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Fujimoto also has the fantastic ability to explore the darker emotions that linger, often ignored, on the edges of human connections. Kyomoto - Kyomoto is introducted as a rival to Fujino, even having way better backgrounds and art in general.

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Even when she becomes friends with Kyomoto, their lives revolve around making art, and Fujino questions if sacrificing so much for it mattered at all after Kyomoto's death. But also a story of friendship sketched out, between two teenagers, one arrogant, mischievous and falsely sure of herself, the second, shy (even hikkimori) but careful and diligent; their complementarity being symbolized by these mangas that they will draw with four hands, one for the scenarios/characters, the second for the extremely neat decorations. On a metatextual level, it highlights how either Fire Punch or Chainsaw Man can be viewed as such at a glance. Instead, he crafts a moving and devastating story about friendship, the diverging paths we take in life, and why we create art.

Fujino manages to get her life back on track but her teacher then asks her to go to her rival’s house and give them their diploma. Tatsuki Fujimoto wrote a masterclass in serious storytelling in just 140 pages that has hit me harder than longer and more popular manga.

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Fujino as a child is shown to be a relatively normal and outgoing, but starts to be ostracized by her friends and has a more distant relationship with her family as she becomes fixated on being a good artist. This, of course, would be a wonderful addition to the anime world, but I can’t help but think that there would be a better choice for a studio, should the opportunity arise. Only, rather than clinging to these sensitive little details, Fujimoto, himself perhaps still a teenager in his approach, cannot help slipping slightly down two slippery slopes: on the one hand, the one who thinks that t is absolutely necessary that a drama occur (as such, he probably went beyond the medium and its prerogatives less than he thinks), then, that of a pathos sometimes slightly too strong. Look Back is almost a volume in length, yes, but it was still published as a single chapter with no previous or subsequent chapters.The inciting incident that led to her focusing much of her childhood on her art was her anger that Kyomoto upstaged her in the school paper after enjoying success as their school's best artist. He had no preparatory schools available near his home, so he went to painting classes in which his grandparents attended and practiced oil painting.