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- I'm a fan of yours, Fujino-sensei!
- — Kyomoto to Fujino
KyoJino is the femslash ship between Kyomoto and Ayumu Fujino from the Look Back fandom.
Canon[]
During fourth grade, Fujino would make 4-komas for her school's weekly newspaper, often getting praise from her classmates due to her drawing skills. Fujino enjoyed this praise, even indulging in it. Later, Fujino is asked by her teacher if she could give one of the 4-koma slots to Kyomoto, a truant student from the class next door. She accepts yet begins to pick on her, calling her a wimp and saying, "Drawing decent art would be difficult for an amateur.”
Next week, when the newspapers were handed out, Fujino was shock to see that Kyomoto's art was far more advanced than she thought. When the other classmate’s see Kyomoto’s skill, they are amazed. This ended up with Kyomoto taking away the spot-light from Fujino, even being told that her art looked average compared to Kyomoto’s drawings. Because of this, Fujino begins to practice art every day, swearing that she’ll be a better artist than Kyomoto. As she tries to improve, she also starts having less and less free time to hang out with her friends, spend time with her family, her test scores even begin to go down as she stayed in her room all day drawing. Her friends begin to criticize her for this, saying that people are going to think she’s some creepy otaku.
When the next newspaper comes in, she sees Kyomoto’s art right next to hers, she decides to quit art completely in that moment since she feels that her art will never be as good as Kyomoto’s drawings. Now that Fujino has quit art, she now has a lot more free time than she did before, being able to hang out with her friends, watching movies with her family, even joining her sister’s karate class. She even throws away all her sketchbooks.
Fujino and Kyomoto actually meet in person when Fujino is asked to drop off Kyomoto's middle school graduation diploma by one of her teachers, Fujino tries to refuse but is urged by him. When Fujino arrives at Kyomoto’s house, she rings the doorbell, she is met with no answer. She checks if the door is locked to see it isn’t so she walks into the house. Kyomoto is home but tries to keep quiet but fails, accidentally making a noise, making Fujino aware someone’s home. She walks down the hallway, crossing Kyomoto’s room and sees that the whole hallway is filled with sketchbooks, presumably own by Kyomoto herself. Upon seeing the pile of sketchbooks, she spots a Yonkoma slip. She grabs it and starts to draw a comic about Kyomoto being a shut-in, making fun of her for being staying in her room all day. Fujino accidentally drops the paper and it slips right into Kyomoto’s room under the door. Embarrassed, Fujino tries to run away after hearing Kyomoto acknowledge the paper. Fujino speed walks out the house. After realizing the paper was draw by Fujino, Kyomoto than runs out the house and after Fujino, yelling her name. Fujino stops in her tracks, looking back at Kyomoto.
Kyomoto begging to see Fujino's manga draft
It’s revealed that Kyomoto is actually a major fan of Fujino and her work, and she then asked Fujino to sign the back of her jacket with her autograph. As Fujino writes, Kyomoto begins to rant about Fujino’s work, recalling all her past creations. After Fujino is finish writing her autograph, Kyomoto asks her why she quit drawing in the 6th grade. Fujino lies, saying she was actually just working on a full one-shot for a manga competition, not wanting to let Kyomoto know that the real reason as to why she quit art. Kyomoto is is immediately impressed and asks to see it. Fujino than states that the idea is only in her head but that it’s pretty much finished, that all is left is to make a draft and do the inking. Kyomoto continues to insist on seeing and is joyful when Fujino agrees to let her see it. It begins to rain right after so Fujino leaves, both of them saying goodbye to each other. It’s in this moment when a new friendship is born. When Fujino is on her way home, she starts to walk freely, skipping and hopping around with her arms going back and forth in the air. When Fujino arrives home, she rushes to her room and starts to draw her one-shot, Kyomoto’s words of praise giving her a motivation to draw once more. Kyomoto and Fujino begin to work on the manga together with Kyomoto being a background artist while Fujino is drawing the people. After a year or so, Kyomoto and Fujino are ready to submit their one-shot into the competition, going under the pen name Kyo Fujino. When they both check the weekly jump, they are both surprised to see they were a runner-up, winning a prize of one million yen. Fujino withdraws 100,000 yen and offers Kyomoto they both hang out together the next day. Going to eat crepes, going to see a movie, eating burgers, going to a library to see art books. When they’re on the train after hang out, Kyomoto states that she’s glad that she left her room, saying she was actually afraid to go out, revealing that she stopped going to school because she was scared of people. She mentions that she had a good time today and that the reason she picked up drawing was because she had nothing else to do at home; she was bored. She thanks Fujino for bring her out her room. Fujino then jokingly says that she can thank her with 100,000 yen, the two laughing right after.
Fujino and Kyomoto having fun
They both start to publish more and more one-shots based on their experiences together. They continue to hang out yet Kyomoto starts to drift apart from Fujino, doing her own instead of doing it with Fujino like normal. Later on, as adults, they are told that one of their manga is getting serialized, Fujino is reasonably overjoyed and looks over to Kyomoto, expecting the same reaction from her too, only to see that Kyomoto isn’t as a happy she is, her smile dropping. A few hours later, Kyomoto than tells Fujino that she wants to go to art school and that she can’t Fujino with the series. Fujino lies saying that it’s fine and says that she can just get assistants to take Kyomoto’s place but than tells her that it’s pointless right after. She starts to argue with her, even mentioning that she’ll have to talk to strangers since she knows that Kyomoto isn’t the best at socializing with new people. Kyomoto states that she wants to live on her own without having to be so dependent on Fujino. Fujino still insist that it’s point and saying that it’s going to be boring. They go back and forth, Kyomoto saying she’ll practice talking to people and Fujino saying she’ll fail at it. Kyomoto starts to cry and mutters that she wants to improve her art as her reasoning. Fujino leaves it at that as the two go their separate ways; Kyomoto going to art school while Fujino works on the series.
After a while of the two not seeing each other, Fujino overhears her TV as she draws manga panels during a call, requesting more assistants; It’s about the art school Kyomoto goes to, there was a recent attack by a man with axe-like weapon. Worried, Fujino quickly gets her phone and calls Kyomoto to get no answer. Her call with Kyomoto is interrupted by a call from her mother to which she answers, only to receive the worst news of all; Kyomoto was killed during the attack. The news spread fast, making it’s newspapers and online posts. Because of this, shark kick, the series Fujino had been working on, went on hiatus. Fujino is left to grieve on her own.
Alternative Universe[]
Towards the end of the one-shot, Fujino visits Kyomoto’s house. in the same hallway filled with sketchbooks, she sees a weekly jump magazine with shark kick on the cover. She grabs it and flips though the pages, seeing everything she’s drew on paper. After flipping thought a few pages, she spots a Yonkoma slip, the same slip that she made when she was a kid that was making fun of Kyomoto for being a shut-in at the time. Fujino drops the book and focuses solely on the paper. she starts to blame herself for Kyomoto’s death, saying, “If I hadn’t gotten her out her room, she wouldn’t have died” and starts rip up the paper as she cries. A piece of the paper slips under the door, into Kyomoto’s room.The scene than transitions to Kyomoto when she was a kid, going back to the moment when Fujino dropped her graduation diploma. she grabs the note with words, “Don’t come out, don’t come out!” on it. She hears Fujino’s voice. She keeps quiets and successfully goes unnoticed. Kyomoto looks back at the paper slip and ignores it, saying that it must've been a ghost or something of the sort. Both Fujino and Kyomoto move on with their lives with Kyomoto continuing art and Fujino going with karate. Kyomoto goes out on her own without the help of Fujino and, just like the original timeline, she goes to art school to improve her art skills.
Fanon[]
KyoJino is the most popular ship in the Look Back fandom with no rival ships, this is because Fujino and Kyomoto are the only characters that get enough screen time to grow as characters and develop in their friendship. The ship is mostly depicted as angst due to Kyomoto's death and the effect it had on Fujino because of it.
Among the 21 works categorized under the Look Back tag on AO3, 17 of them are centered around Fujino/Kyomoto, highlighting its popularity.
Fandom[]
- FAN FICTION
- Fujino Ayumu/Kyomoto tag on AO3
Trivia[]
- The two represent their author, Fujimoto, which is also shown by their names both having parts of Fujimoto's name (Fujino and Kyomoto).
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