A Yuri Horror Asks What It Means to Consent to Being Eaten
Anime Feminist examines the slow-burn yuri horror This Monster Wants to Eat Me, arguing that the series uses its supernatural premise to explore questions of agency and consent, and the desire that complicates both. The analysis focuses on the dynamic between Hinako, a grieving teen with passive suicidal ideation, and Shiori, the mermaid who wants to consume her, tracing how Shiori's neutral acknowledgment of Hinako's death wish becomes a seed of permission that makes agency over her own life possible.