Awesome / Monster Musume

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For a series that is best known for Monster Girl fanservice there are plenty of moments that make you cheer for what happens in Monster Musume.

Kimihito

It is saying something that the most notable character who gives most of these moments is an ordinary human.

• Clocking that racist bastard in the face when he wouldn't shut up about Miia, sending him flying straight into his equally racist bitch of a girlfriend before they both crash straight into the wall.
  • The anime manages to make the scene even more awesome than it already was, creating a sonic shockwave with the impact.
• Taking the sword slash for Centorea.
• Saving Suu by somehow getting a crashed car down a hill and into the river in three seconds.
• Simultaneously punching out the criminal 'director', tricking him into breaking his camera, AND smashing an egg on his face!
  Kimihito: If you want eggs, they're half-off at the supermarket!
• Saving Miia by ramming a boat in the middle of a large lake. With a swan pedal boat, to boot.
• He bites right through Rachnera's silk! A spider web of that size would be stronger than steel! Course it was a single strand of silk, and cutting through webbing is different from actually breaking it, but it still surprised Rachnera.
• Kimihito shows his badass credentials again by calling Ren out on her motives, stating everything about her that made him refuse letting Rachnera go with her. She didn't get the message, but that was still pretty admirable out of him. Rachnera was quite moved too, although she didn't show it until she got drunk on coffee.
  • Also, there was an accidental Take That! to her as Kimihito had just come home from shopping and had brought something to drink for all the girls. His ease-of-gesturing during offering them the drinks, while offhandedly listening to Ren as he does so, was basically saying that "I can deal with half a dozen girls in addition to Rachnee on my own, and you're still convinced that you would make a great host to her?". Of course, Ren didn't notice that part, but the internet did, and Kimihito's popularity rose.
• Chapter 27 had quite a lot. Luring Miia's mom into a refrigerated storage unit, withstanding the aphrodisiac she drugged him with by giving himself a cold shower and finally dragging two unconscious lamias to an onsen where they could recover.^note For the record, an 8 meter anaconda (Miia's official length) is estimated to weigh about 200 kilos (or 440 pounds), Miia and her mom must be even heavier due to having considerably thicker bodies compared to a real-life anaconda (in fact, hastily scribbled-out character notes from a volume cover imply that Miia is in the vicinity of 400-something kilograms, about twice as heavy as an anaconda!), and he dragged both of them. Course dragging bodies is much easier than lifting (he only had to lift their relatively light upper bodies).
  Commenter #1: What is this guy's Will Save?
  Commenter #2: At least 40.
• In chapter 30, we learn he keeps returning from the Afterlife Antechamber under his own willpower in order to make the girls happy. That's taking Determinator to all-new heights. No wonder Lala fell for him.
• Chapter 37: despite only being semi-conscious and half drowned, he still manages to save Mero using some of Rachnee's leftover string from chapter 36.
• In Chapter 40, he has enough willpower to resist Lilith's hypnosis. Actually, he's so pure of heart that instead of getting hypnotized into having sex with her, he responds to hypnotic suggestion of forgoing his inhibitions by scolding her more firmly, thumping her on the head while telling her to knock it off already.
  • Also from Chapter 40, when Doppel gets captured by the Orc leader from MON's debut chapter, Kimihito saves the day by hurling an object at the Orc's head to distract him so Doppel can slip free. Considering what a savage brute this Orc is, that takes serious nerves of steel.
  • Oh, and it's not just awesome...it's beyond awesome: The object Kimihito threw? It was Lilith, still blindfolded, bound, and on cloud nine from Doppel putting her in her place! And THEN Kimihito had the sense to pull Lilith out of harm's way before the Orc could grab her!
• In Chapter 61: He resists the training Miia's mother puts him through by having him try and resist taking off a chastity belt when confronted with several dozen lamia virgins who really want to have sex. Though Rachnera teasingly suggests that as a virgin himself he was simply too scared to go through with it.
• In Chapter 62:
  • He uses his understanding of women to notice the jewelry the Enchidna tribe wears. Despite their tough bravado, his compliments followed by a tail massage helps him seduce them into submission.
• In Chapter 82:
  • He utilizes his experience as a monster card player to defeat Sekmeti, an Egyptian Mummy monster girl whose species invented the franchise.
    • And he does so without resorting to any of the grandiose poses or bombastic speeches that series is known for, remaining polite and modest as he decimates his opponent's deck with nothing but a damage-activated spell card and Sekmeti's over-reliance on monster cards.

Other

• Suu saves a little girl from a car by absorbing her and then taking the impact herself.
• The introduction of MON in chapter 11. They even have subtitles!
  Tionishia: Heavy Guard
  Manako: Elite Sniper
  Doppel: Infiltration/Surprise Unit
  Zombina: Undead Commander
• Rachnera scaring the pants off of the racist guy in chapter 16. He had it coming and then some.
• Mero showing what's she's REALLY capable of in the water in chapter 17. Miia gets one as well for being able to keep up with her during the race (at least until their respective weaknesses kicked in; the cold pool water threatened to shut down Miia's cold-blooded body, and Mero started to choke and vomit after breathing too much chlorinated pool water).
• From Chapter 19, Mero manages to steal the oars from Draco's boat without anyone noticing, leaving Kimihito free to ram them as described above. It's also clever teamwork from Kimihito and Mero, devising a plan in what must have been a short amount of time.
• Chapter 20 has the Kaiju Girl Fight. It must be seen to be believed. The anime manages to make the scene even more awesome by adding a Shout-Out to Godzilla, adding Godzilla's dorsal spikes to Suu and even giving her Godzilla's atomic breath.
  • The shots of Suu/Godzilla are even done with old movie style film scratches and grain.
• Centorea saving Kimihito from a rampaging boar by using a tree branch as a lance in chapter 21.
• Rachnera sexually dominating a devil. A being of pure lust, that lives to make others do her bidding, reduced to a gibbering slave by a spider-girl without any hypnotic or magical powers.
• You may not agree with Ren's motives but she was a badass when facing Miia's cooking and Suu's... "cuddling".
• Chapter 29's got one from Centorea's mother's unnamed 'Teaser'. Having fallen in love with her and faced with the prospect of a centaur stallion mating with Centorea's mom, he grabs a stick and manages to knock the stallion clean out. And stallions are hulking bruisers among extraspecies already known for their strength. That's Kimihito levels of 'don't hurt the one I care about'.
• Rachnera gets into a duel with Octo in Chapter 36, with each using their own skills to tie up the other. Rachnera with her strategically placed string, and Octo with her articulate tentacles. Some of their moves reach Naruto levels of fancy. Even though it came from misunderstanding and lies, it is awesome nonetheless.
  Rachnera: Hmph! These little things can't hold me back. I'm the one in charge here. No ifs, ands, or buts, mkay?
• Mero's Heroic Sacrifice to save Kimihito from drowning in her mother's castle in Chapter 37. She gives the air in her swim bladder to give him one last breath, but doing so causes her to lose buoyancy, and since her tail fin had been damaged by falling rocks, she could neither swim nor float, leaving her unable to fight the current pulling her towards a deadly set of spikes. But that's okay, as long as her beloved is safe...Particularly poignant as Kimihito has given his life to save the girls several times, but this is the first time one of them returns the favor.
• Chapter 40 has Doppel reveal her true nature to the orc leader from chapter 11 after he assaults Draco.
• Manako utterly dominating the traditional festival games.
• Centorea taking on an entire swarm of giant hornets with a sword (the same as those who stung 42 people to death in China). For context, killing a housefly with a knife is nearly impossible, let alone with something as heavy and cumbersome as a claymore or against targets as fast and aggressive as hornets, but that doesn't stop her from taking on hundreds of the damn things to protect her master. Proof that all her bluster about nobility and courage is far more than hyperbole.
• The Cultural Exchange Expo is a truly awesome thing to witness, featuring dozens of booths, hundreds of monsters, and a huge diversity of products on sale catering to most every need or want a liminal could have. Not to mention the pair-up rooms that basically laugh in the face of the legal obstacles to human/liminal intimacy that were prevalent early in the manga.

• For Chapter 51, Lala actually performing her job as a God of Death and banishing Curie's father to the afterlife with absolutely no effort. Her words to Curie's father made it more awesome.
  Lala: The dead must nae torment the livin'. Those who should be dead... will nae be permitted tae do so.
• In chapter 55, Rachnera comes up with quite an impressive plan to defeat the colossal slime (using a Kimihito doll made of silk and full of the absorption polymer to get inside the enemy slime and do it real damage as well as expose the core), and manages to communicate the plan to Suu and Kimihito without anyone else noticing.
• In chapter 61 Rachnera, despite being impeded by a paralytic venom, manages to limp all the way to the entrance of the Hall of Tribulation to demand an explanation from Miia's mother over her actions and check on Kimihito.
• In chapter 65, a Dirty Old Man is coming on to three extraspecies girls that the protagonists of that chapter, three shy young men, were interested in. When they see they're becoming visibly uncomfortable, the three young men start pretending to be flamboyantly gay and flirt with the old man, scaring the old pervert out of the bath and winning the hearts of the extraspecies girls they were interested in.
• In chapter 66, the Broker finally gets some karma for playing fast and loose with the law. He installed Nega Suu into a filtration system at the Snow Inn run by the yuki-onna Yukio. But because she kept absorbing bits of extraspecies DNA, she ended up replicating so much that a horde of new slimes was produced, all ending up with partners. Because he wasn't legally allowed to use Nega Suu like that, Yukio forced him to repair the filtration system for free, as well as set up legal matters for all the slimes created by his actions, putting him in the red.
• In chapter 70, Cerea is helping a centaur named Cheron with some farming, when some mohawked motorbike punks come in and start raiding the field for fresh veggies. (They also are drawn in a different style.) Cheron herself suddenly gains an expression straight out of Fist of the North Star as she beats the everloving crap out of the punks, destroying their bikes too in a manner that Kenshiro would be proud of.
• In chapter 71, Cerea manages to defeat a dairy-breed centaur that was attempting to brainwash Kimihito into becoming her child-like, milk-addicted slave by making herself lactate through sheer force of will, without even realizing she was doing it. She even ended up brainwashing the dairy-breed centaur instead.
• Chapter 81 sees Mero perform a mass water rescue after Suu's Mother, an Undine (who has complete control over water), accidentally turns the lazy river at the new waterpark into a wave pool full of tidal waves. To make it more impressive, the mermaid doesn't even flinch at the challenge and was just bored out of her mind for most of the chapter.

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