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I Want to Eat Your Pancreas: the Complete Manga Collection by Yoru Sumino

I Want to Eat Your Pancreas: the Complete Manga Collection

Yoru Sumino

Seven Seas Entertainment · Print & ebook · January 22, 2019

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Who it’s for
A first-person coming-of-age story finds an unlikely friendship in the shadow of a shared secret.
Themes
Friendship, Mortality, Coming of age
Genres
Romance Comics, Coming-of-Age Stories, General Manga

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About this book

Also known as Let Me Eat Your Pancreas, the manga version of the coming-of-age novel that inspired two films! In this deeply moving first-person story, an introverted high school boy finds his classmate’s diary—and learns her biggest secret. Yamauchi Sakura is dying from a pancreatic disease and now he is the only one person outside her family to know the truth.

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The last thing the boy wants is to be her friend, but Sakura’s cheerful demeanor and their shared secret draw them together in this heartrending tale of friendship and mortality.

Tenderly Unscripted

A first-person coming-of-age story finds an unlikely friendship in the shadow of a shared secret.

Come here for

  • The awkward pull between wanting distance and being drawn closer
  • A tender story about friendship and mortality

Expect

  • An introverted boy’s perspective
  • A heartrending coming-of-age manga

Where it sits

General Manga63%
Coming-of-Age Stories56%
Romance Comics41%

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Publisher categories

  • Tie-In Comics
  • Romance Comics
  • Coming-of-Age Stories
Authors
Yoru Sumino
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Published
January 22, 2019
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
Friendship · Mortality · Coming of age
Reading lane
Tie-In Comics