Watashi wo Tabetai, Hitodenashi (This Monster Wants to Eat Me)

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Synonyms: A Monster Wants to Eat Me

Japanese: 私を喰べたい、ひとでなし

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Type: Manga

Volumes: Unknown

Chapters: Unknown

Status: Publishing

Published: Aug 27, 2020 to ?

Genres: Drama, Girls Love, Supernatural

Demographic: Seinen

Serialization: Dengeki Maoh

Authors: Naekawa, Sai (Story & Art)

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This Monster Wants to Eat Me

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"I've come to eat you," so softly utters the mermaid Shiori as she emerges from the sea and takes high school girl Hinako by the hand. Hinako lives alone in a town by the sea and possesses an unusually delicious body that is irresistible to nearby monsters. To ensure that she matures to the best condition, Shiori seeks to protect Hinako—all so that someday, she can devour every piece of her. What will become of Hinako's feelings as this looming unjust death closes in on her...?

(Source: Yen Press)

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Watashi wo Tabetai, Hitodenashi has been published in English as This Monster Wants to Eat Me by Yen Press since June 18, 2024.

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Yaotose, Hinako

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Oumi, Shiori

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Yashiro, Miko

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Chiba, Ayame

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Risa

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Oi-sensei

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Noyama-sensei

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Fuyuka

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Yaotose, Mutsuki

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Yaotose, Yuri

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Jul 31, 2025

SaiCicada

Recommended

Preliminary (18/? eps)

This Monster Wants to Eat Me is not a romance or girls love story, it has the genre labeled on it yet that is as deep as it goes.
The relationship present in the story that is meant to be the driving force for this label, just simply is not romantical or sexual.

Hinako and Shiori, the two main characters portrayed on the front, have a relationship where the human simply wants to die, while the monster wants to eat the former.
Another character named Miko, is the slightly obsessed and overprotective childhood best friend of Hinako, they are closer to a friendly dynamic rather than a romantic ...

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Dec 28, 2024

cubecrow

Recommended

Preliminary (44/? eps)

I started reading this because of a stupid fandom joke (hello, shiori flesh eaters club). I did not expect how invested I would get in this manga!

The characters and their relationships are compelling, the plot is easy to follow, and the art is beautiful. I love how the art focuses on scenery and background while also having very good character drawings. It touches on themes of death and suicide in a serious way, but it also highlights the things worth living for without being surface level platitudes. It seems both deeply personal and fantastical.

Despite only having 3 major characters, the story is very character driven ...

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Feb 14, 2025

AGM84HK

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Well-written

Preliminary (45/? eps)

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As of writing this review there are 45 chapters out, and I can't recommend this manga earnestly.
The initial premise and presentation are strong, but it did not live up to my expectations despite having potential to do so, especially in regards to romance or drama.

The art is fantastic, easily the best part of the series. It captures a solemn atmosphere, and blends elements of horror with a soft introspective drama throughout its exploration of the characters and their pasts.

The main driving force in "Watashi wo Tabetai, Hitodenashi", or Watatabe, is the protagonist Hinako's lack of will to live. Shiori's arrival appears to offer Hinako exactly ... what she has been wishing for- a way to die without the guilt of taking her own life, but as both are characterized further it becomes less clear what either of them truly want. Ostensibly as a Girls Love manga, the plot is involved with the relationship between these two as it develops beyond the transactional premise.

Unfortunately, the narrative is frustratingly unconcerned with actually developing that central premise, and instead has spent 45 chapters mostly focusing on an examination of humanity through the allegory of "monsters" and their relationships with humans. As Hinako generally lacks the motivation to advance the plot, it often falls on other characters to push things along. Miko, a childhood friend of Hinako who is also a monster, is introduced early and given substantial amounts of focus, being generally omnipresent and having a story arc which takes up most of volumes 8 and 9. The story explores what it means to be a monster or a human, who is deserving of love, and how people change based on those around them. These ideas are all obviously connected to Hinako but are mostly framed in the context of her friendship with Miko. Often, Hinako as a character and her relationship with Shiori take a backseat to the dynamics between either of them and Miko, or the occasional extra character.

Shiori is equally unsatisfying as a deuteragonist. Her internal motivations are not expressed in a way that allows the reader to observe her role in the story organically. She is revealed to be reluctant to eat Hinako and only willing to follow through with their arrangement once Hinako can live happily. Her backstory explains her initial appearance, but robs her of the possibility for character growth by redefining her as somebody who already cares deeply for Hinako. While this leaves things more or less similar to the initial premise, it removes much of the tension and transforms the atmosphere of the manga from an ambiguous romance to more of a slice-of-life. This is all further hurt by Shiori's frequent characterization as flippant and carefree, which often leaves her feeling one-dimensional.

All in all, Watatabe is atmospheric, beautifully drawn, and shows itself capable of emotional depth, but remains distracted and lacking in execution. It has potential from the start to explore all its themes, develop Hinako and Shiori, while crafting an emotionally resonant narrative, but gets lost along the way with side stories, worldbuilding and repetition. It may still realize its potential down the line, but with so much of its time spent on other things than what is promised by its first chapters I can only really recommend it as a fluffy (albeit often dark) slice-of-life featuring monster girls.

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