Monster Girl Doctor (anime)
Monster Girl Doctor is a fantasy Medical Drama anime set in a world at peace after a long conflict between humans and monsters. A human doctor named Glenn operates a practice helping out monsters, along with his lamia assistant and childhood friend Sapphee.
The anime can be streamed on Crunchyroll here. It was first aired in 2020 and was adapted from a light novel of the same name by Arvo Animation.
Compare and contrast with Living with Monster Girl or Interviews with Monster Girls.
Tropes used in Monster Girl Doctor (anime) include:
- An Arm and a Leg: Kunai looses her limbs, and is able to keep going in spite of it.
- Artificial Human: The flesh golem Kunai is a Frankenstein's Monster style creature.
- Bound and Gagged: Sapphee does this to a Centaur, using her tale to wrap around her body, and the tip of the tail to gag her mouth as Glenn worked on applying horseshoes.
- Breath Weapon: Some Dragons are capable of breathing fire, and the biological systems that support that create complications when conducting surgery.
- Catgirl: Glenn helps out one with a medical checkup in the first episode.
- Childhood Friends: Glenn and Sapphee became friends in their youth when Glenn’s family held Sapphee hostage to guarantee an arrangement.
- City of Canals: The city around the Merrow Waterways is lined with canals, with aquatic monsters traversing the town underwater, or tugging gondolas along for land dwellers.
- Cleavage Window: Part of Kunai's outfit.
- CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable: Glenn performs CPR on Johann purely through chest compressions, which is eventually enough to get him to spit out the water he inhaled while drowning. He does recommend follow up by a human doctor following the CPR.
- Cyclopean Creature: Several cyclops work as blacksmiths in the city.
- Disappeared Dad: Lulala mentions her dad is missing, leading her to pursue singing to earn a living.
- Fantastic Racism: Some characters reject the idea of a society integrating humans and monsters.
- Feel No Pain: Kunai was made not to feel pain, though she still feels other sensations.
- Harping on About Harpies: Harpies feature in episode 4, with a harpy becoming egg bound.
- Helping Hands: Kunai's hand is able to operate somewhat independently when detached.
- Heroic Albino: Sapphee is an Albino Lamia, working in the medical profession to do good.
- Horned Humanoid: The Minotaurs in the first episode have horns on their heads.
- A Load of Bull: Minotaurs make an appearance in the first episode.
- Mad Scientist: One is seemingly responsible for the creation of Kunai.
- Medical Drama: A fantasy example, with a human doctor that takes care of monsters.
- Our Centaurs Are Different: Various centaur character play a prominent role in the first episode.
- Our Dragons Are Different: Lady Draconis is the most prominent dragon, as a small humanoid with scales on her limbs, reptilian ears, a tail, and horns on her head. She explains there are other dragons as well, such as eastern and western style dragons, each transformed that way by miasma when they descended to the Earth from their realm near the gods.
- Our Fairies Are Different: Doctor Glenn employs a few carries in his clinic as helpers.
- Our Giants Are Bigger: A giant Gigas approaches the harpy village, causing the ground to shake before it is visible.
- Our Mermaids Are Different: Mermaids are important to the operation of the Merrow Waterways, pulling gondolas and putting on shows. They have a fishlike lower half and a humanoid top, though they have some fish style anatomy throughout their humanoid half.
- Plant Person: One can be seen at the start of episode 11, adjourning the Lindwurm Council.
- Playing with Fire: Lady Draconis unconsciously uses her fire abilities while undergoing surgery.
- Poisoned Weapons: The slavers stab Sapphee with a poisoned blade, but it is the wrong sort of poison to kill a lamia.
- Snake People: Sapphee is a Lamia, with the upper body of a human and the lower body of a snake.
- Spider People: One visits is Sapphee's best friend, using her abilities to create clothing.
- Tentacle Rope: Sapphee uses her tail to restrain others on occasion.
- Translator Buddy: Lady Draconis has her flesh golem body guard Kunai speak on her behalf.
- The Unintelligible: Lady Draconis speaks so softly that Glenn and Sapphee cannot understand at first, requiring her bodyguard to act as her voice. Later on she speaks less softly.
- Unscaled Merfolk: Cthulhy is a woman with octopus tentacles emerging from her lower body, as well as with her hair somewhat resembling a tentacle as well.
- You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Many of the characters have unusual hair colors such as pink or purple.