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  • Alternative Character Interpretation:
    • Is Miia really a defrosting Jerk with a Heart of Gold who tolerates her darling's care for the other women? Or is she secretly a full-blown Yandere who intends to prevent the other girls from getting close to her darling and intends to remove them as romantic rivals? Some theorize that her clinginess may eventually harm the man she loves on a serious level one day... well, more so than now.
    • The fan translation flips Doppel's personality on its head. Changing her from a well meaning Karmic Trickster to maliciously and spitefully Paying Evil Unto Evil with torturous schemes.
  • Arc Fatigue:
    • The mystery about who "D" is lasted from Chapters 18 to 24. "D" was falsely hinted at repeatedly with Draco, Kii, and Lilith. Doppel provided the initial note, while Lala wrote the second and final note.
    • The chapters where Kimihito returns to the farm, while being much shorter than the "D" arc, suffered from this due to Schedule Slip causing it to feel even longer. Compounding that is the fact that the entire main cast aside from Kimihito is Out of Focus, with most of his interactions being with groups of fauns and satyrs rather than any individual characters.
    • The general series question of who Kimihito is going to marry, dragging on and on while never getting closer to a resolution. It's gotten especially silly with the addition of background interspecies couples that should logically be able to take over as the tests for whether human-extraspecies relationships can work ( like Papi's parents).
    • After the huge art demands of the massive crowd scenes in the revamped hot springs story arc, Okayado seems to have taken a break with a light, relaxing Monster of the Week story arc, where Centorea meets a different centaur subspecies each chapter. Unfortunately, it's now run for nearly half a year, with only a few other members of the main cast showing up, often as cameos.
  • Ass Pull: Suu pulling New Powers as the Plot Demands every couple of chapters. She can shapeshift, read minds, taste poisons and so on. Mostly justified due to slimes being a very recent game market invention, as opposed to most of the other monsters who are folklore figures from pre-16th Century times (though Suu still has more abilities than Slimes are ever marketed with at any one time, and some that were never seen on them before her).
  • Awesome Music: The Opening and Ending credits for the Anime do not disappoint. The ED, in particular, is so badass they could've used it as the OP for a more action-packed spin-off starring MON and nobody would be likely to notice. In fact... they did.
  • Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: The OAV has a scene of Polt gently licking Manako's eyeball to remove a hair that was stuck there. It was entirely original, not coming from the manga or any of the omake, and at one point it even switched to Manako's perspective, giving the impression that Polt was licking the screen. Even the other MON members didn't seem quite sure of what was going on. Perhaps some of the animators (or Okayado himself) had this specific fetish...
  • Base-Breaking Character:
    • Ms. Smith. You either love her because her lazy and forgetful demeanor are some of the manga's funniest parts, or you hate her because her lazy and forgetful demeanor cause a lot of the manga's problems in the first place.
    • Every new minotaur, pan and satyr character from the Farm arc. They have a lot of fans who find them and their character dynamics with both each other's species and Kimihito interesting and wish that one of them would have joined the main harem, but there's just as many people who despise them for not only being cliché and anime archetypes at best, or unlikable characters who're just using the protagonist at worst, but also being a huge Spotlight-Stealing Squad who caused the main harem to fall Out of Focus for the entire arc.
  • Broken Base:
    • In the official English translation, Rachnera's dialogue is riddled with spider puns and uses "itsy bitsy" as an adjective in nearly every single sentence. Some think it's an amusing touch, while others find it overused and annoying. Thankfully they do tone down the frequency of "itsy bitsy" as time goes by.
    • Fans who were hoping the anime would get a quality English dub weren't very thrilled when it was announced that Sentai Filmworks got the license to it, since Sentai doesn't have the best track record when it comes to dubbing their shows, with most of them either using amateur voice actors or not having a dub at all. They later announced that the anime would get an English dub, but fans are still uncertain whether the dub will be good or not.
    • Polt being Demoted to Extra in the anime. The manga chapter that featured her was likely cut out due to space constraints, and as a result she's been relegated to a few cameos. Many of her fans are not happy with this, while others are just glad she's in the anime at all. Her contributions to Kimihito's food problems being cut out of Episode 12 only made her fans even more unhappy. It could have been even worse; she might not have even appeared at all had Okayado himself not requested she be put in somehow. It's mostly died down after the release of the first OVA, which was all about the trip to Polt's gym that was cut out.
    • After the story arc of Kimihito getting kidnapped, the main harem has been sidelined, to the point of becoming background characters or even not appearing at all (like in the farm story arc). Several fans are getting annoyed by this and are starting to lose interest in the manga, which is supposed to be a slice of life about them. Though the Lamia Village arc is rectifying​ this by finally giving the main harem focus again.
  • Captain Obvious Reveal: Chapter 34 reveals that Mero is an actual princess. Considering the huge and unsubtle amount of foreshadowing, the reactions of most readers was "wait, that's supposed to be a reveal?" The summary blurb on Volume 9 even notes that it's really not much of a surprise.
  • Catharsis Factor: Seeing any of the characters get their just desserts for despicable actions of their own doing, with Wladislaus, the P.O.R.K. leader, and the director being some of the most satisfying.
  • Complete Monster: Puns aside, the series has no shortage of unpleasant characters, but the top of the list has to be Wladislaus Drakulya. An abusive father to his daughter, Curie, and forcing her to do things against her will, Wladislaus is an apathetic and disgusting excuse for a parent who is far more racist than even the worst of the human characters. Add in several end goals that include genocide against other species and you get the most vile character in the entire series, which makes his final end courtesy of Lala's scythe well and truly much deserved.
  • Ensemble Dark Horse: The Bicycle Cop of all people, has a large enough fan-following to routinely get fanart. In fact, as mentioned on the WMG page, fans have even started giving him his own harem (of the most dangerous and violent subspecies available). The general consensus seems to be that the girls are part of a parole program rather than the usual species exchange the main series focuses on.
  • Fan Nickname:
    • The bicycle cop is most commonly call, well, Bicycle Cop. He's also called Crack Cop due to looking like he's on crack since he's always on edge.
    • Kii's giant form is called "Regitree" due to resembling Regigigas and the Regi trio from Pokémon.
    • Miia's mother is, unsurprisingly, known as Mama Miia.
    • After a number of unfortunate Never Live It Down moments, Mero has been saddled with the title of "murdermaid". She's also been saddled by the nickname "Cucklefish".
    • Kimihito is occasionally called "Darling" even by the fans, joking on the fact that (barring Smith in the first chapter) no one ever calls him by his name in the series.
    • The creator himself, Okayado, is nicknamed "Crabman" because his Author Avatar is a hermit crab.
  • Friendly Fandoms : With Rosario + Vampire, as they are both harem series that feature mythological creatures and fan-service, and both have a major case of Germans Love David Hasselhoff (see below).
  • Gateway Series: This series has practically introduced the work of Cute Monster Girl into the mainstream, and also introduced a fashion for the study of discrimination and social issues in the context of this genre.
  • Germans Love David Hasselhoff: The manga is a decent seller in Japan but doesn't make a huge splash. In America, it regularly hit the New York Times Manga Top 10 before the anime was even announced. It's even outsold complete juggernauts like Attack on Titan and even Bleach once or twice. These circumstances eerily match those of Rosario + Vampire (see Friendly Fandoms).
  • Hilarious in Hindsight: Very darkly hilarious in this case: Mero's introductory chapter has Miia absolutely certain that the mermaid is actually a psychotic Bitch in Sheep's Clothing under her royal facade. While it turns out Mero really is every bit the peach she is on the surface, her mother on the other hand...
  • I Knew It!: Many predicted that the anime would be released in June 2017 according to the March 2017 newsletter, given that Sentai releases their works four months in advance. They were right.
  • Launcher of a Thousand Ships: Our main protagonist has been shipped with nearly every monster girl in the series, and that's already a long list of pairings.
  • Les Yay:
    • Papi and Suu experience most of it. Suu notably kisses her outright during the Chapter 10 water-absorption spree, though she does end up bringing Miia, Papi, and Centorea to orgasm.
    • In Episode 10, Papi sucking on Kii's breasts (to remove toxic nutrients) and Kii sucking on Suu's breasts. (Along with Kimihito replacing a tied-up Papi on Kii's breasts, all three girls orgasm.)
    • Also in Episode 10, Rachnera takes mischievous Lilith to a warehouse for bondage and interrogation. Lilith refers to Rachnera as "oneesama" and answers her questions, getting an orgasm as a reward from Rachnera. Later in the series she's still obsessively taken with Rachnera, though Rachnera herself apparently has completely ignored her ever since she determined Lilith wasn't "D."
    • The Eel Mermaids get rather touchy-feely with Miia and Centorea, and that's even considering that they're masseuses.
    • Mero initially plans to be Kimihito's mistress with Miia in particular as the wife. At the end of chapter 37, she's decided she wants to be Kimihito's wife, but has become even more keen on keeping Miia around afterward. And twice so far she's felt the Lamia up for reasons known only to herself.
    • By the end of the Farm arc in chapter 59, the perpetually-horny satyrs have succeeded in seducing (almost) every faun and minotaur girl on the farm. An omake implies it doesn't really stick as any kind of stable relationship though, as in a talk among themselves the satyrs shoot down the idea of hiring Kimihito back to the farm to milk them (they consider milking their own kind to be one fetish they won't do and want a man to do it) because they know the rest of the girls will switch back to Kimihito if given the opportunity.
    • Yatsume the lamprey mermaid gets a bit too excited when she hears that Leechi the leech girl is a hermaphrodite and is willing to show off her "equipment".
  • Like You Would Really Do It: In chapter 55 Kimihito is about to drown or dissolve inside a giant evil toxic slime (It Makes Sense in Context). Suu follows him and creates a bubble in order to let him breathe and to protect him from the toxic sludge. However, said toxic sludge proves too much for her and she dissolves into nothing after having protected her Master. It's revealed then that Kimihito swallowed Suu's core, thus allowing her to regenerate from it.
  • Memetic Molester: Suu and Rachnera, due to bringing about a lot of Black Comedy Rape in the story.
  • Memetic Mutation:
    • The chibi-face Miia made in the first episode before dragging Kimihito back to bed made the rounds for a while, including on This Very Wiki as it is the image for this series' Funny Moments page.
    • Kimihito is Saitama before he lost his hair. Explanation 
    • Bucket SuuExplanation 
    • Memes about the series being Too Good to Last, and the impossibility of a second season are common.
  • Moe: This is a series about Cute Monster Girls. Papi and Tio are the stand out examples.
  • Moral Event Horizon: While the Racist Couple are usually just annoying and racist douchebags, the man of the duo crosses the line into evil territory when he attempts to rape Centorea in Chapter 16/Episode 8, using legal loopholes to prevent her from fighting back and only being foiled by Rachnera's intervention. It's not played for laughs, and possibly because of this both him and his girlfriend are heavily implied to have died in their next and final appearance, something that hasn't happened to any other character in the series.
  • Narm: Since this is an ecchi series the girls are designed to be sexy, but Rachnera having a human butt on top of her spider body is a bit too ridiculous to some. She seems to have her spider half connected by a second neck attached to her perineum, rather than at the end of her spine like a tail.
  • Narm Charm: OVA and web episodes have a lot of this because of the image of extremely open eroticism or intimate situations with a completely serious face.
  • Never Live It Down: After her attempt to get Someone to Remember Him By before actually trying to save Kimihito in chapter 24, poor Meroune quickly got saddled with the Fan Nickname of "Murdermaid."
  • No Yay: A few of the girls, namely Miia, Centorea, Papi, and Mero, are not into the Black Comedy Rape brought on by Suu or Rachnera.
  • Seasonal Rot: Following the kidnapping arc, or possibly even before, quite a few fans view the series as having succumbed to this, since rather than focusing on the primary romantic harem comedy aspect of the series, many of the arcs center around a single member of the main cast or even one-shot characters who have little to no involvement with the main characters, and barely any of it involves romance with the MC. On top of that, the ecchi gets seriously ramped up (in a series known for being pretty ecchi to begin with) at the expense of outright ignoring any forward motion for what little plot was being built up.
  • Squick:
    • Chapter 1. Miia accidentally dislocates her darling's arm and agent Smith tries snapping it back into its correct position.
    • The OVA has a brief scene in which Polt licks Manako's eyeball.
    • For the Western Audience, characters of the same body build as Papi (that is of the young teenage girl variety) getting roped into sexual scenarios. For some, showing said character in sexually implicated scenarios (such as sucking on an ice pop in the most odd of ways) can be a little squicky for those not into the whole sexualized young girls trope, with her behaviour doing little to show that she's of legal age not helping her case either. Though thankfully it's not nearly as prevalent as all the other ladies.
  • They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Lilith. She only makes one major appearance and a couple of minor ones, but between her prankster personality and her... relationship with "Mistress" Rachera, she could've had more potential for both comedy and characterization.
  • They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot:
    • Chapter 14 sets Rachnera up as the manga's first possible villain, yet she was added to the harem near-instantly.
    • And then there's Draco from chapter 19. Possible rival and villain... and he turns out to not even be an actual dude.
    • The resolution of the "D" mystery. The first letter was a joke. The second letter appeared to have been done by yet another goofy girl.
    • Chapter 26 (the one with Ren Kunanzuki, daughter of Rachnera's previous host family, trying to readopt Rachnera out of guilt for her parents selling her) could've been a heartwarming resolution for probably the most tragic main character in the manga, and also the debut for one more sympathetic human person outside of the main cast. Instead, Ren was portrayed as egoistic and ignorant (if not intentionally on her part), and her appearance was played mainly to make Kimihito look better, though it did help soften Rachnera a bit more.
  • Vanilla Protagonist: As with many harem protagonists, Kimihito is as designed to be an extremely accessible character who can fit any role. It’s the harem girls who provide the true focus of the series.
  • Woolseyism:
    • MON's acronym was changed from "Monsters of a Neuro" to "Monster Ops: Neutralization" in the official English translation, changing a case of Gratuitous English into a name that made sense in English. The anime goes with "MONster's New Law".
    • Lala, in the English translation of the manga, speaks with a notable Irish brogue that fits the Dullahan's origins.

Alternative Title(s): Daily Life With Monster Girl

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