![This Monster Wants To Eat Me Ep. 8-13: From Toxic To Wholesome Yuri [Review]](https://thathollywoodshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/This-Monster-Review-3-660x371.webp "This Monster Review (3)")
From Ep. 8 "The Cause of the Cracks" to Ep. 13 "Warmth on the Sea Floor", This Monster Wants to Eat Me shows off an intensely complex yuri story. By the time of the finale, you definitely get the sense that Hinako, Shiori, and Miko have all undergone some enormous character and relationship growth.
This Monster Wants To Eat Me muddies the waters of yuri a bit in Ep. 7 "A Kind Person". All via some very candid declarations from Shiori regarding her relationship with Hinako...or not, depending on how you interpret her words. Meanwhile, a newcomer is threatening to make the waters murkier yet,
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This Monster Wants To Eat Me finally resolves some of the most important questions about Miko in Ep. 6 "The Shape of Affection". With the end result being an affirmation of her friendship with Hinako, and a truce between her and Shiori. It's also a truce that has resulted in the fox and the fish
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This Monster Wants To Eat Me has us sitting on the edge of our seats for Ep. 5 "The Beast of Affection". All over the question of whether Miko Yashiro truly has Hinako's best interests in mind, or if she too is merely a yokai predator in disguise? This Monster Wants To Eat Me Ep. 5 "The Beast of
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This Monster Wants To Eat Me now gives us a new mystery for Ep. 4 "An Ephemeral Tie". This time, it's a mystery revolving around Hinako's best friend: Miko Yashiro. And based on the events of this episode, the plot twist is that she is definitely not who she appears to be. This Monster Wants To Eat
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This Monster Wants To Eat Me continues the soggy yuri horror with Ep. 2 "The Sunlit Beast and the Festival Song" and Ep. 3 "The Sea of Hope". As the show goes on though, you can tell that the soggy yuri is growing. At this point, it's pretty clear that the anime is developing into a yuri love
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Few studios have set such a precedent within their own genre quite like Laika Studios. With each painstakingly crafted story, they consistently find new ways to level up stop motion animation and push the limits of what can be accomplished. Stop motion is already a marvelous feat of patience and
