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Daily Life With Monster Girl is a manga written by Pixiv artist Takemaru "Okayado" Inui about Kimihito Kurusu and the monster girls he is hosting, a lamia named Miia, a harpy named Papi, a centaur named Centaurea (AKA Cerea), a slime named Suu, a mermaid named Meroune, and an arachne named Rachnera. And this group's only getting bigger.

Three years ago, the government revealed the existence of monsters to the world and began working to integrate the two societies. Just like human cultural exchange programs, some humans have been sent to live with monsters, while some monsters are now living with humans. Due to an error, Miia ended up at Kimihito's house by mistake, but her case worker is too lazy to fix it. Over time, Miia ended up falling for Kimihito, but due to the laws governing the cultural exchange program, if they ever consummate their relationship, she'll be sent back to her own country.

Things get even more complicated when the other girls arrive...

This series has a wiki. Proceed with caution as it contains spoilers.

And there is good news for English-speaking countries; Seven Seas Entertainment has licensed the series under the title Monster Musume. You can find the article here.

This manga is a Bleached Underpants work based on the author's previous online hentai manga shorts, Living with Monster Girl. This page is for the former only.

Now has a character page that is sure to need love as time goes on.

For Okayado's other works with monster girls, see Deadline Summonner and 12 Beast.

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This manga provides examples of:

• Accidental Marriage: Centaurs have strict rules about only letting one's "master" ride on their backs. Naturally, Kimihito finds this out right after he spends most of chapter 4 riding Centorea.
• Adorkable: Meroune.
  • Centaurea has her moments, too.
• All Myths Are True: All monsters, at the very least.
• Author Avatar: In a bonus chapter for chapter 8, the author is portrayed as a hermit crab.
• Badass Normal: Kimihito Kurusu. He's your average human, and he's not afraid of punching or standing up to people both older and bigger than him if you so much as insult a monster girl while he's around.
• Beauty Equals Goodness: So far, the biggest jerkasses of the manga are the racist couple, the director, and the orc gang. And none of them are pleasant to look at.
  • Averted by Rachnera's initial host family. They look like fairly normal decent people, but they sold her off because she wasn't what they were expecting.
• Bleached Underpants: As noted in the description, most of the well-known Monster Girl works are far more explicit.
• A Bloody Mess: In chapter 6, Kimihito was at the fridge when the girls caught-up and rammed into him. In the aftermath they saw him lying on the ground with the splattered ketchup thinking it was his blood.
• Bullying a Dragon: After being offered help by Rachnera, the Director tells her that she has no right to be high and mighty when he's the one who can make money off of her webbing, and that she should keep it in one place not all over the building. She proceeds to encase him in webbing.
• Can't Have Sex, Ever: Not without Miia (and later, Papi) getting kicked out of the country, anyway. Note that real-life exchange programs usually have that policy. This on the fast track to the land of subverted tropes as of the end of chapter five, though. Kimihito has been made into the guinea pig of a new amendment to the exchange program allowing interspecies marriages, presumably rendering the rule invalid.
• Crash into Hello: How Kimihito first meets Centaurea, where they even lampshade it.
  • His meeting with Meroune also goes something like this. Kimihito plucks her from her runaway wheelchair and ends up smashed between her and a pole during their first encounter.
• Crapsaccharine World: The first chapter lays out a pretty optimistic view of the world, but also lays out subtle indications that things are not quite as happy as they seem. The exchange program's been a "huge success", various extraspecies have been able to integrate well with human society, and it didn't really change the world much. The exchange laws are noted to be full of loopholes. While either humans or extraspecies harming each other would punish one side or the other, this simply leads to people from both sides to abuse the law to their own advantages while also being protected because they haven't technically harmed someone, and the legally permitted penalties are so absurdly negligible that the orc leader points out that all he'd get for what amounts to a terrorist attack is community service. If an extraspecies is found away from their host they are the one in violation of the laws even if the reason for it is something like being sold off to someone else, with no mention of any penalties to the host for the separation. While extraspecies along the lines of cat girls have integrated well, to the point of being celebrities in some cases, the "various" successes do not apparently included the more monstrous variants like most of the girls living with Kimihito as racism toward them is shown repeatedly and it's noted that most places are not built with non-humanoids in mind, chapter 15 implying that his home is one of the only places that is.
• Cute Monster Girl: It's in the name, folks.
• Ecchi: There is topless nudity and lots of fanservice, but nothing more racy than that.
• Fantastic Racism: Towards the monster girls. And if they retaliate, they get kicked out of the country. Though in fairness, it goes both ways.
• Fish out of Water: The world (extra-species and humans) is experiencing this thanks to the fantastic Culture Clash. It is particularly harder for non-humanoid species in human cities (justified because humans never had experienced having centaurs, mermaids and arachnes as fellow citizens, so the cities aren't adapted (yet) to them).
• Gag Boobs: Miia and Centaurea. Gets lampshaded where both call each other on their bust size.
• Gratuitous English: The English subtitle below the series' Kanji says "Everyday that there is a monster girls."
• Harem: By chapter 4 there is a Lamia, a harpy, and a centaur, all living with one guy. It's explicitly referenced in chapter 6 by one of the girls. Chapter 8 adds a Slime girl by popular demand, and chapter 10 adds a Mermaid using the same method. Chapter 15 also adds an Arachne.
• Genre Savvy: The Crash into Hello above? Centaurea believes all stories in Japan have their true love met this way, particularly if they are eating a piece of toast. This is a common staple in animé.
• Harping On About Harpies
• Immodest Orgasm: And before you're even ten pages into the story, too.
• Intimate Healing: In Chapter 13, many of the ladies' suggestions to help Kimihito get over his cold tend to degrade towards this. In the end, what actually works is another example: Suu gives him filtered water out of her body, by breastfeeding him.
• Kick the Son of a Bitch: So you think you're safe from doing wrong to monster girls just because of an exploitable protection law? Kimihito would like to prove you otherwise.
• Knights Of Cerebus: The Orcs seem to be this in chapter 11, though if so they are an unusually silly example. Time will tell if the manga stays on this road.
  • Rachnera at the end of chapter 14. Considering her surprisingly frightening appearance, and her first action being tying up the director in silk, she is, as of now, FAR less silly than the orcs. Chapter 15 reveals that, while she's a decent, though bitter, person, things are not quite so peaceful with some exchange families. She was sold off to be used by the director simply because the family she was assigned to wasn't expecting something like an Arachne as, as has been seen since the first chapter, the media typically only shows off much more humanoid extraspecies like cat girls.
• Little Bit Beastly: All the girls shown during the 1st chapter, where the newsreporter states that the program was a "huge success" and that the world hasn't changed much from it. It explains quite a lot about what happens to our poor protagonists, who don't fit into this category in the slightest.
• Loophole Abuse: The Interspecies Protection Act has a few, namely, the "Humans can't attack monsters" and vice-versa law, which can be exploited by criminal monsters.
  • This particular abuse caused some, currently unknown, changes to the Extraspecies Exchange Laws.
  • In Chapter 14, a director tried to use the loophole to get away with taking uncensored film recordings, Miia's shed skin, and Papi's egg to sell for money. Good thing Kimihito was there.
• Lunacy: The full moon apparently awakens a monster girl's more primal instincts. And wouldn't you know it, it comes the night Ms. Smith introduces the inter-species marriage addendum. Poor Kimihito spends the whole night trying to avoid some unwanted monster sex.
• Marshmallow Hell: Kimihito is often put into this by Mia and Centaurea.
• Mermaid Problem: Not an issue for any of the girls, but referenced by some hecklers.
• Mood Whiplash: The introduction of the Orcs has good amount of this. First they enter the store, armed with AKs and takes the workers as hostages. Then they make their demands wich is... to get OrcXElf/Princess/Royalty/Slave/everything pornography. Hm. Maybe these guy's are not so threatenWTF?! Did one of them just unload their bullets into the stomach of a police officer wile taking another hostage as a rape victim?! The officer and the "rape-victim" are actually part of MON and make it out easily and ending the threat, but still, that was one hell of a mood change.
• Older Than They Look: Miia seems rather calm at the prospect of Papi and Kimihito bathing together. Reason?
  Miia: "I can be calm and mature because I'm a woman and she's a child."
  Ms Smith: "She's actually your age."
  Miia: (breaks down door to bathroom)
  • Harpies tend to look like young teenagers even when fully grown for the sake of flight.
• One Gender Race: Lamiae and harpies are both all-female races.
• Our Centaurs Are Different
• Out-of-Genre Experience: Chapter 11 puts the harem comedy on hold for a terrorist hostage rescue. A silly terrorist hostage rescue.
• Out with a Bang: The same moon that puts the girls into a mating frenzy also causes them to forget their inhuman strength and cease holding back. Kimihito, his willpower wavering, suddenly realizes exactly what that means for him if he gives in.
• Pervert Revenge Mode: A couple of examples in response to Kimihito's Accidental Pervert moments, like accidentally walking in on Centaurea in the shower. The next scene has him apologizing to her, sporting a nasty hoof-shaped black eye. Astonishingly for a scene like this, Centaurea is ALSO apologizing: she never told him she takes a shower after her daily exercise.
  • Sometimes zigzagged with the girls, sometimes playing it straight to actually being amused.
• New Powers as the Plot Demands: Suu suddenly shows off a whole raft of new imitation-based powers in Chapter 13, including shapeshifting into a fairly convincing duplicate of another person.
• Real Life Writes the Plot: The author adds in new Cute Monster Girls to Kimihito's harem based on the readers' votes.
• Shout Out: Miia cosplays as FOX-era Big Boss), with an Eyepatch of Power and all, in Chapter 10. Doubles as a Stealth Pun considering the ecchi nature of the series and the fact that Big Boss' old codename was Naked Snake.
  • Due to the internal conflict of the other girls' personalities she's mimicking, Suu channels Nicole Brannan at one point during chapter 13 while taking care of Kimihito. It's terrifying.
• Sick Episode: Kimihito spends most of Chapter 13 sick in bed, with Sue taking care of him.
• Snake People
• Theme Naming: So far, each of the Cute Monster Girls in Kimihito's harem has her name derived from her species name — Miia^note romaji: Miia from Lamia, Papi from harpy^note "Harpy" is haapii (ハーピー) in Japanese romaji, and adding a dakuten to ハ (ha) makes it パ (pa)., Centaurea from Centaur, Suu from Slime^note romaji: suraimu, and Meroune from Mermaid.
  • Meroune's last name, Lorelei, also refers to a famous siren from German folklore.
  • Now we also have Rachnera from Arachne.
• Trash of the Titans: Ms. Smith's apartment is filled with trash bags and stacks of stuff when seen in chapter 4.
• The Unmasqued World: By the time the story begins, the existence of monster girls have been already been outed to the public at large for sometime.
  • However there are still some monster types humans are unaware of. Slimes were one of them.

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