She Monkey is a 40 page one-shot made by Kana Yasuhiro, an artist perhaps more famous for her manga Pretty Face than anything else. 15-year-old Ise Kunio travels to a deserted island in order to get the money his father forgot to send to the rest of his family. When he arrives, he meets a beautiful young girl, Monju, who he falls in love with at first sight. Later he finds out that she is more than she seems at first glance. This scanslation was done by KMTS and Furinkazan.

The only ecchi scene in the one-shot (although it spans multiple pages.) Kunio tries to find out if Monju’s tail is real.

His father, in fact, turns out to be a famous scholar. He, and a team of scientists, have been doing secret government sanctioned research on the deserted island. The researchers have been performing genetic experiments on monkeys, making their children into human-monkeys. They have the appearance of humans and they also speak like humans, but they retain other monkey-like traits (like their strength) and also their tail. Monju is one such monkey. Upon learning this information, Kunio is told that he can never leave the island.

The rest of the one-shot deals with Kunio coming to terms with loving a monkey and his decision to leave the island with her. The story itself is pretty cute. Even though it is given the classification of being an ecchi manga, it actually only has one ecchi scene in it (not counting the colored intro pages.)

As you can see from the scans that I put on this page, the art is very lovely. From what I’ve seen from her other works (which is very little) this is probably her most beautiful piece. The story is very simple, but like I said above, it is cute nonetheless. Monju herself is also very cute and her eyes are pretty well drawn (I always seem to be attracted to the eyes…)

As far as I know, She Monkey can only be found at KMTS’s IRC channel. You can get it via xdcc.