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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/yatterer Dec 05 '25

What Shiori fundamentally doesn't understand is that it's impossible to just care about one person in isolation. She only wants to care about Hinako, but as soon as you care for one person, you have to start caring for all of the people they share connections with. That's why she didn't understand why her "Hinako dake ni..." prayer wouldn't have the intended end result, and I suspect part of why her previous relationship went south, beyond just resentment over immortality - on that case, it would have been the girl's bond with herself that she abandoned.

So long as she keeps herself at arm's length for fear of everything going as badly as it did last time, she can't understand the bonds between people that made it go so badly. She needs to live close to humans to realize that caring for Hinako means also caring for all the people who care for Hinako, and who Hinako cares about - just like Miko, whose first small tentative bond with the riceball girl slowly blossomed into caring for all of humanity as a whole over hundreds of years. And honestly, Miko had even further to go than Shiori in a lot of ways; Shiori was amoral and fundamentally didn't understand the sacrificed children as living, thinking beings at all, but Miko was downright malevolent prior to being captured by the monk. She might be slowly starting to take the first steps again, given that she reached out to Miko this episode because she recognizes how deeply Miko treasures Hinako as well.

Miko's kind of in the Samwise Gamgee role here. She can't be the one to actually heal Hinako, but without her carrying the person (or non-person) who can, their journey would be over before it began.