Pony Canyon has revealed a special new trailer and global visual for the Watashi o Tabetai, Hito de nashi (This Monster Wants to Eat Me/ 私を喰べたい、ひとでなし) TV anime. The anime will premiere in October 2025.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceqiPZVWbD4]
The company has also confirmed that the anime will be showcased at Japan Expo in Paris on July 5th, 2025 and at two anime-related conventions in the U.S.A., one of which is the Anime Expo held in Los Angeles in July 2025.
Furthermore, Pony Canyon has announced that the anime will have a U.S premiere of episode one and a talk session by special guests on August 8th, 2025, at Otakon in Washington. The special guests include manga creator Naekawa Sai, manga editor Kamemaru Takumi and anime producer Hamabe Ena.
Suzuki Yusuke is directing the anime at Studio Lings, and the anime will star Ueda Reina as Hinako Yaotose, Ishikawa Yui as Shiori Oumi, and Ai Fairouz as Miko Yashiro.
The anime is based on the Watashi o Tabetai, Hito de nashi manga by Naekawa Sai. Naekawa started the manga in August 2020 in Kadokawa’s Dengeki Maoh magazine, and Kadokawa published the manga’s first tankoubon volume in February 2021. The latest volume, number ten, was released on May 27th, 2025.
Yen Press published the manga in English under the name This Monster Wants to Eat Me, and it will release the fifth volume on November 25th, 2025. Yen Press describes the manga’s first volume below:
“Hinako, a high school student with a dark past, lives alone in a town by the sea. Haunted by a constant sensation of drowning, she can barely go through the motions of her tedious life…until the day a monster tries to eat her! After passing out in the struggle, she awakens to find she’s been rescued by a beautiful mermaid. However, salvation comes at a cost—the mermaid’s protection will last only until Hinako has matured into the perfect meal! Hinako’s first instinct isn’t to run or scream, though, and an unlikely relationship between monster and prey unfolds… “I’ve come to devour you.”
