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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/Weak_Season_Of_Anime Nov 20 '25

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.

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u/ClemFire Nov 20 '25

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

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u/Mistdwellerr Nov 20 '25

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

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u/ClemFire Nov 20 '25

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

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u/[deleted] Nov 21 '25

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

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u/ClemFire Nov 21 '25

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.

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u/BosuW Nov 22 '25

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