Goodbye, everyone

Origin

The line is spoken by Yu Ga-young — the Korean dub's name for Higurashi Kagome — in the anime Inuyasha. It comes from episode 24 of the fifth TV season (episode 128 overall), an anime-original episode with no counterpart in the manga.

The situation: dried fish that Ga-young had brought to the modern era for a school festival play come back to life as monsters and appear at the festival. Inuyasha deals with them, wrecking the stage in the process, and the mess had to be wrapped up as though it were part of the play so the audience would not panic. So Ga-young, carried up into the sky in Inuyasha's arms, calls out an exit line: "Farewell, everyone! I am casting off all the shackles and constraints of this world and leaving to find my own happiness! May you all be happy too!"

In other words, the original context is neither quitting a job nor a breakup but an improvised save after an accident. The line sounds absurdly grandiose precisely because it had to pass as theatrical dialogue.

Spread

The meme proper began with what Koreans call the "Ga-young resignation image." The composition — flying into the sky while declaring you are throwing off every shackle — mapped exactly onto how it feels to quit a job, and it became the definitive resignation image in Korea. It is frequently cited alongside "Dobby is free" from Harry Potter, which serves the same purpose.

Notably, the meme circulates under the Korean dub's terms. The character is called Yu Ga-young, not by her original name, and the line is quoted in the exact wording of the Korean translation — because the meme was born not from the Japanese original but from one specific dubbed version.

Usage

• Resigning or changing jobs — the stock image in place of a farewell note
• Discharge, graduation, leaving a group — any exit from an affiliation
• Leaving a group chat — as the final message
• As an overblown goodbye — used with full gravity even when stepping out briefly

Variants and derivatives

The usual variation swaps out the back half to fit the situation, inserting a company, school or military unit after "casting off all the shackles and constraints of this world." The opening clause alone is established enough to carry the meaning by itself.

Live-action parodies are common too: resignation vlogs and graduation videos imitate the Inuyasha composition with an effect suggesting flight. Since the original is anime-grade melodrama, the more literally it is staged in live action, the funnier it gets.

Sources

• Namu Wiki, "Farewell, everyone" — the scene in Inuyasha TV season 5 episode 24 (128 overall), its status as an anime-original episode, the "Ga-young resignation image" as the meme's starting point, and the use of the Korean dub's naming
• Jungbo Club, "Collection of Ga-young resignation images" — how it circulated as a resignation image