After filming the final months of his dying mother's life, Yuta submits a short film to a school competition with the footage. It's unconventional ending and irrelevant inclusions lead to criticism from classmates and a new friend. Eri approaches Yuta and makes him watch all the greatest films with her. Eri believes Yuta can make great films - he just needs to focus on the craft. Turns out Eri is sick too and wants to preserve her life. This manga blends graphic storytelling and film techniques beautifully. And creates avenues for the reader to decide what fiction and fact in the stories of Yuta and Eri. Recommended for all high school and public libraries.

This book is similar to a rollercoaster. It is up then down then up then down again. You don’t really know what is going on during some aspects of the plot. But, that’s okay. I still generally liked it. While it wasn’t my favorite thing, and I think it won’t be some other people’s favorite thing, it was original and compelling. The art is phenomenal and the characters are incredibly relatable and genuine. Definitely recommend that everyone at least give it a try. However, due to some of the themes of the work, I will not adopt this novel in my classroom library.

Special memories always hold places in our minds and hearts. They could be happy, sad, and even strange memories that let us remember the ones who have brought a lot of love into our lives. Recording those precious moments makes us bring those heartwarming times back to life.

Goodbye, Eri does just that and so much more. I don’t know how this author does it but they know how to make us feel a bucket full of emotions all at once. The story was so good and I couldn’t put it down. You felt the sadness and love flowing through these pages. It was wonderful.

Heartbreaking and moving. Goodbye, Eri shows a very different side to Chainsaw Man creator Tatsuki Fujimoto.

Thank you for this advance copy.
Definitely worth the read. This is the first manga I read from Fujimoto. This story definitely had me questioning and seeing the camera differently. There are so many elements disguised in the dialogue. You try to guess what is fiction and what is not. Through which lens are you experiencing this story?
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When first picking up this manga, I was fully prepared for a storyline that had the same impact of ‘Fire Punch.’ Sadly this was not the case for me. Here is why I couldn’t rate this manga more than 3 stars: Quite a few panels seemed unnecessary; not adding anything aside from length to the story. Perhaps the repetitive ‘silent’ panels of the two main characters participated in a dislike for them. The dialogue felt forced, unnatural, and awkward. While this type of dialogue helps to cement that the majority of the plot is being filmed (this will make sense if you read it), it comes off as repetitive and wasteful after the 50 page mark. Lastly, during the time skip we discover something about Eri which appears tacked on and doesn’t have as much of an impact as it should. I sincerely wanted to fall in love with ‘Goodbye, Eri’ and it’s definitely a manga I’d recommend to people who are huge fans of Tatsuki Fujimoto, but it’s not the author’s best work.

Putting that aside, there were a couple of aspects that deserve some major credit: The illustrations were beautifully detailed and could be labelled as art pieces if ever separated from the manga! And the message of the story was breathtakingly insightful: How you choose to remember someone after death can change your perception of them in life.

I found this title to be more interesting than I initially expected. Our MC films both his mother and friend during their dying days and makes movies out of each of them. It's a interesting, if tough start to watch as a young boy films his mom; (dad's crying again.) And later his friend and fan of his first film goes through something similar. There are a couple of neat twists to the story, honestly, I hope it becomes a film one day.

I'm not sure if there is a warning label for books that will tear your heart out, but if there was, Tatsuki Fujimoto's books should be marked as such. After reading another tearjerking gut punch of a manga, I will approach them more cautiously, LOL. It's amazing how he can tell a complete story with feeling in a one shot. Without going into detail, he is a great story teller; I never know where I am going when I start, but the stories are never empty and leave me thinking long after I've finished. You will definitely feel something, whether you like it or not.

Perhaps this just wasn’t for me but I felt nothing while reading this. Didn’t really have any connections at all to the characters and was bored while reading.

Goodbye, Eri the new tankoban from Chainsaw Man creator Tatsuki Fujimoto. Drawn in the same style as Chainsaw Man you can really feel and see the characters emotions on the page. Yuta Ito, a middleschooler, receives a cell phone for his birthday but instead of making his birthday wish his mother makes a wish. She tells him she is sick and could die and she wants him to record her all day every day. Yuta tries to do as she wished but this is a lot to put on a child. In the end he can't record her death and it is another thing he feels bad about. He has trouble moving on.
He uses the footage of his mother to make a movie for his school festival. His classmates cruelly mock his movie which adds to Yuta's sad hopelessness. Yuta decides to end his life at the hospital where his mother died. He is stopped by a girl who makes him watch movies and convinces him to create another movie. The movie/death cycle repeats and helps Yuta somewhat process his life.
Yuta marries and has a daughter but when tragedy strikes again he has trouble coping. The story really captures the difficulties in life and struggling with finding closure when tragic things happen. Reminiscent of Catcher in the Rye and Holden's struggles to find his footing in life. It gives me all the feels.

Thanks NetGalley for an advanced ebook of this title.


I went into this read completely blind, I haven't started to read Chainsaw Man, or Look Back, or any other titles by this creator. I was so curious from the description alone. I really loved this manga! The twists are incredible, the layout and progression of this story is so smooth. It is beautifully drawn and although I love continuing series manga this is a great stand-alone story. I think every story needs a touch of fantasy! I can't wait to order a copy to our circulating collection at my library!

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Really emotional manga about grief and love. All the characters are likable and extremely complex. Amazing art that aids the story perfectly, and makes this a quick yet powerful read!

I wasn't very impressed with it. The concept wasn't bad, and the plot wasn't necessarily bad either but I couldn't get behind the art style and was kind of bored the whole time. There were only a handful of times when I was interested in what was happening.

I can't tell if I am just far too dumb to have understood the overall meaning of the manga, but frankly, I found it a little boring and predictable. I loved Chainsaw Man, so I was a little surprised that I found no enjoyment in this, especially considering everyone else seemed to be rating it at about 5 stars.

Overall, I'm just a little disappointed.

I didn't look at who the author was when I started reading this digital advance copy I received from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. The art looked familiar....the occasional blurry disjointed images bordering on Impressionism reminded me of something....then after I finished the book in one sitting I Googled and sure enough "Tatsuki Fujimoto, author of Chainsaw Man."

Tatsuki does the weirdest, craziest stuff I've ever read in Manga and still somehow like. He's surprising and disturbing and pulls you along with characters that you sometimes dislike and sometimes break your heart. And don't even get me started on whatever the hell Fire Punch was, I still haven't got a damn clue.

But his work has a life to it, a complexity and greyness that defies expectations. Pages of images without text work in Goodbye, Eri because the story is immersive and pulls you down into it. Pages of abject blackness beg you to ask....Is this the end? Is this all there is? The levels of complexity in a single volume is remarkable. You can read the Publisher's blurb for a synopsis, I can't do better describing the plot without taking away from the reading experience. I highly recommend this book, especially if the author's other works are too fantastic or violent for you to try.

I really enjoyed this manga. I really like Fujimoto's other works so I was definitely interested in this one. This manga has his distinctive art style and story telling.
This was something very different from his more well-known works but its still really good. This manga explores grier and loss in a really unique way that makes you question what is real and what is part of the movie. The way this manga handles these heavy subjects makes them easier to understand and digest but no less heavy.
This is a beautiful manga that I would recommend if you are looking for something a little different from Fujimoto.

Goodbye, Eri follows the story of Yuta starting when he receives a smartphone from his mom and then as he films his mom at her request before her death. He produces a movie from those clips and it wasn't well received by his classmates but he ends up trying to make another film when he meets Eri, who is also ill. The format of this volume is done as if viewing scenes in a movie, from the perspective of the viewer. While we see what ends up in the movies, there are scenes later that imply those are stylized and edited and did not reflect the subjects filmed. Overall, an interesting format for a difficult subject that's not a light read. Readers interested in movies or screenplays will appreciate the layout.

(4.75/5, rounded up to 5) Having experienced a recent loss, I wasn't sure what to expect from this book. I was worried that the subject matter may hit close to home, but it was more than tolerable. This played with form in such an interesting way. The art style was stunning, and there was just enough humor that added some levity to the subject matter. This gave me the same kind of feeling of watching the movie "We're All Going To the World's Fair", with the eerie tone and direct to "camera" dialogue. I'm not sure what I would improve upon, maybe adding a bit more character depth? Regardless, it was a wonderful read and I would own a physical copy in a heartbeat.

I enjoyed the art and plot of Goodbye, Eri immensely. The manga depicts the story of Yuta, a teen who receives a smart phone for his birthday and is instructed to record the life - and death - of his terminally ill mother. After she passes, his premiere of the movie he made is not well received, causing others to bully and alienate him. He is about to end his life when he is stopped by Eri, a classmate who enjoyed his film and encourages him to make another, with her as the star this time around. I would recommend this manga to anyone who enjoys works depicting serious topics and emotions, as well as ambiguous plots and endings.

I can’t say I’ve ever read a beginning of a story quite like this one. The artistic style is unique too, normally when you read manga you can see similarities or reused plot lines but this manga didn’t have that. I’ve read a good portion of manga in my life and this storyline was one of a kind, I enjoyed the pace it was set at and it didn’t flow like a normal story would. It had its own rhythm and I enjoyed that, the ending was pleasant and it wrapped the story up nicely.