Manga Interspecies Reviewers is a
manga series written by and illustrated by masha. The first chapter was launched on July 7, 2016, as a special
one-shot in
Fujimi Shobo's
shōnen magazine
Monthly Dragon Age; the manga began monthly serialization through
Nico Nico Seiga's affiliated comic website
Dragon Dragon Age on August 19. Amahara had previously drawn a similar 18+ comic series entitled on
Pixiv beginning in September 2014. As of March 2025, the manga has been collected in eleven volumes published by
Kadokawa. A manga anthology, illustrated by various artists, titled
Interspecies Reviewers Comic Anthology: Darkness was released on January 9, 2020, with the second volume released on February 9, 2021. The main manga and the anthology are licensed in North America by
Yen Press, which announced an English paperback release at
Sakura-Con on March 31, 2018.
Volumes Anime On June 28, 2019, Kadokawa announced that the manga would receive a television
anime adaptation produced by
Passione. The 12-episode series was directed by Yuki Ogawa and written by
Kazuyuki Fudeyasu, with character designs by Makoto Uno and music composed by Kotone Uchihigashi.
Junji Majima,
Yūsuke Kobayashi, and
Miyu Tomita (the voice actors of Stunk, Zel, and Crimvael, respectively) performed the opening theme song and the ending theme . The series premiered on
AT-X on January 11, 2020, with a censored version later airing on
Tokyo MX,
BS11,
KBS, and
SUN. In February 2020, Tokyo MX cancelled its broadcast due to "changes in circumstances within [the station]", while SUN cancelled future airings of the series at the behest of channel company's management. It began airing on
GBS on February 28 and on
BBC on March 7, 2020. The anime was licensed in North America by
Funimation, which
simulcasted the first three censored episodes with English subtitles and later released a
dubbed version of the first episode. However, the company removed the series from its online streaming platform on January 31, stating that it "fell outside of [Funimation's] standards". On February 1, the company's French subsidiary
Wakanim announced that it would discontinue the English release, On February 6,
Amazon Prime Video removed the anime from its service.
Critical Mass Video planned to release the series with English subtitles completely uncensored on
Blu-ray on December 7, 2021, but it was delayed until January 18, 2022.
Episodes ==Reception==