Watashi wo Tabetai, Hitodenashi - Ch. 57 - A Mismatched Matching

[KitsuKyouno]

Thanks to her monsters wife. She learn be top

 

[HansumNapolean]

Only bit I will comment on, is Shiori being objectively a monster for eating human sacrifices--and that is that they were sacrifices, willingly offered up to her by the village in exhange for their perceived renewed bounty of food from the seas.

She wouldn't have been eating them, or have ever even met Azami, without humans themselves doing their share. So who's really the monster: the yokai/supernatural entity who simply moved into a cave, or the people who ascribed a miracle to her and sought her favor by sending their own to sate her, and of their own volition?

Hence, the question of humans and monsters being muddied. Azami, Shiori, Miko, and Hinako aren't the only characters put forward that test this concept, and each of their motives, actions, and rationale throughout the series have borne this out.

In chapter 52 Shiori mentions that the villagers were starving; if Shiori didn’t give Azami her blood, she probably would have died. Was there an element of greed in their sacrifice? Probably. But their cruelty, to a certain degree, was by necessity. Would you not sacrifice a few to save the entirety? Was it really a “choice” if the alternative was to starve to death? Even if they became affluent or stable after Shiori’s arrival, would you not be fearful of your food’s scarcity after what is, presumably, a famine?

I don’t ascribe any moral judgement against Azami. Her actions are reasonable; I’m sure she can find fault in the people who sacrificed her, but the difference is that they are all dead. Shiori isn’t. Azami is very much a victim throughout her entire backstory. I won’t comment on her later actions with Hinako because its portrayal is obviously negative, but I really do want to emphasize that she hasn’t don’t anything comparable to Shiori.

 

[MelonManic]

I am reminded of the foolishness of last chapters ending immediately
WHY DID NEITHER OF YOU HALFBRAINED BUFFOONS SECURE THE HOUSE BEFORE LETTING HINAKO GO IN, SHE WAS JUST STOOD ON THE BLOODY STEPS
Surely there's a logical reason y'all were guarding her and her brother of y'all thought to escort her in?
Tell it's a fake out fis- shiori, COME ON MIKO

Even if she didn't have the key cause she faked being a relative, she couldve just broken in, I ain't hearing no excuses on that front

My patience wains...

I mean I get you can't actually die and ya wanna get your point across but that's gotta hurt... That's it, don't hurt yourselves peeps
SEE

See y'all's ignorance let her in to spell brilliant truths on shiori, well all truths aside from the not changing part, what you mean dear pseudo Aizen is what happened BEFORE she reunited with hinako, she's very much evolved since
If your gonna slander her do it right jeez
See she's trying to get to switch sides, it probably won't work cause I don't see how a mere immortal human could devour hinako like a fish monster would, but your incompetence let this happen
AND I SEE NONE OF YER INTERVENTION

I swear I must've missed something on why they never walked her in, the perimeter is irrelevant if she knows where she lives and can get there BEFORE YOU START SCANNING THE PERIMETER
Not nearly paranoid enough

HAVE A NICE DAY, till next time

 

[Angry_Aguri]

Azami just looks insane. from her bright and wild eyes, to the expression on her face

 

[Homura]

someone kill this bitch already

 

[dowiet]

This is pretty silly

 

[Masontheanimefan123]

I really don’t think Shiori is a monster like the comments say

I think Azami is more monstrous than Shiori
Shiori is closer to an animal, than a “monster”. Lions do commit cannibalism, are they monsters? No, they’re animals.

Like we see livestocks as good, Shiori saw humans as food. She is fundamentally different from a human and thus can’t understand humans, I think Naekawa sensei made this clear as day in the manga.
So we can’t put our human morales onto Shiori.

Shiori’s reasoning makes sense. A lot of people wanted a bit of mermaid flesh, afterall, they wanted to be immortal. Thinking that because mermaid flesh was desirable, she fed Azami her flesh as a talesman. I can understand Shiori’s perspective.
Maybe to an immortal mermaid who can regenerate whole body even after getting bombed to pieces, a few pieces of flesh is no big deal.

I don’t think her eating humans makes her a monster. That’s just us humans who don’t want other humans to be eaten.

 

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[emmadrew]

Wasn't it like two chapters ago that Shiori and Miko said they'd be guarding Hinako at all times for the sake of her protection from Azami? This just feels straight up contrived. Shiori sneaks into Hinako's house all the time, so why would they assume Azami wouldn't?

 

[deathpigeon]

Wasn't it like two chapters ago that Shiori and Miko said they'd be guarding Hinako at all times for the sake of her protection from Azami? This just feels straight up contrived. Shiori sneaks into Hinako's house all the time, so why would they assume Azami wouldn't?

it's not super easy to make the judgement that she'll be sneaking into hinako's house and, while they both obviously want to protect her, they also understand that she needs time alone. shiori has been learning that she can't be so overbearing, even.

like, no, it isn't that surprising for them to let her be alone in her own home when she hasn't invited either of them in.

 

[emmadrew]

it's not super easy to make the judgement that she'll be sneaking into hinako's house and, while they both obviously want to protect her, they also understand that she needs time alone. shiori has been learning that she can't be so overbearing, even.

like, no, it isn't that surprising for them to let her be alone in her own home when she hasn't invited either of them in.

From an Irl logic stand point, sure, that makes sense. My problem is that the story actively went out of its way to set up Shiori and Miko being overprotective to the point of being stifling because Azami is sneaky and caught them off guard before. Then, Azami catches Hinako off guard by being sneaky again as if that scene never happend. My problem isn't a lack of logic, it's a lack of intentionality in the writing.