“Why do you draw?” A seemingly innocuous question that in truth carries immense weight. In “Look Back,” the film based on Tatsuki Fujimoto’s one-shot manga, two teenage girls bond over their love of creating manga. Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto explored forests and hunted for bugs as a child, and wanted to recreate that feeling in a video game, eventually leading to …
Look Back is a poignant and powerful meta-manga that explores the themes of creation, self-discovery, and the human condition. The film features two young artists, Fujino and Kyomoto, whose shared passion for drawing manga unites them. Fujino is the bold, brash striver, while Kyomoto is a reclusive master of form. Together, they personify two classic artist archetypes: one driven by …
