Theme Song and Teaser Released for ‘Let Me Eat Your Pancreas’ Anime Film

A new teaser video was released on Monday on the official website of Kimi no Suizo o Tabetai (Let Me Eat Your Pancreas or I Want to Eat Your Pancreas) anime film. This is an animated film adaptation of the novel of the same name written by Yoru Sumino.

The video below teases not only the film but also the film’s song titled “Fanfare” performed by rock band sumika. sumika will also be performing the opening the song, insert song, and main theme song.

The film is slated to be released in Japan on September 1.

Mahiro Takasugi and Lynn will respectively be playing the roles of the unnamed male protagonist and female character Sakura Yamauchi.
Let Me Eat Your Pancreas’s story is narrated from an unnamed protagonist’s point of view when he founds a diary in the hospital one day which belonged to his classmate named Sakura Yamauchi. Yamauchi is suffering from a terminal illness in her pancreas and is only given a few months to live. It was only the unnamed protagonist that knows about her conditional aside from her family.
Despite obvious differences, the protagonist promises to keep Sakura’s illness a secret and decided to be with her in the last few months of her life.

Source: Anime News Network