Good night, Punpun

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Manga
title Good night Punpun
Original title お や す み プ ン プ ン
transcription Oyasumi Punpun
country JapanJapan Japan
author Inio Asano
publishing company Shogakukan
magazine Young Sunday
First publication March 15, 2007 - November 2, 2013
expenditure 13

Good night, Punpun ( Jap . おやすみプンプン , Oyasumi Punpun ) is a manga series of Japanese cartoonist Inio Asano . The work has been translated into German, among other things, and is classified into the genres of comedy , drama and coming of age .

content

The series tells of the life of the elementary school pupil Punpun, who has the shape of a bird. He encounters the usual problems of an eleven-year-old, his parents' house is broken (his father is violent and alcoholic, his mother is suicidal), and he often escapes from his everyday life in fantasy worlds. After his father has apparently beaten his mother into a coma, his unemployed young uncle moves in with them for a while because his parents are divorcing. When Aiko, a new girl, enters class, he falls seriously in love for the first time and through her finds an interest in astronomy. At the end of the second volume, the plot jumps by two years into Punpun's time as a middle school student; from volume 10, Punpun is in his mid-twenties.

Drawing style

The backgrounds of the pictures are hyper-realistic and finely drawn, and most of the figures are shown in detail. In contrast, Punpun and his family are only drawn as the outline of a bird's body. Only in the course of the story does the main character or parts of the body take on a more realistic shape in individual scenes.

publication

The manga was published in 2007 in the magazine Young Sunday the publisher Shogakukan in Japan and moved in 2008 to the magazine Big Comic Spirits of the same publishing house. The series ended with issue 49/2013 of the magazine on November 2, 2013. The chapters were published from August 2007 to December 2013 in a total of thirteen anthologies.

Kana publishes the series in French, Panini Comics in Italian, Viz Media in English and Taiwan Tohan in Chinese. A German translation was published in full by Tokyopop from March 2013 to April 2016 . The translation is by Sakura Ilgert.

reception

The volumes sold more than 80,000 times in the weeks after their first publication. In the US, the first volume reached number 3 on the Manga bestseller list.

In his review in the Tagesspiegel, Lars von Törne describes Punpun as " deeply sad [...], melodramatic, often also kitschy ". In spite of the disappointments that the protagonists and thus also the reader expected again and again, the manga, told in a manner that was so sophisticated in terms of form and content , developed a pull that was difficult to escape. The story tells of everyone growing up under adverse circumstances, looking deep into the soul of the protagonists and, in addition to the problems of Punpun with girls and his professional future, also treats the Japanese phenomenon of the hikikomori - withdrawn from all social contacts of young people living.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Lars von Törne: The everyday fight. Tagesspiegel, March 27, 2016, accessed April 26, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Inio Asano's Oyasumi Punpun Manga to End on November 2. Anime News Network , October 26, 2013, accessed October 27, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Japanese Comic Ranking, December 3-9. Anime News Network , December 13, 2012, accessed March 19, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Japanese Comic Ranking, December 30-January 5. Anime News Network, January 9, 2014, accessed April 26, 2016 .
  5. ↑ New York Times Manga Best Seller List, March 20-26. Anime News Network, April 1, 2016, accessed April 26, 2016 .

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