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GKIDS Screens Look Back Anime Film in N. American Theaters on October 4 (Updated)
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one-shot manga, and it will screen the film in theaters on October 4. The company streamed an English-subtitled trailer:
Update: In a related story, the film has sold over 1 million tickets in Japan. The film has earned over 1.73 billion yen ($12 million) at the Japanese box office.
star in the film. Kawai plays Fujino, a fourth grader who draws four- comics in the school newspaper. Yoshida plays Kyomoto, Fujino's classmate who has been skipping school.
Studio Durian produced the film.
The staff also includes:
- Art Director: Kiyoshi Sameshima
- Art Director Assistants: Takashi Omori
- Color Key Artist: Maya Kusumoto
- Compositing Director of Photography: Kazuto Izumita
- Editing: Kiyoshi Hirose
- Sound Director: Eriko Kimura
- Music: haruka nakamura
Singer urara performs the film's theme "Light song" by composer haruka nakamura.
Fujimoto debuted the one-shot manga on 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 place at the 15th Manga Taisho awards.
Update: Added 1 million tickets news.
Sources: Look Back anime's X/Twitter , Mainichi Shimbun's Mantan Web
Source: GKIDS' X/Twitter and Instagram page
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