I Want to Eat Your Pancreas

君の膵臓をたべたい (Kimi no Suizō o Tabetai)
I Want to Eat Your Pancreas
The cover of the novel featuring Haruki Shiga (left) and Sakura Yamauchi (right).
Genre	Coming-of-age, drama^[1]
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	NA: Seven Seas Entertainment
Published	June 19, 2015
Manga
Illustrated by	Izumi Kirihara
Published by	Futabasha
English publisher	NA: Seven Seas Entertainment
Magazine	Monthly Action
Demographic	Seinen
Original run	August 25, 2016 – May 25, 2017
Volumes	2
Films
Let Me Eat Your Pancreas (2017 live-action film) I Want to Eat Your Pancreas (2018 anime film)

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. 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 on September 1, 2018.

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Characters

The character names listed here are in western order of family name last. The official English language light novel and manga volumes use the Japanese naming order of family name first, while the English subtitles of the anime use the western order.

"Me" (「僕」, "Boku") / Haruki Shiga (志賀春樹, Shiga Haruki): Voiced by: Mahiro Takasugi^[2] (Japanese); Robbie Daymond^[3] (English)
Sakura Yamauchi (山内桜良, Yamauchi Sakura): Voiced by: Lynn^[2] (Japanese); Erika Harlacher^[3] (English)
"Gum Boy" (「和原」, "Kazuhara") / Issei Miyata (宮田一誠, Miyata Issei): Voiced by: Jun Fukushima^[2] (Japanese); Khoi Dao^[3] (English)
Kyoko Takimoto (滝本恭子, Takimoto Kyōko): Voiced by: Yukiyo Fujii^[2] (Japanese); Kira Buckland^[3] (English)
Takahiro (隆弘): Voiced by: Yuma Uchida^[2] (Japanese); Kyle McCarley^[3] (English)
Sakura's mother (桜良の母, Sakura no haha): Voiced by: Emi Wakui^[2] (Japanese); Dorah Fine^[3] (English)

Media

Novel

Yoru Sumino originally published the novel as a web novel on the user-generated content site Shōsetsuka ni Narō in 2014, before Futabasha republished it with cover art by loundraw on June 19, 2015 (ISBN 978-4-575-23905-8).^[1]^[4] English publisher Seven Seas Entertainment announced their license to the novel on March 15, 2018, and it was released on November 20, 2018.^[5]

Manga

Izumi Kirihara began serializing a manga adaptation in Futabasha's Monthly Action magazine on August 25, 2016,^[6]^[1] and ended the series on May 25, 2017.^[7] The chapters were compiled into two collected tankōbon volumes, published on February 10, 2017 (ISBN 978-4-575-84925-7),^[8] and June 20, 2017 (ISBN 978-4-575-84993-6).^[9] The manga is also licensed by Seven Seas, who released the first volume on January 22, 2019.^[5]

Live-action film

A Japanese live-action film based on the novel, titled Let Me Eat Your Pancreas,^[10] starring Takumi Kitamura and Minami Hamabe in the lead roles premiered in Japan on July 28, 2017.^[1] The film was also shown in South Korea at the Busan International Film Festival in October 2017,^[11] and in Malaysia on November 9, 2017, where it was distributed by GSC Movies.^[12]

Anime film

A Japanese animated film adaptation of the novel, titled I Want to Eat Your Pancreas,^[3] was announced in August 2017.^[1] The film is written for the screen and directed by Shinichiro Ushijima and produced by Keiji Mita at Studio VOLN,^[13] with music composed by Hiroko Sebu.^[13] Yūichi Oka provides the character designs and serves as chief supervising animator. Yukako Ogawa is the background supervisor and is assisted by Yoshito Watanabe. Sound effects are produced by Noriko Izumo under the direction of Jōji Hata. Compositing for the film was supervised by Hiroshi Saitō and directed by Mayuko Koike. Koremi Kishi serves as the 3D CG director, and Yoshinori Horikawa is the color designer. The film is edited by Yumi Jingugi.^[13] The film's theme song is "Fanfare" (ファンファーレ) and the ending is "Shunkashūtō" (春夏秋冬, transl. The Four Seasons). Both songs are by the band Sumika, who also played voice acting roles in the film.^[14] The film is distributed by Aniplex in Japan and premiered in theaters on September 1, 2018.^[15]^[13]