LOOK BACK MOVIE REACTION
Added 2024-11-11 00:10:12 +0000 UTCthanks 😭 a lot 😭 fujimoto 😭
what a beautiful, tragic story. makes me want to create!!!! id love to hear everyone's thoughts on this movie!
now hopefully we can get a goodbye, eri adaption??? 👀
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Dang the series is REALLY good. Hopefully you react to Josee, the Tiger and the Fish soon cause it's also VERY good. Since you've seen "Orange" then I recommend "The Angel Next Door Spoils ME Rotten"!! Very good romance anime!!!
LillWalker
2024-11-13 19:11:52 +0000 UTCthis is my 2nd watch of Look Back (my 1st one was in the theater) and i have A LOT of thoughts on the symbolism, the Fujimoto self insert, the relation to the KyoAni arson attack, and on and on and on (others in the comment section have broken all of that down better than I could)...but the most important thing I personally took away from Look Back is the purity and fragility of self expression. Fujino started out as a kid whose motivation for drawing was her self indulgence in her abilities. She thought there shouldnt be anyone of her own age that could be better at drawing then she was. The grown-ups even serenaded her about how talented she was! So she become serious about her art and practiced. Practiced for tedious and long hours at her desk, to the detriment of her social life, her academics, her time spent with family and potentially her future. But then one day in the 6th grade, she gave up drawing completely when she found out that she could never become THE BEST. Fujino did not see a future anymore for her reason to create. Until she met Kyomoto, whom to Fujino was the reason she lost her passion to draw. Or so she had thought...when ironically Kyomoto actually barged into Fujino's life without even so much as a knock and gave her a new reason to create (illustrated so memoriably by Fujino's dance in the rain, like she's finally gained the motivation to reach for the sky). A passion borne out of friendship, out of shared hard work and hard times, out of the joy of self expression with a kindred soul that was not built on competition or comparison. This is why Fujino realized only after Kyomoto has passed what her true reason to draw is. It's so fragile and so easy to forget. There are a multitude of reasons and motivations for self expression in the world that anyone could choose the one that would lead them to a dead end. Kyomoto saved Fujino from that fate by shattering Fujino's initial reason to create that would eventually fizzle out when she realized she couldnt be the best, and at the same time Kyomoto gave Fujino the pure reason to create that would eventually carry her to becoming a world renowned mangaka. And at the end of the movie, Fujino became aware of this fact. She took a remnant of Kyomoto, a symbol of her pure reason to create, and put it front and center so she would never forget that feeling ever again. I wrote a lot and I dont know if anyone will read this, but main reason I wanted to bare out my thoughts is because Look Back inspired me to do so. Everyone has a reason they are born with. It's there. It's just up to us to find it and bring it to life.
M Khan
2024-11-13 04:09:20 +0000 UTCPLEASE watch Josee, I think you would really really enjoy it Alana
M Khan
2024-11-13 02:05:43 +0000 UTCI watched this in the theater. Knew nothing about this movie besides the first trailer. I was sobbing so much by the end. Also the music was so beautiful. The opening sequence already made me want to tear up with the music alone.
Chibi
2024-11-12 02:53:36 +0000 UTCSome interesting facts, I watched this in theaters and they did an interview with the director and Va’s for kyomoto and Fujino and apparently fujinos voice actor is fresh into the scene, it was her first time doing it and I thought it was amazing because throughout the film I believe she delivers an excellent performance of fujino. The director said that kyomoto’s Va didn’t need to practice much cuz she kinda had a shut in voice type of thing and they joked around a bit about it nothing insulting. Overall I’m glad to see other people had the same reaction as me (crying my ass off by the end of the film)
Streaky Sensei
2024-11-12 01:30:54 +0000 UTCdentational
Dj Williams
2024-11-12 01:05:44 +0000 UTCive seen orange (if its the series you're talking about?) i still need to watch josee the tiger and the fish!
Alana Misako
2024-11-11 22:40:01 +0000 UTCMan I hope one day you react to the anime “Orange” and “Josee, the Tiger and the Fish”!!! Both amazing anime’s with romance (will need tissues). WONT REGRET IT!
LillWalker
2024-11-11 18:15:06 +0000 UTCI adored every second of this adaptation and was cheering like I was watching the NBA finals when Fujino did her little dancey dance in the rain. The catharsis of being seen can't be underestimated, and everyone deserves to feel that in their lives. Fujimoto's writing is eternally validating to me personally, especially with Fujino's completely understandable mindset of "if i never drew this then this wouldn't have happened" is SO real. However, as he is known to do, he really flips it. Regardless of their choices, they are intrinsically linked as people. Whether Fujino pulls Kyomoto out of her room or not, she leaves. Whether they meet in reality or in the far out fake future, they meet. Maybe the real guilt is that Fujino actually feels a debt to Kyomoto for pulling her back into art, as she did with pulling Kyomoto out of her room. Otherwise she would be living a (perfectly nice) "normal" life doing karate on the weekends. Even the fact that when she "gives up" in 6th grade (LMAO) her life literally improves is so genuinely encouraging. So many artists give up because they think there is some sacred code or expectation of themselves that they fail to achieve. Being a real artist is knowing that sometimes it's just not the time to put pressure on yourself. I know for a fact that your passions catch up to you, and life continues. Anyway thanks for coming to my xanga, here's wonderwall etc (also PS - anyone who is feeling stuck or on the fence about being creative, i highkey recommend reading "What It Is" by Lynda Barry, it will save your life!) PPS - i also think that their fucked up "last" convo was not their actual last interaction - total headcannon, but maybe it's just the interaction that echoes in Fujino's mind forever as a regret :(
Sharpless
2024-11-11 07:56:57 +0000 UTCFujimoto said that he cried during the premiere of this film, he said with this exact words: ¨I cried because I thought that I would never be able to see my work made with such sincerity again in my life¨. And yes, the reason why Fujino drew was for Kyomoto, only for her. Absolute cinema.
Coddigowblack
2024-11-11 06:18:10 +0000 UTCThe part that hit me the most was most definitely the part where Fujino was at her door and there was just silence.
steviemoe
2024-11-11 03:37:13 +0000 UTCshameless plug for the 4 episodes of Uma Musume Road to the Top
M Khan
2024-11-11 02:46:13 +0000 UTCdont...look back... in anger... T_T. seeing this movie in theatres made me appreciate so much more. even rewatching it now stirs that feeling up again. its peak
nimrod
2024-11-11 02:11:54 +0000 UTCIt’s funny. I actually started tearing up a bit in the movie theatre early on in the film. During the first kyo/fujino montage. I was able to hold it together until the credits 🥲. Absolutely adore this movie.
Uli
2024-11-11 02:09:46 +0000 UTCAnother important detail to this excellent comment is that this manga is a tribute to the Kyoto Animation arson attack where 36 people were killed. It was released exactly 2 years after the attack. Kyomoto's name is Kyo from Kyoto Animation and moto from Fujimoto.
FluffyPanda
2024-11-11 01:52:20 +0000 UTCThis is soo good!!! So excited you're reacting to it!!!
Mark A Moore
2024-11-11 01:50:11 +0000 UTCLotta things to unpack!! -Fujimoto's assistants over the years have been super talented. Three different people that have assisted him in the past have gone on to create Spy x Family, Hell's Paradise, and Dandadan. While the direct inspiration for Look Back may not be from those assistants leaving him to pursue their own goals/dreams, just wanted to give them the recognition they're due (and give big props to Fujimoto for his ability to find promising assistants and nurture their talents) -The original premise iirc is Fujimoto grappling with his own desires to be an artist. Fujino and Kyomoto's names can be combined to form Fujimoto, and in many ways, Fujimoto crafted both to represent different aspects of himself. Right around the time he was in art school, he started to doubt why he wanted to be an artist. In an interview he said that when he and his classmates were pitching in to help with recovery efforts for a large earthquake, he couldn't help but think how powerless he was. He questioned himself, "why do I draw? Why do I want to be an artist? What can my art do?". The ending of the movie kind of hinted at the answer that he came to irl. Though his art may not prevent earthquakes, stop wars, or solve world hunger, he was determined to become an artist so that he could have the chance to lift up his readers and to put smiles on their faces. He wanted his art to bring people together just like Fujino and Kyomoto. (P.S. thanks for reacting to this, I had to double take because I just finished watching it when I got your post notification. Watching it twice today was not something I had planned for ;-;)
Addison Wang
2024-11-11 01:45:47 +0000 UTCNeed the haikyu movie
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2024-11-11 01:45:31 +0000 UTCHere are some words from Fujimoto from his one shot collection that touches a bit on his inspiration/reasoning behind writing look back. "When I was 17, I started art school in Yamagata Prefecture. This was just after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, so all of us must have been asking ourselves whether it was really right for us to keep drawing like before. Drawing felt meaningless, so, wanting to make a difference in some way, I went to Ishinomaki as a recon- struction support volunteer. On the bus there were a bunch of art school and sports school students who were thinking along the same lines as me. We arrived in Ishinomaki and set to work clearing debris out of the gutters of one section of a residential area. We spent the entire day stuffing dirt into bags and carrying those bags to a truck, yet we still hadn't been able to remove all the debris in the gutters. I felt a sense of helplessness from the fact that about 30 of us worked on this for an entire day and yet we couldn't make a dent. Everyone was downcast on the bus ride back too. One of the sports school students who worked with me that day remarked that there'd been no point to us showing up. I went back to volunteer one more time after that. Then I stopped. This was because I was doing oil painting, which gets expensive, and I had to draw manga in order to pay for it. From age 17, that sense of powerlessness has always been following me around. Every time there was another tragedy, my sense that my pursuits serve no pur- pose at all grew bigger. Recently, I drew a manga called Look Back to try and finally vent those feelings. Oddly enough, once I drew it, I think I was able to process them a bit. Looking at this collection of one-shots now, in that state of mind, I remembered a lot of things. Not just that I would draw while feeling powerless, but also that I would draw while really hungry, and how I was always practicing art with my friends. It brought back memories so fun that I have to wonder why I'd only been remembering the dark things. Now I feel glad that I got to have not just Look Back collected in a book, but these one-shots too. As to why I'm saying these things, it's because I was against publishing a one-shot collection. Reason being, I was too lazy to draw the covers, write these comments, etc. But now, I'm glad I got to have it published.
koi
2024-11-11 01:34:33 +0000 UTCLETSGOOO
noon
2024-11-11 00:41:55 +0000 UTCHooray!! Thanks for reacting to it 😍
Yu Hai Shen
2024-11-11 00:19:42 +0000 UTC
