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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?…
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The Amityville Horror
28 Days of Terror in a House Possessed by Evil Spirits In December 1975, the Lutz family moved into their dream home, the same home where Ronald DeFeo had murdered his parents, brothers and sisters just one year earlier. The psychic phenomena that followed created the most terrifying experience the Lutz family had ever encountered,…
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Lout of Count’s Family Vol. 4
NEW FACES, NEW POSSIBILITIES Cale Henituse is a man more eager to top off his wine than topple his foes, but adventure always seems to find him! This time, he befriends a kind yet sheltered necromancer, an ancient gold dragon, and twin saints on the run. But the stakes rise when the fierce Tiger Tribe…
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Crime Scene Cleaner Act 2
Do me a favor and turn on this song while reading. Remy let me know the updates existed and are SUPER GOOD, so kudos to him. The Act 2 update picks up right after the end of Act 1, adding additional story alongside two new game modes: True Cleaner and Nightmare Mode. A small play…
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Who Wants to Marry a Billionaire? Vol. 1
Down on her luck and pushing 30, shut-in NEET Yuuna needs a plan to excavate herself from her mountain of debt. Fortunately, she knows just the thing: Who Wants to Marry a Billionaire, the infamous reality TV show where women compete for the right to marry into riches! She may not be the prettiest or most…
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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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They Will Kill You
A woman answers a help wanted ad to be a housekeeper in a mysterious New York City high-rise, unaware that she is entering a community that has seen a number of disappearances over the years and may be under the grip of a Satanic cult. This one is on its way to cult status, I…
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Sentenced to be a Hero
In a world where the title of Hero is treated as a punishment rather than an honor, the worst criminals are sentenced to the front lines of an endless war against the Demon Lords. Branded as Heroes, they are forced into military service without even the mercy of death, condemned to be revived and sent…
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The Ancient Magus’ Bride Season 2
Apprentice mage Chise Hatori is invited to enroll at the College, a prestigious learning institution for sorcerers, to examine and look for a way to remove the curses she bears. Despite the reluctance of her groom, Elias Ainsworth, Chise accepts the proposal, as she believes attending the school might help her minimize her self-sacrificing tendencies.…
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Goblin Slayer
Harem Scale H: GS is classical antihero. A: He does not know he has a harem, but it’s pointed out by other characters. R: Look at this bad bitch I pulled in with my autism E: Tits & Ass M: I am a sucker for the series A young priestess has formed her first adventuring…
M's Media Menagerie
Thoughtful Dumping Grounds
Trope: Tragic Backstory
Off screen, this character has gone through a lot. It’s so very sad and tragic. Used for sympathy or hardening a character.
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:
11
Menagerie Categories
- Anime (47)
- Blog (18)
- Books (100)
- Comics (39)
- Dropped (17)
- Etcetera (11)
- Game (26)
- Light Novel (15)
- Magazines (1)
- Manga (191)
- Manwha (6)
- Movies (37)
- Podcast (1)
- Webcomic (3)
- Webtoon (7)
- Zines (16)
Tagged in the Menagerie
Absolute Asshole NPC (105) Accidentally in Charge (55) A Fetish For Suffering (58) Can't Say No (90) Chekov's Gun (54) Childhood Friends (52) Curiosity Fucks You Up (86) Cursed (75) Damsel in Distress (73) Damsel in Distress (subverted) (106) Dangerous Reputation (102) Doting Husband (73) Double Identity (49) Everyone Loves MC (105) Evil Eyes & Big Heart (55) Fan Service (107) Grumpy x Sunshine (58) Hypercompetent MC (81) If You Love Them, Set Them Free (59) I Know a Guy (63) Last Minute Hero (119) Loss of Humanity (58) Main Character Coloring (86) MC's Skewed Metrics (83) Mean Boy (134) Mean Boy Love Interest (52) Modern Morals (56) Nat 20s (104) Not Actually Dead (90) Nuclear Revenge (80) OP Protag (99) Power of Friendship (88) Power of Love (79) Self-Sacrifice (76) Shock Value (53) Sympathetic Evil (73) The Moral is Community (69) Tragic Backstory (96) Twist! (62) Uniquely Skilled (98) Unreliable Narrator (58) Weird and Wacky On Purpose (92) Western-Style Fantasy (101) Wrong Place Wrong Time (73) Zero to Hero (96)
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