Things are getting tasty in October 2025 , when the anime adaptation of This Monster Wants to Eat Me premieres. The upcoming dark yuri series has shared a new, surprisingly light-hearted visual—with Hinako and the rest of the lead cast enjoying a much more benign meal than the series summary indicates. The trio chow down on food and drinks representative of Ehime Prefecture, where the series takes place. Hinako (center) enjoys a mandarin juice. Shiori enjoys fried taruto , a roll cake filled with red bean paste, while Mikan chows down on tricolor Botchan dango—a local sweet that takes its name from Natsume Soseki's novel Botchan . This Monster Wants to Eat Me Key Visual RELATED: This Monster Wants to Eat Me Anime Reveals New Trailer, October 2025 Release The local rep goes on, with life-sized standees of the show's main characters scheduled to appear around Ehime Prefecture starting June 1. Yusuke Suzuki directs This Monster Wants to Eat Me at STUDIO LINGS under the supervision of chief director Naoyuki Kuzuya ( Possibly the Greatest Alchemist of All Time ), with series composition by Mitsutaka Hirota ( Rent-a-Girlfriend ), character designs by Nozomi Ikuyama and music by Keiji Inai ( Anyway, I'm Falling in Love with You. ). Additional staff members include: Color Designer: Taeko Mizuno Art Director: Yoshitaka Kudo Director of Cinematography: Kenji Takehara 3DCG: Jishiro Shida Editor: Michi Takigawa Sound Director: Ryosuke Naya Sound Effects: Michiyo Saito Animation Producer: Hidehito Takagi Yen press publishes the official English version of Sai Naekawa's original manga, describing it thus: 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: Comic Natalie
