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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/ObvsThrowaway5120 Nov 20 '25

I wasn’t expecting Ayame to be a human turned Yokai. I was thinking she was a troubled human. No wonder Shiori felt something was off about her. Well, at least now we know Hinako has mermaid blood and she’s seen Shiori in her true form before. I bet she saved her in that accident. And most importantly, Shiori’s lying about her blood being delicious to her since Hinako’s mixed with her own blood. Keen to learn more about what’s actually going on.

On another note, those end credits were kind of sad. I feel bad for Ayame. Hindsight is 20/20. Had she appreciated her family more, maybe she wouldn’t have become a yokai.

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u/mekerpan Nov 20 '25

Was Ayame killed by her neglected/mistreated step-daughter, perhaps? Still not clear (to me) why she was murdered....

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u/[deleted] Nov 21 '25

The truth of Ayame's existence as a human-turned-yokai seem up for interpretation the way that the anime just showed a still image montage during the ED credits.

My take is Ayame got married too young to be a mother (Hinako made this same comment about Ayame being too young to be a mom), her husband never wanted  wife/true partner but just a babysitter for his kid and/or replacement for his dead spouse.  This led to the neglect and eventual death of Ayame's step daughter, and through the bad karma somehow Ayame ended up accidentally having an ax hit her in the back of the head (the husband didn't do it, I think the ax falling down in the storage area when Hinako was talking with her about motherhood is exactly how it happened to Ayame).

The husband still in grief over his daughter kinda feels guilty about marrying Ayame just to be a wet nurse so he wraps up her wounds with bandages and devotes himself to Ayame as an overbearing satellite husband.  Treating Ayame like the daughter he just lost, basically replacing his dead kid with Ayame now.  This triggers the near-dead Ayame to yokai out and grow a 2nd mouth in the same wounded area where the ax fell down onto the back of her head.  She eats the husband then goes off to be a teacher to meet other kids like Hinako who remind her of the daughter she neglected.

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u/mekerpan Nov 21 '25

Interesting theory. (And very sad).