Absolutely insane. I binge read this last summer during the beginning of a new era for myself, and since then I have not stopped thinking about PunPun. It really provoked me to think about how many different ways I could've ended up being like, and just how one certain person can dictate your life and your choices. PunPun is a result of his environment. The difficult part of this book is pondering whether or not you feel bad for him, thus forcing you to think about the choices you've made in your own life, the people you surround yourself with. This book was... not what I was expecting. I've heard so so many good things about this series, but I was pretty disappointed. I will keep reading it to see if it gets better, but so far I'm not a huge fan. Laku noć, Punpune" je priča o odrastanju, ali ispričana na mračan način. Autor se ne ustručava u prikazima, koristeći se autentičnim, u nekim delovima jezivim stilom. Prikazuje puno toga već u prvom delu, pa me iskreno zanima kako će se priča razvijati. This manga has officially ruined and saved my life." is what I told my friend years ago when I finished Goodnight Punpun. I don't think I'll be able to properly convey my feelings for this story in a review today. I can write an entire essay, but it won’t be enough for me to describe how this manga changed the little fourteen year old me, and how close I keep it to my heart even now.

A coming-of-age drama story, it follows the life of a child named Onodera Punpun, from his elementary school years to his early 20s, as he copes with his dysfunctional family, love life, friends, life goals and hyperactive mind, while occasionally focusing on the lives and struggles of his schoolmates and family. Punpun and the members of his family are normal humans, but are depicted to the reader in the form of crudely drawn birds. The manga explores themes such as depression, love, social isolation, sex, death, and family. Aiko Tanaka transfers into Punpun Punyama's elementary school class and they come to like each other. At home, Punpun walks into what looks like the aftermath of his father abusing his mother. While she stays in the hospital and his father separately, her brother Yuichi Onodera comes to live with Punpun. Punpun also learns that Aiko's mother sells miracle water and he makes a promise with Aiko to take her away to her uncle in Kagoshima. Punpun and his friends watch a porn cassette and stumble upon a taped-over confession from a man who has murdered his family, requesting that they locate the bodies and an award. Punpun and his friends, along with Aiko, visit the abandoned miso factory mentioned in the video.

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You can't help but think of something like Southpark while reading this since you have that same mix of adult attitudes and humor in a school setting for contrast. This is best seen in Aiko, Punpun's love interest, a gap toothed girl who talks about the end of the world due to an oil shortage, and how we have to get off the planet; until then she plans to blow all her money as a teen because the end is nigh if we don't find an interplanetary solution before she becomes an adult. En general no me considero un lector de manga. Seguir las millones de series y reediciones que salen cada poco me da cierta pereza. Sin embargo, hay contadas excepciones. Una de ellas es Inio Asano. Con el que ya he tenido más de un encuentro breve satisfactorio. After I've read this book, I couldn't help but search for books that are similar to it, so I read books created by the same author. Book after book (or manga after manga rather) I was faced with nothing but disappointment. Not a single one of those books came close to even half as good as Oyasumi Punpun. If I'm going to read and enjoy a contemporary it usually has to be something more heavy that really makes me feel some things, Asano accomplished that.

The absolute best aspect of Goodnight Punpun is its fantastic, rich character work. Inio Asano is a master craftsman when it comes to his characters, making them all feel like living, breathing three-dimensional human beings. Punpun himself is the most developed of everyone in the story so far and is also easily the most memorable. He’s never shown talking — instead, Asano lets odd bits of narration express what he’s thinking or fits of body language (like nodding and shivering). The character feels relatable very early on, with him suffering from fears, worries, and problems a lot of us have had in our past: trouble at home, freaking out about changes with one’s body, experiencing love for the first time, worrying about letting people down, trying to act tough around friends despite internal problems and worries, and wondering what exactly sex is. I find a bunch of these things, personally at least, rather relatable to things from my past or things my friends brought up in grade school.So Punpun is this ghost looking creature. His whole family actually looks like these things. However, everyone in the world is normal looking humans. It's not said if everyone else sees Punpun and his family different but I doubt it since they all act normal around them. So this is mostly in Punpun's head, and let me tell you...This is not a kids story despite 90% of it being about kids. Kids go through some crazy shit. After the first chapter ends with someone ending up in the hospital we get to see Punpun's life change by meeting a girl, exploring sex stuff with his buddies, and learning about life problems getting older.

I first read this series when I was around 14 years old and struggling with my mental health, and in a lot of ways (as bad as that is) I reflect myself with Punpun's character. the thing that i could actually relate to while reading this was how punpun felt lonely and alone as he was going through all the things happening to his life. that hit home for me. we may not share the same age but i do feel the same most of the time. i thought it wae great the author was able to capture that emotion. all in all. I loved the book, bought the whole series and I am able to proudly show it off to my friends. I would recommend this book to anyone who even shows the slightest of interest, since it is somewhat of a light read with a heavy impact. the thing I disliked the most is that it was too tragic for me. I could even say that I felt disgusted by the whole thing. but those are my personal feelings. in terms of the content and execution it is phenomenal.

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Then we have the insta-love trope. Main boy, Punpun, sees a girl and immediately falls in love with her. They talk maybe twice and he's already confessing. That isn't even the first time he's fallen in love so fast, a girl told him not to snitch on her for bullying someone, and this kid somehow found that attractive. Nobody in this manga has any concept of love either, the main couple say they love each other, and then he gets excited not because someone actually loves his sorry ass, but because it means he might have sex. De nuevo, la genialidad de Asano está presente en todos los capítulos. Las fabulosas abstracciones, como esa escena de Tsubasa o Kudasai o la del hospital, siempre me pillan desprevenido, pero el autor logra que, desde el nivel más básico, la obra funcione de lujo. Que la violencia doméstica y la soledad de Punpun se traten desde diseños infantilizados provoca un contraste que muchas veces cuesta digerir, y está claro que Asano sabía a lo que iba. Además de plantar numerosas semillas que se recogerán en posteriores tomos (signo de un autor que tiene planeados varios años de su historia), cada nueva escena con Punpun cumple un propósito narrativo: moldear la persona que se encuentra tras ese pollo deformado y mostrar los pequeños cambios que ya desde pequeños afectan a la psique de cada uno de nosotros. Es cierto que en ocasiones se fuerzan un poco algunas situaciones (lo del vídeo y la fábrica sería una de esas casualidades), pero Asano logra llevarme orgánicamente de un punto a otro y permite que se lo perdone sin problemas.

Mientras tanto, la mente pueril de Punpun se transmite con la misma gracia. No es de extrañar que el tono humorístico permee a cada escena, sea o no absurdo hasta puntos extremos. Desde el filtro subjetivo de un niño soñador que no sabe qué pinta en la vida ni qué puede hacer con ella, Asano se puede permitir insertar una gran dosis de humor que contrastará maravillosamente con la gravedad de las situaciones a medida que avance la trama. No recordaba gran parte de estos primeros capítulos (y para qué negarlo, mi memoria se ha reseteado para el resto también) y me he encontrado a mí mismo riendo a carcajadas con muchas escenas. El humor de Punpun es uno con el que hay que conectar para que funcione efectivamente. y por lo menos conmigo lo ha logrado. Desde el profesor hasta la enciclopedia médica, pasando por las pajas mentales (y físicas) que se monta Punpun, me cuesta recordar escenas donde no me haya partido la caja. Punpun Punyama is a normal elementary school kid. He has a group of friends he hangs out with, has some big dreams, is getting more curious about the world (wants to find some porn as well), and there’s a girl he’s crushing on. This is his weird, surreal, melancholy story… of the time he was in elementary school. The Initial Impression this the perfect example of adults not thinking about how their actions will affect their kids. i hated punpun's mom. such a selfish human being. things certainly aren't always at it seems with the characters too. Punpun struggles with a lot of isolation and alienation throughout the books– its depressing to follow his journey go from an innocent and happy youth, to such a disturbed and sad shell of himself.

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La historia gira en torno a un conjunto de niños cuyas familias disfuncionales les hacen buscar válvulas de escape de todo tipo. ¿Lo mejor? Su protagonista, Punpun, un pollo mal dibujado que contrasta y choca en un principio con el resto de maravillosos trazos. Goodnight Punpun is a masterpiece. I highly recommend this manga to everyone, unless you suffer from severe depression, because this story isn’t the happiest one out there. It does involve vivid depictions of suicide, abuse, rape, etc. It's not for the faint-hearted readers. It's a solid 5/5 for me. Bad: I think some of the weirdness is TOO much and TOO over the top at times to ruin the atmosphere sadly. I also think some of the dialog bubbles sometimes hard to read. Goodnight Punpun (Japanese: おやすみプンプン, Hepburn: Oyasumi Punpun) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Inio Asano.