PV and key art released for new anime This Monster Wants to Eat Me

Important takeaways

• “This Monster Wants to Eat Me” manga will become an anime in 2025.
• The story follows a girl and a mermaid with a unique romance concept.
• The anime will feature a talented cast and staff, generating interest before its release.

Manganese This monster wants to eat me by Sai Naekawa will become an anime sometime in 2025. A new website opened up for the upcoming anime earlier this week, which included not only the announcement but also key art and a PV. In addition, the main cast and staff working on the anime were also announced on the website.

This monster wants to eat meis a yuri manga that follows a normal girl named Hinako and a mermaid named Shiori. They don't have a typical romance, because not only are they a human and a mermaid, but Shiori dreams of one day eating Hinako. It's an interesting and unique concept for a story that definitely sets This monster wants to eat me apart from the usual romance anime – or any anime – which will likely help the anime build attention before its release.

What is This monster wants to eat me?

Manga behind the anime

This monster wants to eat me has been published as a manga since August 2020, created by Sai Naekawa. The manga is ongoing and currently has 8 volumes available. In Japan, it has been serialized in ASCII Media Works' Dengeki Maoh journal. This monster wants to eat me is also available to read in English, licensed by Yen Press.

The manga has been well received over the past four years and has therefore been licensed to publish in English. The founder of Yuricon, Erica Friedman, wrote in her review of the first volume;

If you ask me if I like horror, I will loudly tell you that I don't. I don't like being startled (adrenaline and I have a long, unpleasant history) and I don't care about being exhausted. But there is a tone of psychological horror that I don't mind, monsters are good and above all good writing can make a hell of a difference. The end of this volume contains a scene so scary and violent that I should have been both surprised and a little pissed off, but both the art and story work so beautifully that it was just a breathtakingly excellent scene.

So if you like horror, I hope you'll give this series a try and I can shake to see if anyone at Yen might consider licensing this one, because honestly, it's pretty darn good and dark.

This monster wants to eat me is simultaneously a horror story and a romance. After losing her family in an accident, Hinako wants nothing more than to die. But then she encounters a mysterious creature in the sea that first tries to drown her, and then decides instead to protect Hinako until she has matured so the creature can eat her. Shortly after, the strange creature appears as a human in Hinako's class, and proceeds to say that she has claimed Hinako's flesh for her own. Can Shiori help Hinako realize her dream of dying?

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What we know about the upcoming anime

An exact date for the anime adaptation of This monster wants to eat me has not been released yet, but the website cites 2025. A key visual poster of Hinako floating in the water was released alongside the anime's announcement. In addition, manga creator Sai Naekawa drew a special poster featuring the three main characters to celebrate the manga becoming an anime. Both are published below. The short PV trailer above was also posted, which includes English subtitles. The trailer received almost 50,000 views in less than 24 hours.

As reported by AnimeNewsNetwork;

Reina Ueda voices the main character Hinako Yaotose. Naoyuki Kuzuya (
Saiyuki Gaiden
) is Chief Director and Yūsuke Suzuki
(Duel Masters Win, Duel Masters King Max
) is directing the anime at Studio Lings. Mitsutaka Hirota (
Bibliophile princess, days with my stepsister
) supervises and writes series scripts, Sō Ikuyama (
Duel Masters King
key animation) is to design the characters, Ryōsuke Naya (
365 days to the wedding, love is indivisible by twins
) is the sound director, and Keiji Inai (
Is it wrong to try to pick up girls in a dungeon?
all five seasons) compose the music. It is the company Infinite that produces.

A yuri horror romance about a girl and a mermaid definitely stands out from the mainstream anime series. With a highly rated manga as source material, That monster wants to eat me ready to be something special next year. While it may not be for everyone, it's undeniably refreshing to see something so original gain traction and bring a new story to the anime industry.

This monster wants to eat me will premiere in 2025.

Source: AnimeNewsNetwork