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I Want to Eat Your Pancreas (Japanese: 君の膵臓をたべたい, Hepburn: Kimi no Suizō o 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.
I Want to Eat Your Pancreas held its preview screening in Tokyo on July 24, 2018, and was released in Japan on September 1. The film grossed over $6 million worldwide and received positive reviews from critics, who praised the story and its message, animation, and writing.
Let Me Eat Your Pancreas (Japanese: 君の膵臓をたべたい, Hepburn: Kimi no Suizō o Tabetai) is a 2017 Japanese romance drama film starring Minami Hamabe, Takumi Kitamura, Keiko Kitagawa and Shun Oguri. Directed by Shō Tsukikawa, it is based on the 2015 novel I Want to Eat Your Pancreas by Yoru Sumino. [1] [2]
Sumino started writing in high school. [5] He initially submitted a story for the Dengeki Novel Prize, however after not making it past the first round of selection, Sumino revised his writing style before writing I Want to Eat Your Pancreas; the manuscript ended up being too long to be submitted for the prize.
Ushijima was born in Fukuoka Prefecture. [1] He majored in design at a college in Los Angeles and later started out working at animation studio Madhouse. [1] Prior to I Want to Eat Your Pancreas, he directed the opening of the anime series Sunday Without God (2013), participated as assistant director in the anime series One Punch Man (2015–, including the OVA One Punch Man: Road to Hero) and ...
I Want to Eat Your Pancreas (2014) by Yoru Sumino - acquired by Futabasha, received a manga adaptation, a live-action film adaptation, and an anime film adaptation; I Want to Escape from Princess Lessons (2018–2019) by Izumi Sawano - acquired by Shufu to Seikatsu Sha, received a manga adaptation and an anime television series adaptation
Since then, it started to produce its own works, including a theatrical anime film version of the 2015 novel I Want to Eat Your Pancreas. Animator Abiru Takahiko was one of the studio's animation directors for a time. [2]
The plot follows a grade schooler, Nanoka Koyanagi, after she is assigned at school to define what happiness means to her. She meets three strangers - an isolated woman living alone, known to Nanoka as Skank-san, an unhappy teenage girl who self-harms, Minami, and an old woman, known to Nanoka as Granny, and uses her experiences with them to define what happiness means to her.