Monster Musume: Monster Girls on the Job!

Monster Musume: Monster Girls on the Job! (モンスター娘のいる日常 もんすたーがーる・はろーわーく (lit Monster Musume: Everyday Life with Monster Girls Hello Work!) is a light novel written by Yoshino Origuchi (Monster Girl Doctor) and illustrated by mangaka Okayado (Monster Musume: Everyday Life with Monster Girls).

The novel was released in Japan on August 29th, 2020. On November 30th, 2020, Seven Seas Entertainment announced their acquisition of the license to produce an English version of the light novel, which was released on 26th August, 2021.

Synopsis
Ordinary twenty-something Kurusu Kimihito thought living with a bunch of monster girls was complicated enough, but there’s a new directive sent down from the government: get a job! Now Lamia Miia, Centaur Centoria, and all your favourites have to join the working world, leading to sexy uniforms, on-the-job shenanigans, and all-new hilarity!

Prologue: Let's Work
Kuroko Smith employs the girls at Kimihito Kurusu's household to work part time at different companies so that their examples can be used as representative subjects for another part of the Interspecies Cultural Exchange where liminals can work together with humans in workplace environments and/or start their own businesses in human populations. Smith also assigns the four MON members as backup, which they don't generally agree with until Smith adds that the government would compensate any participants with an additional wage on top of whatever wage they would earn at their workplace. After a moment's thought, the girls from Kimihito's household agree to Smith's request and Smith adds that Kimihito would have to accompany the girl's to each job as well.


 * Smith refers to Miia's work as a shrine priestess.
 * Kimihito's house is the only household to Smith's knowledge that hosts so many different types of liminal girls.
 * Papi and Suu are referred to as "the youngest of the crew" even though Papi is around the same age as Miia. It could possibly be construed that the book is referring to their "mental" age (the age they act like as apposed to their literal age).
 * Centorea makes a reference to buying the removable shoes she saw in the Inter-Species Cultural Exchange Exposition.

Chapter 1: Bartender
Rachnera, Miia and Zombina begin working at Bar Zetto N; a "liminal friendly" bar located in one of Tokyo's red light districts. Miia mistakes the term "service" for a cabaret club and attempts to lounge with Kimihito and seduce him into buying drinks until Rachnera stops her. Zombina starts drinking the alcohol behind the bar. Kimihito is enlisted for food prep behind the bar. Miia and Rachnera served as bar tenders while Zombina worked the floor as a waitress. Rachnera spent the evening attending to her orders while also making sure Miia didn't screw up hers. She secretly wanted to "restore her reputation" after Kimihito had seen her get drunk off of coffee. Lilith comes in after being sent mountain climbing with Polt as punishment for staying out without permission. A punk gang member enters the bar and starts hitting on Miia like it was a cabaret club. Miia challenges him to a drinking game and drinks him into unconsciousness due to her species' tolerance for alcohol.


 * While recalling Smith's advice that he was there to stand-in and protect the liminal girls if a human were to assail them (due to the Exchange Program's bylaws disallowing liminals to strike humans), Kimihito recalls the time he had punched The Racist Couple outside of the love hotel.
 * Kimihito recalls his work for Yukio at the Sno Ball Hot Spring Resort attending to their mixed-bathing couples event.
 * Although a single cup of coffee is enough to get Rachnera drunk, Arachne are immune to alcohol.
 * Although Miia isn't a drinker, Lamia can actually tolerate a lot of alcohol, to the point where Miia can drink several glasses of tequila without getting drunk.
 * Because of her own criminal streak, Lilith knows a lot about the Japanese underworld.

Chapter 2: Idol
Papi, Meroune and Tionishia take jobs as Pop Idols performing at the green room of the Tomas Theater near Tokyo. Set to performing as an opening act for ANM48. Meroune was not aloud to perform due to her mother not giving her permission to do so, however, she was aloud to sing if she could keep her identity secret.


 * Meroune is specifically noted to be using the amphibious automatic wheelchair that her mother bought her from the Inter-Species Cultural Exchange Exposition.

Chapter 3: Maid

 * Ren Kunanzuki has been working as maid supervisor at Cafe Masha since the events of Chapter 26.
 * The two MON employees who admire Manako so much (from Chapter 42) reappear and their code names are "Salmon" and "Dubtwo".

Chapter 5: Nurse

 * Yuuhi Hajime makes a return.

Trivia

 * Various stores released unique limited edition "SS papers", drawn by Okayado, to go with purchases of this light novel :
 * Animate "Love and Shine Mon Musume Live" (Papi & Mero & Tionishia)
 * Gamers "Drinking tips" (Mia & Rachnera & Zombina)
 * COMIC ZIN (Smith)
 * Toranoana "Does Dragonewt wear bunny girl clothes?" (Draco & Polt) Shosen
 * Horindo "Plant work" (Kii & Lilith)
 * Melon Books "Used work clothes" (Centorea & Manako)
 * E-book version "You can wear white clothes ...? ] (Suu & Lala & Doppel)
 * Additionally, Melon Books released a "limited edition" purchase which included a limited edition tapestry image with each purchase.
 * In chapter 1, Kimihito remembers his experience at the Sno Ball Hot Spring Resort, which confirms that the events of the light novel are chronologically between Volume 16 and Volume 17.
 * Papi and Suu are said to be the youngest members of Kimihito's household, but at least in Papi's case, that isn't true. Despite her childlike appearance, Papi is as old as Miia, as Ms Smith explains in Chapter 3 of the main series.
 * Manako's and Doppel's species are referred to as Cyclops and Doppelganger, but that is imprecise. Manako is a Monoeye and Cyclops are a subspecies of the Monoeyes. Doppel describes herself as a Doppelganger, but actually she is a Shapeshifter (if she were really a Doppelganger, the person she was transformed into would die in an encounter with her, as revealed in Doppel's secrets).
 * Lilith is referred to as a "demon" several times. This is probably due to the fact that the Japanese word "akuma" translated can mean both "devil" and "demon".