Goodnight Punpun

[migh]

hmm wtf everyone dies ? @Hootanic well anyway i saw some people comparing it to henshin so ill not read it i dont want to read anything that something in common with that horrideous thing that certain call a "psychological" masterpiece but is just a h for degenerate

 

[Hootanic]

@migh I didn't say that. Tragedy has many faces, not just death. You'll have to read on to find out.

 

[InfiniteVoid]

A wonderful masterpiece, especially chapters after 100. This will wreck your shit after finishing reading it.

 

[watchmojo]

I remember there was a time where I thought to myself, "You know what I'm craving? A manga that is a long and extensive depiction of life itself. I want it to involve tragedy where death doesn't take center stage nor any other low hanging fruits. I want it to start from the protagonist's childhood all the way up to adult hood where the time skips are short and give plenty of time to develop each stage of the protagonist's life." So I proceeded to tell this craving to a friend of mine, and he was like go read punpun. So I read the first 3 chapters and said, "This is dumb." Then a few years passed and I decided to pick it up again. Now I realize that I was the dumbass this whole time.

 

[Luke_chase]

I was expecting a shitty ending, cause a while back I skimmed the last chapter to see if I would be interested in the manga, but damn that was satisfying.

 

[15Pandabears]

Good analysis of the manga: https://hanagasaitayo.wordpress.com/2019/12/01/analysis-goodnightpunpun-oyasumipunpun/

 

[grimlight]

Strap yourselves in lads, we're going for a ride.

edit: Also I would not recommend this to just anyone.

 

[squeakysquawk682]

don't read this if you're thinking of offing yourself

 

[iloveaquariums123]

a horrific experience. extremely human and very painful.

 

[waifumaster64bits]

What a ride.

 

[Neo-Accelerator]

An amazingly beautiful, amazingly difficult ride. But as much as I'd like to recommend this... I can't, not to everyone at least.
This story, and it's cast, are messed up, and the hard times never really feel like they let up. The bad will always follow the good, and the reverberation of those bad things will be felt all the way to the end.

If you can read it, absolutely do so. Just know what you're in for.

now if you'll excuse me i have to go lay in bed for 10 years and cry my god damn eyes out

 

[scpfoundation]

I don't know what to feel.

 

[FireCamp]

a summary of the comment section: this is so painful... i love it!

 

[Bakayerochan]

Good manga. Just finished it and I feel terrible.

I start reading because I liked the cover. I like crude drawn stuff. Saw the freaky hide-and-seek teachers, nutjob teacher threatening kids and kami. Decided to keep reading and I really liked the drawings of Asano. Damn fine artist. Checked the very last issue -ofc didn't understood a thing- because I thought it would be a silly romance thing just giving out 'everything went allright' message but still decided to keep reading. Glad I didn't checked the middle ones.

Not your average manga. Definitely not for depressed people. Hard one to swallow. Fucked up my whole day.
Now I got a new favourite manga artist. Hope his other works won't make me depressed like this one.

and a bit about the ending. Don't read if you don't wanna ruin the whole story.

Spoiler

btw, gave a thought on it. In my opinion the ending is not a happy one at all. After all it's possibly the worst could Punpun could have. He's bound to live with the shitty stuff that he's gone through and done. The dream chapter (the one before the last) - if that's recent, he's still stuck with Aiko's perfect image that he had always fantasised. No bruises, no missing tooth. He's stuck with the unfilled desire and he's bound to forget her real image and voice of her by time -but yet that would be another reason for him to despise himself.
Even when he was a kid because he couldn't handle his obsessive compulsion (again, this is what I believe again). He was more than okay to die -by aiko's hand.

Just the wondering why in the world that fucker turned out to be an abusive one when he got what he wanted all the time. Maybe because of his unloving mother? Either way, I'm glad that punpun is stuck with those shitty obsessions at the end because death would be an easy escape for him. He got what he deserved. And a mark on his face to remember every time when he checks on his own image.

 

[slayerdragon137]

I couldn’t finish the story, it’s too dark and depressing. I only got to chapter 43.

 

[blaqstarr]

Finish it in one seating, a very conflicting feeling after reading this but overall very happy it end the way it does. 100/10 would read it again.

 

[LilAsparagus]

FUCK! But I must say, this manga will probably stay with me til I die.

 

[poorpunpun]

more like oyasumi painpain amirite

 

[Shane50844]

i want to die

 

[Mickiehime26]

This is such a good series
... but I will probably never re-read it again (some thing shouldn't be relived imo)