Monstergirls

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Alright, you've probably heard of the Furry fetish - for all the absolute hate it gets on /tg/, it gets mentioned around here enough. Monstergirls aren't furries - /tg/ is very adamant about this, and if there's one thing more likely to get you ballbusted than bringing up furries, it's trying to argue about the difference/lack thereof between the two.

Monstergirls are where /tg/ and /d/ have their greatest overlap - sexy decidedly not-human girls who happen to be among the things everyone on /tg/ loves the most. To put it simply, were Rule 34 and a Dungeons and Dragons Monster Manual to have hardcore ball-busting sex, Monstergirls would be the product of their sweaty lust, and both parents would look upon their child with pride.

In essence, you take a monster, and you add bits of female human anatomy until you have something left that's fairly sexy. The most common form of this, especially from Weeaboo artists, is basically a human girl with tails, ears, inhuman limbs, spikes, or whatever, often ending up as looking like cosplay creations if not handled well. Ironically, more monstrous-looking monstergirls (lizardgirls with scaled human faces, for example) are just as likely to be blasted as being "furry scum" as they are to be defended by fa/tg/uys. Animal monstergirls like centaurs and minotaurs and harpies suffer the most from the constant quarreling over where the line between monstergirl and female not-quite-so-furry lies, but /tg/ is generally willing to ignore the furriness of anything an actual furry would happily call a "10% furry".

In /tg/'s eyes, the difference is this:

There's anthropomorphic fans; people who dig animals with human features and vice-versa. This is common and HARMLESS, and these people can be found in dozens of different boards. Hell, there's even Touhous with Cat Ears.

"Girls with cat ears are so cute!"

This is normal, and there's nothing wrong with this.

Then there's furries who have a sexual fetish for people-shaped animals, or who want to be people-shaped animals AND dress up as animals. These people are hated but they're usually not so ba- *BLAM* Showing one atom of sympathy is HERESY!

~~"Oh god, Chakats are totally hot, I'd do them so hard"~~

HERMAPHRODITE ALIEN FURRY EROTICA? *BLAM* *BLAM* Stevens? Yes, si- *BLAM* TRIPLE HERESY!

As you can see from our friend the Commissar, this is Heresy to be shunned.

Please, they are just a bunch of fu*BLAM* anyone who try to compare monstergirls with furries or otherwise using monstergirls to cover for furries, please contact the Inquisition as soon as possible.

A wide variety of monstergirls exist - a comprehensive list may be impossible, but some of the most common ones seen on /d/ and /tg/ alike are below:

Merfolk
Demon/Devil Girls
Daemonettes
Nagas/Lamia/Marliths
Centaurs
Minotaurs

Medusae - Keep that blindfold on tight!
Orcs
Trolls
Cyclopes
Sphinxes

Slime/Goo Girls
Elemental Girls -
Fire girls never get to cuddle T_T
(AND THEN WE INVENTED FIREPROOF SUITS)
Warforged
Succubi

Undead Girls
Shapeshifters
Scyllas
Harpies
Space Harpies

Tau - aka: Hot blueberry pie.
Drider - Blessing or curse, baby, it's all the same to me.

Suffice to say, there's ten shitloads. Monstergirls are one of the few things /tg/ will defend to the death - getting between a fa/tg/uy and his Monstergirls will result in fa/tg/uy rage that will give an Angry Marine pause. Note that there are other, decidedly-not-monstergirls that are seen in these threads too - Elves aren't exactly Monstergirls and get fucked way too much - but they're still allowed, as are miscellaneous catgirls/werecats, etc, in spite of the obvious Weeaboo. There's also a few more monstrous girls, such as Thri-Kreen or Mindflayers, thrown in the mix for both hilarity and lulz. So if you happen upon some desert insect women in a Monstergirl thread? Don't be afraid -- it's all good. Make a grapple check if you know what I mean.

Living With Monstergirl series

Whenever a monstergirl thread starts, someone will start posting the "Living With _____" aka "My Life With _____" comics. These are one-page cute erotic stories of a man who has a monstergirl waifu. The author assures us (in an interview vignette) it's not the same guy two-timing these girls, but actually eight identical brothers who each happened to fall in love with a different monstergirl. The brothers sometimes meet one another (and their spouses) mid-comic.

The ones that have been seen/translated are:

Living with Arachne & Living with Arachne 2
Living with Mermaid & Living with Mermaid 2
Living with Dullahan & Living with Dullahan 2 (Irish for "headless knight psychopomp")
Living with Slime & Living with Slime 2
Living with Harpy & Living with Harpy 2
Living with Lamia & Living with Lamia 2
Living with Minotaur
Living with Centaur & Living with Centaur 2

For those of us who love this kind of thing, the original author/artist Inui Takemaru has an ongoing monthly manga based on this series. It's been tamed down to ecchi for the most part (you'll see tits at its best), but the art style and writing is pretty much what it was back in his old stuff. Somehow it got turned into a harem manga, but that's cool and all. ~~It's not like they're going to do a story arc about the protagonist having to choose a girl.~~ As of now Lamia, Harpy, Centaur, Slime, Mermaid and Arachne have joined the harem/happy family, but plenty others have been referenced and appeared, including Zombie, Ogre, Cyclops and Mimic.

It's going under the title Monster Musume no Iru Nichijou (Daily Life with Monstergirl) and is being scanned and translated as it's released. Not securing yourself a copy is considered treason. Treason is punishable by death. There are now officially translated print versions as well, for purchase wherever ~~monstergirls~~ manga are sold.

An anime for this series is scheduled to arrive in summer 2015. Buy tissues and hand lotion shares now. Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

The Monster Girl Encyclopedia

This is the setting that provides a lot of the art in the gallery below, and it's one of the most well-known settings on /tg/ that isn't Monster Musume above. Basically it's a guy named Kenkou Cross writing and illustrating a NSFW encyclopedia on a world where all the monsters have been converted into hybrids between their old forms and hot chicks. They are basically all lustful and want to rape whatever men they see and then marry them. Similar to the series above, but no pictures depicted sex, just descriptions.

The setting is quite notorious on /tg/. Although KC gets a lot of credit for being one of the oldest and most prolific "devoted to publishing monstergirls arts/setting" artists (Felarya is technically older but much, much more niche, and so less popular), he also gets a lot of flak. Why? Well, for starters, the big problem is that his setting design attracts an assload of roasting.

See, the MGE, despite its fluffy shiny artwork, is actually a pretty grimdark setting. See, the basic backstory here is that the world is run by a bunch of Gods, most notably a Chief God. And the Chief God set about a cycle, where monsters slaughter humans, then humans get empowered by the gods to create "Heroes" who turn the tide, and then the Heroes get weak and the monsters regroup to start things over again. The reason for this? The Chief God thought it would be too dangerous to let humanity get too numerous, and so he built a culling into the fabric of the world. The immediate background to the present is that the last Hero fell in love with a Succubus (think Darkstalkers' Morrigan, and you have it in a nutshell), who by her nature loves humans (at least, human men) and hates the pointlessness of the slaughter. Teaming up, they killed the last Monster Lord and the Succubus took its place. She then used her powers to transform all monsters into monstergirls, as part one of her plan to end the cycle and bring peace.

Now, you're wondering where the grimdark comes from, right? Well, see, the current Monster Lord's plan for peace is to make monsters and humanity one race. Which means forcibly converting all races besides human men into monstergirls (including once-friendly semi-monster races like dwarves and elves) and forcing all human women to be transformed too. This is bad enough, but because the current Chief God (emphatically not the one who started this in the first place, just some rookie who took its place) is trying to stop it, all of the monstergirls are violent rapists, and any kids they have with humans are always monstergirls in turn. Thus raising the specter of mutual extinction once there are no more human women left.

Not helping is the fact that, as much as he's clearly trying to cleverly subvert the standard RPG conventions by making the Monster Lord heroic and the Chief God villainous, he's utterly failing to make the Monster Lord very sympathetic or even likeable. Many fans have more sympathy for the Chief God (who's a complete newbie just trying to do what is expected of her, having been thrust into the role because of office politics rather than any aptitude or desire for the job) than they do for the Monster Lord. Especially since she's attempting to "fix" everyone in the world by basically rewriting their minds and souls to her specifications, which is really fucking creepy - see the above mentioned elves and dwarves, whose original culture is dying/extinct respectively as a result of her action.

He has gone on the record stating that most of the profile info is intended to be read as "hyperbole" and the whole setting was designed from the ground up under magical realm principles, but this hasn't really helped, in part because adding a theoretically-dramatic metaplot to the setting prevents such concerns from being dismissed as silly parody.

Aside from the grimdark, the setting includes a number of other elements that attract scorn. These include the abundance of loli monstergirls, the existence of Alice (essentially a "super-loli" succubus, who forgets what sex is after she's had it and regrows her hymen so she's an "eternal virgin"), the existence of the Sabbath (a sub-faction of loli MGs who want to forcibly usurp the Monster Lord once she's won and convert all monstergirls into lolis and all men into lolicons), the casual treatment of the fact that daughter/father incest happens all the time in MG families, and the fact that the Sabbath run the official MG preschools (which they happily use as brothels/child husband dating sites. The last two in particular catch a lot of flak.

It is scarily simple to read the many complaints listed for a certain pile of festering failure and substitute in the demonic race and its leader from this one.

Monster Girl Quest

For those of you who prefer your Japanese content in a more interactive medium, this might just be the game for you. Go on a quest, slay monsters who are also girls, before they slay you. If you know what I mean. Beneath that, the game also has a surprisingly good story and some very good self-aware jokes that take shots at its own genre.

A well known and well-liked game amongst a special brand of /d/eviant, it is quite like a visual novel. If you don't know what that means, go ask /jp/. We don't take kindly to those kinds of questions around here.

That's the good news. The bad news? Art style and quality of the monster-girls varies a lot. Some designs are quite recognizable as having been done by Kenkou Cross above, others range much closer to the grotesque side. Many monster-girls in this game are, frankly, damn fugly, boiling down to "human face and one or more boobs on an otherwise repulsively monstrous body" or "human woman's upper torso mounted on a much bigger monster's body". The number of monster-girls in this game who have a gaping bestial maw filled with long, nasty-looking teeth where their female genitalia should be is quite offputting.

Also, this game is even more grimdark than the MGE above, and it doesn't hide its grimmer elements away in background lore, either. In Monster Girl Quest, you are warned from the start that most monster-girls will casually enslave, kill or eat humans after sex, and this is not anti-xenophile propaganda like in the MGE. For many of the monster-girls in this game, losing a fight means losing your life. Even fan-favorite partner Alice will casually swallow your character whole and digest him alive if you tick her off. Although the developing storyline eventually reveals that most monster-girls are only this brutal because of the recent Church-inspired repression against their kind, it's still a lot outright nastier than the MGE setting.

Felarya

Felarya is an... odd setting. Every so often, you see something that is created with the root of appealing to a certain fetish. Felarya is designed with a focus on the vore fetish (i.e. people getting swallowed whole), done by naked monstergirls. Oh, wondering how that's supposed to work? That's simple. The monstergirls are are at least four stories tall, at a minimum, and it's not uncommon to see some that over a hundred feet. This whole thing can put people off easily, since the monstergirls, called predators here, eat humans alive and condemn them to a horrible death via digestion. The only bright side is that this setting is a prime example of there always being a bigger fish. The predators that eat humans? They're something else's dinner too. In fact, nearly everything in this setting is some sort of dangerous monstrous entity that eats some sentient creature for lunch.

If that description put you off, there's probably not much for you there. The giant boobs get disturbing quick if you aren't into the concept of unrelenting hard and soft vore.

What, no mentioning the Bards Adventures?

An artist named Frederik K. T. Andersson does a lot of interesting monstergirl (and monsterboy) artwork, sometimes in the form of comics. One of his recurring characters is a highly charismatic, lecherous fool of a bard who runs around like an animal in heat, sleeping with (and usually impregnating) every monstergirl he meets, much to the rage of his (implicitly jealous) female elf teammate.

http://elfwood.com/u/andersson2/

Gallery

Hold on to your robe and wizard hat!

old-school fapbait
This is not a checklist you perverts. Ignore him it totally is!!!
The 'Amazoness' is poorly named; Amazons are known for being all-female
She'll blow your mind
Demongirls aren't all succubi.
"Mother told me there'd be knights like this."
NO EXCEPTIONS YOU IDIOT
The difference.
The greatest monstergirl lover to have ever lived.
An average /tg/ anon in a monstergirl thread.
The monstergirl conundrum; you need to get a huge amount of experience points to lay the dragon, but the kobolds are fine too.
It's necrophilia if they're not sapient. Otherwise, it's monstergirls.
/co/ and /tg/ can usually find common ground in montergirl threads.
Not only a great waifu, but overpowered as fuck on the tabletop!
Even Vespid are not immune.