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Ok here me out, it's actually sorta good. As an aspiring ecchi conneiseur, I try to sniff out ones that actually have something good to offer, and I think this one does. Not many chapters are out yet (I believe still under 10) but it has potential.

Since a synopsis hasn't been added yet, I'll explain the premise. A young guy is rookie porn star, hoping to make it big one day, but he's stuck at the bottom of the totem pole as a "juice actor", whose only use is to nut on command. He gets isekaied to a fantasy world, ... and finds out that just like here, porn is a prominent business, and manages to find a role. But since this is a fantasy world, there's a bunch of stuff they simply haven't invented yet, like lube, so in this other world he actually has a shot at making it big by using stuff that hasn't been invented, and getting creative and seeing stuff how no one from this world would, like using this tentacle guy he finds in a bondage scene. And of course, there's a bunch of different monster girls.

Now, if that doesn't sound interesting to you, you probably won't enjoy it anyway. But if you're on the fence, the author is a former porn star who knows his stuff (his last manga was him telling stories about his career), so I'm confident he can make the premise work. The art is also just as good as it needs to be, and does it's job well. So far, I think the author has done a good job making interesting concepts and ways he can improve on the porn set. It might be a premise that's hard to make interesting after 50 or 100 chapters, but I think for now at least it's worth a read.

When thinking about media, sometimes I like to think of things on a scale of enjoyability and meaningfulness/emotional impact. As you probably guessed, this series falls much more on the enjoyability end of things.

Is the premise stupid? Yes. Is it morally objectionable? Probably, if you think about it too much* (or at all, even, the dude is really bad at not cheating on his fiancee). Does the joke get stale? Maybe? Personally I found it always stayed interesting because Peter's chronic lack of restraint always gets him into shit, but mileage may vary.

Like many ecchi-ish manga, the ... cast expands as you go, so as you go on you get more variation in how exactly Peter Grill manages to stay alive and uphold his somehow great public image (seriously, the people kinda love him, except for his fiancees murderous dad/the king who wants to see his name destroyed). There's also the occasional side plot involving other characters, like the actually sorta wholesome one where the buff warrior dude tries to win over the ogre lady, but she's way too strong to consider him at all, so Peter does something decent for once and brings him together with the receptionist lady who's been crushing on him.

This isn't the best manga out there. It's not even the best comedy out there. But sometimes you don't need the best stuff. If you like the idea of a dude getting into a jojo battle with a stand that's trying to get him laid, a "goblin slayer" who just really likes his gobussy, and a main character that suffers from 24/7 post-nut regret, you might wanna try Peter Grill. You probably only need a few chapters to see if it's for you or not.


* Ever heard of a thing called eugenics?

I haven't read Mushoku Tensei, but I get the feeling you should just go do that instead. There were some promising aspects like the magic language and the MC started a skincare business, but even the ones that didn't get poorly handled got kind of soured for me by the fights and characters. This former hardened assassin says he wants to start over and be nice in this world or whatever, which could've been kind of nice if it wasn't ruined by him telling us he manipulates the girls that surround him to make them loyal to him. Why? Add this to ... the pile of isekais that fail to live up to their potential.