, also known as ''Let Me Eat Your Pancreas'', is a novel by the Japanese writer Yoru Sumino. Initially serialized as a web novel in the user-generated site

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in 2014, the book was published in print in 2015 by

Futabasha is a Japanese publishing company headquartered in Higashigokenchō, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan.会社概要
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. A manga adaptation ran from 2016 to 2017. A

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film titled '' Let Me Eat Your Pancreas'' premiered in 2017, and an anime film adaptation on September 1, 2018.

Characters

The character names listed here are in western order of family name last. The official English language light novel and manga volumes use the Japanese naming order of family name first, while the English subtitles of the anime use the western order. ; / : : ; : : ; / : : ; : : ; : : ; : :

Media

Novel

Yoru Sumino originally published the novel as a

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on the

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site

in 2014, before

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" Futabasha. R ...

republished it with cover art by loundraw on June 19, 2015 (). English publisher

Seven Seas Entertainment Seven Seas Entertainment is an American publishing company located in Los Angeles, California. It was originally dedicated to the publication of original English-language manga, but now publishes licensed manga and light novels from Japan, as w ...

announced their license to the novel on March 15, 2018, and it was released on November 20, 2018.

Manga

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began serializing a manga adaptation in Futabasha's ''

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'' magazine on August 25, 2016, and ended the series on May 25, 2017. The chapters were compiled into two collected ''

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'' volumes, published on February 10, 2017 (), and June 20, 2017 (). The manga is also licensed by Seven Seas, who released the first volume on January 22, 2019.

Live-action film

A Japanese

film based on the novel, titled ''Let Me Eat Your Pancreas'', starring

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and

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in the lead roles premiered in Japan on July 28, 2017. The film was also shown in

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at the

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in October 2017, and in

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on November 9, 2017, where it was distributed by GSC Movies.

Anime film

A Japanese animated film adaptation of the novel, titled ''I Want to Eat Your Pancreas'', was announced in August 2017. The film is written for the screen and directed by Shin'ichirō Ushijima and produced by Keiji Mita at Studio VOLN, with music composed by Hiroko Sebu. Yūichi Oka provides the character designs and serves as chief supervising animator. Yukako Ogawa is the background supervisor and is assisted by Yoshito Watanabe. Sound effects are produced by Noriko Izumo under the direction of Jōji Hata. Compositing for the film was supervised by Hiroshi Saitō and directed by Mayuko Koike. Koremi Kishi serves as the 3D CG director, and Yoshinori Horikawa is the color designer. The film is edited by Yumi Jingugi. The film's theme song is and the ending is . Both songs are by the band Sumika, who also played voice acting roles in the film. The film is distributed by

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in Japan and premiered in theaters on September 1, 2018.

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