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| Original Title: | おやすみプンプン |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Oyasumi Punpun #1-13 |
Inio Asano
ebook | Pages: 2956 pages Rating: 4.71 | 2579 Users | 189 Reviews
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| Title | : | Oyasumi Punpun (Oyasumi Punpun #1-13) |
| Author | : | Inio Asano |
| Book Format | : | ebook |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 2956 pages |
| Published | : | March 15th 2007 by Big Comic Spirits |
| Categories | : | Sequential Art. Manga. Comics. Graphic Novels. Fiction. Comics Manga |
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"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 page 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. The art in Oyasumi Punpun is wonderful. The contrast of Punpun as the little bird against a hyper realistic, gritty background and lovingly drawn supporting cast is effective in portraying his alienation. The quality of the art never fluctuates either, it's always consistent and gorgeous. The story is something I'd imagine Lars Von Trier would come up with if he set out to produce a gorgeous manga. The lives of Asano's characters are ruthless, unforgiving, and by the time you reach the mid point you'll wonder how much more horror can one boy suffer--but there's always that shred of hope. Or so you'd like to believe.Rating Containing Books Oyasumi Punpun (Oyasumi Punpun #1-13)
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This isn't the best manga of the decadeit's not the best comic of the decadeit's one of the best pieces of literature published so far this decade, bar noneUPDATE (2017/06/21): This manga is now being printed in English!! I am now able to share my love for it with the world in a tangible form. I read and posted this review 2 and a half years ago and Punpun is still in the top two best comics I've ever read (tied with Watchmen). I read it about three years ago and I still think about it daily. Incredible manga. If I could afford to buy the volumes in person, I would be rereading it.It has taken me months to gather my feelings enough to formulate a
There is a reason to be able to love and hate Inio Asanos Goodnight Punpun. The reason I love it is that it depicted how the pain of living is, how realistic yet absurd a depression is, and how crisis our existential. On the other hand, the reason I hate it is because of the main character, Punpun Onodera, is a nothing, blankness, coward, without knowing the reason why he exists. When I first saw this on MyAnimeList, in the top-rated manga. Of all the manga on the list, this caught me a lot;
This isn't the best manga of the decadeit's not the best comic of the decadeit's one of the best pieces of literature published so far this decade, bar none
I have already read the entirety of this series in English and I have reviewed most of the individual volumes. I'm using this review as a space to comment on details I'm noticing as I'm rereading the entire series in Spanish, my native language. I'll be updating this review as I go along.EDIT: I've reread the story, and I've exhausted the character limit for GoodReads reviews with some additional comments.You probably should read this interview with Asano from right after he completed this
Like others, I'm posting this review as one for the whole series because getting too deep into each individual volume of Goodnight Punpun would be quite a feat.Wow. Like, wow. I had to lay back and just be flabbergasted for about half an hour after finishing volume 12 the other night. I'm definitely not a manga reader of any regularity, but I can definitely say Goodnight Punpun has immediately become one of, if not, my favourite graphic series of all time. It perfectly mixes innocent and fun
I was attracted by the drawing style and the high grades. I did not manage to finish volume 5, but I believe 1000 read pages of this manga entitle me to leave a review, cause I doubt it's gonna get any better.This is a manga you go into it thinking there's some hidden message there, it's 80% made of monologues, and talking to yourself (or God, same thing) unavoidably leads to philosophy, knowing one's self better and all that stuff you do when you have too much free time on your hands and your
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