Sayonara Eri

Synopsis

Yuuta's mother is dying, and she asks him to film her final days so they can make a movie together. The film he makes is not what she asked for — and after she's gone, the humiliation of having broken down in tears at the end of the film, shown to the whole school, sends him to the roof of the hospital. A girl stops him. The girl who stops him loves movies. What they build together across months of watching films changes how Yuuta understands everything he thought he'd already processed about what he lost. Goodbye, Eri (Sayonara Eri, Tatsuki Fujimoto) is an 82-page one-shot from Shonen Jump+ (2022) that manages to be simultaneously a meditation on cinema and grief, a structural magic trick in how it handles narrative unreliability, and one of the most emotionally complete things Fujimoto has produced. Available through Viz Media. Read it.

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