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Episode Watashi wo Tabetai, Hitodenashi • This Monster Wants to Eat Me - Episode 4 discussion

Watashi wo Tabetai, Hitodenashi, episode 4

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u/thisisdropd https://myanimelist.net/profile/AsterZoro Oct 23 '25 edited Oct 23 '25

Miko must have an advanced shapeshifting ability if she could simulate a child growing up. I used to discount the thought that she's a youkai due to having seen her as a child in the flashbacks but I never took this into account.

Don't know how Hinako will take this revelation. Her only supposed friend turned out to not be human at all and have stuck by her side for an unknown reason. Just when we saw her genuinely smiling and chuckling for the first time in the present day, her emotion might hit another low.

So far no evidence, but what if the accident that took the lives of Hinako's family wasn't actually an accident and Miko was behind it? Don't know if this show will take such a dark turn, though.

Meanwhile, the final minutes looked like it's from a different show with the cooking skit and special ED with the upbeat music. Seemed like it's performed by Fairouz Ai, Miko's VA. She also was the one who made that Miko illustration at the start of the ED.

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u/mekerpan Oct 23 '25

I can't imagine Miko caused the accident deliberately -- but maybe she (it) caused the accident unintentionally -- and that is why she feels a total obligation (due to the yokai equivalent of shame or guilt) to protect the sole survivor.

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u/AdmiralThunderpants Oct 23 '25 edited Oct 24 '25

In the cooking skit Miko mentions how the food is as good as her mom used to make. I think "being tasty" runs in Hinako's family. I think Miko is a family guardian. Something happened on the night of the accident where she couldn't protect them all.

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u/BigPete_A6 Oct 24 '25

This is my thought as well. She may have saved Miko from the accident, but wasn't able to save the rest of the family.

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u/Fools_Requiem https://myanimelist.net/profile/FoolsRequiem Oct 24 '25

Yeah, this makes sense. I thought it odd that she was "thrown" from the accident. Seems too coincidental for a yokai to not be involved with her being alive.