To promote the upcoming broadcast of its first episode, the TV anime This Monster Wants to Eat Me released four types of the "emotional" poster visuals featuring advance shots from the episode. A web trailer for the first episode is now available on infinite's official YouTube channel . This Monster Wants to Eat Me Episode 1 Web Trailer RELATED: This Monster Wants to Eat Me Anime Reveals Main Trailer, Visual, Premiere Date The TV anime adaptation of Sai Naekawa's yuri suspense manga This Monster Wants to Eat Me is set to premiere in Japan on October 2, 2025 . Crunchyroll will stream the series for members in North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, CIS and Southeast Asia. ASCII Media Works has serialized the original This Monster Wants to Eat Me manga in their Dengeki Maoh manga magazine since August 2020, with 10 volumes published in Japan to date. Yen Press also publishes an English-language version of the series. Naoyuki Kazuya and Yusuke Suzuki direct the TV anime at STUDIO LINGS. Mitsutaka Hirota provides the series composition and screenplays, Nozomi Ikuyama provides the character designs, and Keiji Inai provides the music. Yen Press describes the series s such: 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." Source: infinite press release
