Tonight on GeekNights, we review Look Back. Directed by Kiyotaka Oshiyama and based on Tatsuki Fujimoto's manga of the same title. You may know Tatsuki Fujimoto from Goodbye Eri and Chainsaw Man. In the news, Rym's flight home from Singapore has its own wikipedia page, Anno is producing a new Space Battleship Yamato film, and the Uzumaki anime has some drama.
The episode was up on Patreon and Youtube the day we recorded. But we web site hiccup delayed posting it here 
I love reading Tatsuki Fujimoto’s work and highly reccommend his short story collections. But 2/3 through it, I had to put down Fire Punch and stop reading it for a little while just because of how incredibly fucking bleak it is. Gods was that depressing to read. However, something I saw as fairly consistent throughout Fujimoto’s works was that his stories probaably aren’t going where you think they are, and it’s going to be weirder than you expected by the end. So, I should probably toughen up and power through the last third of the goddamn Fire Punch manga.
I read all of Fire Punch. It is really bleak, but overall I found it the weakest of Fujimoto’s work. Very forgettable.
Good to know. Because that story is like an exercise in pain. Which, I guess, is the point?
Nice.
Everyone should see it!
Way late to listening to this but I want to argue against Scott’s assertion that rewatchability should factor into something being S-tier, with my example of an S-tier many are emotionally unprepared to rewatch being ‘Grave of the Fireflies’.
The fact that people do not want to rewatch something like Grave of the Fireflies or Schindler’s List is actually a testament to their rewatchability. They aren’t trash films that will fall flat with an audience that has seen them already. People don’t want to rewatch them precisely because they will be just as impactful, perhaps even moreso, even if the audience already knows absolutely everything.
The question is not whether you want to watch them again, or whether you are emotionally prepared to do so. The question is whether the work will hold up to a repeat viewing. The answer is that they hold up perhaps too well.
Hmm. That’s very fair and an aspect I did not consider.