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Sai Naekawa's manga This Monster Wants to Eat Me (Watashi o Tabetai, Hito de Nashi) will be adapted into a TV anime, set to premiere in 2025. A newly launched website unveiled a teaser trailer, visual, cast, and staff details for the upcoming anime.

Image via This Monster Wants to Eat Me anime's Twitter account
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Reina Ueda will voice the protagonist, Hinako Yaotose. Naoyuki Kuzuya (Saiyuki Gaiden) serves as the chief director, with Yūsuke Suzuki (Duel Masters Win) directing the series at Studio Lings. Mitsutaka Hirota (Bibliophile Princess) is handling the scriptwriting, while Sō Ikuyama is responsible for character design. The music will be composed by Keiji Inai (Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?), with Ryōsuke Naya (365 Days to the Wedding) as the sound director. Infinite is producing the anime.

To commemorate the announcement, Naekawa shared a special illustration on social media.

The manga in English, licensed by Yen Press, as the following synopsis: 

 “I've come to eat you.” So softly utters the mermaid Shiori as she emerges from the sea and takes high school girl Hinako by the hand. Hinako lives alone in a town by the sea and possesses an unusually delicious body that is irresistible to nearby monsters. To ensure that she matures to the best condition, Shiori seeks to protect Hinako—all so that someday, she can devour every piece of her. What will become of Hinako's feelings as this looming unjust death closes in on her...?

Naekawa began the manga in Kadokawa's Dengeki Maoh magazine in 2020. The ninth volume will be released on Friday.

Sources: This Monster Wants to Eat Me anime website & Twitter page, Comic Natalie