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4.27 AVERAGE
4.27 AVERAGE
I would love to follow suit with the other reviews here, with their lovely poetic “art is remembrance” summations, but truth be told I have no idea where to even begin. In 200 pages, Fujimoto builds one of the most thematically complex short stories I can remember reading, stacking layers of reality and meaning on top of one another. It all sharpens to a point, but discerning the artifice from the truth is twisted until it becomes a meaningless exercise. More than any work I have read this year, Goodbye Eri is a meta textual conversation between you and the author. What’s really incredible is how affecting he manages to make it all.
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
funny
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This book gave me emotional whiplash like 20 times in 10 minutes.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Death of parent
Minor: Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt
Layered and straight to the point but without spelling anything out for the reader. The kind of book that invites analysis and rereads over and over again. The way that Fujimoto plays with perception and the art of screencraft through a manga lens is simply brilliant. This feels like a spiritual successor to Satoshi Kon's Opus, and I couldn't be more happy with it. The story is pretty straightforward and follows a middle schooler who is asked by his mother to record her life because she is going to die soon. From there the story expands in ways that force one to question what is real and left me thinking quite profusely about why we create and what it means to make such creations public.
Pametno, dirljivo, i potpuno škk suludo, veeeelika preporuka za nešto što se da pročitati u toku sat duge, boga oca dosadne prezentacije.
5
5
dark
emotional
funny
lighthearted
reflective
sad
fast-paced
emotional
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
emotional
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated