History Manga / GoodbyeEri

* ProsceniumReveal: The story's general ambiguity about where the ShowWithinAShow begins and ends is emphasized in a scene of Eri and Yuta's father after Yuta says they should meet. The father has a lengthy diatribe telling Eri to go away because the movie she wants Yuta to make will just hurt him in the long run... then awkwardly pauses and asks how his acting was. To make things extra confusing, the same scene ends with making the completely opposite statement and acting like ''that'' was also scripted.

* {{Foil}}: Eri to Yuta's mother. Both are making Yuto film their lives up to their deaths to have idealized versions of them to be immortalized into a movie, and both are shown to have a manipulative side to them with own goals. But while the mother was entirely self-centered ControlFreak who wasn't above physical abuse to get the film the way she envisions it, Eri leaves all creative input to Yuta and the fun they have together serves as his personal growth.

* TheNotLoveInterest: Despite a similar structure to a love story, Eri claims she only loves Yuta's movies, not him personally (in a romantic way), though Yuta may have had unrequited feelings. However, the fictional vampire Eri is PromotedToLoveInterest in the film Yuta makes about them.

* DomesticAbuse: We don't see it as prominently after TheReveal, but Yuta's mom pushed her selfish wants on her husband just as much as her son.

** There's not one but two domineering and manipulative women who the male lead loves regardless (albeit with one being the familial sort of love while the other is romantic).

** There's not one but two domineering and manipulative women who the male lead loves regardless (albeit with one being the familial sort of love while the other is romantic). However, unlike Fujimoto's previous work that feature the character type, a distinction is made that one is selfish and abusive while the other does reciprocate the male lead's feelings.

** There is not one, but two manipulative and abusive female characters that even so the male leads loves in some level, though one of them does legitimately love the male lead despite her flaws.

** There is not one, but two manipulative and abusive female characters that even so the male leads loves in some level.

* DrivenToSuicide: Yuta gets so bullied for his movie that he decides to jump off of the roof of the school. Meeting Eri stops him from going through with it.

* HiddenDepths: Yuta seems pretty oblivious at times, but he's actually very emotionally intelligent. While he seems to feign ignorance at first, Yuta is implied to have picked up on the real intent behind his mother and Eri wanting him to film them. The GainaxEnding of ''Dead Explosion Mother'' is him rebelling against her selfish desire by ruining the film at the last moment, while the initial plot pitch of ''Goodbye Eri'' hints that he's subtly aware Eri doesn't have long to live.

* 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. The final panel of the story is potentially a third one of these, with the real-world audience taking the place of the school.

* LikeParentLikeSpouse: After Yuta's mother dies, he falls in love with Eri. Both are rather domineering and compel Yuta to make film they'd star in. The difference is that while Yuta's mother wanted to make the film for purely selfish reasons, Eri very clearly loves Yuta and wants him to portray his honest feelings about her.

* CreativeSterility: Eri refuses to make her own films, and instead acts as an producers to Yuta, because she's only interested in movies ''other'' people would make.

''Goodbye, Eri'' is a one-shot, 200 page manga by Creator/TatsukiFujimoto.

-->'''Yuta's mom''': [[AbusiveParents That boy was useless to the very end...]]

-->'''Eri's Friend''': Didn't Eri wear glasses?

** 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, Eri wants Yuta to remember her however ''he'' wants to.

* LikeParentLikeSpouse: After Yuta's mother dies, he falls in love with Eri. Both are rather domineering and compel Yuta to make film they'd star in.

* WartsAndAll: Yuta and Eri's friend agree that Eri was not as nice as Yuta's movie made her out to be, but regardless they want to remember her as it portrayed her.

* NestStory: The manga is Yuta making films, all of which involve making films as part of their plot. Since Yuta has all the actors play versions of themselves, there's no way to be sure if a given scene is being staged in-universe or not.

* ProsceniumReveal: The story's general ambiguity about where the ShowWithinAShow begins and ends is emphasized in a scene where Eri meets Yuta's father. He has a lengthy diatribe telling Eri to go away because the movie she wants Yuta to make will just hurt him in the long run... then awkwardly pauses and asks how his acting was.

* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Yuta's mother is able to get Yuta to edit all the footage of her to make her seem kind and tragic. It left many moments her berating him and how the whole thing was a publicity stunt for her career as a producer which she hoped to live through. End result, Yuta is considered pariah who brought shame on his mother for adding his own ending to the film.

Yuta is a highschooler who just got his hands on a new smartphone for his birthday. While he's pleased to play around with it, his mother makes an odd request- to [[ConvenientTerminalIllness record her final days before she passes away.]] Despite his hangups, Yuta does so, turning his experience into a film screening for his school. Due to the rather strange ending where [[GainaxEnding Yuta runs away from the hospital as it explodes]], his school relentlessly bullies him for it.

* ProductionThrowback: 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.

* WartsAndAll: Yuta and Eri's friend agree that Eri was not as nice as Yuta's movie made her out to be, but regardless want to remember her as it portrayed her.