Watashi wo Tabetai, Hitodenashi Episode 6 Discussion

Miko took off her own tails to make herself weaker, willing to sacrifice her pride as a yokai, all so that she can stay being friends with Hinako. It's truly admirable, she's such a great and interesting character. Not to mention all the things she does to help others in any way she can.

Hinako's condition is a mystery– I thought her blood would be special because of her ancestry, but it seems like it only became special after the accident? Did some kind of yokai possessed her or something? (But I think they would be able to see through that so I wonder what that was).

It's just sad to see Hinako talking about her life like nothing, how she feels glad that Miko is a yokai and won't probably be lonely even after she's gone– These 'monsters' care for you, it's still a long way but hopefully Hinako gets the happiness she deserves.

I love the banters between Miko and Shiori, they're such a fun duo lol.

Kinda wild that we're 6 episodes deep and the characters and voice actors list on here is still only 3 people

@Aleksu I feel like there is some kind of trope where someone surviving an attack from a monster can retain some tinge of that monstrous element, going back to werewolf lore or even stuff that's fairly well known amongst otaku, from the Hollow attack leading to Fullbringers in Bleach to whatever situation with the Nekozuku clan in Earthbound Mole.

Could've almost awakened some hidden factor, kind of like awakening the X gene or meta gene in MArvel and DC respectively, where it's latent until .some incident brings it out or even alters the genome in some way like I think some mutates in Marvel or similar artificial metahumans in DC


If the yokai attack left some intermixing of yokai and human blood, maybe a 1/100000 chance made it so her blood intermixed with a yokai pheromone or even created some new compound. The scars were very unexpected, but given it was a car fire and such, it makes a degree of sense, though I'm no doctor in being able to discern if this is a burn, though it seems likely

@holdingnothing I am leaning more towards a family angle on the dad side. We saw that it was Hinako's dad who was originally praying to the shrine of a monk who tames (saves) yokai. So it could be that Hinako's dad was a yokai who was saved by that monk sect, abandoned their yokai side and chose to live as a human. Kinda what Mikochan is doing right now.

So, this would make Hinako a SUPER RARE human/yokai offsping - which in turn would go a long way to explain why Shiori would say "I have been looking so long for someone like you". It also explains the A5 grade wagyu yumminess of Hinako's flesh, and finally also explains the "rotten whale" comment from Shiori, which refers to the death wish which poison's the taste of this delish meat.

I would think Mikochan would notice that the dad is a yokai, as the Hinako family was praying to the shrine while Mikochan was sitting on it. So that doesn't really fit this theory. But maybe yokai can totally abandon their yokai side if they chose.

So for now I am running with this theory. :)

@EvilJuju Or like what monsters do in Dragon Quest, esp. 7, probably prior ones, since the lore tends to vary between monsters are just humans twisted by various vices (almost like the Mysterious Beings/Kaijin in One Punch Man), or they are technically distinct, though I think that's more Dragon Quest Adventure of Dai lore, even if the Dragon Quest games might not all be consistent on the nature of monsters. The Monster village in Dai suggests they're distinct from humans, probably having existed for many millennia more, but Dai's lore has a whole other humanoid species called Darklings who I think can interbreed with humans, we see one example of that. With DQ7, there are human sprites that when talked to, they reveal they're actually monsters that managed to do good deeds and eventually became human

Youkai/human hybrids could be like ghouls in Tokyo Ghoul, where more often than not, the hybrid creates an entity that takes priority from one of teh parents and the other parents' genetics are more suppressed, like the half humans, where they're stronger, but also basically still human, their ghoul genetics enough to give them some benefits, but nothing like a half ghoul, which is rare because of how the ghoul mother's body would consume the fetus and the human mother would have to be a cannibal for the fetus to subsist.

If Hinako is more like a half human where the human side is more prominent and the youkai side just enhances the human side, it could be distinct. I only know one major half youkai in Japanese folklore, Abe no Seimei and his mother was a youkai, so if it's the inverse and the father's a youkai, perhaps the human mother's DNA takes precedence and the child is special in a way that's less obvious than being half youkai where your mother is the youkai and thus you get super special powers.

Interesting, as that story has a kitsune in it too giving birth to a half youkai...

@Aleksu I feel like there is some kind of trope where someone surviving an attack from a monster can retain some tinge of that monstrous element, going back to werewolf lore or even stuff that's fairly well known amongst otaku, from the Hollow attack leading to Fullbringers in Bleach to whatever situation with the Nekozuku clan in Earthbound Mole.

Could've almost awakened some hidden factor, kind of like awakening the X gene or meta gene in MArvel and DC respectively, where it's latent until .some incident brings it out or even alters the genome in some way like I think some mutates in Marvel or similar artificial metahumans in DC


If the yokai attack left some intermixing of yokai and human blood, maybe a 1/100000 chance made it so her blood intermixed with a yokai pheromone or even created some new compound. The scars were very unexpected, but given it was a car fire and such, it makes a degree of sense, though I'm no doctor in being able to discern if this is a burn, though it seems likely

@holdingnothing That actually makes a lot more sense than just a possession, the whole accident is just too mysterious, not even sure if it was a natural accident or something caused by a supernatural– either way, there is definitely something more about it that messed up Hinako's body like that.

Miko took off her own tails to make herself weaker, willing to sacrifice her pride as a yokai, all so that she can stay being friends with Hinako. It's truly admirable, she's such a great and interesting character. Not to mention all the things she does to help others in any way she can.

Hinako's condition is a mystery– I thought her blood would be special because of her ancestry, but it seems like it only became special after the accident? Did some kind of yokai possessed her or something? (But I think they would be able to see through that so I wonder what that was).

It's just sad to see Hinako talking about her life like nothing, how she feels glad that Miko is a yokai and won't probably be lonely even after she's gone– These 'monsters' care for you, it's still a long way but hopefully Hinako gets the happiness she deserves.

I love the banters between Miko and Shiori, they're such a fun duo lol.