So uh spoilers for Look Back by tatsuki fujimoto. Look Back is a one shot so you are better off just reading that real quick. I highy recommend it!
Throughout the entire time I was reading Look Back, I was wondering what Fujino's full name was.
We see "Kyo Fujino" on the manga she makes and that should be it. But curiously there wasnt actual confirmation that that is her full name.
So I wondered, as I continued reading, what if it isnt? What if that is a pen name? What if...
Until
Ayumu Fujino
This is the clothing Fujino signed when they met. Her real name staring right back at us.
It was so crushing to see it like this, that "Kyo Fujino" really was a combination of their names and that Fujino kept using that name for years, even after Kyomoto quit. This was the confirmation that Fujino kept caring, kept dedicating her manga to Kyomoto after everything. This was the sign I was looking for as I wondered what Kyo Fujino ment. If I had to choose any "plot twist" to be dearest to me this has to be it I guess
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i finally got the chance to read tatsuki fujimoto’s one shot “look back” and i have so many thoughts on it.
it’s such an interesting story and a profoundly sad one at that. it felt like that work was very personal to him and reading it gave off the same impression. i think for a lot of artists, writing and creating stories about artistic motivation is a very personal thing and the care that he used in creating that story really shows.
i really appreciated the frustration at coming across someone who has far more skill and talent than you. i think it’s something a lot of artists experience. not the mention the friendship between fujino and kyomoto was so lovely to read. granted, it wasn’t the most healthy but it was a good example of what it is like to be friends with someone who is constantly pushing you to be better.
not only that, i found fujino to be very compelling. her sense of superiority over the others around her, as well as her competitive spirit about her skills was incredibly interesting to read. i also loved kyomoto as a motivator for her and how her jealousy wasn’t used against her but rather as inspiration for her to get better at her craft.
i can’t help but feel that the story’s narrator was unreliable (/pos). i can’t help but feel that fujimoto deliberately depicted fujino’s art as rudimentary while he depicted kyomoto’s art as beautifully detailed because the narrator (fujino) is looking at her own work. kyomoto thinks of fujimoto as a motivator and vice versa so i can’t help but feel that fujino’s understanding of her own work is deliberately shown to be shoddy and insecure.
that’s my favorite way to interpret the story right now because i think every artist has that. i think so many artists are hypercritical of their work while also believing that it just comes easier to other artists. it’s an interpretation that really resonates with anyone working to get better at an artistic craft and probably my favorite detail about the one shot.
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Have we talked about the Miguel Burger yet?
I just wanna know if it was his idea, if he authorized it, or do the other spiders just think it’s rlly fucking funny and do it to annoy the guy?
I need to know WHY
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going insane thinking about the harrow and palamedes friendship. harrow, who has never met another necromancer her age forming a bizarro 3D chess rivalry while pal worries about her safety at every possible turn. harrow, who is up to her eyebrows in paranoia and secrecy, trusting the sixth house with gideon unconscious and hurt, letting them into the ninth house quarters unsupervised. if “i cannot conceive of a universe without you in it” is goth for i love you, “death first to vultures and scavengers” has got to be goth for i love you (platonic). pal’s first reaction when harrow comes into his bubble in the river is to scoop her up in a hug, and at this point she doesn’t remember anything about him because cutting out all her memories of gideon is impossible without cutting out memories of the sixth, but she still makes him a skelehand to inhabit anyway. when harrow’s memories are finally whole, she tells dulcinea she couldn’t face pal knowing that his pen pal girlfriend died on her account, but the next time she “faces” him, palamades’s soul is in someone else’s body and harrow’s body is full of nona’s soul. he spends six months protecting and caring for harrow’s body (and nona obv), believing in the possibility of bringing her back to it the same way cam believed in him. “god, do you know i miss harrow terribly.” and by the time harrow comes back to her body at the very end of ntn, pal is gone forever, fully pauled. the last time harrow and palamades see each other as their complete selves is in canaan house, alive and unlyctored. two of the smartest and loneliest people in the solar system meet each other in the worst of circumstances and spend the rest of the story dancing around each other as fragments of themselves, trying to care about each other in the interim but never fully meeting like they did the first time. a friendship made almost entirely of missing the other person. “do you know i miss harrow terribly.” god. i need to lie down
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