Coming in January, a TV anime will adapt Petos' fa Demi-chan ha Kataritai, known in English as Interviews with Monster Girls. While this is a season off, it's October, it's Halloween time, and Japanese bookstores are getting teaser visuals offering a look at the classroom comedy manga with a monster girl twist.

Ryo Ando, who has worked as an episode director for Love Live!, Love Live! Sunshine!!, and Shokugeki no Soma, makes his series directorial debut for A-1 Pictures, alongside series composition writer Takao Yoshioka (The Morose Mononokean) and character designer Tetsuya Kawakami (Robot Girls Z).

A life-size statue of Kyoko Machi, the dullahan girl has been touring book stores as PR Ambassador for the anime.



Demi-chan wa Kataritai PV by pKjd

The original Interviews with Monster Girls manga by Petos is serialized in Kodansha's Young Magazine the 3rd seinen manga magazine. An English language version of the series is currently being produced by Kodansha, who describe Interviews with Monster Girls manga as follows:

"Monsters of legend walk among us, going by the name “demi-humans.” Ever since he’s discovered the “demis,” one young man has become obsessed with them. So when he gets a job as a teacher at a high school for demi-girls, it’s a dream come true! But these demis, who include a rambunctious vampire, a bashful headless girl, and a succubus, have all the problems normal teenagers have, on top of their supernatural conditions. How to handle a classroom full of them?!"





Staff

Original work: Petos (published in Young Magazine the 3rd by Kodansha)

Director: Ryo Ando

Series composition, screenplay: Takao Yoshioka

Character design: Tetsuya Kawakami

Art director: Katsufumi Hariu

Color design: Misako Akama

Director of photography: Yohei Miyawaki

CG Director: Shinji Nasu

Editing: Shigeru Nishiyama

Sound Director: Jin Aketagawa

Music: Masaru Yokoyama

Animation production: A-1 Pictures

Production: Interviews with Monster Girls Production Committee

Voice cast is TBA



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Scott Green is editor and reporter for anime and manga at geek entertainment site Ain't It Cool News. Follow him on Twitter at @aicnanime.