Pretty Curious About How Goodbye Eri Will Be Adapted

Apr 27, 2024 2:38 PM

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I read it and i think it's very adaptable. It has just enough content to be made into a full movie but it' so subtly complex and melancholic that i think you would need a director and team that worked on something like Koe no Katachi to do it justice.

Apr 27, 2024 10:59 PM

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goodbye eri works incredible in manga format but I think it will be hard to pull that off in a movie

Jun 1, 2024 12:55 PM

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I mean, Fujimoto practically already drawn the storyboards for Goodbye Eri with the way the manga is laid out. I think we will get a movie at some point, seeing as how positive the reviews from the premier today were in Japan

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Jun 6, 2024 9:20 AM

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wisnuyoga78 said:
Look Back getting an anime adaptation, and it's in movie form too just like how it should be experienced. The possibility of Goodbye Eri (even though i never read it) is around the corner right now, but I don't know how they will do it because in my perspective and from what I've seen on YouTube and the manga panels, found footage genre is pretty hard to animate. I'm not talking about "just edit it to make the entire thing shaking", I'm talking about making it like The Blair Witch Project. But i think it's still a possibility because a lot of it were in a still shot, like recording yourself with a tripod type of thing, but who knows

i honestly think that manga relies so much on panelling that it wouldnt make a good movie, which is ironic because its framed in 16:9 letterbox panels, and theirs many panels where nothing changes as if to simulate awkward pauses. as a "movie" goodbye eri would be about 14 minutes long, thats how much the manga paces itself out with repeat panels where little is changed, which looks great for a manga and was very experimental and made it feel like video, but it wouldnt have the same effect on screen

Jun 7, 2024 1:10 PM

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GreatCarerJack said:

wisnuyoga78 said:
Look Back getting an anime adaptation, and it's in movie form too just like how it should be experienced. The possibility of Goodbye Eri (even though i never read it) is around the corner right now, but I don't know how they will do it because in my perspective and from what I've seen on YouTube and the manga panels, found footage genre is pretty hard to animate. I'm not talking about "just edit it to make the entire thing shaking", I'm talking about making it like The Blair Witch Project. But i think it's still a possibility because a lot of it were in a still shot, like recording yourself with a tripod type of thing, but who knows

i honestly think that manga relies so much on panelling that it wouldnt make a good movie, which is ironic because its framed in 16:9 letterbox panels, and theirs many panels where nothing changes as if to simulate awkward pauses. as a "movie" goodbye eri would be about 14 minutes long, thats how much the manga paces itself out with repeat panels where little is changed, which looks great for a manga and was very experimental and made it feel like video, but it wouldnt have the same effect on screen

also, in my opinion, even if the story is the same, and have followed the manga format, it does takes away the impact that the manga have and we're basically experiencing the same thing to what we have when reading the manga. This is why we need a Director, a good one even, who can make this the same story intact, but can have a whole entire experience that could captivate us like we're in the movie

Jun 7, 2024 1:44 PM

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wisnuyoga78 said:

GreatCarerJack said:

i honestly think that manga relies so much on panelling that it wouldnt make a good movie, which is ironic because its framed in 16:9 letterbox panels, and theirs many panels where nothing changes as if to simulate awkward pauses. as a "movie" goodbye eri would be about 14 minutes long, thats how much the manga paces itself out with repeat panels where little is changed, which looks great for a manga and was very experimental and made it feel like video, but it wouldnt have the same effect on screen

also, in my opinion, even if the story is the same, and have followed the manga format, it does takes away the impact that the manga have and we're basically experiencing the same thing to what we have when reading the manga. This is why we need a Director, a good one even, who can make this the same story intact, but can have a whole entire experience that could captivate us like we're in the movie

its curious because look back is all about creating manga and goodbye eri is all about creating film, personally to make a decent run time and generate a lil more revenue i would have made them together and presented them as a double feature, maybe with the trailer of csm: bomb girl arc in the middle, like old pulp movie screenings, cinemas would probably eat that up too

Jun 7, 2024 2:08 PM

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we can only guess since there are no staff announcement yet

Jun 7, 2024 4:36 PM

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GreatCarerJack said:

wisnuyoga78 said:

also, in my opinion, even if the story is the same, and have followed the manga format, it does takes away the impact that the manga have and we're basically experiencing the same thing to what we have when reading the manga. This is why we need a Director, a good one even, who can make this the same story intact, but can have a whole entire experience that could captivate us like we're in the movie

its curious because look back is all about creating manga and goodbye eri is all about creating film, personally to make a decent run time and generate a lil more revenue i would have made them together and presented them as a double feature, maybe with the trailer of csm: bomb girl arc in the middle, like old pulp movie screenings, cinemas would probably eat that up too

while i never read Goodbye Eri, I'm also found a manga about creating movie called Umi ga Hashiru End Roll if you wanted something similar.

Jul 8, 2024 4:34 PM

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Adaptable, although it might need to add extra content to avoid the movie ending too quick.
Also it's very heavy on the subtle details rather than the story. so it require very good team to do the adaptation justice.
I think it can be very good movie though.

Nov 8, 2024 1:30 AM

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It will be filmed "normally" and then

Nov 8, 2024 4:02 AM

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You want to know what would goodbye eri look like as a movie? watch perfect blue or paprika.

I'm actually amazed how good bye eri works as a manga. It would actually be really easy to adapt it, as long as you just follow it 1-1, since the framing and pace is already basically of a movie.

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Nov 8, 2024 4:04 AM

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goodbye eri works incredible in manga format but I think it will be hard to pull that off in a movie

@Khushal_v Just trust me, and watch perfect blue. you can thank me later. Paprika would work too, but it's not as good of a movie so I suggest perfect blue above it.

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Nov 8, 2024 3:39 PM

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Khushal_v said:
goodbye eri works incredible in manga format but I think it will be hard to pull that off in a movie

This. I don't think it'll be difficult to make something, but it will be difficult to make it as impactful as the manga is.

The most memorable thing about the manga for me is how it depicts and mimics what watching a movie feels like. On the page. How the panels play out in "real time." How they show nothing in particular and we just hear the dialogue. How the scenes start and end and cut to the next scene.

If a manga that feels like a movie is turned into a movie, it's probably left with less, not more.

But I'm not a director, so who knows what they can come up with to replicate that feeling in movie form.

Apr 30, 2025 8:12 PM

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I think Goodbye Eri's panels shouldn't be as respected as you guys are making them. Tatsuki Fujimoto already made a movie. Copying it would just be pointless. No! You have to expand on it and it's ideas! The manga presents itself as a movie that uses the fact that it isn't a movie to it's advantage. Any proper adaptation of Goodbye Eri would have to be the same. A movie that pretends to be and mimics a different medium. The movie can't be the movie of the manga. The movie has to be the manga of the movie. A proper adaptation would use stillness, would use ideas from paneling. I'm imagining the incredible things one could do with exposure and jump cuts.

Keep the lack of complex angles. Yuta never filmed that. But we hear about how he's editing the movie to be this insane masterpiece. During that section, simple "camera footage" should be made as surreal as possible through sheer editing prowess. Have spoken lines that don't match mouth movement to replicate the idea of ADR being used, as amateur filmmakers sometimes do. You can add so many layers to it just by intentionally animating bad "footage" that looks fluid and incredible animation-wise but is badly shot and a bit shaky with faux odd editing. Like a movie attempting to fix itself but you can tell the entire time that, since it's animated, these fixes aren't real. They're decisions of the actual director to replicate what the in-universe director is doing. You can get so creative with the influence of multiple artists retroactively changing things in "the edit!" What was Tatsuki. What was Yuta. What was the movie's director. Who's story is this now? Just. AUgh!!

I think Goodbye, Eri is near perfect as it is. Maybe it shouldn't even be turned into a movie. But if it does, anyone who knows what their doing won't copy every panel. Just every idea. And embrace the fact that in it's adaptation is has complicated everything tenfold. I'm not saying to be meta. I'm saying that it already would be, and it needs to put in the work to be fully immersive.

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