Watashi wo Tabetai, Hitodenashi - Ch. 53 - The Bait

[MangaDex]

 

[shinmera]

Oh dang, so wait, does this imply that she manipulated Hinako in more ways than just faking her memory of her aunt?

 

[Colonel-Picquart]

Jesus Azami's eyes are just horrifying in their lack of humanity. It says something that in this series she's the one whose empty state creeps me out the most.

 

[BrotherCoa]

A very interesting chapter, seems like the meeting between Hinako and mermaid was not by chance after she had an accident.

Definitely want to know more about Azami and her 'protector'.

 

[UdenEmpati]

I wanna know who the girl with Azami is, mostly. I'm assuming she's the one using the magic/charm effect on Hinako to make Azami appear as a family member, and is seemingly the one doing the memory modification (since she also did it to that teacher during the Reunion Chapter).

So, another monster/yokai/etc. in Azami's employ, though I wonder what sway Azami has over her, for her to be doing the bidding of someone who's ostensibly just an immortal human being. Without knowing "what" she is, though, I can't really guess based on the characteristics we've seen as to what sort of monster/yokai she is, and thus what would bind her to service (whether willingly or otherwise).

That said - 9th grade is honestly more recent than I'd expected for Azami to have first shown up in Hinako's life. It's still terrifying that she was rooted that deeply at all, but I kinda thought she'd have had a hand in the original accident at this point, or something.
Though...that seeming to be a simple freak tragedy, makes it all the worse / more compelling, in my mind - no grand manipluation or machination of Hinako's life; the single worst incident in her existence was entirely a chance event, and then she was taken advantage of by Azami, and rescued by Miko and later again by Shiori.

But this is just one memory; I wonder if there are others as well, including ones that maybe
involve other individuals who are revealed to have been around for awhile longer than assumed, or if there's a number of events involving Azami that will now be made known. It's definitely the genesis of the ongoing revenge plot against our Fish Wife involving Hinako, though.



All that said...her sitting alone at the train depot with the families behind her kinda knocked the wind out of me. The artwork remains beautiful with the paneling, composition, and use of negative space & lighting, but the content is just a gut punch sometimes.

But it's amazing, in the end. So thank you for your continued TL work on this series.

 

[weleasewodger]

Still waiting patiently for Shiori-san to eat Hinako- chan

 

[sadp]

I wanna know who the girl with Azami is, mostly. I'm assuming she's the one using the magic/charm effect on Hinako to make Azami appear as a family member, and is seemingly the one doing the memory modification (since she also did it to that teacher during the Reunion Chapter).

So, another monster/yokai/etc. in Azami's employ, though I wonder what sway Azami has over her, for her to be doing the bidding of someone who's ostensibly just an immortal human being. Without knowing "what" she is, though, I can't really guess based on the characteristics we've seen as to what sort of monster/yokai she is, and thus what would bind her to service (whether willingly or otherwise).

That said - 9th grade is honestly more recent than I'd expected for Azami to have first shown up in Hinako's life. It's still terrifying that she was rooted that deeply at all, but I kinda thought she'd have had a hand in the original accident at this point, or something.
Though...that seeming to be a simple freak tragedy, makes it all the worse / more compelling, in my mind - no grand manipluation or machination of Hinako's life; the single worst incident in her existence was entirely a chance event, and then she was taken advantage of by Azami, and rescued by Miko and later again by Shiori.

But this is just one memory; I wonder if there are others as well, including ones that maybe
involve other individuals who are revealed to have been around for awhile longer than assumed, or if there's a number of events involving Azami that will now be made known. It's definitely the genesis of the ongoing revenge plot against our Fish Wife involving Hinako, though.



All that said...her sitting alone at the train depot with the families behind her kinda knocked the wind out of me. The artwork remains beautiful with the paneling, composition, and use of negative space & lighting, but the content is just a gut punch sometimes.

But it's amazing, in the end. So thank you for your continued TL work on this series.

fish headband and western clothes, she is a regular mermaid I would say

 

[Ichigo69]

Ithe single worst incident in her existence was entirely a chance event, and then she was taken advantage of by Azami, and rescued by Miko and later again by Shiori.

Except she was rescued by Miko waaaay before she ever met Azami.

 

[UNORGANIZED_]

So what grade is Hinako in right now? And...does that mean they met the year before Shiori appeared?

 

[Ichigo69]

So what grade is Hinako in right now? And...does that mean they met the year before Shiori appeared?

IIRC, they're 1st years, and yes, this chapter all happens in the past before Shiori shows up. Hinako mentions her aunt in the 1st chapter, I believe...

 

[BrotherCoa]

Hinako mentions her aunt in the 1st chapter, I believe...

That was her real aunt over the phone in the 1st chapter, Miko also mentioned her few chapters ago how she only has one aunt. And to our knowledge so far she is her only living relative. She as absent so far because of her job but I get it that we will get to meet her at some point.

 

[ThanatosKaiAnastasi]

That was her real aunt over the phone in the 1st chapter, Miko also mentioned her few chapters ago how she only has one aunt. And to our knowledge so far she is her only living relative. She as absent so far because of her job but I get it that we will get to meet her at some point.

That was actually the fake aunt. See my notes in the discussion of Ch. 49.

 

[Ichigo69]

That was actually the fake aunt. See my notes in the discussion of Ch. 49.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking....

 

[shemper]

Thank you for your work!

 

[AgentKuga]

oh my lord this poor girl can't trust any of her memories

 

[AhUhmYeahUh]

Ok imma real here azami really creeped me out
Honestly she might be the scariest so far in the series at least for me

 

[Ichigo69]

Yeah, she's seriously bad news....

 

[erana1]

On a related matter, it begins. It WILL be a race betwen fish-girl and fox-girl to see who gets to test first whether that "inmortality due to eating mermaid flesh" thing has any hard limits, and of course, whether said limits are best reached by dismemberment, incineration, devouring, or a combination of those.

 

[deltahalo241]

So Azami took Hinako's handkerchief? I had assumed the dying Yokai mentioned in the past had been killed by Miko but now it's looking like it was perhaps the Yokai that tried going after Hinako in this chapter or at the very least that Azami has been leading Yokai to Hinako intentionally in order to draw Shiori out (Which she has done successfully)

 

[dazedaze1111]

I suddenly miss this manga after the anime ended
Another a month of waiting
Hinako really cant trust her memory dawg 😭