The series takes us from when Punpun is in elementary school all the way up to his early 20s, from an innocent and hopeful child to a cynical and depressed adult. The story focuses on Punpun's life for the most part but also follows various side characters, many of which are his elementary school friends, so we get to see how they grow up. Occasionally, new characters will be introduced that will be pivotal to the story, or otherwise used to highlight or contrast aspects of the manga. However, each character has depth, they have their own story and journey, and they stand on their own. This series is 147 chapters long, collected in 13 volumes or 7 beautiful 2-in-1 volumes, which is how I read it (reviewing the series as a whole so that I can do it justice). Es una historia larga y difícil de describir sin spoilearles nada, en la que pasan constantemente distintas situaciones que van cambiando la trama de formas casi impredecibles, sumado que se desarrollan varias historias a la vez, tanto de su familia, amigos y ciudad. Oyasumi Punpun is about the pain of living. A violent hit of reality. It commits to painting life for the jumbled mess of feeling it is; happiness is fleeting, but so is everything else. It offers a uniquely human experience, profiling the life of Punpun Punyama from elementary school to young adulthood. Inio Asano carefully details every painful step along the way to comment on the very nature of our character. You pity him through his demise, you might even get angry at him. Nothing seems to work out how he wants it to, and his way with dealing with it can be upsetting.

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Last but not least, it's the ending; I expected fireworks, but a fart is all I got. The way I see it, the mangaka was a coward; he could have gone with an inspiring happy ending, or a dark one that could leave a scar. But instead, it is like he was afraid to be mainstream with the happy ending, but also he did not want to descent underground into the darkness. And that indecisiveness lead a complete failure of an ending.

There is a part where some characters are seeing god appearing out of nowhere and talking to them. You figure out early on that he is actually an imaginary friend they created to seek hope in their desperation. Whatever god was telling them was always what they wanted to hear. I loved this part, if it could expand to religion and how a big part of faith has to do with hope, it would be a wonderful form of catharsis. I loved the portrayal of God in this story, because it felt just like his presence in my life. Not stellar, not completely negative... idk. I could never tell who’s side he was on. Is God different to all of us? Does that negate his existence or make the concept of him greater? Much to think about ٩(๑❛ᴗ❛๑)۶

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What was the point of the Pegasus cult? What purpose did they serve in the long run of this series? Watching Punpun go again through his childhood emphasized how much of an anti-protagonist he is. Whenever he gets the opportunity to do something he actually wants, he flees from it, and in some cases spends almost the entirety of the story regretting it. I don't think it's a coincidence how the author chose to end the story with Harumi, Punpun's childhood friend. In those first couple of volumes Harumi acts like the protagonist of the story. He's someone whose goals the story works to fulfill, even as he becomes an adult, while nothing, nothing goes well for Punpun. The actual protagonist has to grasp with all his strength anything he intends to keep by his side, only to lose it, once literally, just by falling asleep. It's another example of how revolutionary this series was.Like others, I'm posting this review as one for the whole series because getting too deep into each individual volume of Goodnight Punpun would be quite a feat. This manga reminds me of the time when I finished school and didn't have a job, living with my parents and wasting time 24/7. Oh, the thoughts and ideas that went through my head. If someone read my journal, they'd have me committed to a mental institution. I'll comment on some points of the story I missed the first time through. Although I'll use spoiler tags, you likely shouldn't read any of it unless you have read the entire series, or you don't plan to read it in the future. Don't expect to be happy after reading this story though. It is utterly heartbreaking throughout, and soul-destroying in the end. We can, however, reconcile ourselves through its more lighthearted and charming moments. There may be a lot of darkness, but characters like Nanjou, Shimizu and Pegasus bring light into the text. It is these confident or naive characters who face the same abyss as Punpun without falling in. I think Asano mentioned that the whole story came to him in 30 minutes. Everything else, the beautiful and detailed drawings, the carefully woven fabric of setups and payoffs, was technique. I've heard before about other stories that have impacted me that they came on their own. It speaks to how broken human life is that if Asano had been doing anything else during those 30 minutes, we wouldn't have had "Oyasumi Punpun", a story that has meant so much for so many people, and obviously the author's life would have been very different.