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[[caption-width-right:350: [[SpidersAreScary Arachnophobia]] [[NightmareFace amplified]]. [[note]][[{{Jerkass}} Her]] [[AttemptedRape victim]] [[PayEvilUntoEvil had it]] [[LaserGuidedKarma coming]].[[/note]]]]
!!Manga
* Though she's a snake, Miia had never shown the classic long tongue we'd come to expect from her race. That is, until chapter six. It's really jarring, especially since it's 1, a ''human'' tongue, and 2, evident that at this point, Miia is not exactly... [[{{Lunacy}} herself.]]
* Chapter 12 can come across as this initially, until it's revealed that the women aren't actually as helpless as they first appear.
* Chapter 13 has the girls trying to help a sick Kimihito through Suu, as she is the only one immune to cross-contamination. Their attempts are pretty much universally funny ([[LethalChef Miia's cooking]] makes a triumphant return), but then they get to Papi's attempt. It manifests as Suu bearing down on Kimihito with her arms morphing into wings, parroting the argument that the rest of the girls had with Papi in a strained distorted voice, all the while having light shining out of her eyes and mouth a la [[VideoGame/DeadSpace2 Nicole]] [[http://31.media.tumblr.com/911818cf9323641fd20be5708dbb33bf/tumblr_mrklbcPT131qcn1p8o2_r1_500.jpg Brennan]]. ''Jesus,'' Suu. This is in-universe Nightmare Fuel: Kimihito is terrified!
* [[SpiderPeople Rachnera]] is quite the [[NightmareFuelStationAttendant intimidating sight,]] particularly compared to the other girls. Picture a woman with the lower body of a spider the size of a king-size bed, six eyes, and razor sharp claws, whose first full appearance is her hanging from the ceiling, glaring down at the reader in a pose suggesting she's ready to pounce. And to top it all off, the very first thing she does in her introductory chapter is mummify the villain of that chapter in silk, for reasons that are likely best left to the imagination. While it's apparent by the end of the chapter that looks can be deceiving, and she's not quite as terrifying overall as she first appears, ''[[NightmareFace God help you if you tick her off.]]''
* Centorea was [[AttemptedRape damn near]] ''[[RapeAsDrama raped]]'' by a gang (led by the one {{Jerkass}} from previous chapters) in Chapter 16. For one, it is certainly not played for laughs, and considering the rules of the program (extraspecies cannot harm humans), she was rendered totally hopeless when Kimihito is held back. Luckily, Rachnera intervenes and scares the crap out of them, but ''damn the manga got dark for a second.''
** Take another look at Kimihito. He's half a second from gouging out the eye of the guy holding him, and given how strong he's been shown to be previously, those gang members might actually be lucky Rachnee intervened.
** Rachnera's method of scaring said gang also counts, providing a [[SarcasmMode delightful little]] NightmareFace just pictured above.
* TheReveal about the centaur culture. In essence, millennia of being a culture of {{Proud Warrior Race Guy}}s and using pure strength to determine "right to breed" has resulted in centaur males degenerating into a race of hulking, super-{{gonk}}y thugs, whilst the women are still beautiful warrior-maidens like Centorea and her mother as the females focused more on style and technique in fighting. It's gotten so bad that their own women can't be aroused by them, causing the centaur birthrate to plummet (as aggressive as their males can be, they know better than to actually try to force themselves on the females, for fear of the injuries she can inflict if nothing else). So, the centaur males hire human men selected by the females (the hired men are often {{bishonen}} types who appeal to the female centaurs tastes) to get their women "in the mood" to mate by flirting with them, being nice to them, etc... only to then pounce in and roughly copulate with the females. The way it's discussed, this is the norm for most centaur marriages, and all parties involved accept it simply because of the common belief that if a centaur has a child with a human the resulting child will be weak.
** Yes, this is based on the real-world practices of horse breeding, especially in fields like horse racing. No, this does '''not''' make it ''any less creepy''!
** Downplayed in the full volume's extra pages, where Cerea's mother explains that centaurs that don't want to take part in the whole teasing cultural practice have multiple methods of avoiding it (she herself earned the right to never have sex with her "husband" by beating him in a battle).
* As of Chapter 18, Kimihito's life is in danger. Someone has sent him a death threat if he marries any of the girls.
* Miia almost gets raped in Chapter 19. She's out in the middle of a lake, in a small boat with her captor, and there is barely anyone around.
* Chapter 20 reveals that there are traffickers that kidnap monster girls. The girls in this particular chapter are ''children''. They were naked, too. Make of that what you will.
* Chapter 22. '''''The Dullahan'''''. We haven't even seen her face yet and already she's terrifying. Her first true appearance was her standing across the street, staring at Kimihito hidden in shadow. A truck passes, and she's ''gone.'' Suddenly she's behind him, ''inches'' from him. She has a ''wicked'' [[SinisterScythe scythe]] in one hand... '''[[HeadlessHorseman and her head in the other.]]''' Then the scythe is around his neck as he's realizing what's happening... and the chapter ends. ''Chilling''.
* Chapter 23, Lala casually mentions that there is an entire organization hunting her. She claims to essentially be Death itself, there is something hunting her, and it's enough to make her feel rushed enough to present herself to the living.
** Chapter 24 reveals that the so called "Organization" is just Ms. Smith. Though she [[NightmareFace provides proof]] to why Lala would [[InUniverse consider her frightening]].
** For Miia, Lala herself is an InUniverse example. Every time Miia has to deal with either her headless body or her bodililess head, she either screams, faints, or both.
* Chapter 27, while it's PlayedForLaughs in the chapter, the fact remains that lamias used to kidnap men and '''gang rape them'''. Contrary to [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale what fiction might tell you]], that's ''not'' fun.
** Miia's mother. While the methods in which Miia and Kimihito deal with her are pretty silly, the fact remains that her plan is to kidnap Kimihito as a SexSlave for her tribe. Because of this, despite how funny she is, she's still one of the series' more disturbing villains.
* Chapter 35 has Mero's inevitable kidnapping by Octo. While most any reader will have seen it coming a mile away, it's still a chilling scene, especially when Mero opens the door and [[OhCrap stares in horror]] as a shadow with flailing tentacles descends over her... Subverted when it turns out she was not kidnapped.
* Chapter 37 reveals the frightening truth about Mero's mother. She takes Mero's tragedy fetishism and cranks it up to [[{{Franchise/Danganronpa}} Monokuma]] levels by attempting to force tragedy on her people and her daughter, purely for the sake of doing so. She goes as far as siccing ([[TheNudifier relatively harmless]] ''to them'') piranha on the other girls and attempting to drown Kimihito just so she can force a SadisticChoice on Mero, and the manga does not make it clear whether she has really repented. Worse is that she gets away with all of it with no real retribution, so the mermaid kingdom is left under the rule of a murderous, despair-obsessed psychopath.]]
** On the other hand, she switches from Malicious to Incompetent very quickly. Though in the incompetent stage she accidentally sics a second school of piranha on Mero, traps Kirohito with rubble, and gets her smartphone (and thus the controls for her traps) destroyed by her spike trap.]] Things escalate from there, and it [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone does seem like she's realized something by the end of it.]]
** This is the first time that Kimihito had a dead-serious NearDeathExperience.
* In Chapter 38, we cut to the interior of a hospital room, and we see something begin to materialize. Then we cut to the face of the dying Yuuhi and on the very next page, we see Lala in '''''full on grim reaper mode, complete with GlowingEyesOfDoom,''''' who proceeds to make Yuuhi an offer that's phrased like a DealWithTheDevil. If you had forgotten how unnerving Lala can be with how little we've seen of her in recent times, ''this'' will remind you!
** Yuuhi didn't even realize she had become a zombie. [[FridgeHorror If doctors hadn't called her in and Smith hadn't had the presence of mind to realize something was off, she might gone on her merry way without getting embalming procedures done like Zombina has]], being none the wiser until she started ''ROTTING AWAY''.
* In Chapter 40, Doppel confronts the Orc Leader, who just tried to rape her. She then proceeded to transform into an indescribably horrific abomination seen only in silhouette.
* In Chapter 44, we are introduced to [[BeeAfraid Killa the Killer Bee]]. If [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast her name isn't any enough]] of an indicator that she's dangerous, she's based off the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_giant_hornet Japanese Giant Hornet]], which anyone who knows about them will tell that their stings are extremely painful. Said stings can in severe cases leave wounds the size of ''[[BodyHorror bullet holes]]''. [[TheresNoKillLikeOverkill Now imagine that coming from a human-sized being]]. She also has a considerably less human-looking face, with {{red|Eyes Take Warning}} compound eyes, antennae, and a lower jaw covered in a carapace akin to the hornet's mandibles. Not only that but she can command an army of hornets to attack. And true to her species, she's very aggressive, stopping at nothing to capture Kimihito and only being thwarted by getting trapped in a sauna.
* In Chapter 45, as Kimihito and Centorea interrogate Killa about the other two illegal extraspecies, she mentions that they're even more dangerous to the point that she doesn't even want to be near them. Considering that she's based off one of the most dangerous animals in the world, [[UpToEleven that's saying something]].
** Of course, as long time readers might expect, the other two extraspecies end up not being as dangerous as rumored (one just produces spores that cause shared hallucinations, the other is dangerous only because she is being ''possessed'' by someone dangerous).
* Chapter 56 has a moment from Kimihito of all people: upon hearing the words 'milking time' on a farm staffed by Minotaurs and Fauns, he panics and his mind immediately goes 'worst-case scenario': in this case 'worst-case scenario' means ''sudden dark turn into horrifying factory-farm/sex slave conditions'' for the aforementioned liminals. The ImagineSpot gives us imagery like something out of the foulest {{Hentai}} doujin. Of course, it doesn't turn out to be that way, but ''HOLY HELL'' that'll stick with the reader for a while.
* Chapter 58, which focuses on the satyrs of the Lily Farm. They take the AllWomenAreLustful UpToEleven and ''beyond'' regarding how sexually aggressive they are in pursuing Kimihito for some ''private'' time, to the point where one of them almost manage to ''rape'' him in his sleep one morning. The faces they make rivals the page picture above in how unsettling they can be, natural goat eyes included.
** The fact that they move in packs like wolves or velociraptors whenever they approach him cranks the horror about them even further.
* Chapter 69, which introduced an actual Nightmare monstergirl. While many of the nightmares she gave Cerea were silly, embarrassing, or sexy, she ended up having so many that she started to wonder whether or not she was awake. She was bombarded by so many nightmares she lost track of reality... And the nightmare Kimihito had at the beginning was rather creepy too...
!!Anime
* In Episode 3, Miia, Cera and Papi all get a temporary [[NightmareFace demonic makeover]] whilst fighting each other. The resulting images are downright nightmarish, especially coming from the previously-dignified Centorea or the cute and childish Papi, and the hellish screeching that accompanies them doesn't help in the slightest.
* Although they probably wouldn't mean to harm Kimihito due to the fact that the incident occurs during [[CapitalLettersAreMagic The Full Moon]], the fact that they (Miia, Cerea, and Papi) lose control over their strength would mean [[OutWithABang a rather fatal intercourse.]] As the realization slowly hits him (and the viewer) in the anime, it brings a rather jarring tonal shift. Initially, the girls trying to seduce Kimihito is played for titillation as one may expect, but then Miia crushes three or four steel bedposts in her coils without even ''noticing'', Kimihito nearly gets his face torn off by Papi's butcher-knife talons and Centoria smashes a table like an insect beneath her hoof, and the situation starts to look unnervingly...slasher movie. The girls even get a couple of scenes where they're hidden in shadow and manifest [[GlowingEyesOfDoom glowing]] [[RedEyesTakeWarning red eyes]].
* Episode 11, while Miia getting frightened by Lala is PlayedForLaughs, ends with a powerful MoodWhiplash. In a blood-red sunset, Lala just told everyone in the house that Kimihito is going to die soon, and the serene atmosphere is replaced with fast cuts of Darling and the girls' close-ups, their faces (done more realistically than usual) frozen in shock and terror. Everything is also covered in a reddish hue. It's unnerving to say the least. The dullahan imagery throughout the episode is also quite creepy.
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[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/arachophobia.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350: [[SpidersAreScary Arachnophobia]] [[NightmareFace amplified]]. [[note]][[{{Jerkass}} Her]] [[AttemptedRape victim]] [[PayEvilUntoEvil had it]] [[LaserGuidedKarma coming]].[[/note]]]]
!!Manga
* Though she's a snake, Miia had never shown the classic long tongue we'd come to expect from her race. That is, until chapter six. It's really jarring, especially since it's 1, a ''human'' tongue, and 2, evident that at this point, Miia is not exactly... [[{{Lunacy}} herself.]]
* Chapter 12 can come across as this initially, until it's revealed that the women aren't actually as helpless as they first appear.
* Chapter 13 has the girls trying to help a sick Kimihito through Suu, as she is the only one immune to cross-contamination. Their attempts are pretty much universally funny ([[LethalChef Miia's cooking]] makes a triumphant return), but then they get to Papi's attempt. It manifests as Suu bearing down on Kimihito with her arms morphing into wings, parroting the argument that the rest of the girls had with Papi in a strained distorted voice, all the while having light shining out of her eyes and mouth a la [[VideoGame/DeadSpace2 Nicole]] [[http://31.media.tumblr.com/911818cf9323641fd20be5708dbb33bf/tumblr_mrklbcPT131qcn1p8o2_r1_500.jpg Brennan]]. ''Jesus,'' Suu. This is in-universe Nightmare Fuel: Kimihito is terrified!
* [[SpiderPeople Rachnera]] is quite the [[NightmareFuelStationAttendant intimidating sight,]] particularly compared to the other girls. Picture a woman with the lower body of a spider the size of a king-size bed, six eyes, and razor sharp claws, whose first full appearance is her hanging from the ceiling, glaring down at the reader in a pose suggesting she's ready to pounce. And to top it all off, the very first thing she does in her introductory chapter is mummify the villain of that chapter in silk, for reasons that are likely best left to the imagination. While it's apparent by the end of the chapter that looks can be deceiving, and she's not quite as terrifying overall as she first appears, ''[[NightmareFace God help you if you tick her off.]]''
* Centorea was [[AttemptedRape damn near]] ''[[RapeAsDrama raped]]'' by a gang (led by the one {{Jerkass}} from previous chapters) in Chapter 16. For one, it is certainly not played for laughs, and considering the rules of the program (extraspecies cannot harm humans), she was rendered totally hopeless when Kimihito is held back. Luckily, Rachnera intervenes and scares the crap out of them, but ''damn the manga got dark for a second.''
** Take another look at Kimihito. He's half a second from gouging out the eye of the guy holding him, and given how strong he's been shown to be previously, those gang members might actually be lucky Rachnee intervened.
** Rachnera's method of scaring said gang also counts, providing a [[SarcasmMode delightful little]] NightmareFace just pictured above.
* TheReveal about the centaur culture. In essence, millennia of being a culture of {{Proud Warrior Race Guy}}s and using pure strength to determine "right to breed" has resulted in centaur males degenerating into a race of hulking, super-{{gonk}}y thugs, whilst the women are still beautiful warrior-maidens like Centorea and her mother as the females focused more on style and technique in fighting. It's gotten so bad that their own women can't be aroused by them, causing the centaur birthrate to plummet (as aggressive as their males can be, they know better than to actually try to force themselves on the females, for fear of the injuries she can inflict if nothing else). So, the centaur males hire human men selected by the females (the hired men are often {{bishonen}} types who appeal to the female centaurs tastes) to get their women "in the mood" to mate by flirting with them, being nice to them, etc... only to then pounce in and roughly copulate with the females. The way it's discussed, this is the norm for most centaur marriages, and all parties involved accept it simply because of the common belief that if a centaur has a child with a human the resulting child will be weak.
** Yes, this is based on the real-world practices of horse breeding, especially in fields like horse racing. No, this does '''not''' make it ''any less creepy''!
** Downplayed in the full volume's extra pages, where Cerea's mother explains that centaurs that don't want to take part in the whole teasing cultural practice have multiple methods of avoiding it (she herself earned the right to never have sex with her "husband" by beating him in a battle).
* As of Chapter 18, Kimihito's life is in danger. Someone has sent him a death threat if he marries any of the girls.
* Miia almost gets raped in Chapter 19. She's out in the middle of a lake, in a small boat with her captor, and there is barely anyone around.
* Chapter 20 reveals that there are traffickers that kidnap monster girls. The girls in this particular chapter are ''children''. They were naked, too. Make of that what you will.
* Chapter 22. '''''The Dullahan'''''. We haven't even seen her face yet and already she's terrifying. Her first true appearance was her standing across the street, staring at Kimihito hidden in shadow. A truck passes, and she's ''gone.'' Suddenly she's behind him, ''inches'' from him. She has a ''wicked'' [[SinisterScythe scythe]] in one hand... '''[[HeadlessHorseman and her head in the other.]]''' Then the scythe is around his neck as he's realizing what's happening... and the chapter ends. ''Chilling''.
* Chapter 23, Lala casually mentions that there is an entire organization hunting her. She claims to essentially be Death itself, there is something hunting her, and it's enough to make her feel rushed enough to present herself to the living.
** Chapter 24 reveals that the so called "Organization" is just Ms. Smith. Though she [[NightmareFace provides proof]] to why Lala would [[InUniverse consider her frightening]].
** For Miia, Lala herself is an InUniverse example. Every time Miia has to deal with either her headless body or her bodililess head, she either screams, faints, or both.
* Chapter 27, while it's PlayedForLaughs in the chapter, the fact remains that lamias used to kidnap men and '''gang rape them'''. Contrary to [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale what fiction might tell you]], that's ''not'' fun.
** Miia's mother. While the methods in which Miia and Kimihito deal with her are pretty silly, the fact remains that her plan is to kidnap Kimihito as a SexSlave for her tribe. Because of this, despite how funny she is, she's still one of the series' more disturbing villains.
* Chapter 35 has Mero's inevitable kidnapping by Octo. While most any reader will have seen it coming a mile away, it's still a chilling scene, especially when Mero opens the door and [[OhCrap stares in horror]] as a shadow with flailing tentacles descends over her... Subverted when it turns out she was not kidnapped.
* Chapter 37 reveals the frightening truth about Mero's mother. She takes Mero's tragedy fetishism and cranks it up to [[{{Franchise/Danganronpa}} Monokuma]] levels by attempting to force tragedy on her people and her daughter, purely for the sake of doing so. She goes as far as siccing ([[TheNudifier relatively harmless]] ''to them'') piranha on the other girls and attempting to drown Kimihito just so she can force a SadisticChoice on Mero, and the manga does not make it clear whether she has really repented. Worse is that she gets away with all of it with no real retribution, so the mermaid kingdom is left under the rule of a murderous, despair-obsessed psychopath.]]
** On the other hand, she switches from Malicious to Incompetent very quickly. Though in the incompetent stage she accidentally sics a second school of piranha on Mero, traps Kirohito with rubble, and gets her smartphone (and thus the controls for her traps) destroyed by her spike trap.]] Things escalate from there, and it [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone does seem like she's realized something by the end of it.]]
** This is the first time that Kimihito had a dead-serious NearDeathExperience.
* In Chapter 38, we cut to the interior of a hospital room, and we see something begin to materialize. Then we cut to the face of the dying Yuuhi and on the very next page, we see Lala in '''''full on grim reaper mode, complete with GlowingEyesOfDoom,''''' who proceeds to make Yuuhi an offer that's phrased like a DealWithTheDevil. If you had forgotten how unnerving Lala can be with how little we've seen of her in recent times, ''this'' will remind you!
** Yuuhi didn't even realize she had become a zombie. [[FridgeHorror If doctors hadn't called her in and Smith hadn't had the presence of mind to realize something was off, she might gone on her merry way without getting embalming procedures done like Zombina has]], being none the wiser until she started ''ROTTING AWAY''.
* In Chapter 40, Doppel confronts the Orc Leader, who just tried to rape her. She then proceeded to transform into an indescribably horrific abomination seen only in silhouette.
* In Chapter 44, we are introduced to [[BeeAfraid Killa the Killer Bee]]. If [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast her name isn't any enough]] of an indicator that she's dangerous, she's based off the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_giant_hornet Japanese Giant Hornet]], which anyone who knows about them will tell that their stings are extremely painful. Said stings can in severe cases leave wounds the size of ''[[BodyHorror bullet holes]]''. [[TheresNoKillLikeOverkill Now imagine that coming from a human-sized being]]. She also has a considerably less human-looking face, with {{red|Eyes Take Warning}} compound eyes, antennae, and a lower jaw covered in a carapace akin to the hornet's mandibles. Not only that but she can command an army of hornets to attack. And true to her species, she's very aggressive, stopping at nothing to capture Kimihito and only being thwarted by getting trapped in a sauna.
* In Chapter 45, as Kimihito and Centorea interrogate Killa about the other two illegal extraspecies, she mentions that they're even more dangerous to the point that she doesn't even want to be near them. Considering that she's based off one of the most dangerous animals in the world, [[UpToEleven that's saying something]].
** Of course, as long time readers might expect, the other two extraspecies end up not being as dangerous as rumored (one just produces spores that cause shared hallucinations, the other is dangerous only because she is being ''possessed'' by someone dangerous).
* Chapter 56 has a moment from Kimihito of all people: upon hearing the words 'milking time' on a farm staffed by Minotaurs and Fauns, he panics and his mind immediately goes 'worst-case scenario': in this case 'worst-case scenario' means ''sudden dark turn into horrifying factory-farm/sex slave conditions'' for the aforementioned liminals. The ImagineSpot gives us imagery like something out of the foulest {{Hentai}} doujin. Of course, it doesn't turn out to be that way, but ''HOLY HELL'' that'll stick with the reader for a while.
* Chapter 58, which focuses on the satyrs of the Lily Farm. They take the AllWomenAreLustful UpToEleven and ''beyond'' regarding how sexually aggressive they are in pursuing Kimihito for some ''private'' time, to the point where one of them almost manage to ''rape'' him in his sleep one morning. The faces they make rivals the page picture above in how unsettling they can be, natural goat eyes included.
** The fact that they move in packs like wolves or velociraptors whenever they approach him cranks the horror about them even further.
* Chapter 69, which introduced an actual Nightmare monstergirl. While many of the nightmares she gave Cerea were silly, embarrassing, or sexy, she ended up having so many that she started to wonder whether or not she was awake. She was bombarded by so many nightmares she lost track of reality... And the nightmare Kimihito had at the beginning was rather creepy too...
!!Anime
* In Episode 3, Miia, Cera and Papi all get a temporary [[NightmareFace demonic makeover]] whilst fighting each other. The resulting images are downright nightmarish, especially coming from the previously-dignified Centorea or the cute and childish Papi, and the hellish screeching that accompanies them doesn't help in the slightest.
* Although they probably wouldn't mean to harm Kimihito due to the fact that the incident occurs during [[CapitalLettersAreMagic The Full Moon]], the fact that they (Miia, Cerea, and Papi) lose control over their strength would mean [[OutWithABang a rather fatal intercourse.]] As the realization slowly hits him (and the viewer) in the anime, it brings a rather jarring tonal shift. Initially, the girls trying to seduce Kimihito is played for titillation as one may expect, but then Miia crushes three or four steel bedposts in her coils without even ''noticing'', Kimihito nearly gets his face torn off by Papi's butcher-knife talons and Centoria smashes a table like an insect beneath her hoof, and the situation starts to look unnervingly...slasher movie. The girls even get a couple of scenes where they're hidden in shadow and manifest [[GlowingEyesOfDoom glowing]] [[RedEyesTakeWarning red eyes]].
* Episode 11, while Miia getting frightened by Lala is PlayedForLaughs, ends with a powerful MoodWhiplash. In a blood-red sunset, Lala just told everyone in the house that Kimihito is going to die soon, and the serene atmosphere is replaced with fast cuts of Darling and the girls' close-ups, their faces (done more realistically than usual) frozen in shock and terror. Everything is also covered in a reddish hue. It's unnerving to say the least. The dullahan imagery throughout the episode is also quite creepy.
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[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/arachophobia.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350: [[SpidersAreScary Arachnophobia]] [[NightmareFace amplified]]. [[note]][[{{Jerkass}} Her]] [[AttemptedRape victim]] [[PayEvilUntoEvil had it]] [[LaserGuidedKarma coming]].[[/note]]]]
!!Manga
* Though she's a snake, Miia had never shown the classic long tongue we'd come to expect from her race. That is, until chapter six. It's really jarring, especially since it's 1, a ''human'' tongue, and 2, evident that at this point, Miia is not exactly... [[{{Lunacy}} herself.]]
* Chapter 12 can come across as this initially, until it's revealed that the women aren't actually as helpless as they first appear.
* Chapter 13 has the girls trying to help a sick Kimihito through Suu, as she is the only one immune to cross-contamination. Their attempts are pretty much universally funny ([[LethalChef Miia's cooking]] makes a triumphant return), but then they get to Papi's attempt. It manifests as Suu bearing down on Kimihito with her arms morphing into wings, parroting the argument that the rest of the girls had with Papi in a strained distorted voice, all the while having light shining out of her eyes and mouth a la [[VideoGame/DeadSpace2 Nicole]] [[http://31.media.tumblr.com/911818cf9323641fd20be5708dbb33bf/tumblr_mrklbcPT131qcn1p8o2_r1_500.jpg Brennan]]. ''Jesus,'' Suu. This is in-universe Nightmare Fuel: Kimihito is terrified!
* [[SpiderPeople Rachnera]] is quite the [[NightmareFuelStationAttendant intimidating sight,]] particularly compared to the other girls. Picture a woman with the lower body of a spider the size of a king-size bed, six eyes, and razor sharp claws, whose first full appearance is her hanging from the ceiling, glaring down at the reader in a pose suggesting she's ready to pounce. And to top it all off, the very first thing she does in her introductory chapter is mummify the villain of that chapter in silk, for reasons that are likely best left to the imagination. While it's apparent by the end of the chapter that looks can be deceiving, and she's not quite as terrifying overall as she first appears, ''[[NightmareFace God help you if you tick her off.]]''
* Centorea was [[AttemptedRape damn near]] ''[[RapeAsDrama raped]]'' by a gang (led by the one {{Jerkass}} from previous chapters) in Chapter 16. For one, it is certainly not played for laughs, and considering the rules of the program (extraspecies cannot harm humans), she was rendered totally hopeless when Kimihito is held back. Luckily, Rachnera intervenes and scares the crap out of them, but ''damn the manga got dark for a second.''
** Take another look at Kimihito. He's half a second from gouging out the eye of the guy holding him, and given how strong he's been shown to be previously, those gang members might actually be lucky Rachnee intervened.
** Rachnera's method of scaring said gang also counts, providing a [[SarcasmMode delightful little]] NightmareFace just pictured above.
* TheReveal about the centaur culture. In essence, millennia of being a culture of {{Proud Warrior Race Guy}}s and using pure strength to determine "right to breed" has resulted in centaur males degenerating into a race of hulking, super-{{gonk}}y thugs, whilst the women are still beautiful warrior-maidens like Centorea and her mother as the females focused more on style and technique in fighting. It's gotten so bad that their own women can't be aroused by them, causing the centaur birthrate to plummet (as aggressive as their males can be, they know better than to actually try to force themselves on the females, for fear of the injuries she can inflict if nothing else). So, the centaur males hire human men selected by the females (the hired men are often {{bishonen}} types who appeal to the female centaurs tastes) to get their women "in the mood" to mate by flirting with them, being nice to them, etc... only to then pounce in and roughly copulate with the females. The way it's discussed, this is the norm for most centaur marriages, and all parties involved accept it simply because of the common belief that if a centaur has a child with a human the resulting child will be weak.
** Yes, this is based on the real-world practices of horse breeding, especially in fields like horse racing. No, this does '''not''' make it ''any less creepy''!
** Downplayed in the full volume's extra pages, where Cerea's mother explains that centaurs that don't want to take part in the whole teasing cultural practice have multiple methods of avoiding it (she herself earned the right to never have sex with her "husband" by beating him in a battle).
* As of Chapter 18, Kimihito's life is in danger. Someone has sent him a death threat if he marries any of the girls.
* Miia almost gets raped in Chapter 19. She's out in the middle of a lake, in a small boat with her captor, and there is barely anyone around.
* Chapter 20 reveals that there are traffickers that kidnap monster girls. The girls in this particular chapter are ''children''. They were naked, too. Make of that what you will.
* Chapter 22. '''''The Dullahan'''''. We haven't even seen her face yet and already she's terrifying. Her first true appearance was her standing across the street, staring at Kimihito hidden in shadow. A truck passes, and she's ''gone.'' Suddenly she's behind him, ''inches'' from him. She has a ''wicked'' [[SinisterScythe scythe]] in one hand... '''[[HeadlessHorseman and her head in the other.]]''' Then the scythe is around his neck as he's realizing what's happening... and the chapter ends. ''Chilling''.
* Chapter 23, Lala casually mentions that there is an entire organization hunting her. She claims to essentially be Death itself, there is something hunting her, and it's enough to make her feel rushed enough to present herself to the living.
** Chapter 24 reveals that the so called "Organization" is just Ms. Smith. Though she [[NightmareFace provides proof]] to why Lala would [[InUniverse consider her frightening]].
** For Miia, Lala herself is an InUniverse example. Every time Miia has to deal with either her headless body or her bodililess head, she either screams, faints, or both.
* Chapter 27, while it's PlayedForLaughs in the chapter, the fact remains that lamias used to kidnap men and '''gang rape them'''. Contrary to [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale what fiction might tell you]], that's ''not'' fun.
** Miia's mother. While the methods in which Miia and Kimihito deal with her are pretty silly, the fact remains that her plan is to kidnap Kimihito as a SexSlave for her tribe. Because of this, despite how funny she is, she's still one of the series' more disturbing villains.
* Chapter 35 has Mero's inevitable kidnapping by Octo. While most any reader will have seen it coming a mile away, it's still a chilling scene, especially when Mero opens the door and [[OhCrap stares in horror]] as a shadow with flailing tentacles descends over her... Subverted when it turns out she was not kidnapped.
* Chapter 37 reveals the frightening truth about Mero's mother. She takes Mero's tragedy fetishism and cranks it up to [[{{Franchise/Danganronpa}} Monokuma]] levels by attempting to force tragedy on her people and her daughter, purely for the sake of doing so. She goes as far as siccing ([[TheNudifier relatively harmless]] ''to them'') piranha on the other girls and attempting to drown Kimihito just so she can force a SadisticChoice on Mero, and the manga does not make it clear whether she has really repented. Worse is that she gets away with all of it with no real retribution, so the mermaid kingdom is left under the rule of a murderous, despair-obsessed psychopath.]]
** On the other hand, she switches from Malicious to Incompetent very quickly. Though in the incompetent stage she accidentally sics a second school of piranha on Mero, traps Kirohito with rubble, and gets her smartphone (and thus the controls for her traps) destroyed by her spike trap.]] Things escalate from there, and it [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone does seem like she's realized something by the end of it.]]
** This is the first time that Kimihito had a dead-serious NearDeathExperience.
* In Chapter 38, we cut to the interior of a hospital room, and we see something begin to materialize. Then we cut to the face of the dying Yuuhi and on the very next page, we see Lala in '''''full on grim reaper mode, complete with GlowingEyesOfDoom,''''' who proceeds to make Yuuhi an offer that's phrased like a DealWithTheDevil. If you had forgotten how unnerving Lala can be with how little we've seen of her in recent times, ''this'' will remind you!
** Yuuhi didn't even realize she had become a zombie. [[FridgeHorror If doctors hadn't called her in and Smith hadn't had the presence of mind to realize something was off, she might gone on her merry way without getting embalming procedures done like Zombina has]], being none the wiser until she started ''ROTTING AWAY''.
* In Chapter 40, Doppel confronts the Orc Leader, who just tried to rape her. She then proceeded to transform into an indescribably horrific abomination seen only in silhouette.
* In Chapter 44, we are introduced to [[BeeAfraid Killa the Killer Bee]]. If [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast her name isn't any enough]] of an indicator that she's dangerous, she's based off the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_giant_hornet Japanese Giant Hornet]], which anyone who knows about them will tell that their stings are extremely painful. Said stings can in severe cases leave wounds the size of ''[[BodyHorror bullet holes]]''. [[TheresNoKillLikeOverkill Now imagine that coming from a human-sized being]]. She also has a considerably less human-looking face, with {{red|Eyes Take Warning}} compound eyes, antennae, and a lower jaw covered in a carapace akin to the hornet's mandibles. Not only that but she can command an army of hornets to attack. And true to her species, she's very aggressive, stopping at nothing to capture Kimihito and only being thwarted by getting trapped in a sauna.
* In Chapter 45, as Kimihito and Centorea interrogate Killa about the other two illegal extraspecies, she mentions that they're even more dangerous to the point that she doesn't even want to be near them. Considering that she's based off one of the most dangerous animals in the world, [[UpToEleven that's saying something]].
** Of course, as long time readers might expect, the other two extraspecies end up not being as dangerous as rumored (one just produces spores that cause shared hallucinations, the other is dangerous only because she is being ''possessed'' by someone dangerous).
* Chapter 56 has a moment from Kimihito of all people: upon hearing the words 'milking time' on a farm staffed by Minotaurs and Fauns, he panics and his mind immediately goes 'worst-case scenario': in this case 'worst-case scenario' means ''sudden dark turn into horrifying factory-farm/sex slave conditions'' for the aforementioned liminals. The ImagineSpot gives us imagery like something out of the foulest {{Hentai}} doujin. Of course, it doesn't turn out to be that way, but ''HOLY HELL'' that'll stick with the reader for a while.
* Chapter 58, which focuses on the satyrs of the Lily Farm. They take the AllWomenAreLustful UpToEleven and ''beyond'' regarding how sexually aggressive they are in pursuing Kimihito for some ''private'' time, to the point where one of them almost manage to ''rape'' him in his sleep one morning. The faces they make rivals the page picture above in how unsettling they can be, natural goat eyes included.
** The fact that they move in packs like wolves or velociraptors whenever they approach him cranks the horror about them even further.
* Chapter 69, which introduced an actual Nightmare monstergirl. While many of the nightmares she gave Cerea were silly, embarrassing, or sexy, she ended up having so many that she started to wonder whether or not she was awake. She was bombarded by so many nightmares she lost track of reality... And the nightmare Kimihito had at the beginning was rather creepy too...
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* In Episode 3, Miia, Cera and Papi all get a temporary [[NightmareFace demonic makeover]] whilst fighting each other. The resulting images are downright nightmarish, especially coming from the previously-dignified Centorea or the cute and childish Papi, and the hellish screeching that accompanies them doesn't help in the slightest.
* Although they probably wouldn't mean to harm Kimihito due to the fact that the incident occurs during [[CapitalLettersAreMagic The Full Moon]], the fact that they (Miia, Cerea, and Papi) lose control over their strength would mean [[OutWithABang a rather fatal intercourse.]] As the realization slowly hits him (and the viewer) in the anime, it brings a rather jarring tonal shift. Initially, the girls trying to seduce Kimihito is played for titillation as one may expect, but then Miia crushes three or four steel bedposts in her coils without even ''noticing'', Kimihito nearly gets his face torn off by Papi's butcher-knife talons and Centoria smashes a table like an insect beneath her hoof, and the situation starts to look unnervingly...slasher movie. The girls even get a couple of scenes where they're hidden in shadow and manifest [[GlowingEyesOfDoom glowing]] [[RedEyesTakeWarning red eyes]].
* Episode 11, while Miia getting frightened by Lala is PlayedForLaughs, ends with a powerful MoodWhiplash. In a blood-red sunset, Lala just told everyone in the house that Kimihito is going to die soon, and the serene atmosphere is replaced with fast cuts of Darling and the girls' close-ups, their faces (done more realistically than usual) frozen in shock and terror. Everything is also covered in a reddish hue. It's unnerving to say the least. The dullahan imagery throughout the episode is also quite creepy.
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It's made pretty clear that everyone involved in the teasing practice know what is going on and consent to it. The centaur females are even the ones who choose the teasers. The teaser of Cerea's mother deciding to go against the plan was something of an exception.
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* TheReveal about the centaur culture. In essence, generations millennia of being a culture of {{Proud Warrior Race Guy}}s and using strength/combat skills pure strength to determine "right to breed" has resulted in centaur males degenerating into a race of hulking, super-{{gonk}}y thugs, whilst the women are still beautiful warrior-maidens like Centorea and her mother. mother as the females focused more on style and technique in fighting. It's gotten so bad that their own women hate can't be aroused by them, and would rather chase cute human guys, especially {{bishonen}} types. causing the centaur birthrate to plummet (as aggressive as their males can be, they know better than to actually try to force themselves on the females, for fear of the injuries she can inflict if nothing else). So, the centaur males hire human guys men selected by the females (the hired men are often {{bishonen}} types who appeal to the female centaurs tastes) to get their women "in the mood" to mate by flirting with them, being nice to them, etc... only to then pounce in and roughly copulate with the females. The way it's discussed, this is the norm for all most centaur marriages. That's right, marriages, and all parties involved accept it simply because of the common belief that if a centaur culture is literally ''built'' around the concepts of {{Netorare}} and spousal rape! It only gets worse when you consider the fact that, depending upon what exactly they're told before, "Teasers" would either have to be amoral enough to go along has a child with this plan for money... or they were unaware of a human the male centaurs' true intentions and would have to watch in horror as they're suddenly raped right in front of them. It's hard to say which is worse.resulting child will be weak.
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* Chapter 69, which introduced an actual Nightmare monstergirl. While many of the nightmares she gave Cerea were silly, embarrassing, or sexy, she ended up having so many that she started to wonder whether or not she was awake. She was bombarded by so many nightmares she lost track of reality... And the nightmare Kimihito had at the beginning was rather creepy too...
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* TheReveal about the centaur culture. In essence, generations of being a culture of {{Proud Warrior Race Guy}}s and using strength/combat skills to determine "right to breed" has resulted in centaur males degenerating into a race of hulking, super-{{gonk}}y thugs, whilst the women are still beautiful warrior-maidens like Centorea and her mother. It's gotten so bad that their own women hate them, and would rather chase cute human guys, especially {{bishonen}} types. So, the centaur males hire human guys to get their women "in the mood" to mate by flirting with them, being nice to them, etc... only to then pounce in and roughly copulate with the females. The way it's discussed, this is the norm for all centaur marriages. That's right, centaur culture is literally ''built'' around the concepts of {{Netorare}} and spousal rape! It only gets worse when you consider the fact that, depending upon what exactly they're told before, "Teasers" would either have to be amoral enough to go along with this plan for money... or else they might actually like the centaur women in question, but were unaware of the male centaurs' true intentions and would have to watch in horror as they're suddenly raped right in front of them. It's hard to say which is worse.
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* TheReveal about the centaur culture. In essence, generations of being a culture of {{Proud Warrior Race Guy}}s and using strength/combat skills to determine "right to breed" has resulted in centaur males degenerating into a race of hulking, super-{{gonk}}y thugs, whilst the women are still beautiful warrior-maidens like Centorea and her mother. It's gotten so bad that their own women hate them, and would rather chase cute human guys, especially {{bishonen}} types. So, the centaur males hire human guys to get their women "in the mood" to mate by flirting with them, being nice to them, etc... only to then pounce in and roughly copulate with the females. The way it's discussed, this is the norm for all centaur marriages. That's right, centaur culture is literally ''built'' around the concepts of {{Netorare}} and spousal rape! It only gets worse when you consider the fact that, depending upon what exactly they're told before, "Teasers" would either have to be amoral enough to go along with this plan for money... or else they might actually like the centaur women in question, but were unaware of the male centaurs' true intentions and would have to watch in horror as they're suddenly raped right in front of them. It's hard to say which is worse.
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* TheReveal about the centaur culture. In essence, generations of being a culture of {{Proud Warrior Race Guy}}s and using strength/combat skills to determine "right to breed" has resulted in centaur males degenerating into a race of hulking, super-{{gonk}}y thugs, whilst the women are still beautiful warrior-maidens like Centorea and her mother. It's gotten so bad that their own women hate them, and would rather chase cute human guys, especially {{bishonen}} types. So, the centaur males hire human guys to get their women "in the mood" to mate by flirting with them, being nice to them, etc... only to then pounce in and roughly copulate with the females. The way it's discussed, this is the norm for all centaur marriages. That's right, centaur culture is literally ''built'' around the concepts of {{Netorare}} and spousal rape! It only gets worse when you consider the fact that "Teasers" are usually either amoral enough to go along with this whole plan for money... or else they actually like the centaur women in question, so they get to watch as the girl they like is basically raped in front of them. It's hard to say which is worse.
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* TheReveal about the centaur culture. In essence, generations of being a culture of {{Proud Warrior Race Guy}}s and using strength/combat skills to determine "right to breed" has resulted in centaur males degenerating into a race of hulking, super-{{gonk}}y thugs, whilst the women are still beautiful warrior-maidens like Centorea and her mother. It's gotten so bad that their own women hate them, and would rather chase cute human guys, especially {{bishonen}} types. So, the centaur males hire human guys to get their women "in the mood" to mate by flirting with them, being nice to them, etc... only to then pounce in and roughly copulate with the females. The way it's discussed, this is the norm for all centaur marriages. That's right, centaur culture is literally ''built'' around the concepts of {{Netorare}} and spousal rape! It only gets worse when you consider the fact that that, depending upon what exactly they're told before, "Teasers" are usually would either have to be amoral enough to go along with this whole plan for money... or else they might actually like the centaur women in question, so they get but were unaware of the male centaurs' true intentions and would have to watch in horror as the girl they like is basically they're suddenly raped right in front of them. It's hard to say which is worse.
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A single sting won't kill unless you're allergic, it takes a fair number of them to kill someone.
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* Chapter 35 has Mero's inevitable kidnapping by Octo. While most any reader will have seen it coming a mile away, it's still a chilling scene, especially when Mero opens the door and [[OhCrap stares in horror]] as a shadow with flailing tentacles descends over her...
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* Chapter 35 has Mero's inevitable kidnapping by Octo. While most any reader will have seen it coming a mile away, it's still a chilling scene, especially when Mero opens the door and [[OhCrap stares in horror]] as a shadow with flailing tentacles descends over her... Subverted when it turns out she was not kidnapped.
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** On the other hand, she switches from Malicious to Incompetent very quickly. Though in the incompetent stage she accidentally sics a second school of piranha on Mero, traps Kirohito with rubble, and gets her smartphone (and thus the controls for her traps) destroyed by her spike trap.]] Things escalate from there, and it [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone does seem like she's realised anything by the end of it.]]
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** On the other hand, she switches from Malicious to Incompetent very quickly. Though in the incompetent stage she accidentally sics a second school of piranha on Mero, traps Kirohito with rubble, and gets her smartphone (and thus the controls for her traps) destroyed by her spike trap.]] Things escalate from there, and it [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone does seem like she's realised anything realized something by the end of it.]]
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** Yuuhi didn't even realize she had become a zombie. [[FridgeHorror If Smith hadn't had the presence of mind to realize something was off, she very well could've gone on her merry way without getting embalming procedures done like Zombina has]], being none the wiser until she started ''ROTTING AWAY''.
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** Yuuhi didn't even realize she had become a zombie. [[FridgeHorror If doctors hadn't called her in and Smith hadn't had the presence of mind to realize something was off, she very well could've might gone on her merry way without getting embalming procedures done like Zombina has]], being none the wiser until she started ''ROTTING AWAY''.
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* In Chapter 44, we are introduced to [[BeeAfraid Killa the Killer Bee]]. If [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast her name isn't any enough]] of an indicator that she's dangerous, she's based off the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_giant_hornet Japanese Giant Hornet]], which anyone who knows about them will tell that their stings are borderline lethal, and ''that's even if the person isn't allergic to insect stings''. Said stings leave wounds the size of ''[[BodyHorror bullet holes]]''. [[TheresNoKillLikeOverkill Now imagine that coming from a human-sized being]]. She also has a considerably less human-looking face, with {{red|Eyes Take Warning}} compound eyes, antennae, and a lower jaw covered in a carapace akin to the hornet's mandibles. Not only that but she can command an army of hornets to attack. And true to her species, she's very aggressive, stopping at nothing to kill Kimihito and only being thwarted by getting trapped in a sauna.
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* In Chapter 44, we are introduced to [[BeeAfraid Killa the Killer Bee]]. If [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast her name isn't any enough]] of an indicator that she's dangerous, she's based off the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_giant_hornet Japanese Giant Hornet]], which anyone who knows about them will tell that their stings are borderline lethal, and ''that's even if the person isn't allergic to insect stings''. extremely painful. Said stings can in severe cases leave wounds the size of ''[[BodyHorror bullet holes]]''. [[TheresNoKillLikeOverkill Now imagine that coming from a human-sized being]]. She also has a considerably less human-looking face, with {{red|Eyes Take Warning}} compound eyes, antennae, and a lower jaw covered in a carapace akin to the hornet's mandibles. Not only that but she can command an army of hornets to attack. And true to her species, she's very aggressive, stopping at nothing to kill capture Kimihito and only being thwarted by getting trapped in a sauna.
