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“A boy befriends his dying classmate after learning her secret pancreatic illness, sharing her final months.”
I Want to Eat Your Pancreas
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8.68
70 rank · 12,871 readers · 496 favorites
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Synopsis
A boy befriends his dying classmate after learning her secret pancreatic illness, sharing her final months.
A high school boy finds the diary of his classmate—only to discover that she's dying. Sakura Yamauchi has been silently suffering from a pancreatic disease, and now exactly one person outside her family knows. He swears to her that he won't tell anyone what he learned, and the shared secret brings them closer together in this deeply moving, first-person story that traces their developing relationship in Sakura's final months of life. (Source: Seven Seas Entertainment)
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Community consensus
Derived from 4 sampled reviews
9.3
/10
What 4 readers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 10
mode 10
σ 1.30
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.30 · some divergence
The polarity gap
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↑ 2.25
Running avg · Jun 2022 → Dec 2024
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 10 “After watching the movie and loving it, I decided to check out the original source material for I want to eat your pancreas. I bought the book and it took me about a month to complete. I wasn't...”
- 10 “I honestly didn't know what to expect of this manga. But I was not disappointed by it. Very interesting start of 2 total opposites crossing paths thanks to faith, after Boku red Sakura's diary...”
- 7 “Spoiling the ending in the prologue chapter? Interesting choice. Keep in mind that at the point of writing this review, I have yet to see the movie, so however well the adaptation performed, it...”
Verbosity
Short · 25%
Medium · 25%
Long · 50%
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A Novel Publication
- Format 10 × 1 ch × vol
- Total read 1h 20m approx
- Published Jun 2015 – ongoing
- Source Novel media type
- Ref. BS-M49488 catalog