Aniplex USA revealed at Anime Expo that they’ll be bringing out the feature film Kimi no Suizou wo Tabetai, which they’re translating as I want to eat your pancreas, and the Japanese promotion is continuing while we await the localization plans. The film is scheduled for a September 1st, 2018 debut in Japan and now a new trailer has landed for it that highlights the theme songs in the film as well. Check out the recently released English subtitled main trailer further down as well.
Shinichiro Ushijima is directing the project and wrote the screenplay for it while Yuichi Oka is serving as the chief animation director and character designer. Studio VOLN is behind the animation.
The Japanese cast includes Mahiro Takasugi as the unnamed protagonist and Lynn as Sakura Yamauchi, Yukiyo Fujii as Kyōko, Yūma Uchida as Takahiro, Jun Fukushima as Gum-kun, Atsuko Tanaka as the protagonist’s mother, and Shinichiro Miki as the protagonist’s father.
We learned earlier this year that Seven Seas picked up the license for the novel and manga for this property.
The film is based on the novel Shousetsuka ni Narou that arrived in 2015 and has a manga adaptation that ran up to the premiere of the film.
Plot Concept: One day, I—a high schooler—found a paperback in the hospital. The “Disease Coexistence Journal” was its title. It was a diary that my classmate, Sakura Yamauchi, had written in secret. Inside, it was written that due to her pancreatic disease, her days were numbered. And thus, I coincidentally went from Just-a-Classmate to a Secret-Knowing-Classmate. It was as if I were being drawn to her, who was my polar opposite. However, the world presented the girl that was already suffering from an illness with an equally cruel reality…
