君の膵臓をたべたい

KIMI NO SUIZOU WO TABETAI

MANGA

STATUS
COMPLETE
VOLUMES
2
RELEASE
May 25, 2017
CHAPTERS
10

DESCRIPTION

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…

CAST

Sakura Yamauchi
Haruki Shiga
Issei Miyata
Kyoko Takimoto
Haruki no Haha
Sakura no Haha
Takahiro
Haruki no Chichi

CHAPTERS

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MOVIE DramaKimi no Suizou wo Tabetai

REVIEWS

Yuseistar
92/100
I Want To Eat Your Pancreas is a heart wrenching tale that will take you on the journey of love, life, and death.

Story: (8/10)
2 volumes and 10 chapters. That's all it took for I Want To Eat Your Pancreas to create a magnificent and enveloping story. I Want To Eat Your Pancreas doesn't wait for anyone. From the very first chapter, it throws the reader into the meat of the story and it takes this approach through almost all the chapters. The pacing is fast and quick but I didn't mind it. There is a lot about this story that gets thrown at your from the very beginning and with the manga only being 10 chapters, it's pretty understandable that the pacing would be quick but as you read, the less and less you mind of that. The story I Want To Eat Your Pancreas tells almost completely distracts you from the pacing.

The story tackles a lot of themes. From romance to the philosophy of life and death and it the story does it well. It doesn't take your standard approach to romance where the two main characters struggle to confess their love but rather, the story romanticizes friendship and social relationships and it seamlessly transitions that into the philosophies of life and death. What does it mean to be alive? How do we know that we are truly living everyday like it's our last? It's these themes that are talked about in I Want To Eat Your Pancreas that make the story so exciting and lovable.

Art: (6/10)
The art isn't super spectacular, nothing is drawn in super detail and the characters themselves are drawn uniquely enough to differ themselves from the other characters in the manga but not unique enough to have it standout from other manga's. However, there are some unique aspects of the art that do lend some praise. For example, the main female lead's name is Sakura which means Cherry Blossoms and if you pay attention to some of the panels that include Sakura in them, you get to see her or part of her drawn with a fade of cherry blossom leaves.

Characters: (8/10)
The characters themselves are quite predictable and with how the story begins, the predictability of the characters leads to the predictability of the story but it doesn't matter as nearly as much as you think it would. Everyone hates predictability, you want to be surprised, you don't want to know what happens next. But, as you read, it's less about how it's going to end and more about the road that it takes to get there. The adventures you'll go on, the stories the characters make, and that is exactly the characters in this series present themselves. It's less about the main character's predictable personalities and more about how they grow from one another, how you see how the characters were and how they are now after spending time with each other. That is the epitome of a coming of age story... growth.

Enjoyment: (7/10)
Like I said in the very first sentence of my review. 2 volumes and 10 chapters. That's all it took for me to be completely enveloped within the story I Want To Eat Your Pancreas shaped. In just 10 chapters, the author was able to create a story so wonderful it even eclipses of those manga's with 100+ chapters. I love story driven series, especially those that touch on those topics that aren't talked about a lot and that's exactly what this manga gave me.

Verdict:
I would definitely recommend this manga to just about anyone. It's a short read, 10 chapters and only about 35-40 pages per chapter. I easily found myself not wanting to stop reading it. The adventures that the main characters go on, how the grow with one another, the bittersweet conversations with one another they have. All of that and more will keep your attention and the 10 chapters will go by in the blink of an eye.

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rclveal
100/100
This manga is definitely my favorite manga I have ever read. It was very sad and had an extremely unexpected ending.
I got this manga from the library not knowing if I was actually going to read it or not. I had heard people talk about it on tiktok, so I decided I would pick it up and give it a try. I ended up feeling bored of the current series I was reading, so I decided I would put that one down and read this big one volume version of this manga, "I Want to Eat Your Pancreas." Turned out, I ended up reading the entire 442 page book in one sitting. Here's what I thought about everything in the book.

Story: (10/10)
Starting off in the story, it got straight to the point. Usually some mangas struggle to get into the book and it's hard to get into the actual story of it. It wasn't the same for this manga. Already after one page I was sucked into the pages, and didn't put it down. It was so interesting, and I didn't find a second that I was bored, or wanted to take a break. Plus, I feel like that is really rare for me, most of the time I find myself needing breaks while reading.

Art: (9/10)
The art may be a little basic, but personally it's one of my favorite styles. I love the way the characters were drawn, especially the main boy. Also, in the first pages of the story there were color, so you can imagine the rest on the way through knowing what they actually look like, if that makes any sense. I know that there is a movie for this manga, also. In the movie, in my opinion the art is very different than the manga. Personally, I like the manga's art way better.

Characters: (8/10)
The characters definitely did have their own personalities which were obvious as to who would do what. The main boy was shy, anti-social, and introverted. He liked to keep to himself and not care much about how others felt. On the other hand, Sakura was very opposite. She was extremely outgoing, and would interfere with almost anything she didn't agree with. That is great that the main two characters aren't alike though, as it would get repetitive.

Enjoyment: (10/10)
I already said this, but once I started this story I was already sucked in very fast. Usually I find it kind of hard for me to actually get intro a manga. With "I Want to Eat Your Pancreas", it was very different. There wasn't a second I wanted to stop reading it. Although the ending was very heartbreaking, I loved it so much, and I will for sure be reading this again.

Verdict:
I would recommend this manga to anyone. It was very emotional and touching. Right after reading it, I already had told my friend about it multiple times.

Overall, I loved this manga so so much. I will be reading it many more times, and I plan to purchase it for myself. Everything in it was perfect. I loved the art style, the way the story went, the sudden plot twist, the characters, and everything else too. I recommend this 100000/10.
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LassOfGloucester
93/100
A heartbreaking romance that hit me way more personally than I thought it would.
I came into I Want to Eat Your Pancreas knowing that it would be a sad series. I've read a fair share of works marketed as "sad love stories involving terminal illness", and while I'm not sure I'd call it a genre it is at least a thing that is recurring. Your Lie in April is another manga I've read marketed like this (Planning to re-read that one since it's been so long), and while I think I enjoyed it overall it didn't hit me in the same way it hit a lot of other people. I Want to Eat Your Pancreas, however, caught me off guard and is something that I know will stick with me for a long time.

The story opens on the funeral of Sakura Yamauchi, an event our unnamed protagonist does not attend. Sakura Yamauchi had a pancreatic disease. This is a fact she kept a secret to anyone outside of her family. One day, a boy in her class discovers Living With Dying, a book she's been writing about her experience, in the hospital. He gives the book back to her and becomes the only non-family person who knows that her life is short. This begins the story of their relationship counting up to Sakura's inevitable death.

The two leads of the series are what drew me into it so much in the first place. Sakura and our protagonist (Whose name isn't revealed until the second-to-last chapter so I won't be revealing it here) are both people who I can really see parts of myself in. The protagonist is, as he's referred to by Sakura, an introverted young man. He's never really had any connections with the people around him, openly stating that he doesn't view himself as very interesting. He isn't particularly interested in the people around him, either. While I've never really discounted the people around me, I have always generally kept to myself and have had a hard time reaching out to people and making connections with them. In high school I particularly tried my best to just stay in the background like mr MC here more or less does. I think it was this relatability that invested me so much in his story, and how his relationship with Sakura ultimately leads to him coming out of his shell and viewing the people around him with more interest. It's something that makes me want to engage more actively with the people around me.

Sakura Yamauchi is the polar opposite of the protagonist. She is an unabashed extrovert beloved by everyone in her class, withholding her disease from them so that they don't view her differently than they would if she was just a normal girl. This withholding could be seen as an extension of her greatest insecurity: she views herself as little more than the connections she makes with the people around her, like she always has to put forward her ideal self instead of her true self. This is why her discussion of her disease with the protagonist sometimes comes off as flippant. She hides her fear so our protagonist will continue talking to him as he always has. The reason she first took an interest in, aside from him finding her notebook, was that even though he was very introverted he was genuinely himself. I mentioned I saw myself in both out leads, and in Sakura I see my tendency to deflect to those around me. While this isn't something she actively does, her defining herself by connections does have some similarities to me prioritizing myself below everyone else in most situations. They aren't exactly the same, but it was enough that I became deeply connected to her.

Sakura's friend Kyoko is also worth mentioning, as she's probably the supporting character who gets the most screentime and development. I wish she and Sakura had a little more time onscreen together, although due to the nature of this story I can understand why they don't. She dislikes our protagonist since she's a bit suspicious of this boy who suddenly started hanging around her close friend. She's never portrayed as a bad or mean person, and Sakura wants her and the protagonist to get along. Without getting into spoilers, she and the protagonist eventually are able to come to more of an understanding, and the way they did is quite satisfying.

Connection is one of two big themes in this manga, as I hope my previous paragraphs have shown. Our leads compliment each other perfectly in this regard; one viewed the people around him with no interest, the other views other people as the only way to make herself interesting. Neither are the best way to live your life, and they learn that through each other. I'm finding I'm drawn to works that lean heavily on connections and communications, probably since they're something I'd like to focus on more in my daily life. I'm glad that this series turned out to be such a shining example of it. Before I close out this review, I'm going to do a brief spoiler section since I just have to talk about the Big Thing.

The other theme of this work, one Sakura mentions quite a bit, is mortality. Specifically, how people can die at any moment. And Sakura herself dies by random stabbing months before she was "supposed" to die from her pancreatic disease. Haruki (I'm using his name here since it's spoiler tagged) admits that his frustration is because he thought that since she was going to die, nothing else bad could happen to her. This is something that stuck with me, and it's something I regularly think about in my daily life. You really can never know what is going to happen to you or those around you, even if you feel like you do.

This series has nice art, but I wouldn't call it my favorite. The character designs really don't stand out and are all pretty basic, but considering how grounded this story was it's not really a detriment. I looked up the anime movie adaptation after I finished reading the manga (I haven't seen it yet but I would love to someday), and it really struck me how different the art was from the manga. Almost makes me more excited to check it out, especially since the characters aren't drawn quite as young as in the manga.

I highly recommend I Want to Eat Your Pancreas. It surpassed all of my expectations that I had going into it, and I might even consider it one of my new favorites. Heck, even the admittedly eyebrow-raising title makes sense in the story itself. I could have come off as goofy in a weaker story, but here it works perfectly. It's honestly been a bit since I was able to see myself in something so much, and it gives me hope that I'll be able to find myself in much more manga to come.
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