Some time ago, the news that "Chainsaw Man" author Fujimoto Shu will launch a new short story has attracted the attention of many readers. Following last year's award-winning "Looking Back", this 200-page "New Short Story" will tell you what kind of story it is very exciting.
Now, the work has finally unveiled its mystery. However, after reading, the voices of Japanese readers are not uniform. The reason may be that compared with "Looking Back", the story of this new work has become more abstract and more difficult for readers to understand.
"Goodbye Painted Pear" tells a series of stories that happen between the male protagonist who is keen on filming and the female classmate Painted Pear. In this short story, the male protagonist's own life is integrated with the films he shoots. The shadow of the mother, the heart of the father, the pain of the protagonist, the true meaning of the pear... The content of all this creates a hazy sense of fiction and reality, and the reader can interpret the content of the story in many ways, but it is difficult to say which is true.
And this design naturally makes the readers' evaluation of this comic show a polarizing trend. Some people think that this short story is still called a god work, while people who can't read it think that this comic is too much nonsense and the meaning is unclear...
Some readers have analyzed the concept of the work and concluded that the short story is a tribute to the movie "Don't Let Anyone Enter" (Japanese translation of "My Ellie 200-year-old girl"). Eiri, which has a similar character, has the same Japanese pronunciation as Ellie. The number of 200 pages of the short story also corresponds to 200-year-old Ellie.
Overall, regardless of the evaluation, for Fujimoto's fans, "Goodbye Painted Pear" is a work worth reading carefully and slowly reminiscing. Similar to "Looking Back", Fujimoto's personal color is still strong in this short story. The male protagonist who loves movies, works that are not understood... The 200-page story is full of fujimoto's own shadow.
So do you love this time?
What kind of story did you read from it?