This Monster Wants To Eat Me Ep. 2-3: The Soggy Yuri Grows [Review]

This Monster Wants To Eat Me continues the soggy yuri horror with Ep. 2 “The Sunlit Beast and the Festival Song” and Ep. 3 “The Sea of Hope”. As the show goes on though, you can tell that the soggy yuri is growing. At this point, it’s pretty clear that the anime is developing into a yuri love triangle between Hinako Yaotose, Shiori Oumi, and Miko Yashiro.

This Monster Wants To Eat Me Ep. 2-3: Details in Brief

This Monster Wants To Eat Me Ep. 2 “The Sunlit Beast and the Festival Song” and Ep. 3 “The Sea of Hope” are the second and third episodes (you can read my review of Ep. 1 (and others) here) of this supernatural dark urban fantasy and horror yuri anime series. Said anime is the anime adaptation of the manga of the same name by Sai Naekawa.

Studio Lings (Tachibanakan to Lie Angle, Yuri is My Job!) is the animation studio behind this anime. Naoyuki Kuzuya is the chief director of the anime, with Yūsuke Suzuki as the director, Mitsutaka Hirota as the writer, and Keiji Inai as the composer.

Synopsis

Alas, This Monster Wants To Eat Me is an ongoing anime. In fact, Ep. 3 only just made its debut on October 16, 2025 exclusively on Crunchyroll. So for all those who haven’t seen this anime yet, here’s the synopsis for Ep. 2 directly from Crunchyroll:

“As Shiori integrates into Hinako’s class, she finds herself at odds with Hinako’s best friend Miko.”

As well as from Ep. 3:

“After a disastrous festival experience, Hinako tells Shiori about the tragedy in her past.”

This Monster Wants To Eat Me Ep. 2-3: The Good

Since This Monster Wants To Eat Me Ep. 2-3 will cover two episodes, here’s the breakdown by episode:

Ep. 2 “The Sunlit Beast and the Festival Song”

This is probably the more surreal episode of the show, both for us and for Hinako (voiced by Reina Ueda (JP)). All entirely due to the fact that the mermaid who both rescued her and promised to eat her is now her new classmate Shiori (voiced by Yui Ishikawa (JP)). While the details of how are unknown for now, Shiori’s new transfer student status now allows her to participate in Hinako’s school life…much to the concern of Hinako’s best friend/secondary love interest Miko (voiced by Fairouz Ai (JP)).

It’s here where we start to see the friction going on between Miko and Shiori for some understandably romantic reasons. After all, to Miko, this is some strange new girl who’s suddenly cozying up to Hinako. Thus, you can understand why Miko would be so quick to try to get Hinako away from her. There’s this subtle undercurrent of romantic yuri tension throughout the interaction that is so thick that you can cut it with a knife and serve it on toast. And yet, that still somehow pales in comparison to Hinako having a PTSD-induced panic attack later in the show after Shiori tried to drag her to a festival. It’s this interplay of comedy and drama that’s what makes the story so good.

And with some excellent animation from Studio Lings’ animation team to boot. You can especially see it in the highly detailed fireworks, as well as the candy apple Hinako is briefly eating before dropping it. The way cracks spiderweb across the toffee when the treat impacts the ground felt incredibly realistic and made me long for a candy apple myself, and also thus showing off the animation flexes that animation team is pulling off here in This Monster Wants To Eat Me. That, and the bloody carnage every time a monster shows up to try to eat Hinako again, only for Shiori to just as violently crush it.

Ep. 3 “The Sea of Hope”

Here in This Monster Wants To Eat Me is where the yuri tension kicks into high gear. All thanks to Miko catching sight of Hinako with Shiori at the festival, and now feeling like she’s been stood up after Hinako had refused her in the previous episode. Again, Sai Naekawa really shows off their writing skills here, because the tension is just as thick despite the cheery words being thrown around. Both Miko’s anger at feeling like she’s been stood up and Hinako’s worry about not wanting to hurt her best friend are quite palpable here. With the resulting drama from Hinako looking like she’s deceiving Miko being why this episode’s story is so riveting to watch.

Of course, Studio Lings’ animation team pulls off more animation flexes here. When even background characters have detailed animations, you know that they’re showing off now. And of course, the monster vs. monster violence here is just as beautifully animated in all of its bloody horror.

This Monster Wants To Eat Me Ep. 2-3: The Bad

Alas, my one complaint is that we don’t get to see enough of Shiori’s mermaid form in This Monster Wants To Eat Me Ep. 2-3. We keep seeing glimpses of it when she partially transforms. But alas, we have yet to see her fully transformed. She’s probably saving that for an especially powerful yokai though, so it’s probably only a matter of time until we see it.

Aside from that, This Monster Wants To Eat Me contains some impressively animated violence, but comparatively little action to go with it. If you want that, then you might want to check out Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Kaiju No. 8, DDDD, DAN DA DAN, Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online II, Zenshu, Blue Box, Solo Leveling, Black Butler, Nyaight of the Living Cat, May I Ask for One Final Thing?, and/or Spy x Family. If you want to watch something more relatively calm down, then I’ll suggest checking out Senpai is an Otokonoko, Apocalypse Hotel, Spice and Wolf: Merchant Meets the Wise Wolf, The Ancient Magus’ Bride, and/or My Dress-Up Darling.

What did you think of this week’s episode of This Monster Wants To Eat Me? Tell us your yuri thoughts in the comments section below.

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