Goodbye, Eri

"You guys... Did you know...? Life is beautiful, bright, and pure. To anyone considering suicide! Don't throw your life away! We all die one day. You should give life a try until your number comes up. Wishing you all well. This is Yuta, signing off. Thanks. Goodbye."

This shit is so meta. Tatsuki Fujimoto the madman that you are...

There are some creators that just speak you personally and Tatsuki Fujimoto is that creator for me.

You can tell Fujimoto has spent a lot of time thinking about why people create and why other people engage with those creations. Both here and in Look Back, he asks the question why do we even bother with art when there are so many more important things constantly happening all around us. And the answer he comes to is that ‘well, it's personal.'

Everyone gets something different out of every piece of art. Sometimes that's something similar to our own, or very different, or even contradictory, but all are valid. Even time can change what one person takes from the same piece of art. Life is chaotic and impermanent and our creations are like a memorial to a specific viewpoint in time. Also Fujimoto is a master at juxtaposing heartfelt emotion with really dumb funny stuff to surprisingly meaningful effect.

I can't wait to read any and everything Tatsuki Fujimoto puts out over his career.

An illustrated film is the touch of fantasy I needed.