After a long 2 month review hiatus, I'm finally back. Most probably didn't miss my meaningless opinions, yet unfortunately, I'm back to sharing them. Anyway, I Want to Eat Your Pancreas. I've only seen the anime movie, so that's where all my opinions are coming from. If they're inconsistent with certain things that differ in the novel/live action movie, that's why. To be honest, I basically went into the movie blind. I only knew that one of the characters was dying and that was the main driving force behind the plot. It was a little bit of a strange feeling since, usually, I know a little of what's going on in the movie before I see it. But anyway, enough of that, on to the review.

In regard to the music in I Want to Eat Your Pancreas, I really enjoyed what I heard. There wasn't anything that I thought was incredibly distinct to push it to amazing status, but it was certainly not a bad soundtrack. The opening and ending songs by Sumika were the true highlights of the movie, musically speaking, though I'll have to express my partiality towards the ending, Shunkashuutou. I have to mention that the voice acting was also very good, especially Sakura's voice actor, Lynn. Everyone else was solid too, but she really stood out from the rest, even if it was because her character was the most emotive of the cast.

Visually, I Want to Eat Your Pancreas is gorgeous. I mean, all you have to is take one look at any screenshot, wallpaper, or whatever else there is and you'll be able to tell.

There is so much beauty in the artwork of this movie that it's almost overwhelming, even if it isn't as beautiful as something like Garden of Words or Your Name (Which I consider to be the most beautiful movies I've ever seen). It's weird though, I've seen a lot of complaints about how bad the animation is, which puzzles me a bit, because I never noticed any bad animation per se. Maybe there were certain moments where the animation was a little more jagged than it could have been, but there was never a moment in the movie where I actively noticed any bad animation. I think that it could have been better animated, but the complaints about poor animation seem somewhat unfounded if you ask me.

I'm not even going to bother picking my favorite character, since it's so obvious who I'd pick.

Sakura just dominates the movie with her personality and charm, even if, by her own admittance, it is an act sometimes. I believe the characters of this movie won't get as much appreciation as they deserve for being so realistically deep and layered. While I mean the main two characters, even the side characters aren't particularly one dimensional either, though I have to wonder if the light novel expands upon them more than the anime movie does. The main two's lack of one dimensionality really elevates I Want to Eat Your Pancreas to a much higher level and this is displayed through the main couple's relationship and interactions. And that is the main draw to watch I Want to Eat Your Pancreas. If nothing else, just their relationship makes it a worthy watch, though some may find the energetic, popular girl x the loner, bookish guy to be a tired trope. And I'll be honest, this probably won't be a breath of fresh air for you in regards to that. But what it is is a display of two people finding exactly what they need in each other, despite how impossibly different they are. It's a really heartwarming relationship to be quite honest with you, even if it's destined to come to end at some point.

I Want to Eat Your Pancreas didn't make me cry, but it did make me feel a deep sadness for these characters, because I had grown so attached to them over the course of the movie. I don't want to go into too much detail on such things, since that would go deep into spoiler territory, but suffice it to say that even when you're expecting something bad, it's still hard to accept when that bad thing inevitably comes about, and in this case, it is a bittersweet pill to swallow.

There's not a lot of depth to I Want to Eat Your Pancreas, at least, depth in the traditional sense. Instead, there's a lot of emotional and personal nuance in this movie, which was really interesting to see play out. These days, we're used to these grand works with many characters, each as deep as a puddle. But I Want to Eat Your Pancreas goes in the opposite direction and it pays off in a big way. A more personal way. A more relatable way.