The feature film Kimi no Suizou wo Tabetai, which is being translated as I want to eat your pancreas, had its theatrical release back on September 1st, 2018. Aniplex Japan brought their set out back on April 3rd, 2019 and now the North American release has been set with an October 29th, 2019 debut. With an SRP of $49.98 and a retail price of $39.98, it’ll be a bilingual release with just English subtitles. Extras for the set include the trailers and commercials, the clean opening, the theme song, the theatrical release special, and the dub bloopers. There’s a bit of a loss for English-speaking fans as the Japanese set includes a staff commentary, cast commentary, and a clean opening. A second disc includes additional special features with digest videos and behind the scenes production footage.
Shinichiro Ushijima directed the project and wrote the screenplay for it while Yuichi Oka served 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.
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…
