@iskow It's already a book. This is a manga adaptation of the light novel of the same name by Sumino Yoru, the guy who wrote the original light novel for I Want To Eat Your Pancreas. Haven't read it myself, so I don't know how much the manga differs from the LN.
@Oeconomist
The word used in the manga for the snack is 蛹, which directly translates to pupa (or chrysalis in the case of butterflies). While you are correct that this is not the cocoon, which is the silk that surrounds and protects the pupa, what they are eating is also not the larvae, as the...
@ciurrb
That's correct. Japanese (at least most of its dialects) is a pitch-accent language, while Standard Chinese is a fully tonal language. Essentially, a pitch accent in a Japanese word determines where you place emphasis when saying that word. Most non-native speakers of Japanese don't...