Look Back

Name: Look Back
Genre: Drama, Animation
Released: October 4, 2024
Duration: 58 min
Rating: 90

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GKIDS | Release Date: October 4, 2024 | Not Rated

Summary: Popular, outgoing Fujino is celebrated by her classmates for her funny comics in the class newspaper. One day, her teacher asks her to share the space with Kyomoto, a truant recluse whose beautiful artwork sparks a competitive fervor in Fujino. What starts as jealousy transforms when Fujino realizes their shared passion for drawing.

Genre(s): Drama, Animation

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 58 min

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Screen Rant Joshua Fox

Oct 3, 2024

Whether it’s a big, emotional scene or something comparatively more low key, the animation always does a great job of capturing the humanity of the cast and story, making an already great story even better to go through. Read full review

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The Telegraph Robbie Collin

Nov 14, 2024

There’s a haiku-like purity to it: Look Back is as neat and yet also as overflowing as the four-panel strips in which its leads once diligently honed their craft. And if something so beautiful also feels too brief – well, that may be the idea. Read full review

Autumn Wright

Jul 15, 2024

Look Back is a requiem for art lost to violence, to circumstance, to conformity. It is also an argument to create. Read full review

Elijah Gonzalez

Oct 3, 2024

All of this beautiful animation intrinsically drives at why people create in the first place, highlighting both the life-affirming and deeply messy realities of making manga. Read full review

IndieWire David Ehrlich

Oct 3, 2024

This lilting tale’s blink-and-you’ll-miss-it brevity proves inseparable from the lasting power of its punch-to-the-gut impact. Read full review

Kimberley Jones

Oct 17, 2024

If there’s a complaint to be made about Look Back, it’s that there’s not enough of it: Adapted from Chainsaw Man creator Tatsuki Fujimoto’s one-shot manga of the same name, the story it tells is purposefully contained. Read full review

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