Band Members of sumika will be Part of the Cast of ‘I Want to Eat Your Pancreas’ Anime Film

The official website of the anime film adaptation of Yoru Sumino’s I Want to Eat Your Pancreas novel released a “collaboration video” on Wednesday featuring “Fanfare” the anime film’s opening theme song performed by the band sumika. It was also confirmed that all four members of the band will be part of the cast of the film. This is their first time providing voices for an anime film production. The band will also be performing the anime film’s theme song titled “Shunkashūtō” (The Four Seasons).

The CD single of “Fanfare” that will be released on August 29 will have a limited edition bundle which includes a DVD featuring footage of the band members in their voice-recording session.

A preview screening of the film happened on July 24 in Tokyo and will opening officially in Japan on September. Aniplex of America confirmed that they will be screening the film in US theaters.

Mahiro Takasugi and Lynn will respectively be playing the roles of the unnamed male protagonist and female character Sakura Yamauchi. Other cast members include Yukiyo Fujii as Kyōko, Yūma Uchida as Takahiro, Jun Fukushima as Gum-kun, Atsuko Tanaka as the protagonist’s mother, and Shinichiro Miki as the protagonist’s father.

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: Comic Natalie