Picture this: You’re hanging out with someone on the couch, they look at you and say, “I don’t know if you know this or not, but, I want to eat your pancreas.”
Is that an, “Excuse me? What?”
Or is that a, “Well why didn’t you say so? It’s right this way!” and take them to the bedroom where you get to know nothing about each other’s pancreas’s.
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Is I Want to Eat Your Pancreas worthy of me?
- Slow burn romance
- Evolution of friendship is on point
- That’s a weird freaking name, man
- A lot of talk about dying
Opening lines
The day my classmate Sakura Yamauchi’s funeral was held, the rain caused the sky to look gloomy. It didn’t reflect her personality at all. As proof of the life she lived, the wake and the funeral were drowned in the tears of all the people who came to mourn her. Or, that’s what I assume anyway. Because I didn’t go. I stayed home.
I don’t know, not even five minutes into the show and Sakura is shoving a nameless protagonist against a wall and saying “I want to eat your pancreas.” She seems like a crazy pants to me, pancreatic disease or not.
And she kind of gets more and more clingy to this one guy, until it’s declared he’s the guy she’s chosen to do things with until she dies. Why him, I’ve no idea, but it’s interesting, as he’s a recluse that doesn’t want anything to do with his classmates or people in general.
She owns a book labeled “Living with Dying” of topics on what to do before she dies. Kind of like a bucket list, but don’t expect it to be like the movie.
While the anime centers itself on the fact that she has a pancreatic disease, as she mentions it constantly, over and over, while saying she’s going to die soon, over and over, that’s not really the point of the movie.
It’s about the bond forming between her and an unnamed protagonist. About her bringing him out of his shell.
Them spending time together. Not being alone anymore.
The ending…definitely caught me off guard.
We find out what the nameless protagonist’s name is in the end and their name meaning “tree in spring,” which coincides with Sakura’s name, which means “cherry blossom.”
So basically, they were a match all along.
Fate really can be cruel.
How did we find this product?
I was looking up some top rated animes and this one came up. With as weird as the name was, and the fact that it was top rated romance and top rated for most depressing endings that’ll leave you dead inside, I had to watch.
Yeah, I’m one of those people.
