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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/StylizedPenguin Dec 04 '25 edited Dec 04 '25

Hinako was a strange kid to witness Shiori looking like she came straight out of a horror film and react like “Wow, Miss Fishie is so pretty” instead of being terrified of the nightmare fuel lol.

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

"Hinako was the only one to invite me in" is really just polite speech for "this kid was fucking crazy".

On a serious note, I do find it interesting that hinako was able to see her at all even before getting her blood. Wonder if she was just used to seeing monsters every other day.

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u/BosuW Dec 04 '25

Powerful Yokai are probably visible to anyone

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u/Quantum_Croissant Dec 05 '25

I think Yokai hiding themselves takes an active effort, and Shiori was too weak for that

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u/ClemFire Dec 04 '25

Little Hinako had a smile we failed to protect

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u/Myrkrvaldyr Dec 04 '25

Yeah, I personally found that a bit contrived. Hinako's sense of aesthetics is kaput if she thought that was ''pretty.'' A more realistic approach would've been her being shocked at the strange creature but still approached it with curiosity and poked it with a stick, after realizing it wasn't gonna hurt her, she slowly would've opened up.

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u/StylizedPenguin Dec 04 '25 edited Dec 04 '25

To be fair, Hinako's first reaction is curiosity and concern over the strange creature that looks like it's injured. It's only on the second day that Hinako talks about how Shiori is beautiful like the sea. It's still rather odd though. I guess Hinako's beauty standards are very unconventional.

I will say that Shiori's half-transformed state when she's lounging on the rocks in the flashback does look kind of beautiful.

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u/BosuW Dec 04 '25

I guess Hinako's beauty standards are very unconventional.

Born to be a monsterfucker. The depression had nothing to do with that lol

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u/SeijunMichi Dec 05 '25

No wonder Hinako's reaction to her childhood friend turning out to be a giant fox was basically "I don't see how that changes things between us"

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u/BosuW Dec 04 '25

I do think it's a very childlike thing to think though. There are many ways in which the thought process of a kid differs from what is considered "common sense" because every experience and every opinion is new to them.

Plus even we can admit that Shiori's monster form does have a certain beauty to it.

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u/CitronClassic672 Dec 05 '25

Idk, from the start I always found Miko’s Yokai form to have a odd beauty to it in addition to its unsettling appearance, it’s not much of a stretch to apply that to Shiori’s

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u/ZapsZzz https://myanimelist.net/profile/ZapszzZ Dec 06 '25

In terms of myths legends and fairy tale (not the sanitised Disney kind), like Miyazaki's Forest Master in Princess Mononoke, "raw" things of nature generally can be described more as majestic and primal, like the gnarly woods in an ancient forest. Indeed classic Fae creatures can be quite "grosteque" by modern standards.