The new comic "Looking Back" by the author of "Chainsaw Man" will be released on September 3rd. The theme alludes to the Kyoto Animation incident

On July 21, the official announcement was made today that the new manga book "Looking Back" by Fujimoto Itsuki, the author of the recently popular hardcore manga masterpiece "Chainsaw Man", will be released on September 3. It is reported that the theme of this work alludes to the Kyoto Animation arson incident, so it may be worth reading.

"Looking Back" is a new work by Fujimoto that will be serialized in "Weekly Shonen Jump+" starting from July 19, 2021. The number of readers exceeded 2.5 million on the day of its release, sparking heated discussions.

"Looking Back" tells the story of a fourth-grade elementary school student named Fujino who is good at drawing interesting four-frame comics and publishes them in the grade newspaper, until a more powerful comic artist named Kyomoto takes up a column to publish comics together. Fujino finds that his drawing skills are much worse than Kyomoto's, so he practices hard until the sixth grade, when he finds that he still can't compare to Kyomoto, and finally gives up.

Kyomoto later became a big fan of Fujino's comics, and Fujino picked up his brush again. At the age of 13, the two collaborated on "Metal Parade" and won an award. They went to big cities together. At the age of 17, the two had collaborated on seven short stories. The editor wanted the two to serialize a long work, but Kyomoto said he wanted to go to art university and gave up serialization. Fujino was very disappointed and angry, and began to serialize "Shark Kick" alone, which stagnated after 11 volumes.

On January 10, 2016, an indiscriminate killing occurred at Kyomoto's university, and Kyomoto died. Upon hearing the news of his death, Fujino was disappointed and regretful, and went to Kyomoto's house alone, regretting that he had drawn comics and let Kyomoto open that door.

According to many comments and thoughts from netizens who have read this work, the core theme of this work is closely related to the Kyoto Animation arson incident that occurred two years ago on July 18, 2019. Interested readers and fans can pay attention to it.