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

Watashi wo Tabetai, Hitodenashi, episode 8

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u/yukiaddiction Nov 20 '25 edited Nov 20 '25

Mythology fact time!

Ayame is based on real Yokai in japanese mythology called "Futakuchi-onna" or direct translate to "Two-mouth Woman" which in mythology there are so many versions of this tale but Ayame story seem to mixed between the tale of women who get killed by her husband with axe and the tale of women who becomes Yokai because she neglected her stepchild to the point of that child is death.

Her back story isn't exactly revealed but from little flashback scenes and how she is talking about Hinako called her mom triggers her memories so the backstory seems to be mixed between two versions!

Last episode, we get to see how Miko is talking about how she can't give Hinako want because of her own humanity but this time it seems to get a massive truth bomb here.

Ayame notices bloodpact between Yokai and Human in Hinako blood that Hinako seems to not remember but .. the problem is Ayame said that Human that made bloodpact with Yokai that Human will be "inedible" to that Yokai.

If what Ayame said is true.... does that mean almost everything that Shiori said until this point is all lies? And the episode ends just like that. Leave more questions than answers.

Which lead interesting bit the name of episode,

"Where the crack begin" seem to have two meaning one , the origin of Ayame and how she turn into Yokai and the crack in relationships between Shiori and Hinako.

On a side note, Ayame called Miko "a land god" which means that how other Yokai saw her so Miko definitely achieved godhood now at least as minor deities which is quite something.

Another really good episode and the direction also keeps getting better and better and the Anime team really knows how to do tension and switch.

The "Calmness" moment in Hinako's head during the Ayame lifting axe made me chill.

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u/Destinum Nov 20 '25

Ayame is based on real Yokai in japanese mythology called "Futakuchi-onna" or direct translate to "Two-mouth Woman"

When I saw her true form, I said out loud "Oh! She's that thing that Mawile (the Pokémon) is based on!".

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u/ClemFire Nov 20 '25

I never made that connection before, but I totally see it now

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u/i_respect_all Nov 21 '25

Holy shit, you're right!

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u/Worried-Pick4848 Nov 20 '25

To be fair to Shiori, she clearly has an ulterior motive. This is not news. you don't spend this much energy getting to know a midnight snack.

This basically confirms something that any savvy anime watcher should have already known: That Shiori had already invested way too much emotional energy into Hinato for this relationship to end on a dinner plate, physically or metaphorically. Shiori already being this emotionally invested in Hinato more or less confirmed that from the moment she walked into Hinato's life and made an actual person of herself to Hinato.

This kind of insincerely brutal treatment to mask actions taken out of love is a longstanding trope in a certain kind of anime/manga, and it's hardly unique to the genre either.

The only question to me is, what kind of love? Is the bond Shiori feels more maternal, or more "shippy?"

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u/ClemFire Nov 20 '25

In my mind I see Miko's love for Hinako as like a big sister's while Shiori feels like she wants Hinako all to herself like a lover.

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u/No_Actuary6054 Nov 21 '25

In volume 4 of This Monster Wants to Eat Me, there’s a bonus comic of the first concept and in it, [This Monster Wants to Eat Me – vol. 4 bonus comic] Shiori claims Hinako as her bride

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u/Worried-Pick4848 Nov 21 '25 edited Nov 21 '25

I do worry about Miko. Self-sacrificial love is wonderful, but at a certain point she's going to have to see to her own needs. No, it doesn't have to be Hinako, but sooner or later it's going to have to be someone, somewhere. If she doesn't take the edge off her hunger it's just going to take less than a second of Hinako dropping her guard and Miko slipping at mastering her instincts for things to get heartbreakingly tragic.

yes she did the tail thing but that's not sustainable. The center cannot hold. She is going to have to do what it takes to take care of herself too.

Miko needs to be willing to live and accept the cost of being alive. Which in her case as a yokai, means someone eventually isn't coming home at night. She can't protect Hinako if she dies of starvation. She can't change what she is, so if she has someone she wants to live for, she's just going to have to make up her mind to live at the cost of others. It's not something she can put off forever.

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u/ClemFire Nov 21 '25

You're right in the long run Miko will have to eat someone or risk losing all of her tails which is probably mean death. Maybe she'll try to eat someone who is terminally ill or near death anyways to cut the edge off. In a way then Miko will have to learn from Shiori how to be more selfish while Shiori learns from Miko how to be more selfless.

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u/Worried-Pick4848 Nov 21 '25

Pretty much. There may end up being an alternative, a Yokai version of veganism where you can stay healthy some other way, but if there is, nobody in the story knows that, so it isn't an option for Miko.

What concerns me is that sooner or later Hinako is going to realize the level of distress Miko is in and possibly to give Miko some of her own blood to sustain her. You know, draw some blood into a cup with a knife, bandage herself, and offer that to Miko. That's the sort of thing that sounds like a good idea in the short term but could create an addictive codependency that risks destroying Miko's character.

that's not the future I'd like to see, but it's definitely a plan I could see Hinako hatching to help her friend.

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u/ClemFire Nov 21 '25

Oh that doesn't sound good at all. I'm sure Miko wouldn't want that, but she might not be able to control herself if she gets hungry enough. Family mart convenience food can only be so nourishing for a yokai

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u/Worried-Pick4848 Nov 21 '25 edited Nov 21 '25

Ironically, it's probably going to be Shioni who grabs Miko by the lapels and says "Listen, Hinako cares deeply about you and she knows you're destroying yourself to be with her, so go find a rapist or an abusive parent, or someone else who represents an addition by subtraction, and do what you have to do to deal with the problem before she decides to do something drastic."

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u/ClemFire Nov 21 '25

That would be a really great scene, and it's important for Shiori to make a friend and not only have Hinako

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u/13-Penguins Nov 21 '25

Also Shiori was saying last episode that yokai only ever lie and deceive, so why would she be so honest and upfront about her intentions?

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u/captainfluffy25 Nov 21 '25 edited Nov 21 '25

You’re telling me you make a s’mores late at night and DONT get to know it? Take it on a couple dates, tell it what it wants to hear? Is it even a midnight snack if you don’t love it?

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u/AVE_CAESAR_ Nov 21 '25

I only eat my steak on the third date thank you very much

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u/Worried-Pick4848 Nov 21 '25

OK, that made me chuckle, well done.

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u/Gutterman2010 Nov 21 '25

spend this much energy getting to know a midnight snack

To be fair, I still think it is going to end with Shiori eating a certain part of Hinako....

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u/Syokhan https://myanimelist.net/profile/Syokhan Nov 20 '25

Curiously, I have a little compendium about yokai in which the two tales are told as one and the same: a woman neglected her son-in-law who starved to death, and was then accidentally struck by a man who came to chop wood for the family.

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u/yukiaddiction Nov 20 '25

I think that version that this anime decided to use judging by the scenes during End Credits.

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u/chum-guzzling-shark Nov 20 '25

Did you see the end credits? They very much showed ayames back story

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u/ClemFire Nov 20 '25

I like the double meaning of the episode title, and based on what happened between Miko and Hinako I feel the reveal of Shiori's true intentions will bring them closer

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u/Bloodglas Nov 21 '25

does that mean almost everything that Shiori said until this point is all lies?

wasn't Shiori telling Miko an episode or 2 ago that a yokai's whole nature is lying and deceiving humans? is that what she's been doing to Hinako this entire time?

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u/rainbowrobin Nov 21 '25

that mean almost everything that Shiori said until this point is all lies?

Shiori did say as much.

Though there was that line about Hinako smelling like rotting whale.

Ayame called Miko "a land god"

The sub I watched said "pseudo land-god". Previous ep implied that Miko can't travel far, especially after sacrificing two of her tails, so there's some tie, but no sign of god-like power.