Tatsuki Fujimoto, Consideration of "Goodbye Eri"



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Release date:2022/5/2    

In Japanese

■Information 
<Written by> Tatsuki Fujimoto
<Published> April 11, 2022 (Shōnen Jump+, Shueisha)

■Consideration 
I think there are various interpretations. This is just my consideration.

<Which scene is in the movie and is the actual event>
The most controversial is how to interpret this theme. There is an interpretation that it was a movie until the very end, but I think it is different. When Yuta, an adult, finally decides to commit suicide and enters the room, he resumes with Eri (P177-198). I think this is a real event in the works. The reason is that the method of depiction has changed only in the reunion scene with Eri, while it has always been taken with a smartphone etc. as shown below.

<Depiction that can be judged to be taken with a smartphone>
 ① A scene where the drawing is "blurred" (expressing the camera shake of the smartphone)
 ② Yuta's perspective scene.
 ③ A scene where Yuta is appeared and the viewpoint is fixed.

<What can be interpreted when the reunion with Eri is a real event>
It is a reality that Eri is a vampire. And the setting in the work is fantasy. Then, the last explosion can be interpreted as an real explosion, not a set or CG in the movie. So how did you actually make it explode? You might think, but since it's a fantasy, the explosion method doesn't have to be a realistic method (it can be magic).

If all the scenes up to the last scene were movie scenes, then it would give the reader the question of what the world of filming is like. Then everything is a creative event, giving the possibility that there is a real world where no one is dead, for example. Then it will spoil the reader's fun. Above all, the author emphasizes to include a pinch of fantasy, and since the author should have wanted to make this work a fantasy rather than a story of the reality line, I think that the final explosion scene is still a real event in the work.

<Author's intent>
Even if a loved one dies before you, you will never be despaired in such a life because you can meet him as many times as you watch the video. That is what the author wanted to convey. However, that would end up with the mundane consequences of a dead, so the author ended up with an explosion scene as an expression method to solve Yuta's emotional worries.

That is my interpretation.

<Time series summary>
There may be an interpretation that Yuta's Dead Explosion Mother, which aired at the High 1 Cultural Festival, and Eri's film, which aired at the High 3 Cultural Festival, are different films. However, I think the Dead Explosion Mother itself is part of Eri's movie.

One of the reasons is the scene (P27) scolded by the teacher in some room after the screening of the Dead Explosion Mother, but it means that it is a shooting because the viewpoint is fixed. The other is that Eri was supposed to be wearing glasses, but she hadn't been wearing glasses since she first met, so it's possible that the scene was part of the movie.



■impressions 
At first I thought it would be a moving story, but the development became unpredictable in the first explosion scene, and after that, through the life of Yuta and Eri, Yuta overcames it while drawing the anguish of Yuta who could not see the death of her mother. I thought that I would go on a moving route, but I was surprised that a different development was prepared. The author said (through Eri) that lovers would just die and end up being commonplace, but I was quite happy with that development.

The author exceeded my expectations, and by adding an explosion at the end, it left not only an impression but also room for consideration for the reader.

Personally, what was interesting was the interaction with Eri when Yuta unconsciously said "Aww yeah" when there are nipples on the screen. * By the way, this "Aww yeah" is "Yossha" in the original Japanese text. However, "Aww yeah" doesn't look right. The literal translation is "I'm Lucky", but I thought "good" was appropriate.

Also, the lines that remained in my mind are the lines of Yuta's father below. "Creation is all about getting into the audience's probulems to make them laugh and cry, right? well, it wouldn't be fair if creators didn't get hurt too, would it" and
"Yuta, you have the power to decide for yourself, how you'll remember someone. That's an incredible thing"






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