“Idealistic boy Punpun faces harsh realities of love, family violence, and isolation in a dark coming-of-age journey.”
Goodnight Punpun
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Synopsis
Idealistic boy Punpun faces harsh realities of love, family violence, and isolation in a dark coming-of-age journey.
Punpun Onodera is a normal 11-year-old boy living in Japan. Hopelessly idealistic and romantic, Punpun begins to see his life take a subtle—though nonetheless startling—turn to the adult when he meets the new girl in his class, Aiko Tanaka. It is then that the quiet boy learns just how fickle maintaining a relationship can be, and the surmounting difficulties of transitioning from a naive boyhood to a convoluted adulthood. When his father assaults his mother one night, Punpun realizes another thing: those whom he looked up to were not as impressive as he once thought. As his problems increase, Punpun's once shy demeanor turns into voluntary reclusiveness. Rather than curing him of his problems and conflicting emotions, this merely intensifies them, sending him down the dark path of maturity in this grim coming-of-age saga.
What people say
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Derived from 120 sampled reviews
What 120 readers settled on.
Polarized
σ 2.90 · split reception
5.8 pts
Recommenders 9.7 · others 3.9
↓ 0.18
Running avg · Jun 2008 → Mar 2026
- 10 “Literally perfect in every way possible. It's gonna fuck you up like nothing has never fucked you up before. You'll connect with it in the strangest emotional way. The events may have never...”
- 10 “This manga made me see the world in a completely different way, I had never read a manga like this and honestly I loved it. his drawing style and his characters are incredible, especially the main...”
- 9 “Every character in this manga is trash. All of them are disgusting in some way. But still I felt identified with all of them. I can see myself portrayed in every flaw, in every vile and selfish...”
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A Manga Publication
- Format 147 × 13 ch × vol
- Total read 19h 36m approx
- Published Mar 2007 – Nov 2013
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M3827 catalog