#sayonara eri

[cutecapybarapics]

#goodbye eri #sayonara eri #tatsuki fujimoto #mangacap #manga panel #manga aesthetic #manga #monochrome #manga scenery

[sugar-grigri]

I think I remember you making references to Fire Punch in a few analysis post so I assume you've read that one, but have you read Goodbye Eri, and if so do you have any particular thoughts you want to share on it? It might be my favorite, although it's hard to rank Fujimoto's works because there's something different I like about all of them.

Hi Yuta! or is it Fujimoto?

2022, Goodbye Eri is released and I'm in for a huge slap in the face! I've finally got the chance to talk about it, so thank you!

It's hard to come after the war after this one-shot has been the subject of so much analysis, interpretation and criticism. But I think it's a work that's deliberately designed to be a trap, and the first mistake would be to try absolutely hard to determine whether Goodbye Eri is true or false. 

Trying to detect the true and the false is futile, not that it's really impossible, but arguments could be several pages long and the theories put forward would remain mere hypotheses because no explicit confirmation is given. Quite simply because this is not the aim of the work, nor a satisfactory way of reading it. 

For example, when Yuta's father seems to be getting angry with Eri, we understand from Eri's "And Cut!!!" that it was all a set-up. So, as a good reader, we can only assume that what follows is pure reality. However, the father, now an actor, if he should play his line differently.

As another illustration, when Eri is close to death and Yuta are talking, there are a few hints that they might have a relationship, but this is denied by Yuta himself, in a discussion with Eri's friend. 

The film plays with this to such an extent that all sorts of theories are possible. It could just as easily be interpreted as there being only two films (on Yuta's mother and then on Eri's death), two films but in different ways: one about Yuta's mother and a second film about Eri, as a vampire, with the end scene played by Yuta's father and by Eri before her death.

This explains why, even after Eri's death, Yuta continues to film because the film isn't actually finished yet, the editing being there to reverse the scenes played chronologically, to make it look as if Eri was still alive, and so on. ..

As you can see, it all makes sense, and our preference is purely personal because they all work. But I'm not going to play that game, because it only shows me one thing, and that's that the plot surrounding Eri is deliberately obscure. 

I've seen a lot of people describe Goodbye Eri as a work about dealing with death - the way we want to remember those we've lost, etc... It's about mourning, symbolically saying goodbye, hence the title. Which is true! But it goes further than that.

Eri's plot is deliberately obscure because the right way to appropriate the work is not through her. She's the character we know least about. Physically alone, we learn that she wore glasses and braces. Mentally, she was more annoying than she seemed in the movie. Eri is a mirage in which we won't find answers, so we have to learn to say goodbye.

The only reliable information given in this OS is that everything is filmed by Yuta's phone. And in reality, you know Yuta better than Eri, so it's him you should turn to...

Hi Yuta!

Yuta is almost never shown in this OS, as he is always filming. And when he is shown accurately, it's when he's inspired by other films by watching them with Eri, in other words, he's continuing to work on his own film by watching others. 

Yuta's first film began as a result of his mother's narcissistic desire, as he was celebrating his birthday, discovering his gift, a smartphone, all of which was directly taken over by his mother, who asked him to film her until she died.

By keeping only the good sides of his mother, ignoring all the abusive parts of her, Yuta does not follow his parent's wishes, he does it for himself, showing what he himself wants to retain from his childhood, his story, in order to move forward properly.

But as everything is filmed, it gives the impression that the videos have been passively lined up without any sorting, without any choice. Yuta takes his revenge because he refuses to film his mother until the day she dies, stopping before then, preferring an explosion to conclude his film. It's brutal because it's as if Yuta's tastes, his little touch of fantasy, are suddenly surfacing, while the rest of the film is just as personal, just as him. So when his film is mocked, it's a work so personal that Yuta wants to die. 

It's not insignificant that it's Eri who intervenes, whose only certainty was that she loved not only the films but also Yuta's, simply because she saw not only Yuta's mother in this film but also him, whom she considered to be the best character. She wasn't revolted by the ending, because she was aware of Yuta's touch throughout the film. The same ambiguity then resurfaces, we don't know if Eri is in love with Yuta, she corrects him to say that it's these films, the two are so linked, that liking Yuta's films is tantamount to liking the teenager. 

Yuta follows Eri's desire to produce a film that is above all personal to him, to the point that when Eri sees her last moments narrated by him, she sees Yuta more than herself, because she is seen through someone else's eyes. 

For me, there aren't two or three films, but just one from start to finish. Because you see, we've said goodbye to Eri, we've got out of her tricky story to reflect on Yuta, but we still haven't stepped back enough. Because you know who made the film, and it's not Yuta, it's Fujimoto. So, third stage :

let's salute Fujimoto. 

The film we've just seen in this OS deals with a number of overlapping themes, the way in which a loved one is portrayed, the relationship with others, death, creation, but above all, the extent to which a work is personal. Goodbye Eri is a pretext for Fujimoto to show us the extent to which even the cutting is the fruit of reflection, is already a message.

In this OS, all the boxes are in the video format of a smartphone, each moving, static shot depends on Yuta, just as each shot is in the third row, drawn by someone.

People make the mistake, like the first audience of Yuta's film about his mother, of relating to works as linear stories to be trusted, even if they film his mother every day, Yuta's editing is his way of counting a story, it is certainly not the truth in all its neutrality. It's only at the moment of the explosion, which expresses the most of Yuta's personality, that people get upset.

This offbeat, absurd explosion is something that Fujimoto punctuates in his works, yet they are both thought out and personal to him. But they are often mocked as a way of poking fun at his work. What Fujimoto is saying is that the work doesn't become brutally personal for the controversial, offbeat moments, just the way he depicts a scene from life is personal. 

People believed this version of the author's mother, otherwise they wouldn't be outraged by this disgraceful way of portraying this nice woman at the end, so in itself, Yuta's film worked. But all this is just a pretext for Fujimoto to point out that he is the author of all his other works, CSM, Fire Punch, Look Back, Just Listen to the Song... They are just like another film made in response to the positive or negative reactions of the others.

Fujimoto likes to trace the common ground between these works, which respond to each other. Each one, placed side by side, is an attempt by Fujimoto to upset his audience a little more, a second or third try.

The mistake is to separate the author's touch from his work, just as we are tempted to focus more on Eri than Yuta. Just as Fujimoto reminds us through this OS, who writes, draws Goodbye Eri. The first part of CSM was turned upside down by the fact that Makima was a demon from the start, abusive to the point of being the antagonist.

A violent and abusive maternal relationship. The design of the mother is also a bit similar. Mentions of the breasts, something that also went down quite a bit and left its mark on a lot of readers because it was so out of sync. The emphasis on cats... A rejected boy. A work focused on female characters.

Goodbye Eri is a work in which Fujimoto makes fun of himself, his works and the things that bring them together. Yes, there will be an explosion if the author so decides. Yes, Eri can live again, be a vampire, if the author so decides, but what's to stop him making his characters die, and then bringing them back to life a few pages later? 

The characters' plots are the authors' playgrounds, whether you like it or not. You can't detach works from their authors, or read works as unrelated things because they were written by the same person. Talking about death, life, mourning, love, with a touch of fantasy is what Fujimoto does in each of them. 

So if you're lost, remember that what you're reading isn't in the title but in the author. 

#goodbye eri #sayonara eri #fujimoto tatsuki #eri #yuta #makima #csm #chainsaw man #fire punch #look back #one shot #analysis #my thoughts #credit to Reddit for the last image @/blackfish171

[tojismo]

ベルベットより青い夜だった.

#goodbye eri #manga icons #manga #eri icons #sayonara eri #sayonara eri icons #icons #goodbye eri manga #goodbye eri icons #icons manga #animes icons #yuta icons

[mangadore]

#sayonara eri #さよなら絵梨 #tatsuki fujimoto #drama #psychological #shounen #oneshot #manga #manga cap #mangacap

[kiwicidios]

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ *. ♱ 🗝 ⸳ 𓂂 ◌ 🎧  ⃝

⠀⠀⠀⠀i wanna f*ck you like an animal

#I broke apart my insides #I ' ve got no soul to sell #The only thing that works for me #sayonara eri #goodbye eri #chainsaw man #header by me #twitter layouts #animelayout #anime packs #anime headers #messy layouts #manga layouts #messy packs #black layouts #black packs #emo #goth #edgy #grunge #punk

[sullista]

༻ ☠︎ ༺ ⋆｡˚ ༻ ☠︎ ༺ ⋆｡˚ ༻ ☠︎ ༺ ⋆｡˚

#sayonara eri #goodbye eri #ulzzang #icons #packs #layouts #messy #edgy #alternative #grunge #drain gang #random #manga #dark #emo #lq #indie #black white red green #y2k

[choujinx]

sayonara eri // chainsaw man by fujimoto tatsuki

#chainsaw man #sayonara eri #fujimoto tatsuki #anisource #csmedit #dailychainsaw #mangaedit #shounenedit #fymanganime #*senka #csm spoilers

[morevnamorya]

Goodbye goodbye

#Goodbye eri #sayonara eri #tatsuki fujimoto #Chainsaw man

[ququoquaw]

don't know how many ppl on here would be interested in this but a while ago i made some lists on media recommended or at least talked about by tatsuki fujimoto

Manga Somehow Related to Tatsuki Fujimoto Part 1

Manga Somehow Related to Tatsuki Fujimoto Part 2

Anime Somehow Related to Tatsuki Fujimoto Part 1

Anime Somehow Related to Tatsuki Fujimoto Part 2

Non-Anime Somehow Related to Tatsuki Fujimoto

#theres definitely more #but these were all the ones i could easily find #tatsuki fujimoto #chainsaw man #csm #fire punch #look back #sayonara eri #goodbye eri #too lazy to list the other one shots

[cutecapybarapics]

#goodbye eri #sayonara eri #tatsuki fujimoto #mangacap #manga panel #manga aesthetic #manga #monochrome

[shingerion]

goodbye eri

#goodbye eri #sayonara eri #fujimoto tatsuki #tatsuki fujimoto #manga #manga panel #manga panels #mangacap #dailymanga #mangadaily #animanga #manga blog #manga caps #manga cap #manga recommendation #anime / manga

[emosquirt]

by tgtmeni

reposted with permission

#sayonara eri #tatsuki fujimoto #sayonara eri fanart #fujimoto tatsuki #さよなら絵梨 #goodbye eri #manga fanart #mine #post not art #tgtmeni

[tapiriart]

Sayonara, eri

I drew this along time ago, last November I think? never ended up posting it anywhere for some reason. Found it again and i cant figure out why i didnt lol

#digital art #artists on tumblr #art #anime art #anime #fan art #manga #goodbye eri #sayonara eri #aesthetic #tatsuki fujimoto

[mangadore]

#sayonara eri #さよなら絵梨 #tatsuki fujimoto #drama #psychological #shounen #oneshot #manga #manga cap #mangacap

[astralynxx]

a little drawing i did to study Fujimoto’s style because i’ve had Sayonara Eri on my mind all day (i got it for christmas!!)

#sayonara eri #goodbye eri #tatsuki fujimoto

[linalavender]

Rereading Sayonara, Eri for like the 3rd time, sobbing again. Do yourself a favor and spend like the 30 minutes to read it, You wont regret it. Its online and completely free. (Although theres a Physical release coming very soon and you should buy that too)

I love this little masterpiece, the Story, the Movie feel of it (very meta ofcourse) the Art of what basically feels Frames of the movie itself, Its such a perfectly presented and crafted story. My absolute Favorite Fujimoto story byfar, The 10/10 of his works

#tatsuki fujimoto #Goodbye Eri #sayonara eri