Should you watch Look Back?
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Look Back
Anime · 2024
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.
The sides of Look Back
- Two girls who draw manga
- A rivalry in a school newspaper
- A sudden tragedy years later
Look Back is good for you if…
- you like being moved to tears in under an hour.
- you want a friendship born from jealousy and a shared passion.
- you like hand-drawn frames where every pencil stroke shows.
Look Back is bad for you if…
- you don't watch anime.
- you can't take grief and regret that hit hard on screen.
About: creation · friendship · grief · regret
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