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Look Back : Anime Movie (Patreon)

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2026-01-27 15:00:21
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2026-09
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Thank you so much for helping offset the cost of the items that were stolen from my car. I truly appreciate you. Quick note. If you are on iOS, it is cheaper to subscribe through Patreon on a web browser to avoid the Apple App Store fee. Android users are all set in the app.I went in knowing nothing, and man... this was some outstanding storytelling. Extremely SAD but very meaningful with the high quality of the story. What an OST! The piano and string relationships were quite beautiful. Really cool use of tempo throughout. Even though this storyline hits you directly in the chest with the feels, it's a VERY good watch. I really appreciate media that highlights the art creation process within. It is like an inception of demonstrating what is required to shape talent from a practice standpoint. Just when you think the movie is about one thing... LOL this is why I don't trust anime with my emotions 🤣Thank you for the suggestion to watch this 👏

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CCIME

Not sure if you know this, but this is from the same writer of Chainsaw Man. Sorry to hear about your stuff, hope everything works out.

Zinrow

Tatsuki Fujimoto did phenomenal work here honestly, as did the team adapting his work. Though a lot of his short stories don’t get as much acclaim as Chainsaw Man, Look Back is deservedly getting even a live action adaptation. Personally I loved everything about this movie, though the one thing I loved even more about the original manga is the part where Kyomoto asks Fujino why she draws, rather than the full flashbacks of their lives growing together, it was just a few panels of Kyomoto looking at what Fujino had drawn and then that final shot of her big, glowing smile.

Leonard Martinez

Others already noted the original manga was done by Tatsuki Fujimoto of Chainsaw Man - the shark manga that Fujino did is a clear reference to it as the covers you see on the shelf are very clearly parodies of Chainsaw Man's covers.

JoeyGuy7

Part of the reason this hits so hard for me is because it's clearly referencing thr kyoto animation attacks. Mass killing are a really rare thing in japan, so it's a huge national trauma for people fujimotos age

JoeyGuy7

Also, didn't notice til this watch but "Fujino" and "Kyomoto" combined form his name Fujimoto

JoeyGuy7

Fujino acted like kyomoto wouldn't be able to manage without her, but in reality her life turns out largely the same without fujino, whereas kyomoto completely changed fujino's life. Really great story

Alanin_8💜

Tatsuki Fujimoto is just built different man, I remember reading this years ago and couldn't believe that this was the same author of Chainsaw man and Fire punch. It was such a fantastic one shot manga and was wonderfully adapted by the studio.

PlatypusPrince

Lots of really neat details in this film that enrich the story and the deeper meaning behind it. As others have already said the original Oneshot manga was written by Tatsuki Fujimoto the author of Chainsaw Man during a long break in the manga's publication. It seems to be slightly auto-biographical with the two main characters names combined making up his, and the fact that Fujimoto has talked several times about how inadequate he felt as an artist and how he was constantly angry that no matter how much he practised everyone always seemed to be better than him. Fujimoto also published a fuck ton of one shots while he was super young and so skipped straight to doing his own serialisation rather than working as an assistant for a different manga artist. The manga Fujino makes in the film seems to be a reference to both of his long serialisations with the title "Shark Kick" clearly playing on the title of his first manga "Fire Punch" and then the covers of Shark Kick are one to one with the covers of Chainsaw Man, down the anime adaptation being announced with volume 11. The moment of Shark Kick Fujino reads in Kyomoto's house is actually from the Chainsaw Man Movie showing Reze with Denji at the festival scene (although they've swapped the hair colours). And the big painting we see Kyomoto working on in the artschool is the creepy mysterious door that keeps showing up in Denji's dreams in the first season and the start of the Chainsaw Man movie. The attack on Kyomoto's artschool clearly is referencing the terrible arson attack on Kyoto Animation (Sound Euphonium and Violet Evergarden Studio) with the perpetrator having the same motive in the film as the guy did in real life. This is also likely where the Kyo part of Kyomoto's name comes from. I like what you said about how well this film portrays the passion and the perseverance that is required for art, and the way the film at the end shows the answer to the question "why do you draw?", portraying the constant, long and tedious process but ending it with Kyomoto's elated smile as she reads the finished product is really beautiful. Anyway sorry for the long comment I hope some of this is interesting to people, I really adore this film and it spoke to me a lot, glad you liked it as well!

Shucks

Don't look back in anger.

P_ateric

Reading this story as a manga, you couldn't help but meta-judge the whole story, and as somebody already said in the comments, our two protaganoists are sort of self-reflection of Fujimoto the author. He knows the meta game. He wants the readers to feel all the emotions, to resonate with the characters, to guess the author's motive behinds the different timelines, and that, to me, is his message about why he is passionate and keeps drawing manga. I am just glad that he and us are in a time when anime is mainstream and the capital motives can support beautiful pieces like this to exist. Despite all the nonsence happening in the world, it's still a great time we are living in.

Kevin Baker

If it hasn't been pointed out yet (TLDR), the movie's art is as if the the two MCs had made this movie, with near photorealistic backgrounds, and rougher character designs.

Robert F

Always appreciate the discussion til the end! Lots of great points made. I find the movie incredibly inspiring. Glad you enjoyed it.

Cody

Btw we can’t see the description for the video before buying so when buying it on iOS it was more expensive so I recommend putting it in the general chat when u post a movie

drumrolltonyreacts

Yeah, I have talked about that a lot on Patreon recently. I addressed it in the update video yesterday as well. iOS just so greedy. Never use the app to buy, the app is only good for viewing. Desktop or browser mode for purchases

drumrolltonyreacts

It also gives you the line item doesnt it? It displays the iOS charge before you click buy. I might be mistaken

Cody

Yeah it displays the cost as 4.50 but I didn’t mind paying just for others who don’t wanna pay more

Cody

Is the charge also more for ur tiers on iOS?

drumrolltonyreacts

Apple has charges on EVERYTHING Patreon if you do anything in the Patreon app on your iphone. If you are not an Android user, its advised to only make purchases, for anything Patreon, on your desktop version of Patreon OR log into Patreon in a browser on your phone to make purchases. They have their hands on everything. They are just getting FREE money for doing nothing.

Cody

Yeesh thanks for letting me know need to change that stat

Joe

Look Back is such an amazingly sad, but inspiring story about the creative process and "why" we would bother doing something as silly as make art. That reason can vary between every individual, and this story is really only Tatsuki Fujimoto reflecting on his own reasons for why he puts himself through the meat grinder to produce manga, but his thoughts and ideas truly resonate with me. Others have mentioned already but one can easily draw a parallel between the Axe murderer maniac and the Kyoto Animation arson attacks of 2019 (Kyoto Animation made Sound Euphonium, Violet Evergarden, and many other beloved works). Some of the absolute most talented, beloved artists in the world were lost that day in absolute tragedy, and I'm sure on some level Fujimoto was trying to use this story to come to terms with what transpired that day.

Avalon

I don’t know if it’s good for patron, but there’s a whole series of Fujimoto’s one shots called Fujimoto 17-26 that’s worth checking out some day. Some of them are serious and thought provoking like this, and some of them are incredibly funny and still pretty deep. That’s what you get when you let the man behind chainsaw man cook a little I suppose.

Avalon

I do wonder if the attack in this anime is in some way representative of the kyoto animation attack. Kyoani (the studio behind Violet Evergarden and sound euphonium) was subject to the largest mass death attack in Japan since WW2 when a begrudged artist caught one of their studio’s on fire. He alleged they plagiarized his work, but it was nonsense. And dozens of hard working men and women lost their lives. But Kyoani couldn’t let that man destroy the legacy of those he killed, so they stepped up and finished the violet Evergarden movie, despite the pain. In honor of those senselessly lost.

Lixien

I think the "alternate timeline" shows us that Komiya would still pursue art school and unfortunately would get attacked anyways (Fujino appearing as a hero is something she wishes would happen) . So she definitely shouldn't blame herself nor drawing at all.

Shucks

Every time I watch this movie and I hear "umaku naritai" (33:15) I get sound euphonium flashbacks lol

Cody

When Kyomoto is painting the door is that a Chainsaw man Easter egg?

CK C

"This is why I don't trust anime" 😂😂😂 We all get used to this type of shit 😭😭😭

CK C

This is a tribute to kyo-ani, The sad incident. And people always say that fujimoto is crazy cuz he creates chainsaw man and fire punch. Which people already think fujumoto is psycho, somehow fujimoto creates this heartbreaking piece.

JoeyGuy7

It's mire likely a reference to the door in her room where the slip of paper came from

cool breezy

I think its both, the door is identical to csm im pretty sure

Eeko

I think it's really interesting you picked up on human vs AI with this. When I saw this movie in theaters, it came included with a director's interview. While it wasn't the original author's intent, the director said he wanted to make this movie because of the encroachment of AI in art. He said that because AI art could never match what a human could do, he intentionally left "mistakes" in the final movie that showed the human element. Things like extra pencil marks, blurred ink-lines, etc. Little touches that show the memory of a human artist's work. I found that really impactful. (Also, can you imagine telling someone like Jerry Cantrell they should write lyrics with AI? Fucking insane) This movie hits me so hard every time I watch it, and I pull more meaning each time. I genuinely think Fujimoto is one of the greatest writers of the current era, the ability to write something as heartfelt and grounded as this, while also writing the insanity of Fire Punch and Chainsaw Man. It makes me really hope to see an adaptation of Goodbye Eri one day.

Matthew

Yeah, it's a CSM Easter egg. Throughout the movie, there are CSM references like in certain manga panels, and Fujino's manga volume covers. During the segment when Fujino's SharkKick volumes are stacking up on the bookshelf, if you compare the volume cover color and illustrations to CSM's volume covers, you'll notice similarities. And also, you can see manga panels from the Reze arc in the movie as well. The characters in the panels aren't exactly CSM characters but they're doing the same things (i.e. rooftop scene where Reze and 'Cheese Man' face off; and the scene with Denji and Reze are on the fenced cliff before the 'intense' moments occur

Matthew

I don't feel like looking for timestamps (especially since no one asked for it) but I'm sure some reddit user has a post somewhere with the references