Re:Monster

5.5(1)

OtakuDen

6.5(99,808)

MAL Score

Ranked #7684

Popularity #1461

Action
Adventure
Fantasy
Ecchi
Isekai
Isekai
Reincarnation

Episodes: 12
Duration: 23 min per ep
Aired: Apr 5, 2024 to Jun 21, 2024
Status: Finished Airing

Synopsis

After a sudden, unfortunate death, Tomokui Kanata is reborn in another world as a goblin—one of the weakest creatures around—now living under the name Goburou. Unlike most, he carries over his memories from his previous life, and an unusual evolutionary trait begins to set him apart. By eating, he can gain strength and boost his abilities, turning a brutal starting point into a chance to climb upward.

In a world ruled by survival of the fittest, Goburou’s rise draws capable allies and subordinates into his orbit, and the balance of power starts to shift in unexpected ways as he carves out a place for himself.

Otaku Consensus

Re:Monster lands as a niche, high-throughput monster-progression fantasy: Studio Deen and director Takayuki Inagaki keep the evolution loop moving fast enough that its status-screen pleasures and clan-building momentum carry the season for viewers already bought into isekai power fantasy. The 6.54 MAL / 65 AniList reception reflects the split: its adaptation is readable and direct, but the same briskness flattens moral consequences and character interiority, while the ecchi harem and polyamory material remains the most common turnoff.

Why You Should Watch

Watch Re:Monster if you want the monster-side ascension of That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime without the cozy diplomacy, or the predatory skill-acquisition loop of So I'm a Spider, So What? with a more openly pulp, adult-oriented edge. Its appeal is mechanical: eating, evolving, recruiting, and reorganizing power into a hierarchy that changes almost every episode. The 12-episode run favors momentum over reflection, so it suits viewers who like isekai as a progression machine rather than a moral debate. It also leans hard into the tags casual listings undersell: harem dynamics, polyamory, goblin social structure, magic, and weapon-based combat all sit in the same package. If you want clean heroism, look elsewhere; if you want a survival-fantasy build log with teeth, this is its lane.

Key Characters

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Goburou
Goburou is compelling less as a traditional hero than as a walking power-system exploit, with fan discussion often centering on how quickly his appetite, tactics, and authority reshape the rules around him.

What Makes It Stand Out

1
Studio Deen compresses the material into a single 12-episode Spring 2024 cour, giving the anime a fast, almost checklist-like rhythm of ability gains, rank changes, and faction growth rather than a slow-burn adventure structure.
2
Director Takayuki Inagaki and series composer Hiroshi Yamaguchi frame the series around power accumulation more than mystery, which makes the adaptation easy to track even as it moves through multiple combat styles and fantasy systems.
3
The AniList tag spread is unusually revealing: Female Harem at 86%, Polyamorous at 81%, Goblin at 80%, and Reincarnation at 77% place the show closer to explicit power-fantasy wish fulfillment than to the more pastoral branch of isekai.
4
Its combat vocabulary is broader than the average monster-reincarnation setup, with the tag data flagging magic, swordplay, spearplay, archery, necromancy, and alchemy instead of relying on one signature gimmick.
5
The show’s reception profile is sharply niche: it is popular enough to sit at MAL popularity #1461, but its MAL rank #7684 and 6.54 average show that broad visibility did not translate into broad critical affection.

Fun Facts & Trivia

Fun fact 1: Re:Monster aired from April 5 to June 21, 2024, placing it squarely in the Spring 2024 season and ending as a complete 12-episode TV run rather than a split-cour project.
Fun fact 2: The anime credits Kogitsune Kanekiru for the original story, while original character design credit is shared by Yamaada and Naji Yanagita; Junichi Takaoka handled the anime character designs for the Studio Deen production.
Fun fact 3: The production’s core visual staff included Kazuhiro Arai as art director, Yuka Kadowaki on color design, Shinyo Kondou as director of photography, and Yuuki Koike on editing.
Fun fact 4: Across the two major database snapshots provided, the reception is strikingly consistent: MAL lists a 6.54 average from 99,808 votes, while AniList sits at 65/100 with 1,410 favourites.
Fun fact 5: Hiroshi Yamaguchi handled series composition, a crucial role for this adaptation because the appeal depends on turning repeated evolution and ability-acquisition beats into a coherent TV-season tempo.