Interviews With Monster Girls, the charming 2017 series from A-1 Pictures, has arrived on Crunchyroll complete with an English dub. The 12-episode run, which concluded its original broadcast in Winter 2017, offers a slice-of-life perspective on the integration of mythical beings into modern society.
The anime centers on Tetsuo Takahashi, a high school biology teacher with a deep curiosity for the "Ajin," or demi-humans. These include vampires, dullahan, succubi, and snow women, who now coexist with humans and attend regular schools. Takahashi's interactions with his students, like the shy vampire Yoko and the stoic dullahan Machi, form the core of this educational and often humorous series.
Produced by A-1 Pictures, known for its work on Sword Art Online and Kaguya-sama: Love Is War, the adaptation of the seinen manga by Petos captures a gentle, iyashikei (healing) tone. While not reaching the heights of some of its more action-oriented brethren, the series earned a respectable 7.51 MAL score from over 226,000 voters, highlighting its appeal as a character-driven comedy.
With the full series now available with both subtitles and an English dub, Interviews With Monster Girls offers a cozy, character-focused narrative for fans of school-life comedies and urban fantasy. The series also spawned a sequel OVA, "The Demi-chans' Summer Break," which may also see broader availability.
