The movie adaptation of Chainsaw Man author Tatsuki Fujimoto’s Look Back manga is proving to be a big success at the Japanese box office!
As of July 16, total of 599,731 people have watched the anime film “Look Back,” which premiered on June 28. Using the current conversion rate between USD and JPY, the film has made around $6,300,000 (¥1,017,961,780) at the box office.
To celebrate the 1 billion yen revenue milestone, the staff members revealed a new trailer featuring the main characters of Look Back, Ayumu Fujino and Kyomoto.
The success, while obviously credited to all the staff members behind the film, particularly highlights Kiyotaka Oshiyama. He stayed in the office for the last two and a half years during the movie’s production and finally slept at his own house after the film was completed.
Oshiyama wanted to bring his vision to the screen, making the film slightly different from the manga. As a result, Japanese fans loved the movie and the changes the director introduced. There’s now ample opportunity for another one of Chainsaw Man mangaka’s one-shots to be adapted, such as Goodbye Eri.
