Interspecies Reviewers
異種族レビュアーズ (Ishuzoku Reviewers)
- Comedy
- Erotica
- Fantasy
- Episodes
- 12
- Duration
- 23 min per ep
- Aired
- Jan 11, 2020 to Mar 28, 2020
- Status
- Finished Airing
Synopsis
In a fantasy world shared by countless races—ranging from lively fairies to amorphous slimes—the nightlife is just as varied, with brothels catering to every taste and temperament. With so many succu-girls and species-specific charms to consider, choosing where to spend the night can feel like an adventure in itself.
A small band of unabashedly lewd adventurers decides to bring some order to the chaos by publishing candid reviews based on firsthand experience. Writing under the name Yoruno Gloss, they sample establishments featuring everyone from fiery salamanders to towering cow-girls, determined to rate each encounter and compare which species offers the most irresistible appeal.
Otaku Consensus
Interspecies Reviewers earned its reputation by committing fully to the bit: Yuuki Ogawa’s brisk direction and Kazuyuki Fudeyasu’s tight episodic structure turn a lewd fantasy conceit into a surprisingly disciplined gag machine. Critics and fan commentary most often praise the anime for staying faithful to Amahara and masha’s manga while using animation, color, and voice performance to give the material extra punch. The chief criticism is equally clear: its hypersexuality, nudity, and prostitution-centered comedy make it a nonstarter for viewers who want ecchi innuendo rather than explicit adult farce.
Why You Should Watch
Watch Interspecies Reviewers if you want fantasy worldbuilding filtered through dirty jokes, scorecards, and grown-up bar talk rather than heroic quests or harem angst. It scratches part of the same itch as Monster Musume for monster-girl taxonomy, but its comic rhythm is closer to a raunchier workplace version of Konosuba: adults argue, compare notes, and treat absurd magical biology like a customer-service problem. Passione’s adaptation keeps the 12-episode run fast and segmented, so the appeal is less “what happens next?” than “how far will this specific fantasy rule be taken?” If you want ecchi that actually builds systems around its sexuality instead of using it as random fanservice, this is one of the genre’s most committed examples.
Key Characters
- SStunk
Stunk is the human baseline of the group, useful less because he is normal than because his blunt preferences make every cross-species comparison sound like a bad idea delivered with total confidence.
- ZZel
Zel gives the cast an elf’s perspective, and fans tend to remember him for how his tastes clash with human assumptions rather than for any noble fantasy-elf dignity.
- CCrimvael
Crimvael, the angel in the trio, is the show’s most flexible comic instrument, letting the series test its adult jokes through innocence, confusion, and bodily ambiguity without turning him into a standard straight man.
What Makes It Stand Out
- 1
The anime is built around an episodic review-column format rather than an adventure-arc structure, which is why the AniList tags include both Episodic and Work at high confidence. That structure gives each segment a clear setup, evaluation, and punchline instead of relying on escalating battles or romance flags.
- 2
Passione handled the 12-episode TV adaptation that aired from January 11 to March 28, 2020, with Yuuki Ogawa directing and Takahiro Majima credited as assistant director. The result is a deliberately paced sex comedy that treats each fantasy-race gag as a production set piece rather than background fanservice.
- 3
Kazuyuki Fudeyasu’s series composition is a major reason the show feels organized despite its outrageous subject matter. The writing repeatedly turns sexual preference into comparative analysis, making the comedy depend on rules, rankings, and incompatible standards of taste.
- 4
Makoto Uno adapted masha’s original character designs for animation, while Ritsuko Utagawa’s color design and Takamitsu Sera’s photography credits underline how much the TV version depends on visual differentiation between species. The premise would collapse if the fantasy races felt interchangeable, so design variety is not decorative here.
- 5
Its demographic identity is unusually direct for TV anime ecchi: AniList tags it as Primarily Adult Cast at 92% and Seinen at 86%. That adult framing separates it from school-based ecchi comedies and lets the humor lean on commerce, nightlife, and negotiated preference.
Fun Facts & Trivia
- Fun fact 1
- Interspecies Reviewers is based on the manga written by Amahara and illustrated by masha, and the English-language release is licensed by Yen Press. Web commentary around the anime repeatedly singles out its faithfulness to that source material as one of its main strengths.
- Fun fact 2
- The show’s reception is notably consistent across major anime databases: it holds a 7.39/10 score on MyAnimeList from 298,437 votes and a 72/100 score on AniList. Its MAL popularity rank of #522 shows that the series traveled far beyond a small niche despite its adult subject matter.
- Fun fact 3
- AniList’s tag distribution tells you how openly the series declares itself: Prostitution at 97%, Monster Girl at 95%, Nudity at 94%, Succubus at 84%, and Hypersexuality at 75%. Those tags are not incidental content warnings; they describe the core comic engine.
- Fun fact 4
- The production credits pair original creator Amahara’s premise with masha’s designs, then hand the anime version to Passione and character designer Makoto Uno. That staff chain matters because the adaptation’s appeal depends on preserving the manga’s specificity while making each race visually readable on television.
- Fun fact 5
- Although MyAnimeList lists no formal theme category for the series, AniList users heavily associate it with Bar, Work, Medieval, and Heterosexual tags. That contrast reflects how difficult it is to file the show under standard database labels: it is fantasy, erotica, workplace comedy, and consumer-review parody at once.
Studios
- Passione
