{"rewrite":{"id":"r_b612f0963855b4d41dc5e2c5","clusterId":"c_9e384406f6867e071e852d04","slug":"ena-hamabe-wants-dark-anime-to-leave-viewers-ready-for-tomorrow","model":"deepseek-v4-flash:free","headline":"Ena Hamabe Wants Dark Anime to Leave Viewers Ready for Tomorrow","summary":"At Anime Expo, Infinite, Inc. producer Ena Hamabe discussed her recent projects This Monster Wants to Eat Me and I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day. The latter, about a girl named Sheena in a school that trains children as weapons, screened its first episode at the convention and streams on Crunchyroll. Hamabe said she wants sad stories to leave viewers feeling ready to face tomorrow.","whyItMatters":"Hamabe's interview frames her recent work as deliberately pairing heavy sadness with a hopeful outlook, which is the common thread between the two series she produces.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eHamabe said she hopes these stories help people release the negative emotions they are carrying. Even when a story is sad, she wants viewers to finish it feeling they can do their best again tomorrow. That outlook, she said, is one reason she adapts such material into animation: the visual form lets her emphasize the hopeful side.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe also described reading This Monster Wants to Eat Me and feeling the protagonist\u0026#39;s sadness was the kind anyone could experience, expressed beautifully. Both series center on relationships between young women, which she said are portrayed authentically to that stage of life.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Ena Hamabe, producer of This Monster Wants to Eat Me and I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day, says she wants sad stories to leave viewers ready to face tomorrow. The first episode of the latter screened at Anime Expo and streams on Crunchyroll.","twitterPost":"Ena Hamabe on her two current anime: both are sad, sometimes dark, but never hopeless. She wants viewers to finish feeling they can face tomorrow. I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day screened at Anime Expo and streams on Crunchyroll.","threadsPost":null,"newsletterBlurb":"Infinite, Inc. producer Ena Hamabe spoke with Anime News Network at Anime Expo about This Monster Wants to Eat Me and I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day. She explained that she aims for dark stories to carry a hopeful core, so viewers finish ready to move forward. The first episode of the latter screened at the convention and is now streaming on Crunchyroll.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"Anime News Network\",\"url\":\"https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/convention/2026/all-the-news-and-reviews-from-anime-expo/beauty-and-monsters-a-chat-with-anime-producer-ena-hamabe/.240243\",\"title\":\"Beauty and Monsters: A Chat with Anime Producer Ena Hamabe\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":4745,"outputTokens":2364,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1786890153,"createdAt":"2026-08-16T14:08:01.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-08-16T14:16:44.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-08-16T14:08:01.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_9e384406f6867e071e852d04","canonicalTitle":"All the News and Reviews from Anime Expo 2026\nBeauty and Monsters: A Chat with Anime Producer Ena Hamabe","representativeArticleId":"a_c70ba28ce4ef48a7e7c0a041","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[\"This Monster Wants to Eat Me\",\"I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day\"],\"work_titles\":[],\"studios\":[],\"people\":[\"Ena Hamabe\"],\"type\":\"news\",\"domain\":\"manga\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-08-16T13:00:00.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-08-16T13:00:00.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-08-16T14:16:45.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"Anime News Network","url":"https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/convention/2026/all-the-news-and-reviews-from-anime-expo/beauty-and-monsters-a-chat-with-anime-producer-ena-hamabe/.240243","title":"All the News and Reviews from Anime Expo 2026\nBeauty and Monsters: A Chat with Anime Producer Ena Hamabe"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":["This Monster Wants to Eat Me","I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day"],"work_titles":[],"studios":[],"people":["Ena Hamabe"],"type":"news","domain":"manga","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":null}