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REVIEW: Monster Musume GN 1 & 2

I've... been cheating a bit on this one, reading ahead on scanlations, and so far, that means another addition to the harem (though she's a bit more subtle and ambigious about her attraction than the other girls.)

I like this manga, but I have some problems with it.

1. The whole thing where the girls -- yes, there are also supposedly male monster people, but I've yet to actually meet any of them -- aren't allowed to move outside on their own outside of special cases. This creates a bit of an iffy undertone of dominance, even if this male lead is kind of a pushover in this case. While this makes sense in SOME cases; like, sadly, Miia, who is prone to lashing out at people for being rude, and severely hurting her host on several cases. But it creates this situation where the monster people are completely at the mercy of their hosts' whims. Sure, it's also illegal to abuse the monster people, but if that's the case, I would very much have liked seeing what happened to spoiler[Rachnera's host family, who sold her to a rather despicable excuse for a man].

2. Why did they have to make it a harem? This is one case where I would have welcomed the ridiculousness of so and so many identical brothers somehow finding themselves subliminal girlfriends, like in Oyakado's former work whom I'm pretty sure played a large part in the creation of Monster Musume; the "Living with..." series.

Come to think of it, I do remember male monster people; the orcs/pig men in one of the side stories centered around the all-female SWAT-ish team of special agents. That was a fun little distraction that I hope the manga uses more often in the future. spoiler[Their dealings with the stalker case and the presumably addition to the harem aside.]

Oh, and Meroune's fetish is hilarious. The next upcoming volume did a great joke reference on "My Little Mermaid" centered around that fetish, which got a good laugh out of me.

Nah, furries like fully furred animals that take on bipedal stances and gain human digits. Monster girls are more of a mix with more human features, several of them straight out of different mythologies. You wouldn't normally think of a centaur or a mermaid as a furry.

The "broader definition" makes any Spice and Wolf fan into a furry, then. It even means a playboy bunny outfit applies. I disagree, furries have animal-like faces to me, like a muzzle or snout.

The "broader definition" makes any Spice and Wolf fan into a furry, then. It even means a playboy bunny outfit applies. I disagree, furries have animal-like faces to me, like a muzzle or snout.

@enurtsol

That and suddenly labeling the book in one category just because it might disgust or disturb you is something we shouldn't do in our own community. We've got outsiders/ politicians to judge us for that. To each their own bro/sis.