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Abu-Normal Vol 1-8
Eiko Abu, 29 years old and single. She divides everything in the world into two categories: “normal” or “not normal.” In her quest for normalcy, her obsession slowly destroys the relationships she had built. What is normal? What is abnormal? Logic is questioned and normalcy challenged in this psychological suspense. I just read 77 chapters…
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Shoresy Season 5
This was a good season.After season 4’s stick slap to the ice ending, it’s been on my mind endlessly. This season’s “winning culture” ideal has been rotating like fucking tacos al pastor in my brain since I watched it. Shoresy made a strong coach, making a case for bringing hockey back to the traditional core…
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Isekai Office Worker: The Other World’s Books Depend on the Bean Counter
Seiichirou Kondou gets caught up in a summoning ritual and is transported to a parallel world called Romany Kingdom. Having worked day and night, he demands a job and joins the Royal Accounting Department. After narrowly surviving a tonic’s deadly side effects with the aid of magic, Seiichirou entrusts himself to Aresh, captain of the…
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Awkward
Cardinal rule #1 for surviving school: Don’t get noticed by the mean kids. Cardinal rule #2 for surviving school: Seek out groups with similar interests and join them. On her first day at her new school, Penelope–Peppi–Torres reminds herself of these basics. But when she trips into a quiet boy in the hall, Jaime Thompson,…
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Lights Out
The viral TikTok stalker dark romance, burning with high heat, hilarious banter, and a love story like you’ve never seen before. Can you handle the ride? I want someone with a soul as black as night. Someone who would burn the world down for me and not lose a single minute of sleep over it.…
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Follow Her Down
The hunt is on.Sera Vale stalks her tormentor.Men stalk Sera.And somewhere in the dark, a killer waits. Will this be Sera Vale’s final unmaking? That depends. She’s not running. She’s collecting—tools, weapons, worshippers.They bow to her.Crave her.Kill for her.Follow her down, even to hell. Her monsters aren’t just lovers.They’re trophies.They’re jewels in her bloody crown.…
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Trashed
Every week we pile our garbage on the curb and it disappears–like magic! The reality is anything but, of course. Trashed, Derf Backderf’s follow-up to the critically acclaimed, award-winning international bestseller My Friend Dahmer, is an ode to the crap job of all crap jobs–garbage collector. Anyone who has ever been trapped in a soul-sucking…
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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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Backstabbed in a Backwater Dungeon: My Party Tried to Kill Me, But Thanks to an Infinite Gacha I Got LVL 9999 Friends and Am Out for Revenge Vol. 1-9
Harem Scale H: MC is sufficiently heroic but is kind of sadistic. A: Very aware of the women always being like That. R: Ignores all of it. E: Entirely for the male gaze. Just look at the covers. M: I got invested enough in the plot and the revenge stuff. A kid named Light is…
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The 100th Time’s the Charm: She Was Executed 99 Times, So How Did She Unlock Super Love Mode?! Vol. 01-04
Super Love Mode is actually the ability to read minds because every death stockpiled all the mana of one life into the next, over and over and over. It was actually quite amusing but not thoroughly ground-breaking.
M's Media Menagerie
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Trope: Petty Revenge
Revenge that makes the main character feel catharsis and inconveniences the evildoer in some way. It is a small way for the main character to move forward.
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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- Anime (52)
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- Comics (39)
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- Game (27)
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- Manga (201)
- Manwha (6)
- Movies (38)
- Podcast (2)
- Webcomic (3)
- Webtoon (7)
- Zines (19)
Tagged in the Menagerie
Absolute Asshole NPC (112) Accidentally in Charge (59) A Fetish For Suffering (63) Can't Say No (101) Chekov's Gun (59) Childhood Friends (54) Curiosity Fucks You Up (90) Cursed (79) Damsel in Distress (80) Damsel in Distress (subverted) (111) Dangerous Reputation (112) Doting Husband (78) Double Identity (54) Everyone Loves MC (109) Evil Eyes & Big Heart (56) Fan Service (116) Grumpy x Sunshine (60) Hypercompetent MC (88) If You Love Them, Set Them Free (62) I Know a Guy (71) Last Minute Hero (128) Loss of Humanity (60) Main Character Coloring (91) MC's Skewed Metrics (93) Mean Boy (140) Mean Boy Love Interest (56) Modern Morals (59) Nat 20s (112) Not Actually Dead (96) Nuclear Revenge (85) OP Protag (101) Power of Friendship (93) Power of Love (86) Self-Sacrifice (82) Shock Value (59) Sympathetic Evil (78) The Moral is Community (77) Tragic Backstory (100) Twist! (64) Uniquely Skilled (101) Unreliable Narrator (60) Weird and Wacky On Purpose (99) Western-Style Fantasy (107) Wrong Place Wrong Time (76) Zero to Hero (104)
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