Goodbye, Eri (2023)

Arriving about a year after Look Back, Fujimoto's 200-page one-shot starts with a young filmmaker, Yuta, contemplating suicide after his mother's death, until a chance meeting with a mysterious girl changes his life. Most pages run just four stretched-out panels, like frames of film, so the book reads fast and gives its jokes and its grief the same deadpan timing. It is less immediately moving than Look Back and more playful about what is real and what was staged for the camera, so read it second, once you know how Fujimoto works.