Monster Musume, aka Daily Life with a Monster Girl, has been running in Monthly Comic Ryu magazine since the beginning of 2012 and the title has done well for them as well as for Seven Seas Entertainment, who picked up the license to it and began releasing it in late 2013. The title has five volumes out in Japan so far and that fifth volume is getting a release in North America in November. The real news though is that the title by Okayado has done exceedingly well for a new series that it’s sold over 1 million copies so far in Japan, which had the publisher put together a fun little promo video to help celebrate it.
Plot concept: Monsters: they’re real, and they want to date us!
Three years ago, the world learned that harpies, centaurs, catgirls, and all manners of fabulous creatures are not merely fiction; they are flesh and blood – not to mention scale, feather, horn, and fang. Thanks to the “Cultural Exchange Between Species Act,” these once-mythical creatures have assimilated into society, or at least, they’re trying.
When a hapless human teenager named Kurusu Kimihito is inducted as a “volunteer” into the government exchange program, his world is turned upside down. A snake-like lamia named Miia comes to live with him, and it is Kurusu’s job to take care of her and make sure she integrates into his everyday life.
Unfortunately for Kurusu, Miia is undeniably sexy, and the law against interspecies breeding is very strict. Even worse, when a ravishing centaur girl and a flirtatious harpy move in, what’s a full-blooded teenage human with raging hormones to do?!