Trope: Summoned for Nefarious Purposes

  • Undertone

    Undertone

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    The host of a popular paranormal podcast is sent hidden messages within anonymous recordings, unleashing a demonic presence that is impossible to escape in this nerve-shredding nightmare that haunts long after the last echo fades. I expected more out of this one, especially since it managed to get a whole-ass ad episode in Radio Rental,

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  • The Death Mage Vol. 4-7

    The Death Mage Vol. 4-7

    Harem Scale H: Goes up because now he is doing hero shit. For the good of others. Forming bonds. Etc A: He is now very aware everyone wants his baby body. R: Zip. E: You can just tell from the covers, but this is tits out and heavily sexualized. M: And yet I read it.

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  • The Death Mage Vol. 1-3

    The Death Mage Vol. 1-3

    A tragedy wipes out Hiroto Amamiya’s whole class. A god suddenly appears and says he will give all of them special protection and skills before reincarnating them in a new world. But when the god makes a mistake, Hiroto goes into his new life without anything at all. Harem Scale H: Vandalieu listens to his

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  • We Speak Through the Mountain

    We Speak Through the Mountain

    The enlivening follow-up to the award-winning sensation The Annual Migration of Clouds Traveling alone through the climate-crisis-ravaged wilds of Alberta’s Rocky Mountains, 19-year-old Reid Graham battles the elements and her lifelong chronic illness to reach the utopia of Howse University. But life in one of the storied “domes” ― the last remnants of pre-collapse society

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  • No Longer Allowed in Another World Vol. 3-9

    No Longer Allowed in Another World Vol. 3-9

    ISEKAI’D BY: Truck-Kun! (this entry does not add to the total) I ended up reading all the volumes I had in a row. I enjoyed the comedy, meeting the fucked up fallen angels— and then found that there’s rewriting powers, so things get reset, except they don’t, and also Sacchan is kinda an asshole. I

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  • My Status as an Assassin Obviously Exceeds the Hero’s Season 1

    My Status as an Assassin Obviously Exceeds the Hero’s Season 1

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    Oda Akira is the kind of guy who people forget is even there. His unassuming nature pays off, though, when his entire class is swept away to a fantasy world, and he slips easily into his new role as a silent assassin. Between his suspiciously high starting stats and too many details that don’t fit,

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  • The One and Only Crystal Druid

    The One and Only Crystal Druid

    Ten years ago, I risked everything on a nameless boy. I came out the other side with a murder conviction, a prison sentence, and a minor case of amnesia. I forgot everything about that boy, and now I’m out on parole, just a nobody witch volunteering at an animal rescue and keeping a low profile.

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  • Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill Vol. 1-3

    Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill Vol. 1-3

    ISEKAI’D BY: Summoning! Mukouda Tsuyoshi was nothing special in modern Japan, so when he was summoned to a world of swordplay and sorcery, he thought he was ready for the adventure of a lifetime. Too bad the kingdom that summoned him only got him by mistake! Not only was he not one of the three

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  • Bring Her Back

    Bring Her Back

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    Following the death of their father, a brother and sister are introduced to their new sibling by their foster mother, only to learn that she has a terrifying secret. i found this while dickin around and had it in the backlog, but remy requested it so i moved it up the list for adding to

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  • Reincarnated as a Dragon Hatchling Vol. 1-7

    Reincarnated as a Dragon Hatchling Vol. 1-7

    ISEKAI’D BY: Summoning? Harem Scale H: Illusia’s moral compass is off the charts. A: He has absolutely no awareness that a bunch of cute girls (or lizards) are after him. R: No romance, period. E: Low ecchi levels. Most ecchi is costuming, and even then the costumes are mostly very reasonable. M: It’s a fun

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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: 25/50
50%
Comics Read in 2026: 80/200
40%
Physical Owned Books Read: 477/844
56%


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Absolute Asshole NPC (99) Accidentally in Charge (48) A Fetish For Suffering (54) Can't Say No (80) Chekov's Gun (51) Childhood Friends (52) Curiosity Fucks You Up (83) Cursed (71) Damsel in Distress (70) Damsel in Distress (subverted) (96) Dangerous Reputation (95) Doting Husband (69) Everyone Loves MC (98) Evil Eyes & Big Heart (53) Fan Service (102) Grumpy x Sunshine (56) Hypercompetent MC (78) If You Love Them, Set Them Free (58) I Know a Guy (56) Last Minute Hero (114) Loss of Humanity (58) Main Character Coloring (81) MC's Skewed Metrics (80) Mean Boy (130) Mean Boy Love Interest (50) Modern Morals (52) Nat 20s (98) Not Actually Dead (88) Nuclear Revenge (76) OP Protag (95) Petty Revenge (45) Power of Friendship (83) Power of Love (75) Self-Sacrifice (75) Shock Value (49) Sympathetic Evil (71) The Moral is Community (64) Tragic Backstory (89) Twist! (61) Uniquely Skilled (94) Unreliable Narrator (56) Weird and Wacky On Purpose (83) Western-Style Fantasy (95) Wrong Place Wrong Time (68) Zero to Hero (86)


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