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Monster Musume
The first volume of Monster Musume no Iru Nichijou featuring Miia and Kimihito Kurusu.
モンスター娘のいる日常 (Monsutā Musume no Iru Nichijō)
Genre	Fantasy, Harem, Comedy
Manga
Written by	Okayado
Published by	Tokuma Shoten
English publisher	NA: Seven Seas
Magazine	Monthly Comic Ryū
Demographic	Seinen
Original run	May 2012 – present
Volumes	7 (List of volumes)
Anime television series
Directed by	Tatsuya Yoshihara
Written by	Kazuyuki Fudeyasu
Music by	Hiroaki Tsutsumi manzo
Studio	Lerche, Seva
Licensed by	NA: Sentai Filmworks
Original network	AT-X, Tokyo MX, SUN, KBS, BS11,
English network	NA / EU: Crunchyroll SA / AS: Daisuki
Original run	7 July 2015 – present
Episodes	12 (List of episodes)

Monster Musume no Iru Nichijou (Japanese: モンスター娘のいる日常, Hepburn: Monsutā Musume no Iru Nichijō), usually translated as "Everyday Life with Monster Girls" but also as "Daily Life with a Monster Girl" or "Everyday Monster Girls", is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Okayado. An anime adaption began airing in July 2015. A PC game based on the series will also be produced.

Monster Musume is currently 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—so far—7 tankōbon volumes. The story revolves around Kimihito Kurusu, a Japanese student whose life is thrown into turmoil after becoming involved with the "Interspecies Cultural Exchange" program by mistake.

Plot

For years, the Japanese government has kept a secret: mythical creatures like centaurs, harpies, and lamias are real. Three years before the start of this story, the government published the existence of these creatures and passed a legal bill, the "Interspecies Cultural Exchange Act". Since then, the "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 main one being that liminals are forbidden from harming humans and vice versa).

Kimihito Kurusu did not volunteer for the exchange program, but when Ms. 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. As the story continues, Kimihito meets and gives shelter to other female liminals, each of a different species. Some arrive more or less by accident, some are forced upon him by Ms. 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. The situation takes on a whole new twist after he is told that because of expected changes in the law dealing with human-liminal relationships, it is hoped that he will marry one of the girls.

Media

Manga

The chapters of the Monster Musume no Iru Nichijou manga are written and illustrated by Okayado. In Japan, they have been published in Tokuma Shoten's Monthly Comic Ryū magazine since May 2012. The first collected tankōbon volume was released on 13 September 2012. The series has been licensed in English by Seven Seas Entertainment.

Volume list

The series has been collected into seven volumes, six of which have been republished in English. Both the eighth Japanese volume and the seventh English volume are due to be released in August 2015.

Anime

In September 2014, the Monster Musume website ran a series of polls asking what readers would want to see in an anime adaptation. This was followed in March by the announcement that a television series would begin airing in July 2015. The series, directed by Tatsuya Yoshihara and scripted by Kazuyuki Fudeyasu, will be animated by the animation studios Lerche and Seva. It will star Junji Majima as the voice of Kurusu Kimihito, Sora Amamiya as Miia, Ari Ozawa as Papi, Natsuki Aikawa as Centorea, Mayuka Nomura as Suu, Haruka Yamazaki as Mero, Sakura Nakamura as Rachnera, Yū Kobayashi as Ms. Smith, Momo Asakura as Manako, Rei Mochizuki as Zombina, Yurika Kubo as Tionisia, and Saori Ōnishi as Doppel. The opening theme song, titled "Saikōsoku Fall in Love" (最高速 Fall in Love, lit. "Highest Speed Fall in Love"), will be performed by the voice actresses for Miia, Papi, Centorea, Suu, Mero, and Rachnera; and the closing song, "Hey! Smith!!" (Hey!スミス!!, Hey! Sumisu!!), will be performed by the voice actresses for Ms. Smith, Manako, Tionishia, Zombina, and Doppel.

The series will air in Japan on Tokyo MX, SUN, KBS, BS11, and AT-X. It will be accompanied by a series of anime shorts, titled Hobo Mainichi OO! Namappoi Dōga (Almost Daily __! Sort of Live Video), which will be streamed semi-daily on the Japanese video sharing site Niconico, which will also stream the series regular. The shorts will be available for a period of 24 hours, with compilation episodes being streamed on the weekends. The series will be streamed by Daisuki in Central and Latin America, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, and the Philippines. The series will also be streamed by ] inUas, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Latin America, the Netherlands, Scandinavia, and Turkey.Cite error: The <ref> tag has too many names (see the help page). The series has been licensed by Sentai Filmworks in North America.

Episode list

Video game

Coinciding with the release of the first anime episode, it was announced that an online PC game adapted from the series would be released by DMM Games in 2015.

Reception

As of August 2014, over 900,000 copies of the first five tankōbon volumes had been sold, even though the author is relatively unknown. By September 2014 it had sold over 1 million copies.

All six volumes of the English translation have made it onto the New York Times Manga Best Sellers list:

• Volume 1 was on the list for six weeks; for the first two weeks it ranked at number 1.
• Volume 2 stayed on the list for seven weeks (ranking among the top 10 for five nonconsecutive); the first two weeks as number 2.
• Volume 3 stayed for five weeks, ranking at number 1 for the first three weeks.
• Volume 4 stayed for five nonconsecutive weeks, debuting at number 1.
• Volume 5 stayed for three weeks, ranking at number 1 for the first two.
• Volume 6 stayed for four weeks, beginning at number 2 on the first week, and peaking at number 1 on the second week.

See also

• 12 Beast, another manga series by the same author

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External links

• Official manga site Template:Ja icon
• Official anime site Template:Ja icon
• Monster Musume (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia

• Use dmy dates from August 2013
• Manga series
• 2012 manga
• 2015 anime television series debuts
• 2015 anime television series
• Comedy anime and manga
• Harem anime and manga
• Seinen manga
• Seven Seas Entertainment titles
• Tokuma Shoten manga
• Fantasy anime and manga
• Sentai Filmworks