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  • Father, I Don’t Want This Marriage

    Father, I Don’t Want This Marriage

    Another isekai villainess manwha? A romcom? A— what did you say? Read until the end, you swear? What do you mean the male lead isn’t even the favorite male character? What do you mean you wept at the end??? What?!

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  • Fourth Wing

    Fourth Wing

    WE GET IT YOU THINK HE’S HOT AND WANT TO BOINK HIM, I GET IT, I GET IT, I GET IT, PLEASE THINK OF ANYTHING ELSE FOR FIVE SECONDS

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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: 31/50
62%
Comics Read in 2026: 112/200
56%
Physical Owned Books Read: 491/866
57%


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Absolute Asshole NPC (106) Accidentally in Charge (56) A Fetish For Suffering (59) Can't Say No (95) Chekov's Gun (55) Childhood Friends (52) Curiosity Fucks You Up (87) Cursed (75) Damsel in Distress (76) Damsel in Distress (subverted) (107) Dangerous Reputation (105) Doting Husband (75) Double Identity (52) Everyone Loves MC (106) Evil Eyes & Big Heart (55) Fan Service (111) Grumpy x Sunshine (58) Hypercompetent MC (84) If You Love Them, Set Them Free (60) I Know a Guy (65) Last Minute Hero (121) Loss of Humanity (58) Main Character Coloring (88) MC's Skewed Metrics (86) Mean Boy (136) Mean Boy Love Interest (53) Modern Morals (57) Nat 20s (106) Not Actually Dead (92) Nuclear Revenge (81) OP Protag (100) Power of Friendship (89) Power of Love (81) Self-Sacrifice (77) Shock Value (54) Sympathetic Evil (73) The Moral is Community (70) Tragic Backstory (96) Twist! (62) Uniquely Skilled (99) Unreliable Narrator (58) Weird and Wacky On Purpose (93) Western-Style Fantasy (103) Wrong Place Wrong Time (73) Zero to Hero (98)


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