History Manga / GoodbyeEri

* ShoutOut: Tatsuki Fujimoto's pre-serialization oneshot ''Shikaku'' was about a romance between a mortal and thousand-year-old vampire. In this story, Yuta writes such a relationship between him and Eri for his film.

* AuthorAppeal: A Tatsuki Fujimoto work about movies? Shocking.

* Postmodernism: Because of the framing device of an amateur movie stitched up off-screen, the line of fiction and reality is incredibly blurry. How much of the revelations in later parts of the book are actually the truth and how much of it is the script of the movie being edited in post?

* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Yuta's mother is able to get Yuta

** Yuta's mom is revealed to have been abusive to her son and husband late into the story. This helps tie into the theme of perspective, as Yuta's mom only wanted to be remembered for her good qualities, hence her intent for Yuta to record the final days of her life. Eri rightfully points out how horribly selfish this is.]

* TheNotLoveInterest: Despite a similar structure to a love story, Eri never loved Yuta, only his movies, though Yuta may have had unrequited feelings. However, the fictional vampire Eri is PromotedToLoveInterest in the film Yuta makes about them.

* AbusiveParents: Yuta's mom is revealed to have been abusive to her son and husband late into the story. This helps tie into the theme of perspective, as Yuta's mom only wanted to be remembered for her good qualities, hence her intent for Yuta to record the final days of her life. Eri rightfully points out how horribly selfish this is.]

* BookEnds: The first part of the story ends with Yuta running away from his mother's hospital as it explodes, rejecting her fantasy as he sprints away crying. The final part of the story ends with Yuta calmly walking away from the screening room he shared with Eri as it explodes, but this time with a look of confidence and acceptance.

* NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead:

* TheNotLoveInterest: Despite a similar structure to a love story, Eri never loved Yuta, only his movies, though Yuta may have had unrequited feelings. In their film, Yuta said he cut out her explicitly rejecting him so people could see her as an ImpliedLoveInterest.

* NiceCharacterMeanActor: It turns out that Yuta's mother wanted herself to be filmed in the best possible light and was actually abusive towards Yuta and his father.

* CreatorThumbprint: Once again, Tatsuki Fujimoto has written a story where film plays a central role in the emotional development of the cast.

** Subverted with Yuta's father. He initially seems like he's going to reject Eri and Yuta's relationship, but in reality he's supportive of it and tries to take good care of his son, viewing their relationship positively. His rejection is also actually him playing a fictionalized version of himself for their movie. He also pushes for the two of them to reconcile after Eri reveals she's SecretlyDying, telling his son that unlike his domineering mother who only wanted her good side shown, Yuta is being given the chance to remember Eri how he chooses to.

* ShippingTorpedo: Yuta admits that he tried to ask Eri out at one point, but she rejected him. That said, if her being a vampire is real, she genuinely cares for him enough to want to remember him for the rest of her eternal life.

** Subverted with Yuta's father. He initially seems like he's going to reject Eri and Yuta's relationship, but in reality he's supportive of it and tries to take good care of his son, viewing their relationship positively. His rejection is also actually him playing a fictionalized version of himself for their movie.

** Yuta returning to the abandoned building, only to find Eri, having not aged a single day, waiting for him.

** Subverted with Yuta's father. He initially seems like he's going to reject Eri and Yuta's relationship, but in reality he's supportive of it and tries to take good care of his son, viewing their relationship positively.

* AbusiveParents: [[spoiler: Yuta's mom is revealed to have been abusive to her son and husband late into the story. This helps tie into the theme of perspective, as Yuta's mom only wanted to be remembered for her good qualities, hence her intent for Yuta to record the final days of her life. Eri rightfully points out how horribly selfish this is.]]
** Subverted with [[spoiler: Yuta's father. He initially seems like he's going to reject Eri and Yuta's relationship, but in reality he's supportive of it and tries to take good care of his son, viewing their relationship positively.]]
* AmbiguousEnding: [[spoiler: Whether or not Eri really was a vampire and really was there at the abandoned building forms the crux of the ending. It's either Yuta realizing that he still has things to live for and can't give up on life, or the "touch of fantasy" that Yuta loves to inject into his films really is [[MagicalRealism reflective of reality.]]]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: There's a lot of hints that Yuta's mom was [[spoiler: abusive before it was confirmed.]]
** At the very beginning of the story, Yuta's mom drops a fairly big bombshell onto her son and saddles him with an emotionally arresting task in the ''middle of his birthday'', even ignoring his requests not to talk about it. [[spoiler: Sure enough, her emotional manipulation of him becomes more apparent later.]]
** The ending of "Dead Explosion Mother" [[spoiler: initially reads like Yuta running away from confronting his mother's death, but Eri later points out that Yuta being forced to film his own mother's death is a horrible thing to do. On reread, the ending appears more like Yuta rejecting his mother's task in her final moments rather than him running away from his responsibilities.]]
** Despite Yuta saying he has one-hundred hours of film on his phone, we don't see much of it in his actual movie. [[spoiler: The reveal that his mother made him do several alternate takes to show her in the best possible light is an explanation of this, as many of those clips are likely examples of her abusive behaviour.]]
* MagicalRealism: Yuta loves to inject a small amount of fantasy into his depictions of real life. His father notes that he did this even when he was a small boy. [[spoiler: The ending also ties into this, with the idea that Eri may have really been a vampire all along.]]
* NoFourthWall: A huge element of the story is the overlap between fiction and reality. Since we see everything from the perspective of Yuta's phone, there's the very real possibility that the ''entire story'' is a narrative Yuta himself is making. Notably, the manga pulls a RevealShot of Yuta's class watching his film twice, with the second time revealing the entire story with Eri we saw was the film he ended up making. [[spoiler: The final panel of the story is potentially a third one of these, with the real-world audience taking the place of the school.]]

** [[spoiler: Eri collapsing into the ocean.]]
** [[spoiler: Yuta returning to the abandoned building, only to find Eri, having not aged a single day, waiting for him.]]

* Foreshadowing: There's a lot of hints that Yuta's mom was [[spoiler: abusive before it was confirmed.]]

* AmbiguousEnding: [[spoiler: Whether or not Eri really was a vampire and really was there at the abandoned building forms the crux of the ending. It's either Yuta realizing that he still has things to live for and can't give up on life, or the "touch of fantasy" that Yuta loves to inject into his films really is [[MagicalRealism reflective of reality.]]]]