Synopsis
Fujino is the class manga artist, celebrated for her four-panel strips in the school paper. She's told that another student — one who refuses to come to school — wants to contribute comics too. What follows is a 36-page one-shot that traces the course of a friendship and creative partnership across years, asking what art means to the people who make it and what loss does to the things they built. Look Back (Tatsuki Fujimoto) was published in July 2021 in Shonen Jump+ and became an immediate landmark — a single chapter that the manga community recognized as something exceptional from the moment it appeared. The anime film adaptation (Studio Durian, 2024) directed by Kiyotaka Oshiro received universal critical acclaim and is approximately an hour long. If you haven't read Look Back, read it today. It's free on Shonen Jump+.