Talk:Monster Musume: Everyday Life with Monster Girls Online/@comment-24.48.221.20-20160520001240/@comment-25390763-20160520010240

You gotta remember everything is made up, and the Kobolds in MonMusu are nothing like traditional Kobolds:

"Although usually invisible, a kobold can materialize in the form of an animal, fire, a human being, and a candle. The most common depictions of kobolds show them as humanlike figures the size of small children. Kobolds who live in human homes wear the clothing of peasants; those who live in mines are hunched and ugly; and kobolds who live on ships smoke pipes and wear sailor clothing."

And Miia, as well as other characters such as Alipheese Fateburn, are not Lamias, but would more accurately be described as Nagas. We call them whatever they're called because the illustrators and authors of this manga and game, as well as other monster-girl oriented works, are ignorant and lazy, and we as readers, viewers, and players just want to avoid confusion amongst ourselves and everyone else for the sake of avoiding confusion. Challenging an author or artist on what a creature is called because they are, in fact, mislabeling them, would most likely cause them to not want to continue working on it, and even moreso, there's a vast majority of the fanbase and public who don't know any better either, and will defend the basic "that's what it's called because that's what the author said it's called" without doing any research.

Sorry if I went off tangent against the MonMusu lore, but there's so many variables and discrepancies that it makes it difficult to say something is impossible when everything we talk about is made up in the first place.