YMMV / Interviews with Monster Girls

• Accidental Aesop:
  • Most viewers see the demi-humans can be a metaphor for people who are different, so this series—especially in the West, due to the unfortunate time it debuts—can be seen as An Aesop on diversity and labels. While most see that as a valid interpretation, opinion is divided on whether this is Petos' intent, as they are previously known for being drawing Cute Monster Girl doujinshi, which implies they may be writing it out of Author Appeal.
  • It's very easy to assume that Macchi's dullahan aspect is a metaphor for physical disability and the way it's treated by society and by those themselves who have them. In particular, the attention given to the special accommodations she requires in order to eat, bathe, etc. (complete with what amounts to a prosthesis rig), the little details of how she goes through her day (adjusting her body in an unusual way to pick up the phone, getting around the house without her head by relying on touch and memorization like a blind person would), the way her parents talk about the challenges of raising her and dealing with them alongside her, and how she's concerned about people being afraid of asking her about it all sound like dead ringers for problems faced by a teenager who has a physical disability.
• Adorkable: Takahashi has a scientific mind through and through, so him bringing up embarrassing subjects to the Demis without thinking and out of sheer curiosity overrides the due appropriateness of the subject at hand. One of the reasons the girls approach him is because the guy is a massive dork with whom they can talk about their Demi-specific problems that they couldn't bring out to other people because the Demis are too particular for just anyone to relate to them.
• Alternative Character Interpretation: The Demi-humans are often seen as a metaphor for people that are different. What kind of difference is up to debate, but the most common view is that they refer to disabled people.
• Anvilicious: There have been complaints that the series beats the viewer over the head with the message of "don't be prejudiced". However, as detailed under Accidental Aesop, some question if it was even the writer's intention at all.
• Fan Nickname: Hikari is called with a variety of fan nicknames with the -pire suffix, including Genkipire, Dumpire, and Nibpire.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Kurtz, the German boy who is unaffected by the succubi's erotic powers, is voiced by Sora Amamiya. She previously voiced a horny lamia in Monster Musume, so more or less the kind of stuff Kurtz would be used against.
  • Another anime that aired that season was Little Witch Academia, and this made several viewers notice the (completely coincidental) similarities between Sakie Satou and Ursula Callistis. Both are twenty-something bespectacled youthful teachers with a shy, nervous disposition who live alone and isolated by everybody else, since they both need to hide their immense power. Sakie does it to avoid people being affected by her sexual charms, and Ursula needs to keep her true identity, the super powerful witch Chariot Du Nord, a secret. In a few episodes Ursula even wears a red tracksuit similar to the one Sakie is always wearing.
• Les Yay: So, as in the universe of manga, vampire kiss is regarded as quite intimate or erotic acts, Hikari attracted to Yuki can be considered to this trope. This is actually CANON...as it's pointed out that thinking in a schoolgirl lesbian way can help Hikari compensate for not having a 'real' romance.
• Memetic Badass:
  • After Takahashi was revealed to be rocking the Heroic Build, there have been a number of jokes about how he got that ripped (such as wrestling Godzilla, for example).
  • Due to his ability to resist Sakie Satou, there have also been many comments across video clips about how Takahashi's Will is so great, he qualifies for the Green Lantern Corps.
• Tear Jerker: Yuki's breakdown upon overhearing rude comments about her from other students.
• Unintentionally Sympathetic: Episode 11 has Takahashi go through a mini Heroic BSoD after he gets criticized by the Vice Principal for showing preferential treatment to the Demi Girls. While the Vice Principal later goes back on this and even apologizes to Takahashi, there were viewers who believed that the Vice Principal's initial criticism is absolutely right. This being said, much of the other cast think through over what the Vice Principal said critically.
• The Woobie:
  • Yuki. Very shy and emotional, and for a while has trouble accepting being a snowgirl.
  • Sakie Satou. She considers being part-succubus far more a curse than a blessing, lives in a small house far out in the countryside all by herself to avoid contact with others, and winds up being frequently tired thanks to her work schedules (having to get ready at 4 AM and walk a while to the first stop on a train).
• Woolseyism: What was originally a gag on Japanese Honorifics turned into this exchange:
  Tetsuo: Wut up girl!
  Hikari: Heeyyy!

---