Watashi o Tabetai, Hitodenashi - Ch. 50 - The Blooming Thistles

[MangaDex]

 

[ThanatosKaiAnastasi]

By the way, we're at the 5th year anniversary of this manga running.
https://x.com/naekawa_sai/status/1960541241285992624

 

[DioBrandoXVII]

The thick plottens

 

[HollowDave]

Ima assume she’s probably related to Shiori. Also these youkai/Monsters gotta stop implanting memories into poor Hinako

 

[uncaringbear]

Are we going to get a full time antagonist character to spice things up? Maybe it’s Shiori’s old classmate from mermaid school.

 

[MerlinD]

Ex from the past revealed

 

[UdenEmpati]

I feel like every chapter that comes out just leaves me sitting in my darkened room (because somehow it's always night time), quietly hyperventilating as each line of dialogue and every expression and line of the mouth or eye swirls in my head, seeking purchase among the eddies of uncertainty, and the undercurrents of anxiety pull at my ankles as I fight for purchase in the silt that is the unknown of Hinako's future in the face of the building tension of it all.

Which, I mean, is a fantastic accomplishment for this story and I'm left craving the next installment, but.

 

[UdenEmpati]

Also I believe "thistle" means, among other things, "retribution/revenge".

So this should be fun.

 

[Spooder9]

woo thanks for the chapter! great stuff

 

[Mangamoz]

Am I supposed to know the aunt?

 

[Aile]

If I have to guess, this is definitely the girl Shiori made immortal and blew her to bits before young Hinako found her in the shore healing the wound she got from this girl.

 

[UdenEmpati]

Am I supposed to know the aunt?

Not Hinako's aunt.

Almost assuredly the girl that Shiori turned immortal by feeding her mermaid flesh.

Dunno why she has shapeshifting/illusionary powers, but she either has charmed Hinako into making false memories of being her auntie, or she found young Hinako who had come into contact with Shiori, post-accident, and inserted herself into Shiori's life as her auntie, and played the long game in the event Shiori came back looking for Hinako.

Ostensibly for revenge against our Fish Wife.

 

[KZO]

Yeah, she is no monster, Tanuki was clearly saying she's human. Probably Shiori's ex.

 

[Okuu]

Another friend to be made, surely

 

[shemper]

Thank you for your work!

 

[Valash]

Why do i hear boss music?

 

[Picks]

Chapter 23 is where the girl who ate mermaid flesh is shown/explained. Also, I forgot Hinako was given mermaid blood. have the effecta of that been outlined yet (other than perhaps that being the reason she was the only one to survive the car wreck)?

 

[agolloh]

Damn

 

[lilyoftheRiver]

Not Hinako's aunt.

Almost assuredly the girl that Shiori turned immortal by feeding her mermaid flesh.

Dunno why she has shapeshifting/illusionary powers, but she either has charmed Hinako into making false memories of being her auntie, or she found young Hinako who had come into contact with Shiori, post-accident, and inserted herself into Shiori's life as her auntie, and played the long game in the event Shiori came back looking for Hinako.

Ostensibly for revenge against our Fish Wife.

She might have gotten some of Shiori’s abilities along with being immortal or just learned it after being alive for so long?

 

[UdenEmpati]

She might have gotten some of Shiori’s abilities along with being immortal or just learned it after being alive for so long?

Yeah - my personal hypothesis is she got them from another monster or spirit or something. (In keeping with the theme, gonna go with Azami has maybe spent years eating other monsters for their powers.)

Plus it would explain why Tanuki & Miko were like "what the fuck" when she showed up - if she's collecting powers like the bad guy from Heroes by consuming monsters, every nonhuman who comes across her would probably freak out at how terrifying she feels to them.

*yeah, went back and checked - Ayame also looked more than a little skeeved when Azami showed up at her food cart, so I think she's got a whole pile of monster bits stuck inside her, meaning she's an actually lethal threat to all of them at present, and is immortal to boot.
Not great for Hinako & Co.