Peter Grill and the Philosopher's Time: Super Extra
ピーター・グリルと賢者の時間 Super Extra (Peter Grill to Kenja no Jikan: Super Extra)
- Comedy
- Erotica
- Fantasy
- Harem
- Episodes
- 12
- Duration
- 12 min per ep
- Aired
- Oct 10, 2022 to Dec 26, 2022
- Status
- Finished Airing
Synopsis
*Peter Grill and the Philosopher’s Time: Super Extra* continues the story in the second season of *Peter Grill to Kenja no Jikan*, returning to its mix of fantasy comedy, harem antics, and erotica.
Otaku Consensus
Super Extra knows exactly who it is for: Tatsumi’s direction and the Seven/Wolfsbane production keep the franchise in fast, short-form gag mode, prioritizing ecchi timing, harem escalation, and monster-girl variety over fantasy depth. Fans who rate it highly praise the shameless comedy and “bad taste” commitment, while the recurring criticism is just as clear: the brief runtime and coercive netorare-leaning setup make it feel thin or uncomfortable for viewers outside its niche. With a 5.95 MAL score and 57/100 AniList score, its reputation lands as a specialist pleasure rather than a crossover hit.
Why You Should Watch
Watch Super Extra if you want ecchi harem anime that does not pretend to be a grand adventure: it is built for quick, blunt, fantasy-smut punchlines, not slow-burn romance or intricate worldbuilding. It scratches a related itch to Monster Musume and Interspecies Reviewers, but in a more compact, less travelogue-like format, with the emphasis on recurring temptation, monster-girl archetypes, and humiliation comedy. The 12-episode structure makes it easy to burn through, and the seinen erotica label is honest advertising: nudity, heterosexual harem dynamics, and netorare anxiety are central parts of the texture. If you want messy adult farce without a “respectable” filter, this season delivers; if you need consent dynamics handled delicately, it will likely lose you fast.
Key Characters
- PPeter Grill(VA: Hiro Shimono)
Peter is the series’ comic stress fracture: a fantasy champion voiced by Hiro Shimono as a man whose heroic status only makes his private life more ridiculous.
- LLisa Alpacas(VA: Hibiku Yamamura)
Lisa gives the harem its aggressive comic voltage, standing out as one of the characters fans associate with the show’s unapologetically pushy ecchi energy.
- MMimi Alpacas(VA: Ayana Taketatsu)
Mimi functions as a softer counterweight within the same chaotic orbit, with Ayana Taketatsu giving the cast an instantly recognizable harem-anime voice presence.
- PPiglette Pancetta(VA: Sayaka Senbongi)
Piglette adds to the monster-girl ensemble’s fantasy-race flavor, helping the season lean into its goblin, elf, and anthropomorphic-adjacent genre tags.
What Makes It Stand Out
- 1
The season is a Seven and Wolfsbane production, continuing the franchise as a short-form TV ecchi comedy rather than expanding it into a full-length fantasy-adventure format.
- 2
Its AniList tag profile is unusually candid about the viewing experience: Female Harem at 86%, Nudity at 79%, Netorare at 79%, and Monster Girl at 70% map the show’s priorities more accurately than a standard fantasy label would.
- 3
Tatsumi directs with Nora Mouri on series composition, a pairing that keeps the material structured around rapid escalation and repeated bedroom-farce payoffs instead of long dramatic arcs.
- 4
The season aired as a complete 12-episode fall 2022 run from October 10 to December 26, making it a compact seasonal follow-up rather than a long franchise relaunch.
- 5
Critical conversation around the anime repeatedly focuses on the same split: viewers looking for ecchi mechanics praise the fanservice execution, while detractors point to the short runtime and blackmail/coercion comedy as the parts that wear thinnest.
Fun Facts & Trivia
- Fun fact 1
- Super Extra is based on Daisuke Hiyama’s fantasy manga, with Hiyama credited as the original creator rather than the anime being an original ecchi project.
- Fun fact 2
- Kou Kawarajima handled character design, while Kenichi Kurata served as art director, Kazuto Horikawa as director of photography, and Keisuke Yanagi as editor.
- Fun fact 3
- The English-side production credits include Griffin Vance as producer and John Ledford as both producer and executive producer.
- Fun fact 4
- Despite being a niche erotica-comedy title, the season has a sizable database footprint: 24,703 MAL votes, a MAL popularity rank of #2987, and 301 AniList favourites in the supplied data.
- Fun fact 5
- The fan-review divide is extreme: one highlighted viewer gave it a 10/10 for its boundary-pushing comedy, while other commentary frames the franchise as disposable unless the viewer specifically wants ecchi in the vein of Monster Musume or Interspecies Reviewers.
Studios
- Seven
- Wolfsbane
