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REVIEW: Look Back Anime Film Review [2024-11-14]




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jmckenna15



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PostPosted: Thu Nov 14, 2024 12:45 pm Reply with quote
Watching this film in theaters was a treat. I went in totally blind but I was genuinely moved by it. It was more emotionally resonant in 45 minutes than what most movies can achieve in 3 hours. The animation was very Fujimoto-like, and knew enough to tamper down the dialogue and just let the art and the facial expressions do most of the talking. It had its funny moments as well -- Kyomoto's stammering was cute as were the multiple Chainsaw Man allusions that dotted the film.

A touching tribute to art and the artistic process and it gave me even further respect for Fujimoto as an artist and a storyteller. He might be an absolutely insane human being, but he knows how to pull on the heartstrings like nobody else. An easy 10/10.
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FireChick
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 14, 2024 1:00 pm Reply with quote
Yeah, this movie is awesome. Love it. Saw it in theaters and saw it again on Amazon. When that blu-ray drops, I am buying it day one!

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The closest thing to a criticism I can lob at the dub is that it features a few bits of slang during the elementary school segments that might be a point of contention.


The slang is particularly noticeable because it was mentioned somewhere that the early part of the story takes place during the 2000s, and having someone say "mid" in a time period when the word wasn't used in its current 2020s context does feel off to me. Of course, that does nothing to detract from my enjoyment of the dub, and totally agree everyone brought their A-game.
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Cho_Desu



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PostPosted: Thu Nov 14, 2024 1:55 pm Reply with quote
I went into this thinking I'd be blown away by it (since it seems everyone else was) but ended up just finding it... good? It has a really nice art style and animation, and it's clearly a personal work. But I guess I just found the setup with the two characters and the possible directions the story could go in the first half to be much more interesting than the direction the story actually did go in the second. Still think it's worth watching, but I'm a bit surprised this was such a home run with the bases loaded for most people.
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