Goodbye, Eri
Volume cover
さよなら絵梨
(Sayonara Eri)
Genre
Manga
Written byTatsuki Fujimoto
Published byShueisha
English publisher
MagazineShōnen Jump+
DemographicShōnen
PublishedApril 11, 2022
Volumes1

Goodbye, Eri (Japanese: さよなら絵梨, Hepburn: Sayonara Eri) is a Japanese one-shot web manga written and illustrated by Tatsuki Fujimoto. It was released on the Shōnen Jump+ website in April 2022 and published in print in July 2022.

Plot

Yuta Ito receives a smartphone for his birthday. Shortly after opening his present, Yuta's terminally ill mother assigns him the task of filming her and compiling a movie about her in the event of her death. After she dies, Yuta premieres the movie at his school but is met with heavy derision over his decision to end the film with him running away from an exploding hospital. Bullied and ostracized, Yuta decides to commit suicide by jumping from the roof of his mother's hospital. He's stopped by a girl named Eri, who reveals she actually loved his movie and urges him to make another one. The two work together to bring this to fruition, alternating between production and marathoning various movies for inspiration and education. They decide on making the movie a semi-documentary about themselves, but with various exaggeration and fictional elements, most prominently the idea of Eri being a vampire.

Yuta and Eri grow closer as time goes by until Eri falls unconscious while the two were playing at a beach. Eri is revealed to also be terminally ill like Yuta's mother. A depressed Yuta is discouraged from attempting any more progress on his movie. However, his father encourages him to push forward, while also revealing to the reader that Yuta's mother was actually abusive towards her son and husband. The film she had Yuta make was an attempt to either capitalize on her illness if she survived, or memorialize her in a positive light if she died.

Yuta and Eri complete their movie, not long before Eri dies. Yuta screens his new movie, which is met with praise this time around. Yuta is later confronted by one of Eri's friends, and the two admit that Eri was not the idealized version Yuta filmed and edited for their movie, but both agree they prefer to remember their mutual friend this way.

Since then, Yuta spends time balancing his normal life with his obsession to recut Eri's movie. Years later, an adult Yuta suffers the loss of his wife, child, and father in a car accident. Losing the will to live, Yuta had decided once more to attempt suicide at the screening room where he and Eri would marathon movies. Arriving there, Yuta discovers a still alive and youthful Eri. Eri reveals that she really is a vampire who repeatedly experiences memory loss caused by cycles of brain death throughout her eternal life. The Eri from her previous life had left specific instructions for her future incarnations as well as the movie she and Yuta made to ensure that she will remember him forever and know what kind of person she should strive to be. His will to live restored, Yuta bids farewell to Eri and leaves. Behind him, the building the screening room was housed in explodes much like in the ending to his movie about his mother, leaving the reality of previous scenes ambiguous.

Publication

On February 4, 2022, Shihei Lin, an editor at Shueisha, announced that Tatsuki Fujimoto would be writing a 200-page one-shot, which was released on the Shōnen Jump+ website on April 11, 2022.[2][3] The manga was published in tankōbon form on July 4, 2022.[4]

Viz Media and Manga Plus published the manga simultaneously with the Japanese release.[5] The tankōbon volume was released by Viz Media on June 27, 2023.[1]

Reception

Within a day of its release, the manga garnered over 2.2 million views on the Shōnen Jump+ website.[6] It ranked second in the 2023 edition of Takarajimasha's Kono Manga ga Sugoi! list of best manga for male readers.[7] It ranked sixth on "The Best Manga 2023 Kono Manga wo Yome!" ranking by Freestyle magazine.[8] It ranked seventh in the 16th Manga Taishō in 2023.[9] The series was nominated for a Harvey Award in the Best Manga category in 2023.[10]

Adi Tantimedh from Bleeding Cool praised the plot and characters, calling it one of the best comics of 2022.[11] Tyra from Animate Times praised the plot and artwork, particularly noting its panel division and other effects.[12]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Goodbye, Eri". Viz Media. Archived from the original on February 24, 2023. Retrieved February 24, 2023.
  2. ↑ Hodgkins, Crystalyn (April 4, 2022). "Chainsaw Man's Tatsuki Fujimoto to Release New 200-Page 1-Shot on April 11". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on April 11, 2022. Retrieved April 12, 2022.
  3. ↑ "藤本タツキの新作読切「さよなら絵梨」ジャンプ＋で公開、200Pの大ボリューム". Comic Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha, Inc. April 11, 2022. Archived from the original on October 15, 2022. Retrieved April 12, 2022.
  4. ↑ "さよなら絵梨" (in Japanese). Shueisha. Archived from the original on May 20, 2022. Retrieved May 22, 2022.
  5. ↑ Pineda, Rafael (April 10, 2022). "Viz Media, Manga Plus Publish Tatsuki Fujimoto's 'Goodbye, Eri' 1-Shot Manga in English". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on April 11, 2022. Retrieved April 12, 2022.
  6. ↑ "「チェンソーマン」作者の新作読み切り「さよなら絵梨」、公開から1日足らずで閲覧数220万超え ジャンプ＋で無料公開中". ITmedia (in Japanese). April 11, 2022. Archived from the original on April 12, 2022. Retrieved April 12, 2022.
  7. ↑ Pineda, Rafael (December 12, 2022). "Kono Manga ga Sugoi! Editors Unveil 2023 Rankings". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on December 14, 2022. Retrieved December 12, 2022.
  8. ↑ 「このマンガを読め！」今年の1位はいしいひさいちのストーリーマンガ「ROCA」. Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha, Inc. December 20, 2022. Archived from the original on January 29, 2023. Retrieved February 13, 2023.
  9. ↑ Cayanan, Joanna (March 27, 2023). "Minoru Toyoda's Kore Kaite Shine Manga Wins 16th Manga Taisho Awards". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on March 27, 2023. Retrieved March 27, 2023.
  10. ↑ Mateo, Alex (August 11, 2023). "Harvey Awards Nominate Chainsaw Man, Spy x Family, Shuna's Journey, Cat + Gamer, Goodbye, Eri Manga". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on August 11, 2023. Retrieved August 11, 2023.
  11. ↑ Tantimedha, Adi (April 11, 2022). "Goodbye, Eri: One of the Best, Most Unexpected Graphic Novels of 2022". Bleeding Cool. Archived from the original on April 13, 2022. Retrieved April 12, 2022.
  12. ↑ Tyra (April 11, 2022). "藤本タツキ先生最新読切『さよなら絵梨』ネタバレレビュー｜繰り返される「束縛」と「開放」". Animate Times (in Japanese). Animate. Archived from the original on April 21, 2022. Retrieved April 12, 2022.
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