Yeah, I guess I can invoke the "fun things are fun" clause for the stuff I do enjoy; it just sucks that the final decisions for some shows aren't more "let's make this show the best it can be" and instead more "let's do whatever's best for business". Not that they don't fortunately overlap sometimes, though to what degrees varies from show to show.
This is really the bitter pill for me; I'm very poor at separating the logic of "a new anime season won't really help grow this LN anymore" from the wishes of "but why not make a Hataraku Maou-sama (or whatever) S2 when it sold comparatively well and got a good reception?" On the other hand, part of the problem there somewhat stems from the fact that a domestic viewer who just wants to see how the story continues can just pick up the source material easily and go from there, whereas even if an overseas fan just wanted that, they're often screwed. But I guess increased manga and LN licensing does seem to be gradually mitigating that? At least for the most popular series. Though you run the risk of a poor translation (I don't know how Yen keeps pumping out stuff at a regular pace and keeps adding more superlong series) and it doesn't beat seeing it brought to life in animation, but I suppose it's better than nothing.
It still has the army in a fantasy world theme still in it and it isn't as crappy as you think it becomes. At least compared to other things.
I'm sure this will be taken the wrong way, but I do think that RKB had at least a feminist message. Certainly it's what made all the loliball pandering somewhat justifiable. lol
I think instinctively I want to identify or sympathize with the female characters anyway. That's probably why I have an issue with what I've seen so far.
As a fan of shoujo, I think it's fine. At the moment I think it's better than that Red Hair anime anyway.
Well I lnow that it's from the 90s, but MAPPA really encapsulated the style that a lot of anime were going for in that time period.
LOL they can argue or be ticked off all they like. They can't take my monster girls away from me
Seriously though - the harem genre is by and large pretty dumb, and Monster Girls by taking it to its absurdist extremes while also answering the questions its own premise begs ("What would you have to do to accommodate an 8 foot long snake-person?"), makes it rise above its baser nature. It's part so-bad-it's-good, part surprisingly thoughtful, and entirely good natured. It's also refreshing to have an MC who actually wants to hook up w/ his harem (almost) as much as they want to hook up with him, but an arbitrary outside force is preventing them, rather than any sort of fedora m'lady shit.
And Smith-san has the potential to be the world's greatest troll.
I know there's only been two episodes so far and it has plenty of time to crash and burn, but I legit super enjoy this show so far.
I am hoping that the huge success from the series, plus the shitload of source material that is out warrants a season 2 announcement as soon as the last episode airs. This is the type of show that shouldn't be a one or two cour, it should just keep on going. I haven't enjoyed a show like this in a while.
