I want to eat your pancreas (Anime)

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Anime movie
title I want to eat your pancreas
Original title 君 の 膵 臓 を た べ た い
transcription Kimi no Suizō o Tabetai
Kimi no Suizou wo Tabetai Schriftzug.svg
Japanese lettering
Country of production JapanJapan Japan
original language Japanese
Publishing year 2018
Studio VOLN
length 108 minutes
genre Drama , Slice of Life , youth film
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Shinichirō Ushijima
script Shinichirō Ushijima
music Yuko Seikita
synchronization

Kimi no Suizō o Tabetai ( 君 の 膵 臓 を た べ た い , English title I Want to Eat Your Pancreas , alternative title Let Me Eat Your Pancreas ) is a Japanese animation film by the VOLN studio , which was shown in Japan on September 1, 2018 , based on the same Web novel by Yoru Sumino in which Shinichirō Ushijima directed by.

The film is a review of a character whose name is unknown, who finds a diary of his former schoolmate Sakura Yamauchi and remembers the time together. Yamauchi suffers from an incurable disease of the pancreas and only has a few months to live. Besides the protagonist, only her family knows this.

action

The high school students Haruki Shiga and Sakura Yamauchi are the absolute counterparts of each other: While Sakura is a happy, energetic girl who is loved and popular with her classmates, Haruki is introverted, reserved and not interested in social interaction with his classmates. Instead, he likes to read books and imagine what others think of him.

The action begins a few days after Sakura Yamauchi's funeral. Haruki lies lost in thought in his bed and reports that the funeral ceremony was attended by many relatives and former classmates, while he could not find the courage to attend the funeral service as well. After getting up and getting ready, he looks at the last text message he sent to Sakura shortly before she died and wonders if she read the message. Haruki remembers the time together with his classmate. He and Sakura first met in the hospital in April . Haruki, who wants to have the threads of his appendix removed, happens to find a kind of diary with the title "Living With Dying" and learns that the owner of the book only has a little more than a year to live. Shortly after taking a look at the book, Sakura, a classmate, approaches him. She reveals to him that the book belongs to her and that she will soon die of an incurable disease of her pancreas , which Haruki accepts motionless and emotionless. On the way back from the hospital to school, Sakura intercepts Haruki and asks him not to tell anyone about her illness. He dislikes the conversation with her and advises that she should make better use of her remaining time in the hope that they will not run into each other in the future. She thanks him for his advice and runs ahead to an intersection.

A few days later, Sakura begins to work in the school library , where Haruki also spends his time after class. She has made a list of activities that she would like to have done before she dies and has included Haruki in her planning, which he does not like. She reminds him of his advice and reluctantly Haruki agrees to her plan. Sakura invites her classmate to eat yakiniku in a fast-food restaurant . Both have a conversation about various topics, including that there is another religion, eat the innards of their deceased, so that the soul is passed on to another person. After eating together, the two of them walk through the city and see two men harass an elderly woman. While Haruki tries to avoid the situation, Sakura steps to the side of the woman and gives one of the men a targeted kick, causing him to go down. Sakura escapes with Haruki by her hand while the two men are stopped by the police . After the two managed to escape successfully, Sakura sees the café " Spring ". Because of the name, she decides to have tea there. She asks Haruki for his phone number so that she can keep in touch with him. When he comes home that evening, a news report is on TV about a murder crime in the neighboring prefecture.

The next day at school, rumors spread that Sakura and Haruki are a couple. Sakura explains that they just get on well with each other, while Haruki denies being in a relationship with her. In the afternoon, Sakura tells Haruki the next place she would like to visit with him, which he initially refuses. At first, Sakura reacts irritably to the fact that he told his classmates that they don't know each other, but later he has to laugh out loud. They visit an all-you-can-eat restaurant, eat cake together and talk about various topics. Sakura says she recently broke up with her boyfriend. When Kyōko, Sakura's best friend since middle school , sees them both, she becomes angry and tries unsuccessfully to find out what she cares about Haruki. Shortly after she leaves, Sakura explains that she is a very strong person. Haruki and Sakura walk the beach in the evening. When asked if she should tell her best friend about her illness, Sakura replies that she fears that if she does so, their relationships will change. She makes him understand that he is the only person who can make her feel real and normal . She tells him that instead of reading books all the time, he should approach other people.

When the students were cleaning their classroom one afternoon, Haruki was asked again by a classmate about his relationship with Sakura. Before he can answer, however, Sakura's best friend appears and tells her classmates not to dawdle. On the same evening, Haruki receives a message from Sakura inviting him to travel for a day. Together they drive to Fukuoka . On the way, she asks for the name of her classmate for her diary. He tells her his name, but asks her not to mention his name in the book so that there are no misunderstandings later. After arriving at their destination, the two spend a day together, also talking about the recent murders. Due to a mistake by the receptionist, the two are forced to share a hotel room. Sakura takes a bath while Haruki reads a book. When Sakura asks him to bring the face cream out of her bag, he is startled because he sees the syringes and medication that will prolong her life for the first time . When Haruki has finished showering, Sakura is waiting for him with an alcoholic drink. She suggests playing Truth or Dare . Since he doesn't know this game, he agrees. After losing two rounds, he wins the next five and starts asking them about their lives. As time goes by and the game continues, Sakura drinks so much alcohol that she can no longer get up on her own. Since she wins the eighth round, she asks Haruki to carry her to bed or to answer a question about which three things he would love about her. Then he carries her to bed. When Sakura also wins the tenth and final round and asks him what he would do if she reveals to him that she is very afraid of death, he is startled, thinking about the contents of her bag. Since he cannot answer this question, she asks him to sleep in bed next to her. The next morning, Sakura is woken up by a phone call from her best friend, who is visibly angry. On the way back, Haruki reveals to her that he had a nice day together and that he is looking forward to going somewhere with her again, which initially amazes and pleases her.

Haruki spends the next few days in his usual everyday life, but notices himself that he waits every day for a message from his classmate. On the first day of school after the days off, however, Haruki is confronted by Kyōko. But he can't answer her, whereupon she angrily pulls away. A little later he joins Sakura in the library. She invites Haruki to her home to borrow a book, " The Little Prince ", that he knows but has not read himself. After the two of them have played a few video games , Haruki just wants to get the book and then go home. However, when Sakura plays a prank on him, he then loses his temper and hurts her, he escapes the house frightened at himself. On the way he runs into Takahiro, the class representative, who turns out to be Sakura's ex-boyfriend and gives Haruki a punch in the face. Sakura, who was following Haruki, sees him sitting on the floor with a wound . She rebukes her former boyfriend and tends to Haruki's bleeding wound. In an argument she gives him to understand that their first meeting was not a coincidence, but came about out of their own decisions. She apologizes and asks him to continue spending time with her. After their conversation, Haruki thanks her. He receives her book on loan and promises to give it back to her - since he reads his books in a certain order - within one year.

Sakura and Haruki will spend the coming weeks together and continue to work off activities on their list. When half of this list is done, Sakura is taken to the hospital because of a few negative values ​​and has to spend several weeks there. Shiga visits her in the hospital. In a conversation she makes it clear that he should start getting in touch with his classmates instead of fantasizing about what they think of him. Sakura asks him for another "Truth or Dare" round, which Haruki wins. He asks Sakura what it means to her to be alive. While she answers his question, they are overheard by Kyōko, who has meanwhile arrived at the hospital and is standing in front of her patient's room. When he thanks her sincerely, because she has taught him a lot about human interaction during the time together, and she hugs him , Kyōko storms into the room and interrupts the meeting. While visiting her mother that evening, Sakura asks her to do a favor after her death.

The days go by and Haruki goes about his usual everyday life. One day he received a message from Sakura in which she wrote that her stay would be extended by two more weeks. That afternoon he goes to the hospital to see her. That same evening they sneak out of their patient room, leave the hospital grounds and go to a lookout point on the outskirts of town. Once there, Haruki reveals to Sakura that he is seriously worried about her and does not want her to die. She promises him that she will tell him when she will die. Shortly afterwards, fireworks start in the distance and the two embrace. A short time later, Sakura is released from the hospital and the two meet in the café "Spring". On the way there, Haruki runs into a classmate who offers him a piece of chewing gum . At first he refuses, but shortly afterwards changes his mind and thanks him. While Haruki is waiting for her there, he learns that the release has taken a little longer than expected, but that she will be on her way. You write several messages to each other. On her last message, he wrote back “ I want to eat your pancreas ”. The hours go by and Haruki spends the time alone in the café until the early evening. When he got home, he learned from the local news that Sakura was the victim of the unknown murderer and died of a knife wound. He gets frightened and stumbles into his room.

Ten days later, he decides to go to Sakura's family, say goodbye, and return the book. When her mother learns who he is, she remembers the promise she made to her daughter in the hospital: to give her diary to the person who was the only one outside of her own family who knew about her illness. Haruki reads through the entries. When he is finished and it will restore Sakura's mother says this that Sakura him on the last pages of the diary a suicide note was left. She thanks him with all her heart and reveals to him that she wanted to play "Truth or Dare" in the hospital to find out why he never put her name in his mouth. Just before reading the last sentence of the letter, he asks her mother to show him her daughter's cell phone. He is relieved to see that Sakura could still read his last message. Shortly afterwards he bursts into tears . As he says goodbye, Sakura's mother declares that she wishes he and Kyōko would one day visit Sakura's family.

He decides to tell Sakura's best friend about the book and the illness. She reluctantly accepts his invitation to the “Spring” café. As she reads the book, she realizes why Sakura hasn't told her about it. She can't forgive Haruki and leaves the meeting. Haruki rushes after her and asks her to become friends when some time has passed. A year after the events, the two visit Sakura's grave and then make their way to Sakura's family.

production

In August 2017, a conversion of the novel was announced, with Shinichirō Ushijima being presented as director and also responsible for the script . The film was animated by Keiji Mita of the animation studio VOLN, founded in 2014 .

Hiroko Sebu took care of the film score , while the theme song Fanfare was produced by the rock band Sumika . The band members also took on speaking roles in the film. Yūichi Oka was responsible for the character design .

synchronization

role Japanese speakers
( seiyū ) 		German voice actors
Haruki Shiga Mahiro Takasugi Karim El Kammouchi
Sakura Yamauchi Lynn Katharina Iacobescu
Kyōko Yukiyo Fujii Anke Kortemeier
Takahiro Yūma Uchida Tobias Kern
Gum-kun Jun Fukushima Felix Mayer
Haruki's mother Atsuko Tanaka Carin C. Tietze
Haruki's father Shinichiro Miki
Guy with bike Reiou Tsuchida Tobias John von Freyend
Father in hospital Kazuya Saji Vincent Fallow

publication

movie theater

The film was officially released in Japanese cinemas nationwide on September 1, 2018 . Before that, an exclusive demonstration took place in Tokyo on July 24th of the same year . I Want to Eat Your Pancreas was shown as the opening film at the Seoul International Cartoon and Animation Festival on August 23, 2018 .

At the AnimagiC in summer 2018, the distributor Peppermint Anime announced that I Want to Eat Your Pancreas will be shown in the original with German subtitles as part of the Akiba Pass Festival in Germany and Austria in 2019 . The film will celebrate its official premiere in Germany on January 26, 2019 at the UCI Kinowelt Mundsburg in Hamburg .

In North America , Aniplex of America announced that it would be releasing the film in US cinemas at the Anime Expo in Los Angeles . In cooperation with the National Pancreas Foundation , Aniplex of America and Fathom Events will once again show the film nationwide in more than 400 cinemas in the United States on February 7th and 10th, 2019. Madman Entertainment secured the release rights in Australia and New Zealand . In mid-September 2018 the film will be shown for the first time in Melbourne as part of the Madman Animation Festival; a nationwide performance has been announced for a later date. A performance in the United Kingdom will follow on October 14, 2018 during Scotland Loves Animation in Glasgow . The film was shown on October 21, 2018 in Los Angeles as part of the Animation Is Film Festival . A nationwide broadcast will take place on February 7, 2019.

The film was shown nationwide in Italy between January 21 and 23, 2019 . The film will be shown in Spanish cinemas from April 12, 2019.

Anime publisher Encore Films brought the feature film to Singapore on January 3, 2019 .

Home theater

On March 12, 2019, the publisher peppermint anime announced that it would release the film in German synchronization on DVD and Blu-ray from the summer of the same year.

reception

Commercially

On the first weekend of the broadcast, the film grossed just under 107 million yen - the equivalent of around 960,000 US dollars - with 87,206 tickets sold in Japan , making it tenth on the domestic cinema charts . In the People's Republic of China , the anime film grossed just over $ 3.5 million; in South Korea more than 350,000 US dollars were earned while in Australia and Spain just under 40 and 50,000 dollars respectively could be earned .

Reviews

Yoru Sumiro , who wrote the novel the film is based on, expressed mixed feelings. So he said that there were good and bad parts in the film. Nevertheless, he described Sakura and Kyōko as extremely cute and praised the rock band Sumika for their songs used in the film. He also highlighted the character development of the male main character positively.

Rafael Motamayor wrote in the Collider that Kimi no Suizō Tabetai had as much in common as A Silent Voice did with the live-action version of The Fault in Our Stars . Due to the plot, he describes the humor contained in the film as the biggest surprise. Despite the knowledge of their death, the protagonists process this with gallows humor , which may leave one or the other viewer uncomfortable. He writes that at first glance the film looks like a traditionally romantic drama about a dying character, but that in truth it is a warm celebration of life and friendships. Anime News Network's Kim Morrissy criticized the animation of the characters 'facial expressions mostly inconsistent with the voice actors' intentions. She shows this, for example, in the rather stoic and unpredictable male main character, whose expression hardly changes overall, not even in the important scenarios. The excessive use of filters in various scenes is also noted negatively and the visual quality is not necessarily convincing. However, Morrissy did not find anything wrong with the film. So she found the emotional scenes of crying great and the voice acting in these as sublime.

Matt Schley of The Japan Times was unimpressed and described Kimi no Suizō Tabetai as a quasi- high school romance in which the director fails to convey the actual meaning of the title to the viewer. He calls various scenes in the film interesting. Nevertheless, he found that one could live without having to see the film.

Awards

The film won the audience award at the Scotland Loves Anime in Glasgow , Scotland , while the jury rated the film as the second worst film .

year Award category For result swell
2018
Sitges Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic de Catalunya Best movie I want to eat your pancreas Nominated
Animation Is Film Festival Best movie Nominated
Scotland Loves Anime Audience award Won
Jury Prize 3rd place in 4 films
2019 Anime Trending Awards Best anime film 2nd place
Anime UK News Readers' Awards Best anime movie Nominated
Best script Nominated
Best light novel series Nominated

Web links

Individual evidence

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