
However, as time passes, other liminal girls are attracted to him and begin to vie for his attention, much to Kimihito's embarrassment and the annoyance of his housemates. The situation takes on a new twist after he is told that because of expected changes in the law dealing with human-liminal relationships, he is expected, as a test case, to marry one of the girls, thus increasing their competition for his attention. Some arrive more or less by accident, some are forced upon him by Smith, or force themselves in, and it does not take long for him to find himself in a hectic environment where he struggles to live in harmony with his new housemates while dealing with both their constant advances and the dramas of helping them get along in the human world. As the story continues, Kimihito meets and gives shelter to other female liminals, each of a different species. However, when Kuroko Smith delivered the very scared and embarrassed Miia to his door by mistake, he did not have the heart to send her away and they started living together. In Asaka, Saitama, Kimihito Kurusu did not volunteer for the exchange program. Since then, these creatures, known as " liminals", have become a part of human society, living with ordinary families like foreign exchange students and au-pair visitors, but with other duties and restrictions (the primary restrictions being that liminals and humans are forbidden from harming each other or procreating). Three years before the start of the story, the government revealed the existence of these creatures and passed the "Interspecies Cultural Exchange Act". See also: List of Monster Musume characters Setting įor years, the Japanese government had kept a secret: mythical creatures such as centaurs, mermaids, harpies, and lamaias are real.

Monster Musume revolves around Kimihito Kurusu, a Japanese student whose life is thrown into turmoil after accidentally becoming involved with the "Interspecies Cultural Exchange" program.Īn anime adaptation aired from July to September 2015, and is licensed by Sentai Filmworks under the title Monster Musume: Everyday Life with Monster Girls.Ī novel adaptation, titled Monster Musume – Monster Girls on the Job!, with Yoshino Origuchi, author of Monster Girl Doctor, as the writer, was published by Seven Seas Entertainment (ISBN 978-1-64827-559-3) on August 29, 2020. The series is published in Japan by Tokuma Shoten in their Monthly Comic Ryū magazine and by Seven Seas Entertainment in the United States, with the chapters collected and reprinted into seventeen tankōbon volumes to date. Monster Musume ( Japanese: モンスター娘のいる日常, Hepburn: Monsutā Musume no Iru Nichijō, "Everyday Life with Monster Girls") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Okayado.
