Fujimoto can also craft stories of tender drama, though, as proven by his one-shot manga Look Back and its anime movie adaptation.
Within Look Back, the store is given a fictitious name, but it’s clearly modeled after the real-world Nikaho Hirasawa branch of 7-Eleven.
After reading, watching, and being deeply touched by Look Back, our Japanese-language reporter Saya Togashi decided to head north to Akita and visit this new anime holy ground.
We head north to the Akita town where Chainsaw Man’s creator grew up and see the sights that inspired the look of Look Back.