Look Back (2024)
Manga drew them together. Life made them best friends.
Director: Kiyotaka Oshiyama · Writer: Kiyotaka Oshiyama
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.
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Director
Kiyotaka Oshiyama
Cast
Yuumi Kawai
Fujino (voice) 
Mizuki Yoshida
Kyomoto (voice) 
Yoichiro Saito
Homeroom Teacher (voice) 
Kota Oka
Man (voice) 
Kureha Maki
Fujino's Sister (voice) 
Koya Yoshihashi
Editor (voice) 
Takeshi Miyajima
Newscaster (voice) 
Daisuke Takahashi
Announcer (voice) 
Jun Ito
Teacher (voice) 
Kaori Takeuchi
Friend's Mother (voice) 
Masumi Taira
Grandmother (voice) 
Rina Endou
Classmate (voice) User Reviews (1)
"Fujino" is the class favourite when it comes to her four-scene manga that she draws for the weekly school newsletter. Then one afternoon her teacher asks her if she wouldn't mind letting "Kyomoto" have a go. She's never at school - indeed she's routinely called the truant, but he thinks that this might be a way of getting her more involved. How good can she be, thinks "Fujino"? Well it turns out that she's actually pretty good - but she still never shows up. At graduation time, "Fujino" is tasked with delivering the certificate to her unknown rival and that's the start of something that neither girl could readily have anticipated. It's quite an emotionally powerful animation, this one, taking a look at ambition and isolation amongst young people craving for acceptance, purpose and friendship as they start to emerge from childhood and face a much less sympathetic world. The girls have sy…
