This Monster Needs to Eat Me would possibly bring to mind The Summer time Hikaru Died. In any case, each manga collection contain younger adults coping with doubtlessly romantic relationships with extraordinarily harmful and supernatural beings. Within the first quantity of this yuri manga, we’re offered with a stunning risk. Now in quantity 2, the potential for deadly relationships will increase as we study extra about these round Hinako.
Editor’s Observe: There might be some minor spoilers for occasions main as much as the climax of quantity 2 of the This Monster Eats Me manga under.
This Monster Needs to Eat Me quantity 2 picks up just about instantly the place the first installment of the yuri manga left off. Hinako and Shiori are coping with the after results of the assault by smaller monsters. They head again to the pageant they had been attending, with Shiori remarking it’s advantageous that they’re bloody. As a result of it’s monster blood, allegedly no person will discover it.
Besides somebody does.
Which is an ideal strategy to kick off the most recent thriller of “hey, who else won’t be an odd particular person and even human.” Given the collection establishes that there are monsters on the earth, they very seemingly aren’t pleasant, and Hinako is extraordinarily engaging to them, it stands to cause there wouldn’t simply be the bloodthirsty mermaid Shiori to take care of. It’s the primary of many unfastened threads that begin to be constructed up and yanked at all through the chapters right here, yielding outcomes.
What’s fascinating is how the second quantity of the This Monster Needs to Eat Me manga units up the following reveal and attainable yuri relationship in such a method that the reader would possibly initially not make sure how it’s going to go. Mangaka Sai Naekawa leaves these breadcrumbs of suspicion. Is Shiori simply expressing jealousy and traits of a poisonous associate by investigating the particular person Hinako is near? Is that this her nonetheless trying to genuinely defend her out of concern for her meal? Is there one other dangerous ingredient round Hinako?
I additionally loved how, by going within the course these newest chapters do, Naekawa additionally offers with a possible plothole. We’re instructed all through the primary quantity that Hinako’s blood is very scrumptious and fascinating to monsters and undesirable entities. We see a number of tried assaults within the first quantity, even. So… why has nothing occurred till now? What’s occurring? However as we step by step undergo this story and study extra about Hinako’s life and the particular person Shiori is investigating, issues actually begin to make sense in a satisfying method.
There’s an “ah ha” second, to make certain. However what’s additionally nice is that it isn’t cheapened by any speedy reveal. We’re given time to digest this. We get to see Hinako react to it. We additionally get to see a little bit of the opposite particular person’s response to Shiori and the state of affairs. In so doing, it additionally leaves me hoping a bit that Naekawa is establishing a attainable love triangle on this yuri manga. Not every thing comes up without delay, regardless that we’re beginning to get extra solutions. No, these are being saved for additional down the street, which I admire.
It leaves me excited to see what is going to occur subsequent in the case of character growth and yuri relationships within the subsequent quantity of the This Monster Needs to Eat Me manga. As a result of now we all know there are a number of people round Hinako who’re serious about her. We aren’t positive of everybody’s intentions. We don’t know who we will belief. We aren’t even positive how lots of the individuals she’ll become involved with will even be human. Though this quantity will get into extra world-building and solutions, it’s nonetheless good at serving to set issues up.
Quantity 2 of This Monster Needs to Eat Me is accessible now, and Yen Press will launch quantity 3 of the manga on January 21, 2025.
