Look Again anime movie’s director Kiyotaka Oshiyama has formally dominated out adapting Tatsuki Fujimoto’s Goodbye, Eri.
This was confirmed throughout a Q&A session following a screening of the Look Again anime movie in Burbank, CA, on Oct 4, the place Oshiyama candidly addressed fan inquiries about whether or not he would take into account bringing Fujimoto’s one-shot to the display screen,
A lot to the followers disappointment, Oshiyama revealed that he wasn’t going to adapt it as he felt that his directorial fashion could not align with the tone of the story.
Whereas the director has dismissed the potential for his involvement in a possible anime adaptation, MAPPA CEO Manabu Otsuka had beforehand expressed curiosity in adapting all of Fujimoto’s works, and this may simply embody Goodbye, Eri as properly.
Goodbye, Eri is a Japanese one-shot internet manga written and illustrated by Tatsuki Fujimoto. It was launched on the Shonen Soar+ web site in April 2022 and revealed in print in July 2022.
Inside a day of its launch, the manga garnered over 2.2 million views on the Shonen Soar+ web site.
MAL describes the plot of the manga as:
Affected by a terminal sickness, Yuuta’s mom asks him to movie her final moments, which he does. From her radiant smile when she is along with her household to the occasions when illness ravages her physique within the hospital, he information hours upon hours of footage. After her passing, Yuuta compiles her life right into a film to display screen at his college, deciding so as to add a little bit of fantasy to the ending of his movie, Lifeless Explosion Mom, with a literal explosion!
Following the backlash attributable to his supposedly tone-deaf portrayal of his mom’s dying, Yuuta trudges to the hospital roof to take his personal life—however there, he meets a lady named Eri. Captivated by his movie, Eri requests Yuuta to make a brand new one that can blow the earlier out of the water and show his critics incorrect. The film they got down to make will stand aside by blurring the road between reality and fiction. And naturally, it wouldn’t be a Yuuta movie if it didn’t have his private taste—only a sprint of fantasy.
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