Goodnight Punpun, Vol. 6

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Punpun and Aiko visit Aiko's mother to announce to her that Aiko is leaving, but she reacts by stabbing Aiko's side with a knife. Trying to save her, Punpun fights Aiko's mother, and ends up strangling her to death, killing her on purpose. The two bury the body in the forest and leave the town to flee from the police, deciding to go to Kagoshima like they had promised each other when they were children. As they travel, they grow more hostile and resentful toward each other and become more depressed. As Aiko's injury worsens, she tries to puncture Punpun's eye with a fork, but only ends up giving him a minor injury. Meanwhile, Sachi becomes worried about Punpun's absence and starts searching for him. Saving him from bullies, Seki becomes closer to Shimizu. One day when Punpun skips practice, Yaguchi befriends him. In badminton, Punpun's friend Komatsu starts to dominate Yaguichi, who is also suffering from achilles tendinitis. When Punpun confides his feelings for Aiko to Yaguichi, who is torn between his sports career and her, Yaguichi wagers his relationship with Aiko over the result of the upcoming tournament. Yuichi meets Midori, a worker at a coffee shop, who asks him out. Although they get along, Yuichi holds guilt from a past relationship and tries to drive Midori away, but she demands to learn about his past. Yuichi recounts how five years ago he was teaching at a pottery workshop and went on a date with the high school age daughter of one of his students. She revealed to Yuichi that after having had an abortion, she was being kept under house arrest by her mother and requested Yuichi's help. Loo, Egan (May 30, 2008). "Shogakukan Confirms End of Young Sunday, Judy Mags". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on July 24, 2019 . Retrieved May 22, 2021.

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] 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.Shogakukan (in Japanese). September 30, 2010. Archived from the original on May 9, 2013 . Retrieved July 25, 2015. Goodnight Punpun, Volume 1". Viz. Archived from the original on March 26, 2016 . Retrieved March 22, 2016. Punpun and Aiko's relationship and injuries worsen more and more as they both display suicidal behavior. After Punpun comes close to killing a stranger for no real reason, the duo arrives in Kagoshima and decide to go to the nearby island Tanegashima. Once there, after an innocent evening spent having fun, Punpun decides to strangle Aiko to death with a rope before killing himself, but she talks him out of it, while also confessing that she is in fact the one who killed her mother, having stabbed her to death after noticing that she was still alive after her fight with Punpun. Meanwhile, Sachi keeps on searching Punpun by meeting with his friends and family. a b おやすみプンプン / １３. Shogakukan (in Japanese). December 27, 2013. Archived from the original on March 16, 2015 . Retrieved July 25, 2015.

Shogakukan (in Japanese). October 28, 2011. Archived from the original on February 21, 2013 . Retrieved July 25, 2015.a b "Goodnight Punpun, Vol. 6". Viz Media. Archived from the original on March 19, 2017 . Retrieved April 16, 2017. 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. 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.

Oyasumi Punpun". Editorial IVREA (in Spanish). Archived from the original on July 28, 2017 . Retrieved July 28, 2017. 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] Gute Nacht, Punpun, Band 1". Tokyopop (in German). Archived from the original on July 26, 2015 . Retrieved July 25, 2015.Silverman, Rebecca. "Goodnight Punpun GN 3". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on November 13, 2016 . Retrieved March 7, 2017. ...after [Punpun] experiences statutory rape by Midori... 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. Shogakukan (in Japanese). January 30, 2009. Archived from the original on May 9, 2013 . Retrieved July 25, 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*.

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.Hasta ahora Punpunmama ha estado más bien detrás de la historia, como un personaje que aunque "importante" en la vida del protagonista, pues es su madre y por lo tanto está siempre presente, parecía más bien como un personaje que ni siquiera llega a ser secundario, sino casi circunstancial, como un adorno de fondo. Por no decir que lo que hasta ahora se nos había dejado ver de ella era bastante repelente en general, siempre con ese aire de mala madre e inclusive mala persona, egoísta, vulgar, descuidada, etc.