Look Back Director Kiyotaka Oshiyama Reveals He Has No Plans To Adapt Fujimoto’s Goodbye, Eri
Look Back anime film’s director Kiyotaka Oshiyama has officially ruled out adapting Tatsuki Fujimoto’s Goodbye, Eri.
This was confirmed during a Q&A session following a screening of the Look Back anime film in Burbank, CA, on Oct 4, where Oshiyama candidly addressed fan inquiries about whether he would consider bringing Fujimoto’s one-shot to the screen,
Much to the fans disappointment, Oshiyama revealed that he wasn’t going to adapt it as he felt that his directorial style may not align with the tone of the story.
While the director has dismissed the possibility of his involvement in a potential anime adaptation, MAPPA CEO Manabu Otsuka had previously expressed interest in adapting all of Fujimoto’s worksand this might just include Goodbye, Eri as well.
Goodbye, Eri is a Japanese one-shot web manga written and illustrated by Tatsuki Fujimoto. It was released on the Shonen Jump+ website in April 2022 and published in print in July 2022.
Within a day of its release, the manga garnered over 2.2 million views on the Shonen Jump+ website.
MAL describes the plot of the manga as:
Suffering from a terminal illness, Yuuta’s mother asks him to film her last moments, which he does. From her radiant smile when she is with her family to the times when sickness ravages her body in the hospital, he records hours upon hours of footage. After her passing, Yuuta compiles her life into a movie to screen at his school, deciding to add a bit of fantasy to the ending of his film, Dead Explosion Mother, with a literal explosion!
Following the backlash caused by his supposedly tone-deaf portrayal of his mother’s death, Yuuta trudges to the hospital roof to take his own life—but there, he meets a girl named Eri. Captivated by his film, Eri requests Yuuta to make a new one that will blow the previous out of the water and prove his critics wrong. The movie they set out to make will stand apart by blurring the line between fact and fiction. And of course, it wouldn’t be a Yuuta film if it didn’t have his personal flavor—just a dash of fantasy.
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