Monster Musume has some of the grossest art I've come across. The characters are shallow, dumb, and clichéd, and the plot ignores all the plot potential of such a universe and settles instead on plot the same old well-worn harem route. The only inspired thing about it is the fact that it's about a harem of fantasy creatures instead of moeblobs.
#MONSTER MUSUME HENTAI CENTAUR MANGA FULL#
They've had a bad habit of leaving in honorifics and such untranslated, so I'll take full translated puns over 'fu fu fu.' The sad thing is that this is actually an improvement on much of what I've seen from Seven Seas before. The only other attempt at comedy comes from the translation, which is chock-a-block with lame, groan-inducing puns. She's meant to be comic relief, but the attempts at comedy are just as lame as the romance. She's there to spout exposition as needed and to torment Kurusu while mooching off of him.
They are all brought together by Agent Plot Device, better known as Ms. Miia is horny and jealous, Papi speaks in the third person, mixes up words, and barely can keep a thought in her head, and Centorina speaks like a LARPer trying too hard. Those couple of descriptors I used in the Plot section? Yeah, that's all the character development any of them get.
So there you go - he's a master groper!Īnyway! Back to the characters! The girls surrounding Kurusu are just as dull and plain as him. Oh wait, I forgot the one thing Kurusu does that keeps them near: he gropes them! Apparently regardless of species, the easiest way to win a liminal's heart is to grope her breasts until she achieves orgasm. Nope, all it takes to get into their pants is a few 'please's and 'thank you's, garnished with a few generic words about friendship, and all the while the girls will be so amazed because NO ONE has ever been THIS NICE to them in their ENTIRE LIVES! As with so many elements of the harem genre, it's just another form of wish-fulfillment for guys who have never had a relationship with anyone that wasn't a hug pillow, for those who want all the rewards of female affection without making any sort of effort to attract or ensnare them beyond the barest of human decency. These girls are never drawn to the guy because they share some personal interest, share a mutual lust for one another, or because the guy is particularly smart, talented, or charming. Forgive me for launching into a rant, but I will never understand for the life of me why the foundation of so many harems seems to be unspecific, superficial courtesy. He has no personality whatsoever, being only mildy nervous and mildly pervy, who someone wins all these girls over by his stunning ability to be generically nice. Kurusu is one of the blandest harem leads you'll see on the shelves, which says a lot considering the towering examples of boredom the genre is known for. Why are all the liminals women? Why does a snake girl even NEED panties? Where do all these species come from - are they all from the same place, or different nations? Do they come from Earth or some other dimension or planet? Why do the vast majority have boobs bigger than their heads? There are just so many questions, all of which will never go answered because the mangaka is far more interested in having monster girls take off their tops and hump some dull stand-in of a man. There are so many questions I have about this universe, all of which go completely unanswered. It's one of the trashiest manga I've ever read. Monster Musume achieves something remarkable in its ability to scrape the very bottom of the harem genre all while achieving gross new heights in blatant fanservice. I have seen my fair share of fanservice-heavy manga before, as well as my fair share of harem series, and my expectations for both remain remarkably low.
At least, that's what Kurusu thought, so what's this about using him as a test-run for human-liminal marriage?! All of them come to love Kurusu, but the treaty forbids Kurusu from acting on any impure thoughts. Along the way, Kurusu takes in the child-like, ditzy harpy Papi as well as the proud, formal centaur Centorina.
As part of an exchange program, Kurusu has taken in Miia, a lamia (half-snake) girl who is as clingy as she is lustful. A few years back, humanity and liminals (half-animal women) came to an accord, and now the monster girls of every shape and size have incorporated into human society, with legal rights and protections of their own. Kurusu Kimihito is an ordinary boy (aren't they always?) living in an extraordinary world.