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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/Syokhan https://myanimelist.net/profile/Syokhan Dec 04 '25 edited Dec 04 '25

Aw, Hinako captured Shiori's heart just by being a sweet little ray of sunshine.

Ah, finally we got Shiori's full backstory. Now that we've peeled back some layers I can stop trying to hide that she's my favorite character.

Her story explains a lot about her, doesn't it? How she doesn't understand humans or connections because she just poofed into existence one day, and never got any family or friends or anyone to bond with. And the only people she came in contact with were either terrified of her or treated her like some sort of a deity, so not on equal footing at all.

Or why communication is such a huge issue for her that led to making some pretty big errors in judgement. She usually means well, but the combination of her not truly understanding humans + never really communicating is a really bad one.

Well at least she did learn from the first time, and only gave Hinako her blood instead of her flesh. But life is sometimes random and cruel, and turns out it had devastating consequences for Hinako all the same. Honestly I found the juxtaposition of Shiori wishing her a happy life and the visuals of the accident so, so sad.

Now it remains to be seen whether she listens to Miko's advice or not. Which is pretty simple really: "oh my god just TALK to each other!" lol.

And special mention to the soundtrack again, which was beautiful.

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u/mekerpan Dec 04 '25

But Miko has been talking with humans for many centuries, she needs to cut Shiori a bit of slack. ;-)

Truly a great episode this week.

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

Well if Shiori wants one day to be a yokai who has talked with humans for many centuries, she gotta start somewhere! May as well be with, like, the only person she cares about, and before she vanishes from the world. Chop chop, get to it.

Glad you liked the episode!

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u/mekerpan Dec 04 '25

So many great shows this season -- not sure why one hears complaints about its "weakness". This show is not at the very top of my personal list -- yet it is one that I do (in fact) find "fully satisfactory" (and "love").

One wonders, at this point, whether Shiori will want to continue to exist if she loses Hinako?

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

not sure why one hears complaints about its "weakness"

At this point I've seen this so much over the years that I just glaze over these comments now. Yes yes, every season is a weak season, moving on.

One wonders, at this point, whether Shiori will want to continue to exist if she loses Hinako?

That would hurt a hell of a whole lot, that's for sure. I think Miko could help her navigate through her grief because she's lived the same kind of thing, but that's if Shiori would be willing to stick around even with Hinako gone.

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

I cant see her staying around, With the only human that ever matter to Shiori gone, Staying in human world would be meaningless and painful

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u/HornedTurtle1212 Dec 06 '25

Unless she went on some.kind of rampage hoping someone would put her out of her misery.

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u/SirRHellsing Dec 16 '25

doesn't seem like the type to me. I feel like she would be really sad but definitely not "die long with hinako" levels of depression