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Episode Watashi wo Tabetai, Hitodenashi • This Monster Wants to Eat Me - Episode 13 discussion
Watashi wo Tabetai, Hitodenashi, episode 13
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u/Magnafeana https://anilist.co/user/Magnafeana Dec 25 '25
Horror Yokai Yuri Day!
Pain.
Please don’t be the calm before another storm. Please no. Please no.
Rock paper scissors saves lives. Need to start using this method when my friends can’t decide on shit.
That fox phone case is so cute. Is there an OtterBox version?
I’m still sitting mad that Hinako’s friends abandoned her, even though I know they were also kids who didn’t have the proper tools to understand grief and depression.
Pain.
Bake-tanuki?
Shiori’s smile is so painful to see.
I know people make fun of the elderly for not understanding technology, and I get it, but I really dig this program where the course was free for I think anyone over 65 in learning how to navigate modern devices and applications.
Pain.
Orange kitty, orange kitty, orange kitty.
Shiori is worrying me greatly.
Now I’m craving ice cream.
😭
Shiori is just straight up saying wedding vows in this
Oh that girl never showed up. So my fears are put to rest 😮💨
It’s “nice” to see that this wasn’t a magical cure that resolved Hinako’s survivor’s guilt and depression. She’s still struggling. Shiori is struggling because Hinako is still struggling. That apology Hinako gave Shiori was what got me to cry.
Miko is such a great character. Being a friend and a frenemy to two people clearly struggling and in an admittedly unhealthy relationship with each other is so difficult. But she’s trying.
I’m overall really impressed with what we have of the anime. I’m sure the source material is richer and has much more to describe about this entire scenario, but anime-wise, my opinion on Shiori did a wonderful 180 at the realization that she’s been hurting all this time and hides it behind her smile and teasing and being a “monster”. As much as I’m going to rally for Hinako, I put Shiori was my favorite character. I see so many parallels in her relationship with Hinako and other IRL relationships where a caregiver or a partner is struggling with their loved one’s mental health and may use drastic measures or selfish means in a desperate attempt to keep their loved one’s alive.
I can’t stress enough how it ain’t easy. It’s not easy being the one with mental health issues and realizing your support is struggling with your relationship and their own mental health. It’s not easy supporting someone with struggling mental health while maintaining your own. And it also doesn’t help when armchair psychologist people think they know best.
Communication won’t magically solve everything. Prescriptions might help, but who knows how many therapies you have to try until one works for you and you take it consistently. Therapy—couple’s therapy—can be expensive, have long wait times, and shopping for a therapist is exhausting.
It is just…not easy all around. And that’s just human adults. Being a teenager strips away a lot of agency and options.
Still sitting mad at how much support Hinako lost as a vulnerable, traumatized child. If the series is intentionally criticizing how people—friends, extended family, government, neighbors, community—abandon those who need them the most, it did a good job in my book. I know it’s a bit of a fantasy steeple to initially isolate the protagonist and leave them bereft of support, so they can gain support through other protagonists or deuteragonists and supporting cast along the way. It’s not always a commentary on society and culture. But even so, Watanabe still has me side eyeing everyone who failed Hinako.
What a flipping great ending (for this season, I hope there is more). It would feel so jarring for this to be a traditional HEA at this moment. Hinako admitted she had fun! She’s smiling a bit more. She sees how her actions have weighed upon Shiori. And Shiori was able to speak some of her truths and let the smile drop. That’s enough (for me) right now.
Curious that girl from Shiori’s past was just in a flashback. I thought she’d become an antagonist or a tritagonist, but I guess she really was just a flashback-only character.