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Interviews with Monster Girls
As promised in my previous anti-rec post, here is a manga title that I actually did like:
Interviews with Monster Girls: At first, I thought this was going to be a skeevy fanservice title along the lines of A Centaur's Life (which is actually interesting and cute when it's not being skeevy) or Monster Musume, but it was really sweet and adorable and not at all skeevy! In this universe, "demi-humans" exist, though they prefer to be called "demis": creatures from legends and folklore like vampires, dullahans, succubi, and snow women. Biology teacher Takahashi has long had an interest in demi-humans, and it just so happens that there are several demi students at his school (all cute girls, of course), as well as a succubus teacher. Takahashi gets to know the girls through the "interviews" (although they're more like informal talk sessions), and they start coming to him for advice about problems--both demi-related and normal high school stuff. The dullahan develops a crush on him, but it's clearly one-sided and Takahashi has no clue, so thankfully there's no inappropriate student/teacher action going on.
There's a more approrpiate love interest in Sato-sensei (the succubus), who tries to tone down her innate sexiness by dressing in a frumpy manner (glasses and track suit)--this is partly to avoid causing problems by accidentally attracting unwanted advances, but it's also because she wants to be loved for herself, not just because of her sexy vibes. She's naturally intrigued when Takashashi appears not be attracted to her, which ironically makes him more attractive to her! He actually is attracted, but is trying to be polite and professional by not showing it. However, it's also clear that he values Sato for herself and how kind she is to the students, and not just because of her sexiness. He seems to be a little dense in matters of the heart, because he's also clueless that Sato likes him, but I am rooting for these two to get together.
There is also an anime version available on Crunchyroll, which I haven't watched yet but just added to my queue.
This fandom has been nominated for Yuletide, and I didn't feel familiar enough with the characters to write for it yet, but I really hope that someone else does!
Interviews with Monster Girls: At first, I thought this was going to be a skeevy fanservice title along the lines of A Centaur's Life (which is actually interesting and cute when it's not being skeevy) or Monster Musume, but it was really sweet and adorable and not at all skeevy! In this universe, "demi-humans" exist, though they prefer to be called "demis": creatures from legends and folklore like vampires, dullahans, succubi, and snow women. Biology teacher Takahashi has long had an interest in demi-humans, and it just so happens that there are several demi students at his school (all cute girls, of course), as well as a succubus teacher. Takahashi gets to know the girls through the "interviews" (although they're more like informal talk sessions), and they start coming to him for advice about problems--both demi-related and normal high school stuff. The dullahan develops a crush on him, but it's clearly one-sided and Takahashi has no clue, so thankfully there's no inappropriate student/teacher action going on.
There's a more approrpiate love interest in Sato-sensei (the succubus), who tries to tone down her innate sexiness by dressing in a frumpy manner (glasses and track suit)--this is partly to avoid causing problems by accidentally attracting unwanted advances, but it's also because she wants to be loved for herself, not just because of her sexy vibes. She's naturally intrigued when Takashashi appears not be attracted to her, which ironically makes him more attractive to her! He actually is attracted, but is trying to be polite and professional by not showing it. However, it's also clear that he values Sato for herself and how kind she is to the students, and not just because of her sexiness. He seems to be a little dense in matters of the heart, because he's also clueless that Sato likes him, but I am rooting for these two to get together.
There is also an anime version available on Crunchyroll, which I haven't watched yet but just added to my queue.
This fandom has been nominated for Yuletide, and I didn't feel familiar enough with the characters to write for it yet, but I really hope that someone else does!