Goodbye, Eri

Content Warning: This section discusses illness and death, suicidal ideation, child abuse, child death, and bullying.

Discuss and analyze what you know about the two main characters, Yuta and Eri. What do you know to be objectively true, and what is interpretation or supposition? How does the narrative actively resist your efforts to tell the difference?

Compare and contrast Eri and Yuta’s mother. What do their similarities and differences contribute to the plot and themes? What differences help to contextualize their choices, and does either character appear more justified in their requests of Yuta?

In what ways does the manga use metafiction not just as a stylistic device, but as a means of shaping emotional truth, identity, or grief? How does the blending of fiction and reality deepen the story’s impact on both Yuta and the reader?