The film Kimi no Suizo o Tabetai reveals his team, main cast and trailer

The official website of the animated film that will adapt the novel Kimi no Suizo or Tabetai by Yoru Sumino has announced its main team and cast, and that its premiere is scheduled for September 1 in Japanese cinemas.

In the cast will be Mahiro Takasugi as the protagonist without a name and Lynn as the protagonist girl, Sakura Yamuchi.

Shin'ichiro Ushijima will direct the film and write the script, with Yuichi Oka in charge of the character designs and animation direction. Hiroiko Sebu will compose the music, being Studio VOLN (Idol Incidents, Ushio to Tora) the studio responsible for the project.

Other members of the team will be:

• Art direction: Yukako Ogawa
• Assistance from art direction: Yoshito Watanabe
• Sound direction: Joji Hata
• Sound effects: Noriko Izumo
• Color design: Yoshinori Horikawa
• Supervision of photography: Hiroshi Saito
• Direction of photography: Mayuko Koike
• Direction of 3D: Koremi Kishi
• Edition: Yumi Jingugi
• Animation production: Keiji Mita
• Distribution: Aniplex

The story of the novel is told by an unnamed protagonist who finds a newspaper lost in a hospital. The newspaper turns out to belong to Sakura Yamauchi, a classmate, from whom she discovers that she suffers from a terminal illness in her pancreas and that she only has a few months of life expectancy. Sakura explains to the protagonist that he is the only one outside his family who knows his secret, but he promises not to tell anyone anything. Although both have opposite personalities, the protagonist decides to spend with Sakura his last months of life.

Sumino started the story on the web Shosetsu-ka ni Naro in 2014, Futabasha having published the physical volume in June 2015 with a cover illustrated by loundraw (character designer Tsuki ga Kirei). The novel and other books related to it amount to more than two million copies in circulation.

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