Summary

Warning : contain despoiler for Look BackThe Summer of 2024 saw the release ofthe film adjustment ofLook Back , a inadequate story byTatsuki Fujimoto ofChainsaw Manfame . Just like the original manga , the photographic film follow the modernise friendship and manga partnership of its two lead , Fujino and Kyomoto , but as they enter their adult year , their friendship is met with a tragedy that neither of them can recuperate from .

The execution and ultimate conclusion of the story made for just as with child an ending in life as it did in mark . A pot went intoLook Back ’s ending , and as such , there ’s plenty of merit in laying everything out .

How Look Back Closed Out Its Tragic Story

Anime Film By Studio Durian; Based On The Manga By Tatsuki Fujimoto

After learning that Kyomoto was killed by a craze man with an axe , Fujino , in a State Department of Great Depression , put her manga on hiatus and returned to Kyomoto ’s home . There , Fujino found the comic funnies she drew on a whim that started their friendship , and in a fit of passion , she shoot it up while pick herself for Kyomoto ’s death . As she did , one panel fall away under the door to Kyomoto ’s room , and somehow , the lone panel of Fujino ’s amusing strip went back in timeto when Kyomoto encounter Fujino and win over Kyomoto not to go out and meet her .

In the new timeline , Kyomoto still went to artistry school , and she still ended up the target of a crazed man face to murder masses under the notion he was plagiarise . Luckily , Fujino , who happened to be in the area , showed up to save Kyomoto with her karate skills , and with Fujino apparently planning on getting back into manga , she promise to hire Kyomoto as her assistant after she graduated . Kyomoto go back home that day and drew a comic cartoon strip about Fujino keep open her , and it somehow went into the original timeline where Fujino was still mourn Kyomoto ’s death .

Confused , Fujino ran into Kyomoto ’s way to find that it was still empty , and a shot of the windowpane confirmed that the timeline where Fujino economize Kyomoto ’s life was justsomething Fujino imagined in her sorrow . There , the comic of Fujino save Kyomoto , combined with the multiple copy of herShark Kickmanga and the robe Fujino autographed , made Fujino remember how their friendship was the only reasonableness Fujino kept pull in manga . Fujino realized that Kyomoto would n’t need her wallowing in sorrow , and the last shot was a lingering shot of Fujino back at work as the credits twine .

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Look Back’s Ending Is As Beautiful As It Is Tragic

The naive realism of Fujino ’s grief was nothing but tragical , and Fujino being so overwrought that she imagined a world where she got to pull through her only further emphasise the harshness of it all . All of that , however , head toLook Backhaving anemotionally cathartic conclusionsurrounding the grandness of not letting tragedy lead your life , no matter how great it may be , and Kiyotaka Oshiyama ’s prima way did wonders to betray that even further . depend Back ’s adjustment perfectly captured the grandness of its ending , and that helped make the taradiddle just as estimable in liveliness , if not better .

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A visual for Look Back featuring Fujino and Kyomoto

Look Back movie trailer screencap of Fujino and Kyomoto in winter clothes standing with one another.

Look Back Trailer Fujino as an adult, looking behind her shoulder while covered in shadows.