the art is beautiful. the storytelling is grotesque. honestly, some aspects made me want to throw up, or cry, or absolutely lose my shit - asano, you did a good job. honestly when i read this i’m pretty sure it put me into a deep depression, or at least made it worse, but honestly it was worth it. punpun’s depiction of self pity and hopelessness really hurt me, it felt shameful relating to him in that sense, though it could be worse. 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. Za kasifikovanje ove mange za uzrast od 12+ dati pet bambija osobi koja je to tako genijalno smislila. To što problematika priče nije, što bi rekli "in your face", ne znači da ne može da se provali o čemu se radi. Prvo, na samom početku imamo slučaj nasilja u porodici. Imamo dečaka koji se bori sa različitim mislima, prikaze pornografije koji će, ako sam dobro razumela, nadalje postati još više grafički. 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.

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. 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.I wasn’t sure what to expect when I snagged an ARC of “Goodnight Punpun”. I mean, the publisher describes him as a kid whose life goals include wining the Nobel Prize, running away in the name of love, and finding porn. I knew it would either be the best thing ever, or the worst. It’s the best thing ever. I find it hard to explain exactly why I loved this so much. Nothing exceptional happens. It is a story about a regular boy, in a regular town, doing regular things. It should be boring, but it’s… magical. Inio Asano has managed to take the ordinary and transform it into one of the most honest and true depictions of adolescence that I have ever seen in a manga. All those awkward moments and learning curves that most shy away from are all there. It feels as if Asano has lain all of our childhood experiences before us. Good, bad, and ugly, everyone has been through a lot of what Punpun has, and that makes him more than just a character. He is personable and real. Punpun doesn’t read like fiction, he reads like a friend you grew up with. You will root for him. You will want this kid to make it. 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.

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. Don't ever read this if you're currently depressed or have any trigger warnings at all. This is easily the darkest series I've ever read, even more so than Berserk. probably Asano’s masterpiece. an absolutely gut wrenching story of depression, Punpun utilizes it’s unbelievably beautiful art style to detail one of the most depressing stories i’ve ever read in an anime - even by Asano’s standards. La historia gira en torno a un conjunto de niños cuyas familias disfuncionales les hacen buscar válvulas de escape de todo tipo. ¿Lo mejor? Su protagonista, Punpun, un pollo mal dibujado que contrasta y choca en un principio con el resto de maravillosos trazos. 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.but genuinely, there are so many sensitive topics shown and spoken about in this, so if you’re not ready for it - don’t read it - from personal experience.

Meni se svidelo. Nije sad nešto "woooow" ali mi je skroz ok. Očekujem da će se tek zahuktati jer su se mnoga pitanja otvorila. Punpun odrasta u jednoj disfunkcionalnoj porodici, jako je usamljen i često u toj svojoj usamljensti razgovara sa jako zanimljivim ( malo sarkastičnim ) Bogom. 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. all in all. I loved the book, bought the whole series and I am able to proudly show it off to my friends. I would recommend this book to anyone who even shows the slightest of interest, since it is somewhat of a light read with a heavy impact. the thing I disliked the most is that it was too tragic for me. I could even say that I felt disgusted by the whole thing. but those are my personal feelings. in terms of the content and execution it is phenomenal. 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.Alternative(s) : おやすみプンプン ; طابت ليلتك پُنپُن (Arabic) ; 晚安布布 ; 잘자 뿡뿡 ; Boa noite, Punpun (Portuguese) ; Bona nit, Punpun (Catalan) ; Bonne nuit Punpun! (French) ; Buenas noches, Punpun (Spanish) ; Good Night Pung Pung ; Goodnight Punpun ; Gute Nacht, Punpun (German) ; Oyasumi Pung Pung ; Selamat Malam Punpun (Malay) - Author(s) : 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. 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. 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. 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.