Yes, like many of you, I am a weekly newspaper chainsaw man connoisseurs. To be fair, it’s pretty hard not to be when “chainsaw man Tuesdays” consists of new manga chapters followed by new dubs and subtitles of the anime. However, creator Tatsuki Fujimoto’s manga that impressed me the most this year was his one-shot manga. Goodbye Eri. Admittedly, I was a bit worried that Fujimoto’s storytelling might not do justice to the feat he was demonstrating chainsaw man Part One. But after seeing it, he virtually stretches his writing muscles and tenses up Goodbye Eri‘s gripping story skyrocketed my affinity for the weird mangaka.
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Goodbye Eri follows a high school student named Yuuta as he documents the final moments of his mother’s life as she dies from a serious illness. While I don’t want to spoil the climax of Yuuta’s documentary, almost everyone who witnesses it finds it deeply offensive. Before letting people’s criticism get the better of him, Yuuta strikes up a bizarre friendship with a mysterious girl named Eri, who loved his documentary so much that she volunteered to be his manager.
Like Fujimoto’s style, Goodbye Eri is filled with cinematic yet repetitive manga panels. Rather than suffer from its repetitive nature, the subtlety in the movement of the characters’ facial expressions makes the one-shot manga sing throughout its 200 pages.
