I Want to Eat Your Pancreas (manga)
I Want to Eat Your Pancreas (Japanese: 君の膵臓をたべたい, Hepburn: Kimi no Suizō wo Tabetai), also known as Let Me Eat Your Pancreas, is a novel by the Japanese writer Yoru Sumino. Initially serialized as a web novel in the user-generated site Shōsetsuka ni Narō in 2014, the book was published in print in 2015 by Futabasha. A manga adaptation ran from 2016 to 2017. A live-action film titled Let Me Eat Your Pancreas premiered in 2017, and an anime film adaptation titled I Want to Eat Your Pancreas on September 1, 2018.
Plot
Haruki Shiga comes across a book in a hospital waiting room. He soon discovers that it is a diary kept by his very popular classmate, Sakura Yamauchi, who reveals to him that she is secretly suffering from a fatal pancreatic illness. Despite this, Sakura intends to maintain a normal school life, and thus is drawn to Haruki due to his relatively unfazed reaction to her condition. They begin to spend time together and become friends.
One school break, Sakura invites Haruki on a train trip to Fukuoka during which the two play truth-or-dare and eventually share a bed in their hotel. Afterwards, Sakura’s friends and classmates grow suspicious and resentful of Haruki’s newfound closeness to her. The two begin doing activities from Sakura’s bucket list together, until Sakura is suddenly hospitalized. During her hospitalization, the two sneak out to see fireworks together. When Sakura is discharged she messages Haruki inviting him to lunch, but does not show up at their meeting spot. Later that night, Haruki is watching the news with his family, which reveals that Sakura was stabbed on her way to meet him and that she is dead. He breaks down and does not attend her funeral.
Later, he visits her mother and asks for Sakura’s diary. Her mother recognizes him, and reveals Sakura left a letter for him. The letter tells him to keep the diary and to make her best friend Kyoko read it, as she was unaware of Sakura’s illness and hated Haruki. Soon after Haruki reads the letter, he immediately breaks down into tears as he never felt so much sorrow for a single person before. Before leaving, Sakura’s mother asks for his name. He replies “Haruki” to which she replies, “so you two were meant to be,” explaining the meaning of their names, Haruki (spring trees) and Sakura (cherry blossom). He meets with Kyoko, who is in denial that Sakura ever lied to her, but after reading the diary she runs away. Haruki runs after and asks her to be his friend, for it was Sakura who made him open up to people and he wants to honor her memory. The movie ends with Haruki and Kyoko visiting Sakura’s grave a year later, the two of them having become friends.
| I Want to Eat Your Pancreas | |
The cover of the novel featuring Haruki Shiga (left) and Sakura Yamauchi (right).
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| 君の膵臓をたべたい (Kimi no Suizō o Tabetai) |
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| Genre | Coming-of-age, drama |
| Serial novel | |
| Written by | Yoru Sumino |
| Published by | Shōsetsuka ni Narō |
| Published | 2014 |
| Novel | |
| Written by | Yoru Sumino |
| Illustrated by | loundraw |
| Published by | Futabasha |
| English publisher | |
| Published | June 19, 2015 |
| Manga | |
| Illustrated by | Izumi Kirihara |
| Published by | Futabasha |
| English publisher |
Seven Seas Entertainment
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| Magazine | Monthly Action |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Original run | August 25, 2016 – May 25, 2017 |
| Volumes | 2 |
| Anime film | |
| Directed by | Shinichirō Ushijima |
| Produced by |
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| Written by | Shinichirō Ushijima |
| Music by | Hiroko Sebu |
| Studio | Studio VOLN |
| Licensed by | |
| Released | September 1, 2018 |
| Runtime | 108 minutes |
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