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Kaya-Chan Isn’t Scary Vol. 1-4
Kaya-chan is a notorious problem child in her kindergarten, but none of the adults know her secret–till Chie-sensei is put in charge and learns of Kaya-chan’s hidden ability to see evil spirits and vanquish them with a punch! What will happen to this five-year-old who gets in trouble when she’s only trying to help? I’ve…
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Blood on the Tracks
Seiichi Osabe is just a normal if not insular 14-year-old boy with a beautiful, loving mother and a hardworking father. The bond between him and his mother is iron-clad, but when an accident involving his cousin sows the seeds of doubt in his head, Seiichi begins to question whether his mother’s doting nature is normal,…
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My Evil Husband is Obsessed With the Wrong Person
Getting reincarnated into the world of a novel is never easy, but possessing a doomed bride on her way down the aisle to marry a murderous emperor is just unfair! Now, the newly reincarnated Angelica has no choice but to learn to survive the whims of her new husband, Emperor Ranielo… Well, at least until…
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Before You Discard Me, I Shall Have My Way With You Vol 1-4
Agnès is engaged to the crown prince, but much to her dismay, he declares that their engagement is off. Since the prince will not return her love, Agnès decides that she must do what is necessary to protect her family and herself. She commits an unfathomable act, but surprisingly, the prince becomes fixated on her!…
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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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Backrooms
Well this thing is an essay waiting to happen (written probably by someone else).
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Archive 81 Season 1
Archive 81 is a found footage horror podcast about ritual, stories, and sound. It has released three seasons and two miniseries, with more to come. I don’t know that I like Archive 81 so far. I like that it questions the idea of the listener as just an observer, or a participant in a story.…
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The God-Slaying Demon King Vol. 1-4
After centuries of war between demons, the world was finally united under the overwhelming power of Hiram, the strongest demon king in history. No demon could match him, but even the mightiest king can not so easily defeat a god. When Hiram defied the demon god, he and the deity engaged in days of fierce…
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Boy Meets Maria
Taiga dreams of becoming an actor, so the first thing he does upon entering high school is join the drama club. There, he meets the beautiful, enigmatic Maria and immediately falls in love with her. Not long after, Taiga is told that she is actually a boy–but is that all there is to Maria’s story?…
M's Media Menagerie
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Trope: Shock Value
Something was done just to get a reaction from the audience, usually very viscerally gross or offensive.
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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- Manga (208)
- Manwha (6)
- Movies (38)
- Podcast (2)
- Webcomic (3)
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- Zines (23)
Tagged in the Menagerie
Absolute Asshole NPC (117) Accidentally in Charge (60) A Fetish For Suffering (66) Can't Say No (107) Chekov's Gun (61) Conveniently Cut-Off (57) Curiosity Fucks You Up (92) Cursed (82) Damsel in Distress (84) Damsel in Distress (subverted) (114) Dangerous Reputation (117) Doting Husband (80) Double Identity (57) Everyone Loves MC (112) Evil Eyes & Big Heart (57) Fan Service (119) Grumpy x Sunshine (62) Hypercompetent MC (91) If You Love Them, Set Them Free (65) I Know a Guy (75) Last Minute Hero (131) Loss of Humanity (61) Main Character Coloring (97) MC's Skewed Metrics (95) Mean Boy (144) Mean Boy Love Interest (59) Modern Morals (60) Nat 20s (117) Not Actually Dead (101) Nuclear Revenge (88) OP Protag (103) Power of Friendship (97) Power of Love (89) Self-Sacrifice (84) Shock Value (62) Sympathetic Evil (82) The Moral is Community (80) Tragic Backstory (101) Twist! (66) Uniquely Skilled (104) Unreliable Narrator (61) Weird and Wacky On Purpose (101) Western-Style Fantasy (111) Wrong Place Wrong Time (77) Zero to Hero (107)
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