Watashi wo Tabetai, Hitodenashi Episode 5 Discussion

Is this really a GL show? It does have the tag but I’m not getting that vibe at all. Not that I care much for it though, this show already peaked my interest, just wondering

“Miko was like the sun, no she was the sun to me” best episode by a mile, wow. Miko, you’ll always be iconic.

I think there’s something so beautiful about Miko staying by Hinako’s side all these years, denying her natural instinct to feed on humans, especially one as sweet as Hinako, all because she loves her and her family. How can you not think she’s best girl? Moreover, she’s essentially the personification of Hinako’s family love and wish for her to live a full happy life. In essence, her parents never left her and have been right next to her the entire time 🥹.

It may have started out as a spell and Miko using her charms on Hinako, but her love for Hinako is 100 percent genuine and vice versa. Shiori thought exposing Miko as a yokai would work in her favor, and if anything, it just strengthened Hinako and Miko’s bond because Hinako now knows everything Miko has done for her.

If you think about it, with Miko being Hinako family’s guardian deity/angel, we have someone representing Hinako’s family wish for her to live on and someone representing Hinako’s personal desire to die in Shiori. Least dramatic/philosophical lesbian love triangle lol.

That ending omg? Obviously Miko didn’t try to eat Hinako so I wonder what happened after that cliffhanger!! Excited for next episode. This week’s post credits skit was so cute too, chibi Shiori is adorable

Okay, but Shiori's teacher mode is something else

Amazing episode, that background music just made it so much better. I could not help but think that if anybody should get to have Hinako for lunch it should be Miko and not Shiori. Miko has invested into their relationship for so many years, while the upstart Shiori really just came from nowhere. Where is an exorcist when we need one.

@Marinate1016 Lot of contradictions in the story, unless I am misinterpreting what is said.

1. Mikochan was tamed by a monk from what it appears to be medieval times. So she could have resisted eating humans for 100s of years. So why is her resolve suddenly faltering now? Especially since Hinako smells like a rotten whale according to Shiori. But at least we can say Mikochan's protective motivation is well explained and plausible.

2. Shiori's story, however, does not add up. According to Mikochan, Hinako is attracting yokai due to her wanting to die, this makes sense. But then why would Hinako become more yummy if she becomes happy, healthy and wanting to live, which is what Shiori is trying to do? Based on this principle all healthy adults would be yummier then "rotting whale" smelling Hinako. Makes no sense.

So we still do not know what really makes Hinako yummy, to warrant Shiori's searching long for someone like Hinako, and then exclaiming "finally found you".

Weekly appreciation of the opening once again, But man I knew I was right trusting Miko I mean the title of the episode was literally "beast of affection"


This was definitely a packed episode even though it took place in one place the entire episode, a ton of lore and stuff. If I had to assume Shiori taking back her original form would probably be able to beat Miko pretty easily. Not necessarily because she's stronger but rather because Miko has been starving herself which I'd assume makes her a lot weaker. If they she'd been frequently eating then I'd assume she's be at a similar or maybe stronger strength than Shiori so trapping her from the ocean was smart on her part

I will say though if Shiori can only take back her Yokai form from the ocean that seems like a major flaw so realistically Miko should be able to easily kill Shiori

You can literally see her ribcages in her beast form, Idk if that was a intentional design choice but its just something I noticed. Granted it may be kinda a reach its just kinda the way the fur is drawn their in like 1 or 2 panels somewhat looks like that. Plus even if its not strictly shown in her design the fact she can hardly hold her own urges back tells me not that she's bad just simply that she's struggling from not having eaten anyone. Which is really noble of Miko but Shiori seems to just mock all of that perhaps because she don't understand humans as much since Miko's lived with humans for ages now


But I knew I was right to trust Miko I never once got a bad vibe from her just rather a mysterious one. Honestly the whole plot of having a Yokai that protected Miko as a kid and her family I honestly thought during episode 1 would be a plotline given to Shiori not Miko but I suppose I was wrong. Miko ain't literally a god cause I mean if she was killing Shiori would be light work, but rather she just kinda took that mantle after coming to love humans and particularly Hina's family.

So as it turns out Miko used the spell to probably plant herself into Miko's life as a kid not long after her family died but In reality she's been a part of Miko's family long before she was born which honestly is really wholesome. Miko seems like a really good person and is easily my favourite. (But I seriously doubt she ate her at the end)


As for Shiori this episode just affirmed what I think about her, don't get me wrong as a character she's amazing. But as a person in the story she's just horrible, literally everything she's doing is leading to her eventually devouring Hina. Like she only ever seems sad or annoyed when something goes against her interests. For example the way I saw the end was Shiori worried Miko couldn't control her hunger anymore and would devour Hina and she's sad not because she cares about Hina but because she wants to devour her herself.

So yeah still nearly halfway in and I have yet to see a single positive with Shiori's intentions its all just fake affection leading to her eventual goal of eating Hina, as of right now she has yet to prove otherwise even her protection is just her basically keeping her meal to herself while Miko genuinly is trying to protect her out of good intentions. Again don't get me wrong I love her character but I still think she's bad.





Amazing episode (also that ost towards the end was amazing)