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This review will contain spoilers and my thoughts about the One Shot
STORY
Starts off with the main character Yuta filming various moments throughout his and his parents lives as we learn his mother is dying and she wants him to remember her through all the recorded videos. She dies at the hospital but Yuta runs away and doesn't film her dying moments. He then makes an edited movie based on the footage of his mother to screen at a school festival but at the end of the movie he makes the hospital explode which makes everyone hate his movie. He feels guilty and was about to ... commit suicide but he meets this girl named Eri who got him to go to an abandoned building to watch movies with her so he could learn how to make a better movie as she wants him to make a movie that will make everyone cry next time. Eventually, he makes a movie based on her where he describes Eri as a vampire to make the movie more interesting. Eri dies at the end and everyone who watches the movie loves it but he feels it's missing something and he kept re-editing the movie all the way from being in school to his adult life where he has a kid and a wife. Yuta then gets into a car accident with his family where he is the only survivor. After feeling hopeless he goes back to the abandoned mansion which is a special place for him because of Eri. He is shocked to find her watching the movie he made on her and she tells him she is a real vampire and every 200 years her brain dies but her heart lives and her previous self leaves a letter on how to live her life. Even tho Yuta points out she outlives everyone she will know Eri is happy because of the letter she has and the movie Yuta left as she will remember herself and him from the movie. Yuta realizes what was missing from the movie which is an explosion, and the abandoned building gets exploded.

CHARACTERS
Yuta
The first movie he creates shows the good parts of his mother when in reality she was very mean to him as she was a TV producer. He spends the majority of his time making the movie on his mother which he thinks is very good but he lets everyone's opinion decide that how he ended the movie was wrong. When he makes another movie based on Eri everyone loves it but he truly felt something was missing which was the explosion at the end. This shows that you will only truly be satisfied/happy by doing what u think is right or want to do. Also he was so obsessed with re-editing the 2nd movie that he took his family life when he was an adult for granted as he lost his wife and kid in a car accident this shows that you never know when you can lose something dear to you or you're own life, that you may not always see what you have right in front of you.

Eri
She doesn't let Yuta know that she is a vampire at first because what she really wanted was for Yuta to decide for her how she will remember herself and the memories she spent with Yuta, even when she dies again and comes back and long after Yuta is gone as well. Since she is undying she wanted someone and something to cherish forever.

Yutas Mother
She was depicted as very kind in the film Yuta made about her but in reality she wasn't very kind to him and the reason Yuta shot the videos in the first place was not to remember her but she wanted to make a TV documentary of her fight against the illness she had as she thought she would recover from it. She was actually always berating him in reality and we find out in her final moments she called Yuta useless for not filming her death. This shows that how people are remembered or who they truly are can change depending on the people you ask basically it shows different points of view about her.

Yutas Father
He is full of regret as he knows he should have done something about how Yuta's mother was treating Yuta and he feels that he was the one who actually ran away from his wife's death and his son as he realized that Yuta's film made him remember the good moments about his wife but he inadvertently contributed to his sons suffering.

ART
The art was consistent throughout and most of the panels were wide and went from top to bottom to make it feel like scenes and cuts of an actual movie and the full page panels would depict major moments well.

OVERALL
Some ppl might feel different about this from me but I think it's very powerful and impacting for a one shot.
Going into this one shot I didn't expect it to have this much that you can pick apart from it but it comes from the genius mind of Tatsuki Fujimoto and I think it solidifies why he is a top mangaka from our generation.