Staff 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 have revealed the main trailer for the show and a new visual. The trailer confirms that the anime will premiere on Japanese TV on October 2nd, 2025, on the AT-X channel, and it will air later on the same day on the Tokyo MX, Sun TV and BS NTV channels.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGCfgvjn4CU]
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 in May 2025.
Yen Press publishes 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.”
