History Manga / GoodbyeEri

* BaitAndSwitch: During dinner with Eri at Yuta's house, his dad sullenly eats dinner in silence before bursting out in an angry diatribe forbidding her from hanging out with his son. There's a lengthy pause, then Yuta calls out "[[ProsceniumReveal Cut!]]" and his dad breaks character, nervously asking how was his acting as a mean, FantasyForbiddingFather fictionalized version of himself.

* FalseCameraEffects:

** 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.]]

* 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. Eri even considers herself Yuta's producer, which turns out to his mother's professional career. 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.

* SoapOperaDisease: Whatever illnesses Yuta's mother and Eri suffer from is unspecified and lacks pretty much any visible side effects until causing their death.

* ShippingTorpedo: Yuta admits that he tried to ask Eri out at one point, but she rejected him. This was possibly an attempt to spare him the heartbreak of her imminent death, and regardless of whether or not they "officially" dated, they very clearly loved each other. 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.

It can be read for free on [[https://mangaplus.shueisha.co.jp/viewer/1013145 the official Manga Plus site]].

* ArcWords: The fictionalized element that adds to Yuta's movies is repeatedly described as "a pinch of fantasy", representing his ability to use his movies for catharsis by adding a personal, intentionally fantastical touch. It's even the very last words that are spoken in the story, on the penultimate panel, right before we see an adult Yuta calmly striding away from the abandoned building as it [[StuffBlowingUp explodes for no reason]], calling into question whether [[MaybeMagiccMaybeMundane any part of what we just saw was real.]]

* AmbiguousEnding: 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.]]

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*** In a montage of Yuta's mom's daily life, there is a clip of her husband crying in secret--it's later revealed that his wife was abusive to him as well.

[[caption-width-right:350:One boys tale of an explosive romance, filmed from a humble smartphone.]]

** For that matter, the entire DistantFinale is itself up for interpretation. Did Yuta truly grow up, unable to forget Eri, and suffer another tragedy, or like the beginning, is it another film, this time about his completion of the process of grief, one in which the character of Yuta and creator Yuta are no longer the same person.

** The ending of "Dead Explosion Mother" 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.

* CentralTheme:
** Memories
** Perspectives

* ManicPixieDreamGirl : Eri is deconstruction of this trope.

* TurnTheOtherCheek: It is suggested that, while Eri and Yuta's mother are very different people in real life compared to their depictions on film, and worked Yuta excessively hard to produce their movies, Yuta did not take retribution against them and respected their desires after their death, choosing to depict their best selves in his movies of them (even with Yuta's explosive revolt against his mother in her movie, he still did not include the more unsavory clips of her).

* TurnTheOtherCheek: It is suggested that, while Eri and Yuta's mother are very different people in real life compared to their depictions on film, and worked Yuta excessively hard to produce their movies, Yuta did not take retribution against them and respected their desires after their death, choosing to depict their best selves in his movies of them.

* TurnTheOtherCheek: It is suggested that, while Eri and Yuta's mother are very different people in real life compared to their depictions on film, and worked Yuta excessively hard to produce their movies, Yuta did not take retribution against them and respected their desires after their death. He chose to depict their best selves in his movies of them.