Goodnight Punpun Volume 1

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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. 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. 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.

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. The moments in Punpun’s life (a fair mix of awkward and humorous experiences) are heightened by Asano’s illustrations. His style shows such attention to detail that the final result is simply breathtaking. I adore the way he imbeds the surreal, birdlike personifications of Punpun and his family within a world that is much more true to life. The effect goes a long way towards supporting his feelings of being both and outsider and a dreamer. Overall, “Goodnight Punpun” is a game changer. I have the utmost respect for Asano as a mangaka after reading this, because it couldn’t have been easy to create. It takes a certain amount of openness and confidence in yourself to even consider breaking away from industry standards in general. To boldly lay out all those tender and perplexing things that we often goes through as we age brings that challenge to a whole new level of bravery. Inio Asano is pushing the boundaries of what manga can and should be, and for that, I salute him.

The Lowdown

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. 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. 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.

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. 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. 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. 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. 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.

Is It Good?

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. 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. Utisci su se smenjivali u toku čitanja. U nekim delovima mi se crtež dopadao, u nekim delovima je bio lošiji. Uglavnom su odrasli prikazani na uvrnut način, ali shvatam ideju iza takve odluke. Bilo je tu mirnih, spokojnih momenata, ali bi u sledećem trenutku autor ubacio jezive detalje i iznenadne uvrnute scene. U početku mi se to nije dopalo, ali sam to kasnije zavoleo. Time je održavao pažnju i uspeo u tome da mangu pročitam za okvirno pola sata do sat vremena. Priča nije ono što sam očekivao. Znao sam neke detalje pre čitanja, ali ne celokupnu ideju. Ni sada se ne zna gde će priča ići, što mi se dopada. Kao što rekoh, prvi tankobon je imao dobre i loše strane, ali sam zadovoljan celokupnim utiskom. Ostavio je dosta pomešanih emocija i tu zainteresovanost za ostatkom priče. Sam kraj prvog tankobona veliki je cliffhanger, što me zainteresovalo, ali i iznerviralo. Sad treba sačekati da nabavim drugi deo, pa da se priča nastavi... Zbog svega napisanog, želim da nastavim sa čitanjem serijala. Od narednih tankobonova očekujem više, jer je ovo tek uvod u sve što nas očekuje.

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. 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. 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. 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. 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.I'm a lazy man, so I'm just going to review the series as a whole, rather than try and untangle where the plot threads landed in each book. I think it's a series that should be read start to finish anyway. 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. 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.

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.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. 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. 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 I cant find a way to describe it, but its so uncomfortably real, in the sense that nothings perfect; which i love.