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Extra Look Back Screenings Added in London and Edinburgh

The Scotland Loves Animation festival has added extra screenings of the film Look Back in both Edinburgh (at the Cameo Picturehouse) and in London (at the Central Picturehouse cinema).

At Edinburgh, there will now be three screenings of Look Back on Saturday November 9, one starting at 7.15 p.m., one starting at 7.30 p.m. and one starting at 7.45 p.m.

In London, there will now be two screenings of Look Back in London on Saturday November 16, one at 8 p.m. and one at 8.15 p.m.

This year, the Scotland Loves Anime festival will take place in Glasgow, Edinburgh and London. The Glasgow leg of the festival will be from November 1 to 3, the Edinburgh screenings from November 4 to 10, and the London screenings will be from November 15 to 17.

The film opened in theaters in Japan on June 28. It ranked at #2 in terms of ticket sales (but #1 in weekend earnings) in its opening weekend and sold 135,000 tickets earning 227 million (about US$1.40 million) in its first three days.

Yūmi Kawai and Mizuki Yoshida star in the film. Kawai plays Fujino, a fourth grader who draws four-panel comics in the school newspaper. Yoshida plays Kyomoto, Fujino's classmate who has been skipping school.

Kiyotaka Oshiyama (Flip Flappers) directed the anime, and was also in charge of the screenplay and character designs. Oshiyama's Studio Durian produced the film.

Fujimoto debuted the one-shot manga on Shueisha's Shonen Jump+ in July 2021. The manga had over 2.5 million views on its first day. Viz Media and MANGA Plus launched the manga digitally in English. Viz Media published the manga in print in September 2022. The company describes the story:

The overly confident Fujino and the shut-in Kyomoto couldn't be more different, but a love of drawing manga brings these two small-town girls together. A poignant story of growing up and moving forward that only Tatsuki Fujimoto, the creator of Chainsaw Man, could have crafted.

The manga won the first Rakuten Kobo E-book Awards in May 2023, and it ranked at #1 in the 2022 edition of Takarajimasha's Kono Manga ga Sugoi! (This Manga Is Amazing!) guidebook. It was also nominated for last year's Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, and was second place at the 15th Manga Taisho awards.