"To Consume Anime Is Much Better": Look Back Director Breaks Down the Movie's Stressful Production
Look Back, one of 2024’s best anime movies, follows two aspiring manga artists when their lives stray off in very completely different instructions. Producing an anime is a dream nearly each fan has doubtless had since discovering the unbelievable medium. But, based on the movie’s author and director, Kiyotaka Oshiyama, we’re higher off having fun with anime than making it.
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Look Back relies on the manga of the identical identify by Tatuski Fujimoto, the creator of Chainsaw Man. The film is at present streaming on Prime Video, and followers on-line are obsessive about its heartbreaking story of goals, friendship, and grief. We, the viewers, undoubtedly loved watching Look Back much more than Oshiyama loved making it, as the author/director lately revealed the traumatic means of bringing the beloved manga to the large display screen.
Kiyotaka Oshiyama Gets Honest About Directing Look Back
In an interview with Deadline, Kiyotaka Oshiyama bought surprisingly candid about the traumatic expertise of writing and directing Look Back. “As an animator, I think it’s better to be in the audience just watching anime,” he mentioned in a startling confession. Oshiyama mentioned he’s extremely proud of how Look Back turned out, however he’d a lot moderately have been in the viewers watching it than behind the scenes making it.
“To consume anime is much better,” Oshiyama continued. “Making it is a really long production. The fact that you have to sit for so long and maintain your focus is a physically demanding job. So, I don’t think it’s something that we could work on for long periods of time or long years.”
Ultimately although, Kiyotaka Oshiyama mentioned the stress of constructing the movie was price it. He revealed that administrators and anybody concerned in making a film or an anime by no means really know if a challenge can be a success. “I really think the success of a movie is hit or miss,” he defined. “You don’t know what contributes to it and I think I was just lucky. I am thankful for the praise that I’m getting.”
[RELATED: Look Back Named Best Anime Movie for 2024 (Golden Issue Awards)]
Could Look Back Win an Oscar?
Fans have already labeled Look Back as one among, if not THE greatest anime film of 2024. But, the actual check comes this March at the 97th Academy Awards. 2025’s Oscar nominees can be unveiled this Thursday (twenty third January), and anime fans have their fingers crossed that Look Back will get recognized.
Kiyotaka Oshiyama didn’t contact upon Look Back‘s awards season chances. Instead, he has begun to look forward to his next project. Oshiyama didn’t reveal what he can be engaged on subsequent. However, he admitted that the success of Look Back has added some additional strain on the new challenge. “I try to tell myself and tone it down,” he mentioned. “But I think if I were to think about my next project and if they’re like, ‘Oh, it’s going to be a hit just like Look Back,’ then I might stress out a little, but I try not to think about it.”
Look Back is at present streaming on Prime Video.
H/T: Deadline
