Look Back (2024)

Look Back. An Japanese animation film. Directed by Kiyotaka Oshiyama. An adaptation of the comic book with the same name portrayed by Tatsuki Fujimoto.

High school students, Fujino and Kyomoto, concentrated to portray manga, slept together in Fujino's room running out of their energy, awaked and concentrated to do it again. Friendship, love and a bond between them had budded over manga since they met. The film tells a sad but heartwarming story of the two young woman who kept on connecting with each other in their hearts.

Hearing that it was very popular, I watched it in a theater, however, it did not leave a deep impression on me because the two girl's world was far away for a middle-aged man like me. All the same, the ending touched me. Life goes on.

After that I came to want to see Blue Period which depicts young people feeling enthusiastic about painting pictures.