The popularity of monster girls has never been higher, and now there’s a new anime exploring not only the fantasy of having a harem of cute snake girls, centaurs, cyclops girls, minotaurs, mermaids, bird girls, and arach-neesans, but “playing doctor” with them. The anime is called Monster Musume no Oishi-san, or Monster Girl Doctor, based on a light novel series by Origuchi Yoshino. Let’s take a look!
Many years ago, humans and mamono (magical creatures) fought a great war spanning 100 years, but now peace has come and the two groups have learned to live together. In a town named Lindworm, a human doctor named Dr. Litbeit Glenn runs a medical clinic for magical creatures, assisted by his lamia assistant Saphentite Sapphee. Together they diagnose the medical conditions of the various monster girls in the town.
Since this is a harem anime, you won’t be surprised that the day-to-day life of Dr. Glenn usually involves sexy situations. No matter what part of a monster girl the doctor touches, it seems to elicit a sexy moan from his patient. Naturally, every girl around the doctor is in love with him and trying to find a way to get him to marry them, though he is well-guarded by Sapphee.
The anime is being handled by Arvo, the studio that brought us Bokuben, and is directed by Yoshiaki Iwasaki, who’s worked on Bokuben, Hayate no Gotoku!! and Love Hina in the past. Definitely, the quality of the anime has been very satisfying so far, and I’ll certainly keep watching.
I guess the only two questions for Monster Girl Doctor will be, how slice-of-life-y will it be (in other words, will each episode be pretty much the same, or is there an overarching plot that will kick in), and which monster girl will become the favorite “seasonal waifu” of fans? So far my money is on the snake girl.
What is the Appeal of Monster Girls?
While the monster girl genre exploded with the popularity of Monster Musume no Iru Nichijou, the overall genre of 萌え擬人化 moe gijin-ka — creating moe personifications of non-human characters — been getting popular slowly over time, helped along by early 2000’s hits like Bincho-tan (an anime about a girl who is literally a piece of charcoal) and of course artist Fumikane Shimada’s moe-fiction of WWII mecha.
Here are five innovative takes on the monster girl genre from anime and games that represented big turning points for the genre.
Rosario + Vampire was a fun anime and manga about a human boy who accidentally gets sent to a boarding school for vampires, succubuses and other yokai monsters. While the anime was mostly sexy fanservice, a lot of J-List’s Twitter followers are adamant that this show deserves a full reboot with a story closer to the manga. What do you think?
Non-human waifus don’t have to be monster girls. They can be…canned drinks, as in 2009’s Akikan! in which a mild-mannered high school boy ends up with a harem of girls who have transformed from melon soda and other canned drinks.
If you’re looking for a well-written and thoughtful monster girl show, I can’t recommend Interviews with Monster Girls enough. It’s a story of a high school teacher who’s concerned with the education of his monster girl students, and it’s adorable. I love the way they go into details like, what social systems would a country need to serve the needs of non-human citizens (for example, the vampire girl gets her blood shipped to her via a government program).
An innovative game that really got fans wanting to marry a monster girl was Princess X: My Fiancee is a Monster Girl?! game by Cyc, and the follow-up fan disc Fiancees Forever. Both games are great!
And of course, the most influential monster musume anime in years, Interspecies Reviewers, a show about characters in a fantasy world who go “adventuring” to brothels, where they try to have sex with every kind of monster girl that exists, then write Amazon-style reviews of them. And we’ve got good news! The second Ishuzoku Reviewers Blu-ray set is out, and we’ve got a review of it for you!
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