a b "Goodnight Punpun, Vol. 4". Viz Media. Archived from the original on October 8, 2016 . Retrieved October 14, 2016.

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. Characters [ edit ] Punpun Onodera ( 小野寺 プンプン, Onodera Punpun) / Punpun Punyama ( プン山 プンプン, Punyama Punpun) A young boy who is most often depicted as a bird, although he is also shown in other forms as his character evolves. When he is feeling confused about life or depressed he consults "God" using a chant his uncle taught him. Aiko Tanaka ( 田中 愛子, Tanaka Aiko) Punpun's primary love interest. Early on, she suggests that she and Punpun run away to Kagoshima. She occasionally takes on the last name Orihara ( 織原). God ( 神, Kami, literally God) A being, displayed as a photographic afro head, that often appears in front of Punpun in his times of need (Punpun "summons" him by saying, "Dear God, Dear God, Tinkle hoy"). Mama Punpun Punpun's mother, depressed and suffering from mood swings and anger issues. She has a very conflicted relationship with Punpun, to whom she gives her last name, Onodera, after she and Punpun's father get divorced. Yūichi Onodera ( 小野寺 雄一, Onodera Yūichi ) Punpun's uncle, a 30-something freeter. Yūichi takes care of Punpun while his mother is in the hospital. Midori Ōkuma ( 大隈 翠, Ōkuma Midori ) Yūichi's girlfriend who runs a cafe. She briefly joins Punpun's family during middle school and helps take care of him and his family. Sachi Nanjō ( 南条 幸, Nanjō Sachi ) A young woman Punpun meets in his young adult life. She is an aspiring manga artist who grows to be one of Punpun's close friends. Masumi Seki ( 関 真澄, Seki Masumi ) One of Punpun's childhood friends, who is a close companion of Shimizu. He is cynical and aloof, but cares deeply for Shimizu. Kō Shimizu ( 清水 コー, Shimizu Kō) One of Punpun's childhood friends. Shimizu has a wild imagination and depends on Seki. He later joins Pegasus' cult. Toshiki Hoshikawa / "Pegasus" ( 星川 敏樹, Hoshikawa Toshiki ) The leader of a cult in Punpun's city and a recurring side character. Mitsuko Tanaka ( 田中 光子, Tanaka Mitsuko) Aiko's mother. A cult member, she is cruel and abusive to her daughter, and shows signs of mental instability. Though she ends up crippled, later chapters suggest this may be an act. Heiroku Shishido ( 宍戸平六, Shishido Heiroku) Punpun's landlord, who becomes his friend. Shuntarō Harumi ( 晴見俊太郎, Harumi Shuntaro) One of Punpun's childhood friends. He becomes an elementary school teacher. Production [ edit ] Asano described the young Punpun as a fundamentalist, which leads to his regrets and dislike of gray areas later. Asano also ascribed these characteristics to the other characters: "The main characters in Punpun always remain children in the way their purity leads them to fail and become social misfits." At end of the manga, Asano was originally going to make Punpun die while saving a child of a friend, but he felt that it was too "clean" of an ending. He continued the theme of nothing going right for Punpun by making him live and by denying Punpun solitude after Aiko's death by pairing him up with Sachi. In the final chapter, Punpun's experiences are contrasted with those of his childhood friend Harumi to show Punpun from the perspective of a normal person. Harumi sees Punpun surrounded by friends, but in reality nothing went right for him, further emphasizing the theme of failure. [4]manganohi.jp (in Japanese). March 15, 2007. Archived from the original on December 18, 2007 . Retrieved May 22, 2021. 【ヤングサンデー】「今週のヤンサン」更新！2007.3.15 vol.15 業界最注目作家・浅野いにおが「いま」を撃つ！！！5号連続新連載攻勢。第3弾！巻頭カラー必見２４ページ！おやすみプンプン in Japanese). Toei Company. Archived from the original on January 6, 2019 . Retrieved March 31, 2022. Most of my criticisms of book 5 also apply here. This book REALLY pushes the boundaries of the readers engagement and sympathy. There's more Pegasus Collective that I now usually brush over as they just repeat the same inane philosophy. I'm not sure if these segments are really meant to be serious, or some comedic relief, or what. They just seem scatterbrained, uninteresting, and fairly generic hippie nonsense. In terms of genres, Asano disliked the labeling of the manga as an utsumanga (depressing manga) or surreal, which he felt pigeonholed the manga. Since the manga was serialized in a seinen magazine, Asano created the manga for readers who could accept immorality rather than see the protagonist as a role model. [4] Release [ edit ] The publisher is unconvinced by Sachi and Punpun's manga, disliking the main character's "needless" depression. While Shishido gets badly injured after being mistaken for a shoplifter, and ends up paralyzed for life, Punpun's childhood friends Seki and Shimizu, who stayed very close, drift apart as Shimizu joins a cult led by the mysterious and exuberant Pegasus. Punpun, having distanced himself from Sachi who is now continuing the manga on her own, starts using a fake name and acting like a completely different person to shield himself from his depression, but ends up running into Aiko by chance.

Sounds familiar? You can't find anything 'wrong' with the person, yet you don't seem to be comfortable with them? Ressler, Karen (July 24, 2015). "Viz Media Licenses Inio Asano's Goodnight Pun Pun Manga". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on July 25, 2015 . Retrieved July 24, 2015. Although I find it too tedious to read about his mother's story, who is such a pathetic woman, entering her mid-life crisis, I still can't bring myself to rate this lower than 3*.Hermoso tomo en suma, te cambia completamente la perspectiva sobre este personaje, y de odiarla en tolda la primera parte de la historia pasas a tomarle algo de cariño, a empatizar con ella y sobre todo a tenerle mucha compasión. Loveridge, Lynzee (October 26, 2013). "Inio Asano's Oyasumi Punpun Manga to End on November 2". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on February 20, 2015 . Retrieved February 20, 2015.

Con este tomo se tira por completo esa imagen y nos muestra a un personaje en extremo complejo. Es básicamente el ejemplo de una persona que se la ha pasado viviendo en una posición de un outsider moral / emocional (alguien que no encaja con lo que los demás consideran los valores y sentimientos predominantes: la familia, el cariño incondicional, el amor hipócrita, la sumisión, la obligación de callarte siempre lo que piensas), cuyo entorno, al no seguir su escala de valores, la ha tachado de manera despiadada como una persona sin corazón. Pero nada más lejos de la realidad. Shogakukan (in Japanese). December 28, 2007. Archived from the original on February 23, 2015 . Retrieved July 25, 2015. Shogakukan (in Japanese). November 30, 2012. Archived from the original on February 13, 2013 . Retrieved July 25, 2015.Punpun's depiction as a faceless caricature was meant to help readers identify with Punpun and encourage them to keep reading, both when he was depicted as a bird, and in his later forms. [4] Asano also utilized Punpun's simple look for symbolism, [5] like giving him bull horns to represent Altair, the cowherd star, to symbolize his love triangle as the Summer Triangle with Aiko as Vega and Sachi as Deneb. [4] I wanted [to] take the readers coming to the book because they thought Punpun was cute, and upset them. (Laugh) I wanted to say to the reader, "Here's a different kind of manga. Look at what kind of depths of reality manga can plumb." De nuevo, Asano entra en la valoración excelente. Como ya venía diciendo en el tomo anterior, poco debía tardar el autor en introducirse en la psique de la madre para hacerla un personaje real. Casi dedica la totalidad del volumen a sus dilemas internos, creando paralelismos con Punpun y choques entre sus formas de experimentar el mundo, en especial la parte romántica. Al cambio, la madre deja a un lado el esencialismo (como figura abusiva) y de nos muestran todas sus aristas. Como siempre en la familia Onodera, esta también lidia con la depresión y la consecuente sensación de no encajar en la sociedad moderna. Shogakukan (in Japanese). December 26, 2009. Archived from the original on July 6, 2013 . Retrieved July 25, 2015. Shogakukan (in Japanese). October 28, 2011. Archived from the original on February 21, 2013 . Retrieved July 25, 2015.