I Want to Eat Your Pancreas

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Haruki Shiga is an antisocial loner who prefers to spend his time with books and is not held in particularly high esteem in his class. Sakura Yamauchi is fun-loving and has a strong character, and with her open and sunny personality, she is popular everywhere. The two could hardly be more different, yet they become inseparable one day. As Haruki waits to be called to the hospital, he finds a small book – “Living with Death” – a diary that describes the daily life of a dying person. It is not long before the book owner turns up: his classmate Sakura. Sakura suffers from pancreatic disease, and although medical advances allow her to live an almost normal life, she will soon die. However, this is something she has kept from all her friends up until now because what she needs in this last time on earth is not pity but actual normality. She finds this normality in Haruki, who now goes from being a “simple classmate” to a “classmate who knows my secret”. Thus, Haruki is swept away by Sakura, and the more time the two spend together, the more they find themselves caught in a storm of feelings they cannot explain to themselves. “Friendship?” “Love?” Such trivial words are not enough to describe their relationship. “Let’s be good friends until I die, okay?” – These are her words, and so, piece by piece, the free spirit Sakura breaks Haruki’s hard shell, and he begins to see the world with different eyes …