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Episode Watashi wo Tabetai, Hitodenashi • This Monster Wants to Eat Me - Episode 10 discussion

Watashi wo Tabetai, Hitodenashi, episode 10

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u/Weak_Season_Of_Anime Dec 04 '25 edited Dec 04 '25

So Shiori made the same mistake twice, giving life to some girl who never asked for it, though in Hinako's case it was more complicated. Wonder if we'll see immortal suicide bomber-chan again?

That aside, small Hinako was adorable, no wonder Shiori couldn't eat her. And it was funny that modern human junk food works on yokai too. Somewhere out there some yokai is bulking on Big Macs.

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u/AceSoldia zj:https://anilist.co/user/Acesoldia Dec 04 '25

so so so adorable, what a shock to see grown up hinako not have any of that same light.

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u/AskovTheOne https://myanimelist.net/profile/askovtheone Dec 05 '25 edited Dec 05 '25

I think there is a shade if her old self still remain, like her care for Miko as a friend desipte the scary Youkai fox form. It just got buried by the mountain size of trauma and depression

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u/Kemaiku Dec 04 '25

We know Yokai can regenerate from a brain, but I don't think even humans given her flesh can survive complete bodily dismemberment. She was point blank to the detonation, even if most of her skullcap remained, the insides would be cooked.

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u/good_wolf_1999 Dec 04 '25

If she survived the explosion and comes back that will put into perspective how powerful the immortality that mermaid’s flesh grants is.

That said, I don’t see her coming back, she looked happy in that flashback after the explosion

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u/Kemaiku Dec 04 '25

I think that was intentional, showing her relief at finally dying, thinking she'd taken Shiori with her. Sadly we all know that wasn't the case, but it's a nod to the release of death Hinako is hoping for.

The question is, does Shiori really understand that final smile and when it hits her, how much more protective is she going to get over Hinako/understand her own guilt.

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u/yatterer Dec 04 '25

Why would she be mad at Shiori for cursing her with immortality if it's still possible for her to die?

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u/Kemaiku Dec 04 '25

She was a child isolated from the world, in older times. She only intended to kill Shiori, the slip and detonation were an accident. It that moment alone she probably thought that she was not only getting her wish of killing the monster but being freed herself in a way she didn't think possible.

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u/BosuW Dec 04 '25

She didn't slip. She threw herself with the explosives into Shiori.

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u/Kemaiku Dec 04 '25

The stray grenade that fell from her arms detonated and set the others off early.

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u/Quantum_Croissant Dec 04 '25

idk if that's the case, and it's not like it would've gone any differently either way. She can't exactly set a fuse and get to a safe distance since Shiori would just run too, and if it hurt Shiori that badly she must have already been close to her so wasn't planning to throw it. A suicide run was definitely her intention

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u/toadfan64 Dec 07 '25

Yeah, I assumed it was a kamikaze attack right away.

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u/Quantum_Croissant Dec 04 '25

ok but we don't know that? And someone who isn't really a true immortal could die in lots of other ways, like suffocating themselves to deprive their cells of oxygen, or incinerating their body (the fire punch methods), so they wouldn't be that upset about it. There was clearly a good amount of years where she was trying to kill Shiori so she had time to try those things

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u/Kemaiku Dec 04 '25

I think we're back to the age old problem of conflating "immortality" with "invincibility", clearly with even Yokai there are hard limits.

Hinako's body fully used up any healing ability Shiori's blood had and still ended up badly scarred even through she was mostly thrown clear of the danger.

The orphan/urchin may have been made unaging, had somewhat better simple regeneration if her body were mostly intact, instead she was blown to red mist by a dozen heavy grenades that managed to dissociate Shiori who was several feet further away.

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u/Quantum_Croissant Dec 04 '25

A mermaid's blood is explicitly said to be nowhere near their flesh, and wasn't even meant to give regeneration at all if wasn't for the trauma of the accident.

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u/Kemaiku Dec 04 '25

Still doesn't explain if it grants immortality *and* their level of invincibility.

We better hope not, either her rage at not dying turned her into a Yokai ala Ayame, or she's going to be a grotesque mostly human/zombie creature going after Shiori and Hinako.

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u/rainbowrobin Dec 07 '25

Hinako's body fully used up any healing ability Shiori's blood had and still ended up badly scarred even through she was mostly thrown clear of the danger.

Not "fully used up"; Hinako still heals fast, as was shown in a recent episode. More like, even with whatever magical healing she had, Hinako still ended up scarred.

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u/Kemaiku Dec 07 '25

They keep saying something along the lines of it having merged with her blood, far more than it should have. I don’t know if even the yokai fully know what it means.

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u/BosuW Dec 04 '25

There was clearly a good amount of years where she was trying to kill Shiori so she had time to try those things

Lol like the beginning of Hell's Paradise. Just every method of execution possible but it just doesn't work.

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u/shad79 https://myanimelist.net/profile/shad79 Dec 04 '25 edited Dec 05 '25

So Shiori made the same mistake twice, giving life to some girl who never asked for it, though in Hinako's case it was more complicated.

Well, I'd say Shiori learned from that first mistake because she gave Hinako only blood and a blessing (as we could see in today's episode).

Although it still blew out for Shiori, but not as hard as the first time when it literally blew out and Shiori was left with only her head xD

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u/Nachtwandler_FS https://myanimelist.net/profile/Nachtwandler_21 Dec 04 '25

To be fair, she did not have anu control about what happenned to Hinako. At least it is what wer can guess from information given so far.

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u/ClemFire Dec 04 '25

I'm always weak to seeing someone, especially a little kid give away food out of the kindness of thier heart. It's corny, but it makes me believe in us humans to do good

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u/zairaner https://myanimelist.net/profile/zairaner Dec 04 '25

Shizuka!

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u/CitronClassic672 Dec 05 '25

You just had to hurt me again didn’t you?

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u/gnome-cop Dec 04 '25

She did kind of learn from suicide bomb-chan and only gave a single drop that wasn’t supposed to result in anything more than a minor protective healing factor to subtly keep her safe. Unfortunately she got screwed over by factors outside of her control.

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u/Life_Wealth_1392 Dec 08 '25

immortal suicide bomber

Oni Lee, is that you?