After a car crash that sent her family careening into the ocean in a burning car, Hinako, the only survivor, is left forever adrift wishing she had died with her family. While her best friend Miko tries to keep her spirits up, all Hinako can think of is death and despair.
One day, Hinako is lured into the ocean only to be attacked by a sea creature. She awakens from the attack to find the beautiful Shiori looming over her, having killed the thing that attacked Hinako. However, this woman defended her with no heroic act—she herself is a yokai that wishes to eat Hinako, but not quite yet.
Move over tragic yuri, it’s despair yuri time! If you are looking for more anime recommendations like This Monster Wants to Eat Me, head on down below.
Anime Like This Monster Wants to Eat Me
For Fans of Predator and Prey Yuri

The Executioner and Her Way of Life
For years, the Lost Ones have come from the distant world of Japan to a fantasy land. Not even these Lost Ones know how or why they arrive there, but their immense powers only bring destruction.
In order to secure the safety of their world, Executioners are charged with exterminating these Lost Ones.
While on the job, Executioner Menou happens across Akari, a Lost One summoned by an ambitious king. However, she finds that the girl is immortal and cannot be killed. Traveling with Akari, Menou seeks a way to end her life.
Similarities Between This Monster Wants to Eat Me and The Executioner and Her Way of Life
- A girl wants to kill another girl, they start a romance instead.
- Contrived reason why the girl can’t just kill the other right away and must instead spend heaps of time together.
- Slowly unraveling back story about the character’s, their pasts, and their maybe past relationship.
- The darker side of yuri romance with occasional bouts of action
Differences Between This Monster Wants to Eat Me and The Executioner and Her Way of Life
- The Executioner and Her Way of Life is an isekai-flavored fantasy story, so it is not the same modern supernatural story that This Monster Wants to Eat Me is.
- The Executioner and Her Way of Life has, for lack of a better word, a “future murder victim” that has a strong yandere love for the woman who intends to kill her instead of depression.
- The Executioner and Her Way of Life has more frequent, more flashy action.

Akuma no Riddle
Tokaku Azuma has just transferred to the elite Myoujou Academy. Alongside her other 11 classmates, she is tasked with trying to kill another sweet-natured classmate, Haru. The assassin that succeeds is granted their deepest desire, but each assassin only gets one shot.
However, when Tokaku develops feelings for the mark, she finds herself taking a different course of action.
Similarities Between This Monster Wants to Eat Me and Akuma no Riddle
- A meek, depressed girl is targeted for death
- A girl that is supposed to kill her ends up protecting her instead
- Tons of other things/people want to kill this girl
- Slowly unravels character backstories and secrets
Differences Between This Monster Wants to Eat Me and Akuma no Riddle
- Akuma no Riddle is about a group of assassins that are all competing to kill one girl for big prizes.
- Akuma no Riddle is lower on romance, and far higher on action

Strawberry Panic
Aoi Nagisa has transferred to one of the three all-girls schools on Astraea Hill.
There, she discovers an innate hierarchy where Etoiles represent the student body of the three schools. However, one Etoiles named Shizuma finds herself drawn to this new transfer student.
Similarities Between This Monster Wants to Eat Me and Strawberry Panic
- Meek girl becomes the target of another more mysterious, elegant girl
- All girls’ school yuri romance with darker relationship dynamics
Differences Between This Monster Wants to Eat Me and Strawberry Panic
- Strawberry Panic is more of a standard dramatic yuri with toxic relationship dynamics. So no actual death and potential murder involved here.
- Strawberry Panic works with multiple pairings
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For Fans of Emotional Numbness

Bloom Into You
As a young girl, Yuu has always loved shoujo manga and has awaited a love confession that sets her heart aflutter. However, when she gets one from a junior high classmate, she feels nothing.
Unsure how to respond, she watches Nanami, her high school student council president, expertly let someone down who just confessed to her. Seeking her guidance, she asks for Nanami’s help.
However, the next love confession she receives is from Nanami herself, could this be the romance she was waiting for?
Similarities Between This Monster Wants to Eat Me and Bloom Into You
- Depressed girl with muted emotions starts a romance with a mysterious, tall, dark-haired girl that is super into her already.
- Love triangle
- Together, they awaken something in each other
Differences Between This Monster Wants to Eat Me and Bloom Into You
- Bloom Into You isn’t a dark yuri romance. It is a normal school one, if a bit more melancholy.
- There is no supernatural element in Bloom Into You. It’s just all about learning how to feel things.

Otherside Picnic
After accidentally entering, Sorao finds herself in the desolate, and as she discovers, dangerous Otherworld. As she ponders whether to just die or not, she is saved by a girl named Toriko who is looking for her friend Satsuki who she believes is somewhere in this world.
After meeting, a friendship and partnership springs up as they explore the new reality before them.
Similarities Between This Monster Wants to Eat Me and Otherside Picnic
- Emotionally numb girl with a death wish wanders around, not really caring so much if she lives or dies.
- She meets a tall, beautiful, mysterious girl that keeps her alive
- Supernatural yuri romance with darker elements
- Slowly unraveled character backstory and secrets
Differences Between This Monster Wants to Eat Me and Otherside Picnic
- Otherside Picnic is an extremely slow burn for romance.
- Otherside Picnic is technically an isekai adventure about girls being able to go on expeditions to a dangerous parallel world for fun and profit, but they can go back to their normal world anytime.
For Fans of An Inhuman Thing Loves Me

The Summer Hikaru Died
After becoming friends as the only two boys of their age in a small, rural town, Hikaru and Yoshiki were inseparable. However, one summer when Hikaru disappeared in the mountain woods, he finds his friend returned a little different.
The Hikaru he knows and spends all his time with now is not his friend. It is a mountain creature that took over Hikaru’s body and is living his life disguised in his skin.
Wracked with grief and unable to let go, an unsettling chaos begins to fall over their town as the creature grows closer to him.
Similarities Between This Monster Wants to Eat Me and The Summer Hikaru Died
- At least one ancient local monster has come out of their habitat and is living among humans because they are lightly obsessed with a specific person.
- The object of that monster’s obsession attracts other monsters, so the monster must also protect them.
- LGBT romance
- Heaps of grief and other emotional drama.
Differences Between This Monster Wants to Eat Me and The Summer Hikaru Died
- The Summer Hikaru Died is a romance between two boys, but one is a monster wearing the face of the human’s dead friend who he had repressed feelings for.
- The homosexual feelings in The Summer Hikaru Died are darker, subtle, and not at all akin to an established romance that you see in This Monster Wants to Eat Me. It’s more about subtext and internalized rural homophobia.
- The Summer Hikaru Died injects more of a sinister atmosphere into the setting, story, and relationship.

The Ancient Magus’ Bride
After being abandoned by her family, Chise Hatori is a 16-year-old teenager without hope.
In order to not have to worry about herself, she sells herself to slavers, only to be purchased by Magus Elias Ainsworth.
There, she is told she will become his apprentice and, in the future, his bride. Together, they work to build a relationship and work to control her own magus powers that will eventually result in her early death.
Similarities Between This Monster Wants to Eat Me and Ancient Magus’ Bride
- A depressed girl is the target of an inhuman monster’s affections
- Inhuman monster teaches her how to feel again, if not just how to deal with depression and grief
- A vicious fantasy world exists in parallel or on the fringes of our own.
- Various creatures are interested in this girl for various reasons.
Differences Between This Monster Wants to Eat Me and Ancient Magus’ Bride
- Ancient Magus Bride takes place, mostly, in the world of fantasy creatures whereas This Monster Wants to Eat Me is more about creatures making themselves known in a modern world.
- Ancient Magus’ Bride is an extremely slow burn straight romance, not a yuri.
- The heroine in Ancient Magus’ Bride pretty swiftly regains a desire to live compared to This Monster Wants to Eat Me.
- Ancient Magus’ Bride has a very robust fantasy plot. So much so that romance is a rather small part of the series.
For Fans of Only I Get to Kill You

Angels of Death
Rachel awakens to find herself trapped in the basement of an abandoned building. After wandering around – lost, dizzy, and without her memories – she happens across a man in full bandages named Zack.
While at first he tries to kill her, eventually they come to an agreement. Together, they try to find a way to escape from their bizarre circumstance. In return for his help, Rachel offers up her own life to him.
Similarities Between This Monster Wants to Eat Me and Angels of Death
- Depressed, suicidal girl meets a predator
- They strike a deal—the predator will get to kill her at a certain point
- The predator protects their prey from other predators.
- Slowly unraveling secrets about the characters and their pasts
Differences Between This Monster Wants to Eat Me and Angels of Death
- Angels of Death is a straight romance, not a yuri.
- Angels of Death also isn’t much of a romance, but affection does play a role.
- Angels of Death is about a girl locked in a building where each floor is the playground of a new serial killer and she is trying to find her way out and why she is there with the help of another serial killer.
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