Goodbye, Eri by Tatsuki Fujimoto
Yuta’s moviemaking career started with a request from his mother to record her final moments with his smartphone, but when his school sees the ending he put on the movie almost everyone finds it laughable. Upset, he ponders suicide but meets a mysterious girl named Eri, who changes his mind about unaliving himself, says she liked his movie, and suggests he makes a movie along with her. But Eri has something she's keeping from him....
I mostly liked this manga and thought the twists mostly worked, though I didn't appreciate how open-ended the ending was as to whether that really happened or whether it was artistic license. (Or whether it was also a metaphor for how Fujimoto tends to do stories: big emotions, then blow shit up.) I didn't appreciate how the start of a new "video" piece was out of focus, since that's not how most modern cellphone video tends to look at the start anyway and shouldn't Yuta's work look immediately good since he's spent so much time making cellphone videos?
Between this and the Chainsaw Man manga series, I wonder if Fujimoto has a problem with women....
I mostly liked this manga and thought the twists mostly worked, though I didn't appreciate how open-ended the ending was as to whether that really happened or whether it was artistic license. (Or whether it was also a metaphor for how Fujimoto tends to do stories: big emotions, then blow shit up.) I didn't appreciate how the start of a new "video" piece was out of focus, since that's not how most modern cellphone video tends to look at the start anyway and shouldn't Yuta's work look immediately good since he's spent so much time making cellphone videos?
Between this and the Chainsaw Man manga series, I wonder if Fujimoto has a problem with women....