YMMV / Monster Girl Doctor

• Fandom Rivalry: There is a minor rivalry between this series and Monster Musume. Specifically, anime-only viewers constantly compare the two, with Monster Musume fans complaining about the fact this series got an anime instead of theirs getting a second season, along with disliking the lower level of ecchi and seeing it as a rip-off of their series, while Monster Girl Doctor fans see their series as better because of lesser level of ecchi and what they see as a better plot.
• Friendly Fandoms: Despite the slight fandom rivalry between the anime adaptations, many fans who enjoy this series, Monster Musume and both their adaptations get along quite well. It helps that despite their similarities, both series have different niches and have their plots go in different ways, so each of them has a unique enough appeal that Monster Girl Doctor can't really be called a copycat trying to ape off the success of Monster Musume. Being friendly can be considered fitting too given the author of Monster Girl Doctor is a big fan of Monster Musume and was inspired by it, while the artist was featured in the Monster Musume: I ♥ Monster Girls anthology.
• Les Yay:
  • Saphentite and Arahnia have a lot of this. Already introduced as being best friends and drinking buddies, when Arahnia captures Glenn in a trap when the two of them are alone in the forest, she states she has no interest in him. Rather, she thinks having her way with him will help her "become one" with Sapphee. Also, when the two are working together as nurses, their breasts are shown rubbing against each other in one scene, and in general they get into each other's personal space quite often. In Episode 12, Arahnia has to help dress a sick Sapphee, and she is incredibly touch-feely.
  • Sapphee and Dr. Cthulhy have a bit despite their mutual jealousy over Glenn. When Cthulhy is proud of Glenn and Sapphee, she wants to "congratulate" the latter by sticking the tentacles in sensitive areas and causing her to moan. Even Glenn knows what's going on and looks away embarrassed.
  • Interestingly both cases have such a fan impression addressed and argued against in the novels themselves by it being pretty explicit that Arahnia had not experienced romantic love until she fell for Glenn, and Cthulhy viewing her feeling up of Sapphee with her tentacles as no more intimate than giving someone a hug (or indeed less intimate, as Cthulhy considers regular hugs too embarrassing).
• Memetic Mutation: Ah! Don't touch my inhuman body parts, they're sensitive! AHHHHH! ^Explanation While it's common in Cute Monster Girl stories to have some Fantastic Arousal here and there, this story being all about a male doctor touching all over the bodies of monster girls in order to figure out their ailments makes it especially prominent. It seems like literally everything inhuman about the girls is "sensitive", even the parts frequently used for fighting or which biologically shouldn't be able to feel anything, like Tisalia's hooves, the base of Skadi's tail, or Kunai's entire dead-nerved body. There are justifications offered; Kunai was built by a "pervert", for example, but plenty of fans feel like the story takes this to the extreme and have joked that he could give a human girl The Immodest Orgasm just by poking her toenail the right way.
• Moe:
  • Memé is an adorably nervous and shy wreck of a girl, who despite being both very cute and incredibly skilled at metalsmithing constantly puts herself down as worthless and useless, making her very huggable and easy to sympathize with.
  • Following the first reveal of her vulnerable side, Skadi had shown herself to be an utterly adorable sweetheart, whose cute appearance and childish mannerisms combined with her deprecating belief that she deserves to die caused many to declare her worthy of love and protection, something that was amplified when she revealed just how endearingly girly she can be during Glenn's final effort to convince her she deserves to live.
• Serial Numbers Filed Off: The series is about a Nice Guy who is lusted after by a clingy lamia girl, with a prideful centaur knight, a lecherous arachne, and a youthful harpy also interested in his affections, along with a cute and clumsy cyclops, a zombie Action Girl, and a giantess with giant boobs as recurring characters. These very notable similarities to Monster Musume, alongside having a few shared plot details, has earned it both an overlapping fandom and a competing fandom with that series.
• Special Effects Failure: The CG for the monster body parts can be jarring and there are moments where the animation gets choppy, such as the lizard arena fighter facing Tisalia in Episode 1.
• Sweet Dreams Fuel: Despite its slightly ecchi nature, the series is made of this, especially when showing how happy Glenn's patients are after he diagnoses and solves their issues.