M's Media Menagerie

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Trope: Pervert Joke Character

This character only exists to ogle others and make perverse jokes about people. They’re often used as an excuse for fan service, as the main character will be too righteous to dare peek on a changing room. Or. They lure the main character to the dark side…

Back Street Girls Vol. 1-3

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Would you give up being human—or would you become… an idol? A trio of yakuza achieve the impossible and debut as idols—and become a big hit to boot! Under the guidance of their fiendish and overcontrolling boss, three former yakuza men undergo a complete makeover and debut as the back street girl idols “Gokudols.” In
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The Phantom of the Opera

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Drama, Musical, Rock Opera, Romance

I finally watched it in its entirety!
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Happy Gilmore 2

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Comedy

Happy Gilmore, mourning the loss of his wife and without the funds to provide for his daughter’s opportunity to train as a ballet dancer in France, returns to golf and fights surgically modified super-golfers in a high-speed golf tournament while struggling with his alcoholism and self-hate. That’s the best summary I got and it’s really
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Assassination Classroom Vol. 1-21

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In the blink of an eye, the night sky is forever changed when, with a great explosion, the moon is blasted into a permanent crescent. Confronting the governments of the world, a yellow tentacled monster boasts that it was the one responsible for the catastrophe, and in a year’s time, it will do the same
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I’m Not Meat Vol. 1-3

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Harem Scale H: Kunio does the bare minimum of heroism; he’s generally the victim here. A: This dude has terrible luck and is the prey of a bunch of carnivores. R: He’s in love, though, he legit falls in love. E: Maybe I should have put a 5 for ecchi. It’s JUST short of hentai.
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Welcome to Demon School Iruma-Kun Season 3

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Action, Comedy, Isekai, Shounen

I feel like with every season, this show gets even better and the budget goes absolutely nuts. (spoiler videos) This season is mostly the Harvest Festival, but he do have some training montage stuff in the beginning where Iruma finally learns how to fight! Bachiko is a fun character, and we spend more time developing
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Welcome to Demon School Iruma-Kun Season 2

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Comedy, Fantasy, Isekai, Shounen

Here’s a list of tropes I’m adding because of this season: Granted some of these would have been fine to add before but it just hit me like a truck this time. This season we get to see more of the class— when Iruma has his evil cycle, he puts them purposefully into the spotlight.
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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:

10

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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