introduction to tatsuki fujimoto Tatsuki Fujimoto is a Japanese manga artist. He is most known for his works Fire Punch and Chainsaw Man. He also has two "one shots" (or short stories / standalone volumes) called Look Back and Goodbye Eri, which is what I will be doing my project on.

synopsis Goodbye, Eri starts by following our main protagonist, Yuta. He gets a smartphone for his birthday by his mother, as she gives him the important task of filming her until her dying moments, and to make a movie out of the footage he films. He films and compiles the movie, and shows the movie at a film festival at his school. He decides to add a bit of fantasy to the movie, and while his mother is dying, he runs out of the hospital with explosions behind him.

He gets made fun of and ostracized for how his movie was ended, and was told it made a mockery of his mothers death. He decides to go to the top of the hospital roof of where his mother died. Then we meet Eri, a girl from Yuta's school, who is the only one who liked his film. She decides that they will watch movies toether until Yuta can make another one like it. Eri reads all of his scripts and says they are bland. She tells him that his first movie moved her to tears and she wants to see another one like it.

Yuta then comes up with the perfect plot: He will film Eri and make her a vampire in the film to add the little bit of fantasy to it. as they are filming one particular scene at the beach, Eri collapses and doesnt get up. It is revealed that Eri is also ill. She says that she wants to be filmed until her death, just like Yuta's mother.

So, Yuta does just that. They film the movie until she dies. Then, Yuta compiles the movie and edits it, and shows it again at his school's film festival. Eri's only other friend comes up to Yuta, asking why he portrayed her like that since she was just really mean. The movie this time around is met with praise, and the two students decide it is better to remember their mutual friend in a positive light like the movie was.

Yuta grows old and balances trying to edit the movie again and his life. Then, his wife, child and father die in a car accident. Strucken with grief, Yuta goes back to the place where Eri and him watched movies toether.

To his surprise, Eri is sitting on the couch where they watched the movies together, alive and well. She reveals that she is alive and well, and is actually a vampire. They chat for a bit and then Yuta becomes content with his life, so he leaves the place. While he walks out, there are explosions on the building, just like his first movie.

analysis of the ending One thing I would like to touch upon is the ending. It is left as a mystery if Yuta died in the car accident, and this is what he sees in his final moments, or if the ending scene is the truth of what happened. Following the theme of his one shots, it shows real life through a sad tale. Unlike his multiple-volume works, which have a mystical and fantasy element to them. This leads me to believe that the events of the last part of the book are just what he is seeing before he dies.