I Want to Eat Your Pancreas (君の膵臓をたべたい) was adapted into both a live action movie as well as an anime movie. And I watched both of them. It is a story about a high school girl, Sakura, who is terminally ill, and how she went about trying to make the best of her days while keeping her illness a secret from her friends. Except a classmate who happened to accidentally read her diary which she dropped at the hospital. In a way, she is like Kaori in Your Lie in April, except that Kaori died in the end fighting her illness, while Sakura's story had a slightly different twist.
Having watched both live action and anime versions of the story, I must say that this is one where both the live action and anime version are of similar quality in portraying the story. Usually, anime is able to achieve a better adaptation since it is less limited by the acting skills of the cast. But in this case, with Hanabe Minami playing the role of Sakura, she was able to express the joyful side of Sakura with the sorrowful side, which says a lot about her acting skills. (I guess it is also why she plays Matou Sakura in the MTVs of Aimer's songs used in the Fate/stay night Heaven's Feel trilogy. That sad and sorrowful heroine style of hers is really captivating.)
The anime adaptation had voice actor Lynn providing the character voice for Sakura, and again, Lynn did a very great job of capturing the wide range of emotions felt by Sakura.
So I guess there can really be success stories in live action adaptations that do not pale to the anime adaptations. This is a case when I recommend people to watch both the live action and anime adaptations because both are just so good.
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