Reviews

Holy cow this one is bad. I went in with low expectations expecting yet another half hearted ecchi with a story tacked on simply to allow more harem characters to be thrown at the MC. Turned out to not only have a terrible story, and worse characters, but it doesn't even do what it sets out to do well! For an ecchi there isn't even much fan service to speak of other than "we drew monster girls, but with big'ol breasts!" The story makes zero sense, with multiple nations going from extreme racism to the point of all-out war for centuries to living in near perfect harmony over the coarse of a couple decades.

Yet again, we have 1 dimensional characters that only exist to fill an anime trope with no emotions or reasoning that exists outside of said trope. Childhood tsundere friend? Check. Dumb-struck love rival? Check. Clueless MC who is a genius at one thing and dumb as a rock at literally everything else? Check.

The art is a very strange amalgamation of bad (really bad) CGI for anything that actually moves, and more conventional art for anything that stands still. The only positive thing I can say about this show is outside of the bad CGI moments, the art is actually quite colorful and some of the monsters are drawn in new and unique ways.

In the end, Monster Musume no Oishasan fails to deliver on anything it sets out to do. It gives us monster girls/people in a non-action setting but doesn't really delve into anything interesting about them further than anything blatantly obvious. It gives us ecchi but pretty much only attempts to deliver on this in the form of girls moaning because apparently anything on a monster girl that doesn't resemble a human is "very sensitive." It tries to throw in comedy to keep the mood lighter but all of the "jokes" are basically just tropes being tropes. "Haha look at the tsundere hitting people for no reason again...that's funny right?"