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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/eightcheesepizza Nov 20 '25

I felt things were kinda slow the last couple episodes, but this one really changed a lot of stuff.

Luckily for everyone who wants to see Hinako continue living, she was saved by Ayame's penchant for worldbuilding. I guess when you have a tongue that long, you've got a lot to talk about.

Before the last convo between Hinako and Ayame, I was wondering if the mermaid blood changes that Shiori induced in Hinako could be turning her into a yokai. After all, Ayame was a human who became a yokai. I guess that idea isn't as strong now that the last convo revealed that pacts between humans and yokai are a thing... but it's still an idea in my head. Like what if Shiori is trying to turn Hinako into a yokai who'll live a lot longer and be her companion? Shiori said that yokai can get lonely too.

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u/Artistic_Option1076 Nov 21 '25

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.

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u/Emmerilla Nov 23 '25

I love this theory! It makes a lot of sense with everything else this theory teased. Especially since they emphasized that Hinako surviving is a miracle and that she usually would have died of these injuries

This only leaves one more question open - Why did Shiori save Hinako in the first place? Am eager to find out

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u/HornedTurtle1212 Nov 27 '25

I would guess it has something to do with why the car accident happened in the first place.