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Quite a few of us have :V

I haven't seen the anime, but I did go through the manga a couple times and I've read most of the LNs translated to date. I'd probably recommend the latter over the other two, honestly. Fleshes out a lot, seems to have progressed plot wise a fair bit further than the other two mediums.

... the manga spells it out a bit more. Of the species introduced so far, from what I recall the only one that's sticking around that didn't kidnap or otherwise acquire human males for part of their breeding cycle is the dullahan (and I guess the slime). Even the centaurs did, and they're not a monogendered species.

The lamia was actually sent out into the world to bring back a human to be shared among her entire colony, as was culturally normal for their people until the human world in general found out about monster races and started putting feet down. Harpies would regularly just flap around and pick up whatever caught their fancy and fly off with them (and then later forget who they were and go screw someone else -- papi and her mother are apparently unusually intelligent/possessing of good memory for a harpy). The centaurs... well, they didn't start breeding much with humans until recently, but they've been using humans as part of their happy fun times for longer than that. Arachnae did what you'd expect from a spider species. It's implied pretty heavily (where it's not outright stated) that consent isn't particularly involved in any of it, heh.

It's... the thing about the species backgrounds in monster musume is they're pretty much all porn plots. Lamia's a harem/gang-rape, harpy's a one-night stand, centaur's NTR, arachnae's black widow, etc., etc., etc. It does actually flesh them out somewhat, but... yeah. Is one of the parts about it that is fairly amusing, to me

E: Also, you'll find as you go along that centoria's spiel is not exactly normal for a centaur. Not sure if the anime has hit it yet but the manga has. There's some stuff going on there, and what she's doing is unusual for the species.

... someone remind me, can anyone see astral windows you open up, or is it just you? I vaguely remember it looking like a magic site from your side of things, but can't recall if the visibility of the thingjigger is limited to the caster or not.

I'm sure town criers and messengers and whatnot were doing that centuries before 1865.

... bad things did indeed come from that, though. We can look at the misleading headlines of today and at least be somewhat comforted by the notably lower incidence of them leading to literal lynchings.

We've got a few that speak pretty cheerfully about regular heavy drinking. Call it alcoholism and you might get a different response out of 'em, but framing doesn't change the act itself, nor what it leads to.

How do you guys decide what shows to watch/not watch? I mostly just pick things up at random without much in the way of background-checking, and sometimes I'll go with something that's been recommended.

S'about how I choose manga, yeah. Just bumble around whatever genre I'm interested in at the moment until something catches the eye. Actual anime... that takes a fair bit more, since the time investment involved is tends to be notably larger. Usually go by recommendations, sometimes follow stuff coming from series I previously enjoyed (See: Gundam), sometimes watch junk coming from a manga series I enjoyed (See: Jojo, though I still haven't really watched much of the anime).

Don't really do the random thing there, though. In the time it takes to watch a single episode, I can usually chew through several manga chapters... makes hitting dud anime a considerably larger time investment, so m'more careful on that front.

Anything worth dying for is worth living for, and you can do a lot more doing the latter *shrugs*

*shrugs* Thou shalt not kill was a mistranslation. Wanna' say that sort of thing doesn't even qualify for execution of the parents under the same set of texts. Punishment, yes, but accidental killing from excessive abuse wasn't a capital offense, iirc.