I Want To Eat Your Pancreas

Drama / Romance / Slice of LifeMovie1 EP/1 Sep 2018

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A shy, unnamed bookworm discovers a handwritten diary called 'Living with Dying' in a hospital waiting room. Turns out it belongs to Sakura Yamauchi, one of the most outgoing girls in his class, and it's her secret journal about living with a terminal pancreatic illness. Nobody at school knows. Nobody except him now. Instead of pitying her or pulling away, he gets slowly dragged into Sakura's orbit as she decides he's the person she wants to spend her remaining time with. They eat out together, take trips, do all the things she's been meaning to do. He's awkward and closed off, she's warm and relentless, and watching them push against each other's walls is genuinely affecting without ever feeling manipulative. This is a movie that earns its emotional weight through small, honest moments rather than big dramatic swings. The animation from Studio VOLN is gorgeous, soft and detailed in a way that makes everyday scenes feel intimate. And the soundtrack knows exactly when to pull back and when to hit. If you liked Your Lie in April or Josee, the Tiger and the Fish, this lives in that same space where romance and grief sit right next to each other. It's also only one movie, so you don't need to commit to a whole series to get wrecked. Fair warning though, the title makes sense by the end, and it's not what you think.

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Sakura Yamauchi

A cheerful high schooler with a terminal pancreatic disease, documenting her life in her diary, "Living with Dying".

Lynn

Haruki Shiga

Haruki Shiga discovers Sakura Yamauchi's diary, "Living with Dying," and their lives intertwine.

Daymond Robbie

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Wow, just wow. This movie makes you think about the things you could've done but didn't because you were worried of it's consequences. Then, you realize, the only reason you fear these consequences is because you'll be here to face them. That isn't the case for Sakura however, she takes life in a more unserious way, doing as she pleases since she knows she has such little time. She takes interest in Hakuri as he's the only other person besides Sakura and her mother who are aware of her condition. Yet besides knowing this, he attempts to stay away from her as he prefers to keep to himself. However as time goes on, Sakura breaks Hakuri's shell off, letting us see a glimpse of his true self. Hakuri spends his time ensuring that Sakura enjoys what little time she has left. We see Sakura's failed attempt at starting something between these two friends in the hotel scene when she clearly want's to get closer with Hakuri, yet he refuses knowing that loving her will only bring harm. Sakura desperately wants someone to love her, yet she can't bring herself to try as she knows she'll leave them eventually. The name's behind the main characters are also perfectly fitting. Sakura is a direct translation to cherry blossom, which fits her life as they bloom so beautifully, yet fade and die so quickly. Hakuri means spring tree, which fits him as spring trees usually wait all winter just to support the beautiful cherry blossoms. Also, the spring tree is never fully alive until it has it's cherry blossoms, telling us throughout the story that Hakuri was never fully alive since he never had his cherry blossoms to support, meaning he never tried to do anything for anyone. When Sakura met him, that's when he came out of his inanimate state and truly experienced what it meant to be alive.

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Major spoiler for the ending below. What happens when a tearjerker fails at being sad? Well, the end result is something like KimiSui. Let's start with the more minor offense: the characters. There are only 2 characters here: the personification of Depression and the personification of the Popular Girl trope. The only relevant side character is Popular Girl's best friend. Her only purpose is to have extremely unrealistic reactions to anything that happens and to hate the main character. The other side character, Seemingly Perfect Class Rep That's Actually Not Very Nice (very novel and ingenious character), serves no purpose. No purpose whatsoever. Nothing would be lost if he was not present in the movie. Why is he here? The characters overall are uninteresting. It's really difficult for a tearjerker to work when the characters just do not seem like real life human beings whatsoever. The interaction between Depression and Popular Girl seem extremely uncomfortable and weird. Let's just deconstruct the brilliant writing present here. The personification of Depression meets the personification of the Popular Girl trope because of a coincidence. After their random encounter, Popular Girl decides to confide all of her life problems (relating to a terminal illness) in Depression. They then proceed to spend about 45 minutes having conversations that I, the person reading this, or even some random middle schooler could write. I could have made a drinking game out of this movie. "Take a shot every time the most predictable line possible in a given situation is said", but if I did that, I'd get alcohol poisoning. The plot itself is just a stack of every imaginable cliche. Now, for the crazy part of the plot that makes KimiSui stand out from every other movie with the exact same premise: the "major twist". You thought she'd die because of her disease? Well, nope, she died because some random dude stabbed her. Other than making KimiSui unique, what purpose does this twist serve? It doesn't work as shock value, as the viewer is informed that she died via a 30-second news broadcast. Then, it just gets brushed off and no one mentions it ever again. This whole movie almost felt like a work of satire criticizing the whole genre of the school setting drama romance tearjerker, since it's difficult to believe that someone could write this plot and expect it to be taken seriously. Music: My favorite part of the movie. I've loved sumika ever since they did Wotaku's OP, and the OST was pretty good. Art: Okay? This looks like something that would be considered top quality for a movie in about 2014, but for something released in 2018 I was expecting something more. It's not bad at all though; it's actually quite pleasing. Overall: there's really no point in watching this. Unless, of course, you like to watch characters that in no way resemble humans act out a sequence of cliches.

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