Look Back (2022)

Tatsuki Fujimoto's one-shot follows Fujino, a fourth grader convinced she is the best artist around, and Kyomoto, a classmate too anxious to attend school, as drawing manga binds them together. Fujimoto, the creator of Chainsaw Man, first released the complete story free online in 2021, and it fits in one slim book you can finish in a single sitting. Its second half is where the craft shows, with pages that quietly rethink everything before them. If you only try one entry here, make it this one: it proves how much a single manga story can carry.