Trope: Mean Boy

  • Hard-Boiled Cop and Dolphin Vol. 1

    Hard-Boiled Cop and Dolphin Vol. 1

    Meet hard-boiled cop Boyle Samejima. He’s just been assigned to the remote Ogasawara Islands. There he finds coworkers, a mysterious young girl and a dolphin for a partner?! Cop x girl x ocean! Welcome to the craziest hard-boiled cop story you’ll ever read! You know, what did I expect from the guy that did Beelzebub?

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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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  • The Person I Loved Asked Me to Die in My Sister’s Stead Vol. 1

    The Person I Loved Asked Me to Die in My Sister’s Stead Vol. 1

    Wisteria, the daughter of a count, secretly has feelings for Bright, a beautiful childhood friend and son of a duke who, unable to use magic, had been conducting forbidden research in the shadows. Devastated when Bright confesses his love for her younger sister, Wisteria is even more hurt when he asks her to take her

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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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  • Assassin & Cinderella Vol. 1

    Assassin & Cinderella Vol. 1

    Neneko is a spy with a mission: to uncover the secrets of an assassin from a rival organization. Sadly, she blows her cover. But, just when she thinks she’s about to be killed, the assassin proposes to her instead?! Caught within his lethal embrace, her heart slowly begins to melt… And so begins the story

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  • Too Old For This

    Too Old For This

    A retired serial killer’s quiet life is upended by an unexpected visitor. To protect her secret, there’s only one option left—what’s another murder? From bestselling author Samantha Downing. Lottie Jones thought her crimes were behind her. Decades earlier, she changed her identity and tucked herself away in a small town. Her most exciting nights are

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  • Asahina Wakaba and Her Chubby-Chubby Boyfriend Vol. 1-3

    Asahina Wakaba and Her Chubby-Chubby Boyfriend Vol. 1-3

    Asahina Wakaba, a girl who is a bit clumsy and not good at socializing, gets bullied into asking out the school’s biggest, most despised, otaku, Haruto Iruma. However, this experience changes her pitch-black high school years into the ultimate young-love experience. I wasn’t sure what to expect from this series. I just sort of pick

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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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  • My Little Sister Stole My Fiancé: The Strongest Dragon Favors Me And Plans To Take Over The Kingdom? Vol. 1-10

    My Little Sister Stole My Fiancé: The Strongest Dragon Favors Me And Plans To Take Over The Kingdom? Vol. 1-10

    Harem Scale H: sometime eliana drops the ball but something typically helps her realize her error A: she IS aware that there are men vying for her attention but she does not consider it a harem as she is married. they are retainers to her R: this is primarily a romance E: nothing really more

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  • Scary Movie

    Scary Movie

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    when i was a kid this was peak comedy.now it did not age well.it’s an old style wayans brothers production, leaning heavy on racial jokes and weed jokes and dick jokes and juvenile humor all around. that’s fine, but we veer into like… transphobic territory, homophobic territory, the terrible depiction of autistic people, and just…

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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: 23/50
46%
Comics Read in 2026: 51/200
25%
Physical Owned Books Read: 470/809
58%


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