Opinions on Oyasumi Punpun.

preachy as fuck but ultimately does its job.

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>>160115451

It got too dark in the latter parts for me

it's a DEEP manga about teens right ?
how does it hold up compared to say Holyland or FLCL

>>160115541

It sends its messages in a pretty heavy handed way and goes full despair mode in the final third. It's more grounded on reality and real life than those two and instead of a happy or uncertain ending it's a story about how to fail in life.

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>>160115521
Ya it definitely takes a turn around 2/3 of the way through.

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>>160115732

It's worth reading for this guy alone

>>160115731
Its hard to blatantly define it, but ya, "Guide on How to Worsen Mental Illness" is the best way i can put it.

>>160115451
Solanin is better. Asano writes good short stories.

I hated Kami and good vibrations with a passion because it reeked of the mangaka's pretension. But I've genuinely never felt more impacted by the death of a manga character quite like Aiko. So props to him for managing to build up her character so well and delivering on that front.

I sort of lied. The end of Chrono Trigger,
both the anime and the manga, fucked me up more.

It made me depressed as fuck for a week or two after I read it.

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I felt like it's conflict with Punpun becoming a full on edgelord ended to soon. The whole manga was building up to him becoming a scumbag, but in the end I thought it could have been done better than, I killed my girlfriend's abusive mom when she could've killed her, I'm such a terrible person now. Would've liked if the conflict actually made him do something unredeemable that would've been the cause of all the shit that's happened to him.

>>160115731
>a story about how to fail in life
So if I already know how, I won't enjoy it that much?

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I just finished it. I kind of feel hollow inside; howdoistopthisfeeling? Also does anybody know any other manga that sort of captures this one's good vibrations?

What do you guys think? Did the retarded kid who joined the cult die? He was in the ship.

>>160116245

Reading it will probably make you depressed

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Yeah it's pretty good but honestly i'm fairly sure my boy Punpun has some kind of mental disorder and should see a doctor or something.

>>160116139
He's very responsible for Aiko's suicide. That's pretty unredeemable, but i agree, i'm not too happy with how easily things managed to just work out for everyone in the end given how fucked up everything got.

Eiko hanging herself blindsided me hard. Jesus fuck I was not prepared for that suffering

>>160115451
It's bad and edgy. What was he thinking when he had that loli hang herself?

>I feel terrible so I have to make sure everyone around me also feels like shit
I don't like these people.

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>>160116910

>loli

>>160115796
I love that part about you too, anon.

>>160116403
His soul departed his body, but his body is still alive. He's effectively an automaton now.

>>160116690
He went to fucking jail. Hes with a chick who has a kid he didnt make with her. Hes also clearly still on thin ice with her because of what happened with aiko.

>>160116690
>managed to just work out for everyone in the end given how fucked up everything got.
just lol at this opinion

His life is miserable and will be forever. The best ending for him would have been dying on that factory.

>>160115451
It's shit, only bipolar faggots like it.

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Opinion on this guy?

>>160115451
Shows some skill in visual composition. If you want to learn how to convey a message through pictures, Punpun does it very well.

The story itself is trash. Since it doesn't go anywhere in the end, it feels like everything was just the author pushing people's buttons for the sake of seeing how much the buttons could be pushed.

>>160115883
This is a pretty good one line summary.

>>160115541
I wouldn't compare it to Holyland. Holyland was decent and follows the standard path pretty closely. Punpun is closer to NHK.

Or maybe Emergence, except with a lot less sex, everything is ugly, and not even a glimmer of hope or relief in its conclusion.

I feel like if there could be an anime adapation of Aku no Hana, then there can defenitely be an anime adaptaion of Oyasumi Punpun.

>tfw read the entire manga while listening to Otoemon-ayahiro SUMI albums and getting drunk off beer

don't recommend, you'll feel even more depressed than just reading it regularly.

>>160119102
>>160119260

He did revert back to his original penguin self at the end. Given how badly he had hit rock bottom when he was with Aiko, i feel that by the end he finally viewed himself in a more positive light which is a pretty big win for a guy suffering from depression.

its hard to say whether or not his relationship with Sachi by the end was on thin ice or not. She at least said she accepted the person he was BEFORE the cops showed up. not to mention her going out with punpun shows that she did change her perspective on him from what it was before; the overall change in her character from punpun's absence led her to stop viewing relationships with a parasitic mentality.

His uncle also appeared as if he had moved past the whole "My wife slept with my underage nephew" thing, or it was at least implied when he took off his "indifference shades" and put his old glasses back on...

>>160120425

I listened to Potsu's "I'm Closing My Eyes" on a loop while reading. I felt like it made the melancholic aspects of the manga even sadder.

>>160115451

Any mentally healthy person would never understand or empathize with this story.

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>>160121210
True true, having type 2 bi-polar disorder helps

>>160115451
Always seemed like trash to me but I never read it.

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I hated this manga. I even finished it, just because of how good/affecting I heard it was.

Reading it felt less like the result of an author attempting to tell a compelling story, and more like someone who was only interested manipulating his audience as much as possible with a laundry-list of platitudes about youth and tasteless tragedy porn. (And judging by interviews with the mangaka this might have been his goal, but whatever).

Every character was a shitty person, or someone pathetic who suffered because that's the mission statement of the manga. They didn't feel like a result of their circumstances, they felt like the result of a sadistic manipulator trying to squeeze every last bit of sympathy from the reader as humanly possible.

In short, the entire manga felt disingenuous. Was that the point? I don't know.

>>160122766
Normalfags eat shit like this up.

>>160123054
It felt like reading one of those books with a Golden Retriever on the cover.
You just know the author is going to kill the dog because that's what brings the tears. This manga felt no different.

>>160123054

Normalfags don't read manga like Punpun

Asano literally gave him the worst ending. Punpun wants to die and be forgotten but instead he has people that want him to live and Sachi is basically writing a manga about him.

Read his interview. The ending of Punpun is not a happy or good one.

Who was Aiko again? The childhood crush? I don't remember her commiting sudoku

>>160123342

A childhood crush Punpun couldn't forget and let go, despite having plenty of woman around him.

>>160123342
Yes. He liked her as a kid, he grew up chasing other women, and decided to pursue her because she was the one who got away.

He wound up murdering her mom and abusing her into suicide.

Use some fucking spoilers you faggots.
Anyways, if you're easily influenced mentally by media or already depressed do NOT read Punpun

>>160123427
>>160123476
wait HOL UP
I remember punpun ending with him being a massive nigger and getting back with aiko despite knocking up that other chick up, even going as far as getting rid of aiko's mom for her and that's it, no recollection of suicides

>>160123591
He didn't knock up anyone. But yeah, Aiko hanged herself.
He got back with the manga chick at the end.

>>160123591
He isn't the father of Sachi's daughter. Anyways all the other stuff happens, but Akio commits suicide in the end.

They wouldn't last anyways; they were toxic for each other.

>>160123591

Punpun became a massive asshole in the end but killing Aiko's mom was self defence for the most part

Yeah 5cm/s is the limit of tragedy wankery I can take, I'm probably never going to read this one.

>>160123886
>5cm
>tragedy

>>160123914
How else would you describe it, I guess drama doesn't quite fit it.
It doesn't have that kind of feeling.

>>160116316
Moon is a good manga. The ending will hit anyone with empathy or NEET experience hard.

>>160117013
Any explanation on his different appearances?
Pegasus hinted toward the polyhedron, and I can guess that the eyes represent some sort of all knowing attitude that comes from cynicism, and pessimism, maybe.

>>160124460
>Moon
http://bato.to/comic/_/comics/moon-r323
??

>>160123886
>>160123914
the manga is excellent m8, no shame in liking it