For many of those who love monster romance, everything started with Beauty and the Beast, and its tale of a beastly being taking a human girl hostage in his grand manor. In this list, you’ll find five monster romance manga and manhwa that will make you fall in love with beings you never expected to. They tend to be shoved into a box of “not possible to be the hero,” but if you encounter a monster in a monster romance, the monsters are center stage. They are the protagonists of their own stories, and you get to peel back those onion layers that hide so much about them, like their goals, their dreams, and their history. The monsters in the romance manga and manhwa below are beings with dreams.