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I Want to Eat Your Pancreas Film Reveals New Visual, Additional Cast

The official website for the anime I want to eat your pancreas novel unveiled a new visual and five additional cast on Saturday. The visual shows the protagonist, lead female character Sakura, and Kyōko.

The newly announced cast includes:

• Yukiyo Fujii as Kyōko
• Yūma Uchida as Takahiro
• Jun Fukushima as Gum-kun
• Atsuko Tanaka as the protagonist's mother
• Shinichirō Miki as the protagonist's father

In addition, the website announced that a preview screening for the full film will be held on July 24 in Tokyo. The film will open on September 1 in Japan.

As previously Lynn will play the lead female character Sakura Yamauchi.

Ushio & Tora) is producing the animation.

Other staff include:

• Art Director: Yukako Ogawa
• Assistant Art Director: Yoshito Watanabe
• Sound Director: Shōji Hata
• Sound Effects: Noriko Izumo
• Color Design: Yoshinori Horikawa
• Photography Supervisor: Hiroshi Saitō
• Director of Photography: Mayuko Koike
• 3DCG Director: Koremi Kishi
• Editor: Yumi Jinguji
• Animation Producer: Keiji Mita
• Distributor: Aniplex

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The novel's story is told from the point of view of an unnamed protagonist who happens to find a diary in a hospital one day. The diary belongs to his classmate, a girl named Sakura Yamauchi, who is revealed to be suffering from a terminal illness in her pancreas, and who only has a few months left to live. Sakura explains that the protagonist is the only person apart from her family that knows about her condition. The protagonist promises to keep Sakura's secret. Despite their completely opposite personalities, the protagonist decides to be together with Sakura during her last few months.

Sumino began serializing the story on the Shōsetsu-ka ni Narō ("Let's Become Novelists") website in 2014. Tsuki ga Kirei character designer). The novel and various related books have since garnered over 2 million copies in print.

The novel already inspired a live-action film starring Let Me Eat Your Pancreas.

The novel also inspired Monthly Action magazine in August 2016, and ended in May 2017. Futabasha published the manga's second and final compiled book volume last June.

licensed both the original novel and the manga adaptation. The novel is slated for release on November 20, while the manga's first volume is slated for release on January 22, 2019.

Sources: I want to eat your pancreas Anime's website, Animate Times