'I Want To Eat Your Pancreas' trivia and fun facts

Another adaptation of the novel

Besides the present adaptation, Shô Tsukikawa has directed an adaptation in real-action with the same name in 2017.

Based on a graphic novel

The film is an adaptation of graphic novel 'I Want to Eat your Pancreas', wrote by Yoru Sumino and illustrated by Izumi Kirihara. The novel was a best-seller in Japan.

Thanks to a web

In 2014 Yoru Sumino started to post his novel 'I Want to Eat Your Pancreas' on a webside. A year later, Futabasha's editorial published it in papel with Ioundraw's illustration. When the manga's get adapted, the illustration were made by Idumi Kirihara.