![]() Bright pink cherry blossoms and shimmering blue streams visually echo the life still radiating within Sakura, while a softer, more subdued color palette during a conversation at the beach beautifully reinforces the sequence’s contemplative tone. The backgrounds are rich with detail and vibrant colors, adding texture to the world and elevating the emotional beats of the present moment. The gorgeous art direction, though, makes it easy to overlook such animation shortcomings. ![]() There are, however, a couple instances where the camera pans over an assortment of still images, which felt more like a cost-saving decision than an artistic one. A handful of CG elements like a 3D car moving across a 2D backdrop are noticeable, but not jarring to the point of distraction. ![]() This is its first solo effort, and the animation is serviceable, but it lacks the high fidelity one expects from a feature-length production. ![]() I Want to Eat Your Pancreas was produced by Studio VOLN, a fairly new animation studio whose small body of work is primarily composed of co-productions. While the way in which it all ends isn’t too difficult to predict, it packs an emotional punch, and the catalyst that propels the narrative to that conclusion took me by surprise and reinforces the central message in a way I wasn’t expecting. The absence of subtlety isn’t so egregious that it robs the story of its satisfying conclusion, though. While the music generally fits the story quite well, the selection that accompanies the narrative’s most shocking moment is too melodramatic, with dissonant piano tones better suited to a horror film. The performances in the English dub are quite strong, but I can’t help but wonder if some of the subtlety I was looking for got lost in translation. The dialogue is sometimes too on the nose for its own good, causing some of the key emotional beats to feel forced. ![]() That said, I Want to Eat Your Pancreas is a bit heavy-handed in its delivery. Since the story is primarily framed from the boy’s perspective, the exaggerated portrayal of her personality also works to convey how someone on the opposite side of the social spectrum might perceive her overbearing friendliness. Sakura’s overly upbeat attitude is at times obnoxious and comes dangerously close to feeling cartoonish, but it successfully captures how an extroverted person like Sakura might cope in the face of their own mortality. ![]()
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