I Want to Eat Your Pancreas (2018) poster
2018 · romance · drama · illness

I Want to Eat Your Pancreas

Directed by Shinichiro Ushijima1h 48m2018
ElsewhereIMDb8.135kTMDB8.22k
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  • tender
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Neutral, kinetic, measured romance / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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After his classmate and crush is diagnosed with a pancreatic disease, an average high schooler sets out to make the most of her final days.

Our read · I Want to Eat Your Pancreas (2018) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded romance · drama · illness entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want tender teen friendship that suddenly breaks your heart.

ends devastatingit will wreck youbuilds to a gut-punch finalegrips by minute 15attention 4/5earns its lengthsubtitles: full
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upgraphic violence

Skip it tonightSkip if terminal-illness anime and a cruel final sting will destroy you.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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