March 11, 2017
The Means by Which Dulhallans Eat
...has yet to be addressed in this show, but despite that glaring omission, as of episode 7, Interviews With Monster Girls is mostly living up to the hype.
Well, in fairness, she could have been more clear.
"No. We understand how it gets into your mouth, it's the step after that which has us confused."
A biologist whose PHD thesis on demi-humans was shot down due to a lack of any preternatural people to study, abandons his research and gets a job as a high school biology teacher. Years later, he is surprised to learn that his school has enrolled a dulhallan, a vampire and a snow-woman. He begins his research anew arranging interviews with the fantastical beings and with the help of a delightfully goofball math teacher, councils his students and watches as they cope with all those little awkward moments every high school kid goes through.
Well, in fairness, she could have been more clear.This is a surprisingly well done story. Cute girls doing cute things in high school has been done a lot but this show has really good characterizations and despite the centrality of the monster-girls quirks....
"I will never really get used to that."
...they come off as some of the most believably characterized kids in a long time. Cast-wise it treads perilously close to harem territory, so it's very welcome that at least one of the schoolgirls has (maybe) a tentative romantic interest amongst the student body. It's even more welcome that the aforementioned delightfully goofball math teacher is around.
More welcome still in our decadent age is that this show actually stresses the virtuousness of men aspiring to arete' and thereby maintaining a stoic demeanor in stressful situations....
...and dealing with one's emotions in private so as not to bother others.
"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Did I mention the delightfully goofball math teacher?
Interviews With Monstergirls is, despite its premise, surprisingly down to earth and well written.
Now there are tentative indications as of episode 7 that there might be more to the story than a high school slice of life show.
That could be disastrous, or it could be awesome. At this point, even if they brought in giant robots that trapped everyone in a video game, I'd still watch it for a couple of episodes to see what they did because I'm that enamored of these characters.
I'm just gonna recommend this one.
UPDATE : 72 Minutes and 3 episodes later:
Well, what do you know.
Snerk...
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...they come off as some of the most believably characterized kids in a long time.
I still think that Hikari is the single most believable representation of a teenage girl I've ever seen. Despite the nibbling.
I still think that Hikari is the single most believable representation of a teenage girl I've ever seen. Despite the nibbling.
Posted by: Wonderduck at Sun Mar 12 09:52:19 2017 (UDOXQ)
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One ex-girlfriend was a nommer. They're out there. (She also had an aversion to bright sunlight and a mischievous personality, but fortunately, no need to metabolize hemoglobin. She was just an ex-goth...)
Posted by: Avatar_exADV at Sun Mar 12 13:40:10 2017 (v29Tn)
Posted by: J Greely at Sun Mar 12 14:01:12 2017 (tgyIO)
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