It’s a good week for news on this project as North American fans learned that Seven Seas picked up the license for the novel and manga for Kimi no Suizou wo Tabetai, which is getting a feature anime film that’s set to arrive this year. Translating as Let Me Eat Your Pancreas, the film has now been scheduled for a September 1st, 2018 debut and a new trailer for it has arrived. 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 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…