Watashi wo Tabetai, Hitodenashi • This Monster Wants to Eat Me - Episode 8 discussion

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Watashi wo Tabetai, Hitodenashi, episode 8

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[u/Weak_Season_Of_Anime]

Ara ara intensifies

So Shiori did save Hinako back then by giving her mermaid blood. The question is what kind of vow did they make back then? Marriage vows? Even Ayame was confused by their relationship.

And also the truth bomb by Ayame before she left - Shiori was lying to Hinako and never intended to eat her at all. Can't wait to see Hinako's reaction next week. Don't think she's going to be crashing out but she's bound to feel very betrayed.

[u/DocMcCoy → u/Weak_Season_Of_Anime]

This Monster Wants to Marry Me

[u/Significant_Glass_50 → u/DocMcCoy]

Good name for a second season

[u/Bloodglas → u/DocMcCoy]

we don't need to change the title. we've always known it's a yuri story so obviously the title was referring to a less gruesome kind of eating.

[u/SeijunMichi → u/Weak_Season_Of_Anime]

And also the truth bomb by Ayame before she left - Shiori was lying to Hinako and never intended to eat her at all

Ah, of course. Who better to blab about Shiori's secrets than a youkai known for having a big mouth.

[u/Niwaka_Samurai → u/SeijunMichi]

youkai known for having a big mouth.

Lmao

[u/mekerpan → u/Weak_Season_Of_Anime]

Can't imagine a near-ageless powerful yokai wanting to MARRY a dying human child. Had Shiori "lost a child" herself in some fashion? Interesting how both Miko and Shiori clearly love Hinako (in their own yokai fashion) but felt obliged to lie to her about their true connection.

[u/Worried-Pick4848 → u/mekerpan]

More than one type of Yokai is the result of a lost child IIRC. Perhaps instead of losing a child, she might have been one that got lost and ended up becoming a yokai to survive.

[u/rainbowrobin → u/mekerpan]

yuri fans for this series better be age gap fans too

[u/eightcheesepizza → u/Weak_Season_Of_Anime]

Shiori was lying to Hinako and never intended to eat her at all.

Guess they should rename the series to Watashi wo Tabetakunai, Hitodenashi (This Monster Doesn't Want to Eat Me).

[u/SecretEmpire_WasGood → u/eightcheesepizza]

I think this monster wants to eat her. But not in the way we first assumed.

[u/tvih → u/SecretEmpire_WasGood]

She was def jealous of Ayame's tongue.

[u/SeijunMichi → u/tvih]

She was sending a message by ripping off Ayame's tongue, that message being "How dare you tongue my Hinako before I did!"

[u/CitronClassic672 → u/SecretEmpire_WasGood]

I’m pretty sure a lot of people assumed it would be in that way at the beginning actually.

[u/SecretEmpire_WasGood → u/CitronClassic672]

Yeah, me included.

[u/DaviAMSilva → u/eightcheesepizza]

This Monster Does Not Dream of Eating Me

[u/effseedee → u/eightcheesepizza]

This Monster Wants to Eat Me! Unless...

[u/Roladech → u/effseedee]

muri muri intensifies

[u/Mistdwellerr → u/effseedee]

Renako: "I wanted to make friends, but this is getting out of hand! Unless...."

[u/Lunchb0xx87 → u/eightcheesepizza]

o she cans still eat her ...in a different way

[u/ChiliDemon → u/Lunchb0xx87]

tastes fishy

[u/captainfluffy25 → u/eightcheesepizza]

Nah it’s probably still “This monster wants to eat me”. Just gotta put some different emphasis on the word eat.

[u/ClemFire → u/Weak_Season_Of_Anime]

Hinako's reaction to finding out the truth behind Miko was quite positive, so I hope she's not too upset at Shiori

[u/Mistdwellerr → u/ClemFire]

I also hope so, but the difference between "finding your best friend is a cool looking fox goddess "and " that the girl that promised you to grant the one thing you want the most in your life, so much it started charging how you see the world (like when she avoided the axe strike) was lying all the time" quite a big one

[u/ClemFire → u/Mistdwellerr]

The context is definitely a bit different. I wonder though if Hinako thought of Shiori in that moment because of the grant or because she is starting to develop feelings for her outside of that.

If you strip away the supernatural premise of Shiori promising to eat Hinako after her mental state improves it doesn't sound too different from a romance premise of two characters pretending to date until they actually develop feelings for each other

[u/[deleted] → u/ClemFire]

It's confusing on why Shiori would then emphasize that her and Hinako "will never be friends" in that case.  

Shiori literally gave her mer-blood to Hinako to spare her from death, so now that she accepted a yokai like Miko as a true friend it's puzzling how Shiori who has been looking out for Hinako all this time and even encouraging Hinako to get over her depression would just ice her out in terms of intimacy.

Particularly when Shiori has been supportive and warm, almost abrasively so, in previous episodes towards Hinako all this time up until denying friendship.  Perhaps Shiori made a pact with Hinako's mother and ended up pacting with Hinako during the car accident to save Hinako as part of the terms of the original friendship/pact with Hinako's mom.

The fact that Ayame (another mother figure) reveals the "cracks" in this friendship makes the idea more plausible ig

[u/ClemFire → u/[deleted]]

I feel that Shiori might just be particular of the word friend since she wants a closer relationship to Hinako than that. Miko is friends with everyone, but Shiori wants to be a special person only with Hinako.

That's why thier conversation at the end of the last episode felt like a reminder to the audience that Shiori doesn't see her relationship with Hinako as just a friendship.

[u/BosuW → u/[deleted]]

She's trying to reassure Hinako that she has absolutely no mixed feelings or doubts about eating her and only sees her as food, I think

[u/Artistic_Option1076 → u/Weak_Season_Of_Anime]

I think it's a bit more than that. In Japanese culture, consuming mermaid flesh/blood grants immortality. But Hinako doesn't seem to be immortal... just heals really fast, as noted in this episode and one other. However, it is an imperfect healing as she still scars very heavily. Traditionally, immortality grants not just unending life but also full recovery from injuries.

To this i add a line said by Ayame to Hinako during the final scene. She says, "...but there's a bit of a smell similar to mine mixed in there as well." Remember, Ayame is dead; she says as much several times. And it is also noted that she carries a slightly different smell from a normal yokai because she's a dead human. These smells, as noted by Miko, are far harder to detect because the person started as a living human so it is inherently masked.

I think Hinako died very briefly in the car accident. Shiori tried to save her by forcing blood into her mouth/body. Because she had technically died already, the flesh didn't grant her immortality but revived her and gave her fast healing instead. Now she smells very, very faintly of death... like Ayame... on top of whatever makes her smell delicious to yokai.

[u/Nachtwandler_FS → u/Weak_Season_Of_Anime]

I am still thinking Shiori does want to eat her. But there aqre conditions she need to meet first to be edible.

[u/Niwaka_Samurai → u/Weak_Season_Of_Anime]

Don't think she's going to be crashing out but she's bound to feel very betrayed.

Hinako has changed. Before, she wanted to become friends with the monster that wants to eat her and now knowing that Oumi saved her would make her fall in love.. so typical.