MONSTER MUSUME: A Vida com Mulheres-Monstro

Starting with a mistaken identity and continuing with cultural differences "Monster Musume" is a surprisingly cute anime with a fresh take on the harem cliche.

Add in creative ways to squeeze in lol-worthy "Fan Service" (though it does get over the top at times), clever monster introductions to the harem (to say nothing of their interactions with each other) and you end up with a very watchable anime.

Pros:

• Good cast of characters.
• Amusing ways to give the viewers "Fan Service".
• Silly in all the best ways.
• Amusing 4th wall humor.
• "Monster Manual" style species breakdown at the end of episodes.
• Consistent animation.
• Solid soundtrack.
• Fantastic English Dubbing.
• Multiple OVA's and Specials (with English Dubbing).
• Season two confirmed this year.

Cons:

• Ecchi moments get a little over the top at times.

It's only a teasing show nothing more. I don't like how they play with the audience

Overall, this is a pretty good anime. I'd recommend it. Its definitely not for everyone. There's probably few people who are into everything that this show has to offer *cough* but if you're not into any of it at all, then you're probably not going to want to watch it.

Visuals - The animation is surprisingly fluid, and the overall direction is actually great. This show plays around with animation styles and aspect ratios, and in all seriousness has a distinct energy to its visual style. All these elements combine to make the ecchi fun that more effective. My only complaint with the visuals would be that for some reason the protagonist has no pupils most of the time. Its not even a bad thing, and you get used to it, but its just a bit odd.

Characters - While these aren't the greatest written characters on the planet, I've got to say that they are actually fairly well written. Except for maybe one or two characters, I can't think of any that fit into any of your typical anime archetypes. Not that I can tell, anyways, and I'm fairly familiar with most of them. Even the protagonist isn't your typical blank slate audience surrogate that you get in these types of shows a lot of the time. He probably could've used a bit more development, and we could've gotten more information on him, but he's still a character.

World - I don't have a lot to say about the actual story, as there isn't really any ongoing narrative. Every episode has its own thing going on and overall the show is mainly a slice of life structure. The world building is actually pretty good for the most part. There are some things that they could've focused on that they didn't (although most of the things I can think of would just become irrelevant). I like the effort put into creating all these different types of monsters and how this world functions. (At the very end of every episode there is a short title screen giving some extra info on certain species that also helps with this.)

This anime was a lot better than I was expecting and I am looking forward to a season 2 if there is one.

This show is the first anime I ever loved and have since been watching many others just like this one. I'm a sucker for romance and this show has all the romance I could ask to see. The characters are great and the setting is cool for a harem series. I really wished that something similar to this could have happened in reality where one guy has to house a bunch of women and they all fall in love with him. It's a shame that this is all fiction but it's my kind of fiction to enjoy for the rest of my life. I'm great full to have stumbled upon this show and the many others that are quite similar to it.

Here is my 3/10 mangaupdates review for the manga and the anime is a direct adaptation: Fellow reviewer Dickegrobe already said all with his assent that the series has been assembled with a manga construction kit for beginners so i will keep the actual critique short and focus on what should be read instead. The avatar MC is the typical virgin wimp who gets all the "women" due to a deus-ex-machina as this is how porno/harem works while the readers objects of attraction are a quirky girl next door (the snake), a Yamato Nadeshiko (the horse), a tomboy (the bird), a bisexual temptress (the spider) and a Rei clone may have joined the cast too but i can't care to check as i won't waste any more of my time with this circle jerk nonsense that preaches friendship at first and to then give you random lesbian SM sex next. Harem is further a dead waste 99,5% of the time and the deconstructive Sayonara Zetsubou-Sensei (9/10) should be the final word on it. A real romance would be Kids on the Slope (10/10) or Mars (10/10) while the satirical Love in Hell (8/10) proves that even ecchi can have it's place in the world. The Eisner winning Saga (10/10) by Image actually bother to have explicit man on beast-woman action in-between the gore and social commentary so even mock bestiality can work. So why does this sell again? Oh right the manga started out the exact same time a certain pony show got big on the web and thus filled a void in the marketplace so have fun with the copycats as even the author started a "spin-off". It may be minimally more readable do to less sexism while having better character designs but Okayado is now dead to me and i have my hopes up that a real mangaka will step in at some point to deconstruct the beast girls phenomenon as it grew out of control. Have fun with the unenviable Tenchi ending after 20+ volumes of vapid and unerotic nothing if you care to stick around or read porn by let's say Tanaka Yutaka instead.