I Want To Eat Your Pancreas Anime Review

Anime fans I love watching anime films since they are often the most beautiful pieces of art out there and I truly do believe that I have seen one such film and it's a film that really does have an odd title even for an anime the title is weird and so here is my review of I Want To Eat Your Pancreas.

For once i'm actually stuck on how to summarize the plot of the movie because on the surface it would seem like there really isn't a plot but I don't think that's true. Since the movie is about the friendship that blooms between a boy and a girl but it doesn't end up where you think it would tho and that makes the movie all the more surprising at least in my humble opinion.

Starring in the film is Mahiro Takasugi as Haruki , Lynn as Sakura , Yukiyo Fujii as Kyoko and Yuuma Uchida as Takahiro. Ok I have to ask what kind of stage name is Lynn like seriously of all the stage names you could pick you go with the one that makes you sound like an old English woman. I will say that the acting in the film is pretty good I really do wish I could say who the best actor in the film is but there all so good.

I said that this film is a work of art and I don't just mean in the backgrounds but I also mean in terms of the story. The story is beautifully told and it's very poignant altho they do spoil what happens to the main girl in the opening scene. The fun of it tho is discovering how we get to that spoiler  and that also makes the film more heartbreaking.

This is the first feature film for new company Studio Voln and if this is the kind of animation we can expect from them then I look forward to seeing what they can do in the future. The animation in this film is freaking top notch and at times is downright beautiful to look at with it's very detailed backgrounds and fluid animation. The one thing that lets the animation down in my opinion is the fact it doesn't look good when it comes to the more emotional scenes.

I will say that in my opinion this film is easily better then Dragon Ball Super: Broly and it's not just because this is a more emotional film. It's because this film actually takes the time to let you get to the know the characters and it doesn't bog you down with alot of backstory. In this film were told just enough information to get us through to the end of the movie and that works really freaking well.

This film is based on the novel of the same name by Yoru Sumino as well as spawning this anime film it's also spawned a manga adaptation and a live action film version (which I will cover in due course). I've not read the original novel nor the manga so I don't know if this film sticks very closely to the original story but I will say that if it does then the book will have alot of us in tears and that can only be a good thing.

One of the great things that this film does is something that I can't say because it's a spoiler and I want you guys to see this movie not knowing that much about it. I can say that this film does have a fairly solid twist which I didn't see coming again i;m not going to say what it is but it was something that really did catch me of guard I only wish that it was something we could have seen and not just heard about it.

That actually brings me to something else that I think is an issue with the film and that's the fact that despite having a nearly two hour run time the film does alot of time jumps. For me it would have made the film better if they didn't include the time jumps since that way we could grow closer to the characters and get to know them more as people and while we do indeed get to know them it would have been more effective without the time jumps but that's just my opinion.

I really do hope that more anime fans and not just myself talk about this film because it's something that I think should be talked about. I know that in the coming weeks and months that alot of anime fans will be talking about the new Broly movie and that's fair enough but I also ask that they take the time to check out this little gem and talk about it. I'm not going to say that this film is the next Your Name but in my opinion it's a film that can touch people.

Overall this is a film that I highly recommend to any anime fan regardless of what genre they normally watch it's a film that is equal parts funny and emotional. That said however it does have some dodgy looking crying scenes and it does have a lot of time jumps which do keep the film from being perfect so it gets an 8 out of 10 from me.