Popeatine wrote:The era of Ishuzoku Reviewers and Raphtalia is way better than the era of Monster Musume for this game. The era of Monster Girls is now, though it would had been way better if the game had been released when Ishuzoku was actually airing, but the hype and fandom it left is strong. Ishizoku caused the hype and fandom that Monster Musume failed to achieve in its anime.
Although I agree that Tate no Yuusha being a great LN/manga/anime, I'd have to argue that it didn't have a feel that Monster Girls were the main focus of the story. It was an Isekai that happened to feature Monster Girls. Because of that, I feel it wouldn't lend itself as well to hyping a game that focused on Monster Girls as their focuses are different.
Feathers wrote:Reviewers was too lewd for my tastes, and I only care about Meidori. IReviewers probably just popular because it got banned from Funimation and people heard of it and decided to look. Heck, that's when I first heard about it lol.
I also agree with Feathers that a good part of the popularity of Ishuzoku Reviewers was in part to it being banned from Funimation. However, as an anime, I feel it was too adult oriented to garner a large enough fandom as compared to years ago (the audience range was far wider). Granted that more fans of Ishuzoku Reviewers would be inclined to buy an MGE game than MonMusu or Demi-chan fans, I still think that the era of a couple years ago was more conducive to people being introduced to the Monster Girl genre.
As a whole, I think the current industry is well too inundated with the Isekai genre for the Monster Girl genre to make a big resurgence like how popular it was several years ago. It had its time in the limelight, but then with the upsurge of Isekai and Stuck-in-a-video-game type stories it was forced back into a niche genre.
