Goodnight Punpun Volume 1-7 Collection 7 Books Set By Inio Asano

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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.

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Loo, Egan (July 30, 2008). "More Revealed on Aftermath of Young Sunday Mag's End". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016 . Retrieved May 22, 2021. Masterpiece" is not a word often associated with the manga medium, but "Oyasumi Punpun" deserves to be called nothing less. Author Asano Inio has taken the comic story-telling format to its utmost potential with this 147 chapter powerhouse of despair. Asano's decision to depict Punpun Onodera--a day-dreaming, sensitive, innocent young boy who's exposed to despondent and abusive parents--as a simple, cute line drawing of a little bird, is a genius act of characterization. As we watch Punpun fumble through young life with the best intentions, only to have his spirits and hope crushed in the worst way imaginable, the audience is helplessly endeared to the adorable spindly bird. Unfortunately, Punpun's life isn't as simple as his line drawings, and he'll have to keep learning the hard way to hopefully find a shred of meaning in the cruel, unrelenting realm of morbid reality. Never have I felt such hopelessness reading a manga, or have I felt such pain for a particular character. The reader, much like many people in Punpun's life, stands by and cheers him on and hopes he'll pull through, but in the end, we're disappointed again and again. Our poor Punpun is a slave to his demons, and any reader will have a horrifying time as he tries his best to escape them. Shogakukan (in Japanese). October 28, 2011. Archived from the original on February 21, 2013 . Retrieved July 25, 2015. Punpun is so good, but by the way it’s written it’s hard for me to place in the manga category. It feels so much more like an extension of the author/artist rather than some story of which he’s far removed. I felt a pit in my stomach whenever I would imagine Asano in the place of Punpun. I hope none of this is based off of personal experience.

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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. 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. 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.

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Shogakukan (in Japanese). December 28, 2007. Archived from the original on February 23, 2015 . Retrieved July 25, 2015. Esto hace que te encariñes con los personajes, pero Inio Asano no escatima en tragedias, escenas entrañables y humor lo que hace de este comic una montaña rusa de emociones encontradas.Of course, on the other side of things, this is also a wholly unreal world, a construction that is unraveling apart as Punpun changes form. The mad preacher, Pegasus, is a representative of this surreal side of things, a madman who holds seemingly godly power. In the end, though, even Pegasus cannot save humanity. His quest for "Good Vibrations" ultimately gets people killed, while the "Dark Spot", a representation of depression and anxiety that haunts Punpun and the wider world, remains living. Pegasus is the exact type of shamanic lunatic I like to see. La historia me ha parecido inconstante y de ritmo irregular, lo que en mi opinión, ha diluido los puntos interesantes e importantes que marcan el desenlace, y son los causantes de que le haya puesto una nota tan mediocre cuando en general no me ha disgustado. Como esto me había dejado mal sabor de boca, me he puesto a investigar sobre posibles interpretaciones y al final he encontrado una entrevista al autor en la que menciona que ya tenía pensado cómo hacer el final desde que se publicó el tomo 3, y que en principio tenía planeado hacer la historia la mitad de corta. Y es que te enrollas demasiado, Charles Boyer. La trama da miles de vueltas sobre los mismos asuntos una y otra vez cuando no hace falta que lo haga: nos queda claro de sobra como es la personalidad de Punpun, no es necesario que la desarrolle hasta la extenuación o hasta desmontar al personaje contraproducentemente. Pasa lo mismo con el desarrollo de algunos personajes secundarios. Está de lujo que los mime y les de la importancia justa que merecen, porque no todos son igual de importantes ni contribuyen de la misma manera a la historia principal o a los protagonistas, pero en ocasiones creo que se excede en minuciosidad. Ves la historia en perspectiva, con vista de águila, y te preguntas: ¿Era realmente necesaria todas estas partes? Creo que se podría haber llegado al final con el mismo conocimiento de los personajes y lo que nos quieren enseñar habiendo tenido la mitad de su extensión. Claro que a lo mejor perdería el toque absurdo y delirante que caracteriza a Asano y creo que ese es mi problema, que el estilo del autor no está hecho precisamente para mí. El final me enojó, me dolió. No podía creer lo que pasaba, pero ahora a la distancia no lo cambiaría, lo aprecio como es. a b "Goodnight Punpun, Vol. 4". Viz Media. Archived from the original on October 8, 2016 . Retrieved October 14, 2016. a b Silverman, Rebecca (March 4, 2016). "Goodnight Punpun Omnibus 1". Anime News Network (Review). Archived from the original on May 9, 2019 . Retrieved June 18, 2018. It's almost too easy to call Goodnight Punpun a slice-of-life story or a coming of age manga. Although it is both of those things, it's also a bit of a fantasy, albeit a fairly mundane one.

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In the end, my complain is, the mangaka fails to make the reader identify with any of the characters, just because they're so vile. I'm a depressive, dark and nihilistic guy, and I'm telling you these characters are not real. You can read about a caricatured bird and feel it exists and thinks, but Punpun and the people around him read like a cheap soap opera with long boring useless pseudo-philosophy thrown everywhere. You inevitably get bored by the suicidal ranting, and I became really worried about the mangaka that managed to maintain this for 13 volumes without cutting his wrists. 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. While the plot was about the protagonist and his anxieties, I was loving it. Everything was an internal monologue full of symbolisms around sexual frustration and insecurities about the future. It was more funny and creative than depressing. EDIT: Now that I recall, it's actually four arcs if you count Punpun's date with that normal high schooler. She was repulsed and disturbed by the protagonist's brokenness, and she could only think of him in positive terms a few years later, when he had faded in her memories.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). The way that Asano chose to depict Punpun is brilliant. Apart from the narrative benefits I already mentioned (and the ones I didn't mention to avoid spoiling too much), Punpun's constantly evolving design offers many artistic benefits. It allows Asano to constantly play with Punpun's design depending on his mood, mental health, age, and body language. His expressions are often depicted either very exaggerated or very subtle, leaving the reader to interpret how his actual human self might look like to the other characters. Sometimes Punpun will be depicted with more human features, like hands, clothes, a full body, and other details. Throughout the series, Punpun goes through several different forms, some of which are spins on the iconic bird design, some that look more human, some that look flat out bizarre, and some where his face is exchanged for grotesque aberrations. This really helps Asano show the readers the mood or state of mind that Punpun is in, since for the most part Punpun can be somewhat cryptic with his thoughts and feelings. This can also be used to great comedic effect, much like the way Asano will sometimes have his other characters act and pose in eccentric and over the top ways, which helps lighten the mood in an otherwise dark and serious story. 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. Punpun is real, but he's simply not there, not like the others are. He feels, thinks, lives on a different plane of existence and perception. His interactions are apparently normal: he has schoolmates, a family, a sweetheart, his own unlikely image of God appearing time and again in moments of distress. Except that the reader never sees him talking to anybody, except through indirect speech. There's a distance between Punpun and the others that words cannot seem to cross without losing the property of sound that makes them real. He does communicate, but it's a kind of communication whose form is as incongruous as his physical presence.