

It’s also confident enough to push those harem jokes far and the personalities of the cast allow them to do so without it ever getting too weird. It is particularly good at snappy visual jokes, especially when they involve the slime girl character Suu.

The show gets a lot of mileage out of the monster-related jokes and mixes these in with more familiar ecchi harem shenanigans. Kimihito is a straightforward harem character, a helpful and friendly guy who wants the best for the girls, yet is also very overwhelmed by their energy and romantic interest in him.

Monster Musume is really solid in the comedic department. I was happy when I picked up that manga years ago and I was even happier in 2015 when I learned we were getting an anime version of it. These are designs that are instantly recognizable and very appealing. Miia is a snake girl with a lower body that is meters long, Papi is an excitable but ditzy harpy, Centorea a proud centaur knight whose sword has been exchanged with a prop out of safety concerns, and there are more additions to the cast later down the line.Įach character is fantastically designed, made to look cute and sexy, but also have a humorous side to them. He is to take care of a growing number of people, all of them famous fantasy monsters turned into cute anime girls. Monster Musume takes place in a world where humans and monsters are learning to coexist, so an exchange program is set up that main character Kimihito accidentally becomes a part of. I would have skipped it then, were it not for the character design that immediately grabbed my attention. I found its manga online, read the tags and description, and really didn’t think it was for me.

I remember coming across Monster Musume a long time ago.
