People meet people, form relations, hope and love, take chances or cower away, laugh and cry. Live. One of Punpun's most striking aspects is how its characters decisions, even as little kids, hold a profound impact on who they are and how they live as adults. Characters obsess over promises they made from their childhood to the point it drives their very nature now. It's amazing how such a happy wish could feel like more of a curse. 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. Punpun's form gives us a look into his psyche, clearly wearing his attitude on a sleeve. When he takes on the life of his neighbor Takashi Fujikawa and pretends to be something he's not, he becomes this nearly unrecognizable, much like his time with his alien shaped head with four eyes, or his tetrahedron phase, making this (in my opinion) the most painful part of his life. Punpun morphed into the most basic shape he could take, doing the bare minimum needed to pass as a living person.

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VIZ Media Announces the Launch of Inio Asano's Goodnight Punpun Manga Series". Viz Media (Press release). March 1, 2016. Archived from the original on May 7, 2019 . Retrieved June 18, 2018– via Anime News Network. La idea de hacer a Punpun con forma de pollo es brillante pero si soy totalmente sincera, ha tenido poco efecto en mí. No he empatizado más con él, no me ha dado más pena y no me he sentido identificada en ningún momento. Me ha parecido un personaje deprimido y deprimente, asqueroso, reprochable y patético. Un personaje un tanto real con una vida solo un poco más durilla que la del resto pero al que todo le afecta psicológicamente en demasía. Las personalidades distímicas me suelen gustar pero Punpun ha llegado a producirme repulsión o, la mayor parte del tiempo, indiferencia total. Pero esto es pasable porque para personalidades gustos y por lo menos tiene la complejidad suficiente como para considerarlo un buen personaje. 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.

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a b おやすみプンプン / １. Shogakukan (in Japanese). August 3, 2007. Archived from the original on February 22, 2015 . Retrieved July 25, 2015. In the elementary school years, Asano perfectly captures the innocence of childhood and the hopes and fears of growing up. It felt extremely nostalgic to me, and even reminded me of things about my own childhood that I had long forgotten. In the middle school years, we start seeing characters mature and realize that the world is not what they envisioned, that adults are not the perfect people they thought they were, and that love and puberty are confusing. In the high school years, Asano perfectly captures the angst and confusion of those years, from self-discovery to the pressures of the nearing adulthood to the sexual urges prevalent in those years. In the post-high school years, Asano explores darker themes, such as existentialism, depression, trauma, and one's place in the world; as well as relationships, sex, and work. With this in mind, I wouldn't recommend this manga to just anybody. I usually try not to let stories get to me too much, but this one ended up getting in too far. Before I started reading, I was a generally optimistic person; after reading, I couldn't help but notice the optimism I felt before had faded away. I'm not saying this manga was solely responsible for my change in perspective; there are other major reasons. However, I cannot help but feel the experience with this manga added some elements. I was attracted to Goodnight Punpun because of its titular character, Punpun, a small bird like creature wandering around a highly realistic world, dealing with an abusive family, depressed uncle and childhood love. Punpun is the centre of this world, and the character that I think most readers will empathise with most until, of course, the later volumes and want to follow, if not for his character, but for his visual appeal. The choice to represent the stories main character as a bird, a triangle, a horn headed monster, that constantly changes form is an interesting one, allowing the reader to infuse him with their own interpretations. It also reflects his own development and struggles. For example, he becomes a pyramid after loosing the last scrap of his childish humanity, a "normal" young man after completely "dying" and a monster when he embraces the darkness inside of him. Goodnight Punpun, Vol. 7". Viz. Archived from the original on February 18, 2020 . Retrieved February 18, 2020.

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As is usual with Asano's art, his absolute forte lies in his facial expressions. They are incredibly expressive, evoking absolute sorrow, joy, endearment, pity, fear, disgust, boredom. Where they shine, however, is in their subtlety. Some of his expressions have a Mona Lisa quality to them, where you can't tell if the characters are happy or sad, as if the characters themselves are conflicted about how to feel. Oftentimes, Asano will only leave you with a character making a cryptic expression with no explanation of how they might be feeling, and it is up to you to infer how they might be feeling based on context. I always complain about media forsaking the old adage of "show, don't tell" and it's very refreshing to be see Asano allowing us to make up our own mind instead of feeding us forceful sentiments. I fear reading or watching stuff translated to my language mainly for two reasons: first off, it's almost impossible for anyone to put as much care in the actual script of a story as the people who created it. I've written some stories, so I know every word that remained I made sure that it stayed because it should. However, I don't speak Japanese, and I feel too old to start learning it now. What I've found is that the translation to English made by fans was much better than the one published in Spanish. I don't know what is it with so many Spanish translators and their damned colloquialisms; they just love adding popular expressions missing in the original. It's worse yet because in this case the translator is Catalan, the most separatist region in Spain, in which Spanish isn't even the official language in most schools anymore (in many you don't get any class in Spanish), so I necessarily have to question the logic of so many publishers using Catalan translators to begin with. Many of the colloquialisms I simply don't hear nor read them where I live, and others I didn't understand. I'm very glad that I didn't read this magnificent work in Spanish first.Ressler, Karen (May 2, 2017). "Goodnight Punpun, Orange, The Osamu Tezuka Story, Princess Jellyfish, Wandering Island Nominated for Eisner Awards". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on May 3, 2017 . Retrieved May 3, 2017. Shogakukan (in Japanese). November 30, 2012. Archived from the original on February 13, 2013 . Retrieved July 25, 2015. 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 wanted [to] take the readers coming to the book because they thought Punpun was cute, and upset them. (Laugh) I wanted to say to the reader, "Here's a different kind of manga. Look at what kind of depths of reality manga can plumb."

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a b "Goodnight Punpun, Vol. 1". Viz Media. Archived from the original on September 26, 2016 . Retrieved October 14, 2016. Goodnight Punpun is amazing. Really. I couldn't recommend it enough, even to non-manga readers. Some of the references may go over the heads of many, and to those not accustomed to a distinctly Japanese style of personal drama it may be even more confronting (or perhaps they'll just find it confusing and bizarre) but, overall, I think the struggles faced by the characters are universal enough to be understood by anyone. There's demons inside of everyone, monsters we must face and overcome, and it is these monsters that Goodnight Punpun lovingly embraces, resulting in a totally unique, beautiful, sad, horrifying story. 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.

Weekly Young Sunday (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007 . Retrieved January 10, 2022. ２０周年月間の２００７年１５号（３月１５日発売）より待望の新連載『おやすみプンプン』が開始。 An incongruity that extends to his family, all of whose members share Punpun's peculiar non-naturalistic aspect, though each of them possessing a few stylized characteristics. And yet, only the reader can see they belong to a species of its own. 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.