Interviews with Monster Girls is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Petos. The series began serialization in Kodansha's Young Magazine the 3rd magazine in September 2014 and is being published in English by Kodansha USA. An animetelevision series adaptation by A-1 Pictures aired between January and March 2017.
Plot
The story takes place in an age where demi-humans, more casually known as "demis", have slowly started to become accepted into human society. Tetsuo Takahashi is a biology teacher who ends up teaching three such demis, hoping to understand more about them while also managing to catch their attention.
Petos began serializing the manga in the first issue of Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Young Magazine the 3rd on 5 September 2014. In March 2016, Kodansha USA announced that they had licensed the series in North America.
Anime
An anime television adaptation was announced on 3 September 2016. The anime is directed by Ryō Andō with animation by the studio A-1 Pictures. The series' scripts is written by Takao Yoshioka, character designs are done by Tetsuya Kawakami, and music is composed by Masaru Yokoyama. The series aired on Tokyo MX, MBS, and BS11 between 7 January 2017 and 25 March 2017. Crunchyroll simulcast the series as it aired while Funimation began releasing an English dub on 25 January 2017. A thirteenth episode aired on 29 June 2017. The opening theme is "Original." by TrySail while the ending theme is "Fairytale" by Sangatsu no Phantasia.
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Reception
As of September 2016, the series' three volumes had 550,000 copies in print. As of December 2016, the series had over 1.1 million copies in print. Volume 2 ranked at number 13 on the Oricon manga charts during its first week, selling 39,876 copies. It dropped to number 14 for its second week, selling another 32,283 copies. Volume 3 ranked 21st, selling 55,907 copies in its first week. Anime News Network editor Theron Martin published a positive review of the complete anime series in 2018. He gave praise to the loveable main cast, the story's attention to detail in its worldbuilding of the demis and adding a bit of philosophy when interacting with them, concluding that "Overall, Interviews with Monster Girls delivers an entertaining and occasionally thoughtful package that avoids the seedier pitfalls common to the monster girl genre." Interviews with Monster Girls was nominated for Best Slice of Life in the 2017 Crunchyroll Anime Awards but lost to Girls' Last Tour.
