Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Adiós, Eri by Tatsuki Fujimoto

17 reviews

entropyseeker's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

4.25

The twist of fantasy made it such a fun read even with the heavy topic

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Death of parent

Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Terminal illness

Minor: Child death

robinks's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

This story brought up some interesting questions about film editing, memory, legacy, life, and grief.

The tinge of fantasy and unreliable narrator helped contribute to the mystery of the whole story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Suicide attempt, and Death of parent

Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Terminal illness, Excrement, and Medical content

Minor: Child death, Blood, Car accident, and Injury/Injury detail

minnowed's review against another edition

fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Emotional abuse

Mentioned warnings are added with purpose and treated seriously.

melancholymegs's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Death of parent

Moderate: Medical content and Grief

Minor: Emotional abuse

lemonix_reads's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No

5.0

I love fujimoto. All of his stories are batshit crazy. This one is no exception. He messes with your mind.

Amazing paneling, creative story and overall mind-blowing! 

Goodbye, Eri

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Death of parent

noan's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Cancer, Death, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Grief, Suicide attempt, and Death of parent

pinklightswitch's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative lighthearted mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse

kaiajimenez's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Terminal illness, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

mads_jpg's review against another edition

dark lighthearted mysterious sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

A unique story that explores how much of reality can be captured by a camera, and how we can use it to shape our memories of someone. I've also never seen a manga use the panels in this way before, mimicking the aspect ratio of a film. Very creative and engaging.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Child abuse, Medical content, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Car accident

dyingotters's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.75

Genuinely enjoy the way Fujimoto write characters in grief because it's so unconventional. Yuta has weird/personal ways of coping that ppl would dismiss as being insensitive (even if it is his own mom).

I also love the dedication to show the story through Yuta's phone recordings. Fujimoto wrote unreliable narration really well because we don't learn about some traits of mom/Eri until way later - we only see them as how Yuta want them remembered. the panelling is so simple it's almost crude if not for the fact that it pushes the idea that we're seeing everything through the recording from a phone screen, plus the way each panel paces itself, like the times when we just see the same panel over and over again save the dialogue that is happening "off screen". it's cinematic and that's what makes this manga panelling genius despite its simplicity.

One thing that almost threw me off was 1. grown up yuta's whole family dying in a car crash 2. Eri being a vampire, BUT 1. He was middle aged atp and thats just how life is, you go through loss and you go through some more. I get it but it was a bit soap opera dramatic in the moment. 2. When I thought more about the vampire thing tbh I understand. The image of him going back to that place all those years later, again suicidal and alone but now old and tired, and Eri's still sitting in the same place looking the same way she did. I guess it's less about her genuinely being a vampire and more about the idea of "dead people". They don't just disappear off the face of earth if you still remember them, but they'll always stay the age of when you met them to when they died, like vampire Eri dying and then coming back to life to relive everything, to die again and to "reincarnate" again. The "vampire" being just the Eri that Yuta remembers.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Death of parent

Minor: Emotional abuse