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I Want To Eat Your Pancreas
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I Want To Eat Your Pancreas

Kimi no Suizou wo Tabetai · 君の膵臓をたべたい · 2018

A dying girl's secret pulls a classmate from his shell.

StatusFinished Airing SeasonSummer 2018 StudioStudio VOLN SourceNovel
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A quiet, isolated high schooler accidentally discovers that his classmate Sakura Yamauchi, one of the most popular girls in school, is secretly dying from a pancreatic illness she has told almost no one about. Sworn to keep her secret, he is unexpectedly pulled into her orbit, and her fierce determination to live fully in the time she has left slowly forces him out of his own carefully guarded isolation. It builds toward an ending that reframes everything the audience thought the story was about, delivering genuine emotional devastation without ever feeling manipulative about it.

⚠ Background — may contain spoilers
Kimi no Suizou wo Tabetai, known internationally as I Want to Eat Your Pancreas, is based on Yoru Sumino's novel, animated by Studio VOLN, and released theatrically in 2018. It became one of the most commercially successful and critically praised anime films of its year, credited for handling terminal illness and teenage isolation with unusual sincerity rather than melodrama. Its unexpected structural twist earned particular acclaim for reframing the entire film's meaning in its final act, and it remains a frequently recommended modern classic of the romantic drama genre.
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