Trope: Western-Style Fantasy

  • 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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  • The Adventure Zone #3: Petals to the Metal

    The Adventure Zone #3: Petals to the Metal

    START YOUR ENGINES, friends, as we hit the road again with Taako, Magnus and Merle, the beloved agents of chaos from the #1 New York Times Bestselling books The Adventure Zone: Here There Be Gerblins and The Adventure Zone: Murder on the Rockport Limited. Our boys have gone full-time at the Bureau of Balance, and…

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  • The Adventure Zone #2: Murder on the Rockport Limited!

    The Adventure Zone #2: Murder on the Rockport Limited!

    In the second Adventure Zone graphic novel (adapted from the McElroy family’s wildly popular D&D podcast), we rejoin hero-adjacent sort-of-comrades-in-arms Taako, Magnus, and Merle on a wild careen through a D&D railroad murder mystery. This installment has a little of everything: a genius child detective, an axe-wielding professional wrestler, a surly wizard, cursed magical artifacts,…

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  • Because I, the True Saint, was Banished, that Country is Done For! #1-3

    Round and cute with a lot of low stake plot points. I mean, not for the country she left— they’re having a whole other problem— but for the Saint, she’s just having cute little day-to-day slice of life adventures. Like feeding a giant dog, or going on a date. There’s kind of some plot, but…

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  • The Ancient Magus’ Bride

    The Ancient Magus’ Bride

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    Chise Hatori was a child nobody wanted. Told by her own mother that she should never have been born and passed from one neglectful guardian to the next, the young girl has grown up feeling lost, hopeless, and emotionally numb. At age fifteen she sells herself into slavery, desperate for a home where somebody –…

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  • The Barbarian’s Bride #5

    The Barbarian’s Bride #5

    We NEED more MEN to be NAKED in this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! god DMANAIT Anyway, very masculine as always. Talking dragons are interesting. We have a fucking C-section to do as well. I like the series at least and the author admits in this one they’re just throwing their fetishes out in this as well so. At least…

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  • The 31st Consort Vol 2-3

    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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  • The Dark History of the Reincarnated Villainess Season 1

    The Dark History of the Reincarnated Villainess Season 1

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    ISEKAI’D BY: Truck-Kun! Konoha Satou has a dark history. After all, she spent her teen years writing self-indulgent fantasy romance fics-like her Dark History. But since she’s become its most despicable villainess, remembering every last detail is now a matter of life-and-death. Having avoided the first couple of death flags, Satou’s suddenly left in the…

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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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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: 29/50
58%
Comics Read in 2026: 99/200
48%
Physical Owned Books Read: 485/848
57%


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Absolute Asshole NPC (104) Accidentally in Charge (53) A Fetish For Suffering (56) Can't Say No (87) Chekov's Gun (53) Childhood Friends (52) Curiosity Fucks You Up (86) Cursed (74) Damsel in Distress (71) Damsel in Distress (subverted) (103) Dangerous Reputation (100) Doting Husband (73) Double Identity (48) Everyone Loves MC (104) Evil Eyes & Big Heart (54) Fan Service (106) Grumpy x Sunshine (56) Hypercompetent MC (79) If You Love Them, Set Them Free (59) I Know a Guy (61) Last Minute Hero (117) Loss of Humanity (58) Main Character Coloring (85) MC's Skewed Metrics (81) Mean Boy (131) Mean Boy Love Interest (50) Modern Morals (55) Nat 20s (103) Not Actually Dead (90) Nuclear Revenge (78) OP Protag (98) Power of Friendship (87) Power of Love (78) Self-Sacrifice (76) Shock Value (51) Sympathetic Evil (72) The Moral is Community (69) Tragic Backstory (91) Twist! (62) Uniquely Skilled (97) Unreliable Narrator (56) Weird and Wacky On Purpose (90) Western-Style Fantasy (100) Wrong Place Wrong Time (71) Zero to Hero (93)


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