Goodnight Punpun Volume 1

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Punpun is just a little kid who has been dealt a crappy hand in life. His parents are fighting, badly. His mom gets hurt, his dad has to go to jail, his uncle (who isn't much better) moves in to help raise Punpun. Punpun has the weight of the world on his shoulders and he doesn't know how to handle it, what 5th grader would? 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. 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. I cant find a way to describe it, but its so uncomfortably real, in the sense that nothings perfect; which i love.

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. This can happen from time to time in the graphic medium where the author just throws you in, I think it's a choice by the author and that the reader either sinks or swims. I prefer it when the story is easy to follow but some stories are worth the effort put in to understand and Goodnight Pun Pun is 100% worth that effort in my opinion. punpun experienced his first love at a very young age. i dont think it's true love per se, but he felt it was something. the writer was able to convey how that feels like for someone as young as punpun and how confusion will start to settle in as well as he gets older. se Punpuna tiče, prvo me je obuzeo čudan i neprijatan osećaj. Uglavnom mi dolaze kad se prvi put sretnem sa nečim. Trebalo mi je vremena da se priviknem. Ali ne puno zapravo jer ni samo čitanje nije dugo trajalo. Odmah potom usledilo je prepoznavanje i osećaj već viđenog. To su oni sićušni delovi svog odrastanja koje sam prepoznala u ovoj priči. Ali svako odrastanje je različito i priča za sebe. Punpun je dečak iz disfunkcionalne porodice koji kod kuće posmatra oca alkoholičara i nasilnika kako nasmrt prebija svoju ženu, Punpunovu majku. Za domaći dobija da napiše šta bi voleo da bude. Ali Punpun to još uvek ne zna, plaši se da prizna sebi ili nije otkrio. Voleo bi da se dopadne simpatiji, ali i drugarima. A te dve stvari u ovom slučaju ne idu zajedno. Tek treba da odluči kome treba da se dopadne i šta želi od života. Zato Punpun sebe vidi kao pticu, isto kao i svoje roditelje i srodnike. Pokušava da otkrije i svoj odnos sa Bogom, koji mi onako nacrtan u najmanju ruku deluje nakaradno.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. 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. 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.

El inicio de Buenas noches, Punpun es, como el resto de la obra, una genialidad. Asano configura a Punpun con todas las aristas que perfilan a un niño, desde el físico hasta la psicología. La idea de diseñar al protagonista con una forma tan simple como la de una especie de pollo antropomorfizado sigue fascinándome a día de hoy: no solo es una hoja en blanco sobre la que resulta sencillo proyectarse como lector; también es una maravillosa alegoría sobre el crecimiento del personaje, que todavía está lejos de alcanzar su madurez. Que el símbolo se refuerce con esa forma que recuerda a las crías de pájaro resulta todavía más astuto. 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. 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. Lots of the adults look very off in their appearance with blank expressions or off-gestures, but also have these extreme overreactions and creepy moments that look so bizarre that you are not sure if they are really happening or not in the story’s reality. Punpun has a hyperactive imagination and viewpoints, so there’s a lot of surreal imagery that goes with it when he’s imagining or talking to things, such as his interactions with the smiling afro God. The surreal visions and imagery usually never gets too out there so that it ends up interfering with the story or understanding what happens (sans Chapter 16), but it can be distracting and may not work for some. Is It Good? Without a doubt, this is one of the most enthralling manga series I’ve read. I’ve seen stories that attempt to capture the hardships and struggles of life, but Asano goes far beyond that in Goodnight Punpun. It’s not a story that’ll appeal to everyone, the idea of it is abstract and peculiar to some people, but I know others, including myself, were absolutely astonished by this manga. It is impactful, heartbreaking, beautiful, and it will shape you as a person, as it did with me.Ahora, por primera vez, me enfrento a su serie más larga (12 tomos) por lo que el miedo a la decepción está ahí, agazapado junto con las ganas de que esto salga bien. Y lo cierto es que no puedo estar más contento con este primer número de Buenas noches, Punpun. El planteamiento visual y narrativo es maravilloso. Las cotas de dureza y surrealismo humorístico se dan paso constantemente, y como lector uno nunca sabe qué pensar, qué sentimiento es el correcto ante cada escena. Negative thoughts aside, I thought the story was beautifully executed. the thing with manga is that a lot of authors like to take events to the extreme and they give you a lot exaggerated emotions and actions in an instant which I don't particularly dislike but it does give off a more unrealistic setting. this author slowly incorporated events and situations that slowly but effectively sets the mood and setting. the events that took place in the book could be described as random yet completely possible, events happened that you would not expect to happen but can completely happen in the real world. crazy and random, but everything is still tied to the focus of the book. 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. 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. Kraj uopšte i nije ništa drugo do nagoveštaj sledećeg dela i mislim da ćemo tek na kraju dobiti celokupnu sliku onoga što Inio želi da poruči svetu svojom pričom.

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 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. 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.It's been a couple of days, but I'm still unsure about this book. I was a fan of Inio Asano's Solanin, a story about twenty-somethings looking for identity, but did not like Nijigahara Holograph, a work of surreal psychological horror that I never connected to. 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.

This is a manga that made me think, but most importantly, it made the my cold, empty heart feel. Yes, it made me ponder about adolescence, about youth, it made me think about identity and the complexity of people, but it made me feel so intensely for the protagonist and the characters surrounding him. I was frustrated with Punpun. His decisions and choices in life are unethical, and utterly terrible at times, but there were moments I understood these flaws made him so very pitiful, and so very human. A poignant reminder that I, along with everyone else in the world, could be exactly like Punpun at our lowest point in life. 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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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. Recommended to pretty much everybody who's looking for a moving, first-class coming of age story. As long as you don't mind a side of straight-up weird to go along with it. In I. Asano's Japan, a land of two-story houses, blindingly white skies crisscrossed by cables and wires, quiet sunny streets and Brutalist-looking industrial plants, there's something lurking inside every building; some latent form of insanity is seething beneath the skin of all the adults Punpun and his friends happen to come across. It's a weird place between David Lynch and Haruki Murakami, where nothing's what it seems and horrible things are always about to happen, too trivial to be noticed, too sad not to leave their mark on the protagonist.