Opening Songs
OP 1 - Saikōsoku Fall in Love (Sora Amamiya, Ari Ozawa, Natsuki Aikawa, Haruka Yamazaki, Mayuka Nomura)
Ending Songs
ED 1 - Hey! Smith!! (Smith With MON)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Supernatural
Episodes: 12
Regular harems aren't enough anymore. That sentence must have been what the author of "Monster Musume" thought of before he started writing and illustrating the story. That sentence...might just save us all from the mundane normality of everyday harem romcoms that flood the already harem jam packed seasons of anime that we get from time to time. The amount of romance/comedy harems we get nowadays is pretty insane, and the thing is: most of them don't try to be different or deviate from the formula that much. Honestly, "Monster Musume" doesn't try to be too different from a writing/story standpoint, but when it comes to its characters, you've never quite seen a harem like it. Introducing the concept of a regular harems but with monster girls as its main heroines, "Monster Musume" ends up being one of the most insane guilty pleasures of the year....at least for me. With brilliant amounts of fan service and wildly varied subspecies of monster girls with different personalities...what's not to like? I haven't been particularly impressed by fan service heavy romcoms in quite awhile...this might be the one to bring me back.
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| Convenient cencoring... |
The opening theme is "Saikosoku Fall In Love" by the 5 seiyuus of the 5 main heroines in the show. As the name suggests, its a fast cute-sy song that features all of the 5 heroines trying to sound as cute as they can. Its honestly a pretty bland song since its been done better in many other shows before it. The ending theme, "Hey! Smith!!" is pretty much the same thing, this time with another set of seiyuus for another set of girls from the show, though in the ending theme's case, its at least a little bit more "sexy" and has more of a dance track feel to it, which is pretty cool.
Rating: 8.0/10
I'll be honest when I say that this is indeed one of my favorite guilty pleasures of the year. I enjoyed "Monster Musume" a lot more than I should have, but you know, I don't regret watching it, not at all. Its silly, its pervertic, but most importantly, its so fun to watch. Its a lot like "To Love Ru", its pointless, senseless and shameless, but there are also no regrets going in. "Monster Musume" introduces a ton of interesting and unique characters that aren't quite like anything you've seen in other harems. Of course, they're monster girls, and they come in so many different shapes and sizes that its ridiculous. Its because they're so distinctively unique in their appearance that they have their own unique sets of problems, preferences, and personality disorders...unlike normal girls in other shows with their own stereotypical personalities, its quite interesting, to see these girls based on generic monster types interact with a generic harem main character. Fan service is pretty grope-ish but if you're okay with that, its actually damned good. Its decently funny when it needs to be, and the show progressively introduces new monster/girl types, which is what it does best.
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| Death for a snake lady's boobies? ...Sure, I'll take it. |
Kimihito is a regular salary man in an age where monsters blend in with human society. Because of the exchange program being introduced to the monsters, some of them will have to live with humans in their homes, with the humans being hosts for them. As a host, Kimihito houses a lamia known as Mia, who is crazily in love with him. Being a host, he is bound by a certain set of rules and regulations, he is also constantly being visited by his adviser, a woman by the name of Smith. Because Smith's job is to constantly find hosts for new monsters, and Kimihito is one of the most exploitable of her clients, she constantly dumps new monster girls for him to host. Add on to the other girls that Kimihito accidentally picks up on his daily adventures outside, and before he knew it, he started having a crap ton of different monster species living in his home, each with their own sets of requirements and demands. Thus begins the life of his own monster harem, and boy, things aren't going to look pretty for him.
"Monster Musume" is probably one of the most interesting harems in a long time. The concept of monster girls is just so crazy and interesting, plus, the way that everything was executed was done so extremely well. I sincerely hope we'll be getting more of "Monster Musume", because normal harems...may not be enough for me anymore.
