Tatsuki Fujimoto has made quite a name for himself in the world of manga and anime over the last decade, rising to fame with his massively popular Chainsaw Man. Lauded for his ability to craft masterful stories while incorporating often strange, unpredictable plot devices, his most popular series buries intimate character studies under the guise of a warped hero's tale. And while his stories typically like to hide a lot of their substance under the hood, Fujimoto will never hesitate to slap his audience across the face with their themes.

Though Chainsaw Man dominates much of the discourse surrounding the author, some of his greatest work resides in many of the one-shots released before and during its serialization. And with the recent anime adaptation of Look Back, perhaps the most popular of his one-shots, larger audiences are now being introduced to the full scale of Fujimoto's talents.

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