Buenas noches, Punpun, vol. 10

おやすみプンプン [Oyasumi Punpun] #10

by Inio Asano, Marc Bernabé (translator)

¿Cómo se enfrentará Punpun a la realidad de una Aiko adulta? Durante años ha seguido adelante gracias a la visión idealizada de su amor de la infancia, pero es posible que al conocerla de verdad, su sueño se derrumbe.

Genres: Manga, Seinen, Comics, Fiction, Graphic Novels, Drama, Slice Of Life

224 pages, Paperback

First published April 27, 2012

About the author

Inio Asano (浅野いにお, Asano Inio) is a Japanese cartoonist. He is known for his character-driven stories and his detailed art-style, making him one of the most influential manga author of his generation.
Asano was born in 1980 and produced his first amateur comics as a teenager. His professional debut happened in 2000 in the pages of the magazine Big Comic Spirits. Since then, he has collaborated with most of the major Japanese magazines of seinen manga (comics for a mature audience). Among Asano's internationally acclaimed works are: the psychological horror Nijigahara Holograph (2003-2005); the drama Solanin (2005-2006); the existentialistic slice-of-life Goodnight Punpun (2007-2013); the erotic A Girl on the Shore (2009-2013); the sci-fi Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction (2014-2022).

Reviews

[Rahul]

4 Stars

It is my absolute inexperience of the adulthood, especially related to girl, love that makes it hard for me to feel and understand this manga.

[Aitor · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ya no hay marcha atrás.

Vuelve la excelencia a esta serie. Tal y como esperaba, la llegada del capítulo 100 y sus consecuencias han iniciado una cadena de eventos maravillosa. Maravillosamente horripilante, también. Aquí, las semillas que Asano ha ido plantando a lo largo de siete años de publicación comienzan a germinar con continuos callbacks y el crecimiento de Punpun. Es un tomo insoportable en el mejor de los sentidos, que no se contenta con mostrar a un personaje ya bastante jodido, sino que suma a la ecuación a un segundo. El demonio los cría y ellos se juntan, está claro.

Me fascina la forma en que Asano ha ido creando poco a poco esta historia tan personal. En tomos como el anterior, tan transicional y centrado en el inútil de Pegasus, no podía verse esa maestría narrativa y emocional del autor, así que es una maravilla contemplarla en toda su gloria con estos capítulos. No es un tomo perfecto, claro (que te den, GR), pero sí toca los botones exactos como para volver a conectar conmigo. Punpun por fin se enfrenta a la realidad de aquella sombra que tanto andaba buscando durante diez años y el resultado es francamente inmejorable. El autor sabe representar las mentes desquiciadas de sus personajes sin perderse en la típica hipercaricaturización manganime, que encuentro inaguantable, pero también más allá y ahonda a través de la imagen en estas psiques. Es cierto que no he desarrollado una relación tan importante con Sachi; lo importante, al fin y al cabo, es saber que ella era una de las pocas capaz de ayudar al pobre Punpun a ayudarse a sí mismo. Y sí, ese capítulo final es devastador en su simbología y consecuencias. Me gusta que Asano haya decidido incluir a todos los personajes que formaron parte capital de la vida de Punpun en un solo capítulo para mostrar todo aquello que deja atrás, aunque creo que no digo nada nuevo si afirmo que Yûichi y Midori deberían haber tenido una preparación previa.

En general, este es un tomo más que sólido que inicia el tono sórdido de la serie a partir de ahora. Es, como he dicho, toda una experiencia que genera impotencia, más aún en retrospectiva. La leyenda del Tanabata continúa con su simbología por fin y, conocida la historia, lo que está por venir no es bonito. Nuestro Altair favorito ha puesto de vez en cuando los cuernos, sí, pero es ahora cuando los cuernos forman parte de él. Ganazas.

[RoNi (Evermore version) · Rating 4 out of 5]

Comentarios preliminares: [CONTIENE SPOILERS]
Puntaje: 4.5
A cada tomo la obra mejora en su calidad dramática y narrativa y desde el tomo 8 me vienen gustando como para ponerle 5 estrellas. Me volví bastante insensible con la carga depresiva de la obra, creo que ya me acostumbré lo cual en parte es bueno porque me estaba haciendo pelota.
Algunas actitudes que tuvo el protagonista fueron inaceptables cómo casi abusar a Aiko o dejar abandonada a Sachi en una situación tan delicada como interrumpir un embarazo, no importa si es en calidad de amigo o en relación de algo más, si la otra persona contaba con vos no podés fallar en esa.
Me gustó como mostraron la caída de la idealización en este tomo y el comienzo de las red flags que a uno deberían alertar que por ahí no es. Muy real, este tomo fue un espejo en el que no me gustó mirarme y recordar viejos comportamientos míos y de otras personas con las que tuve relaciones insanas.

[Aida · Rating 5 out of 5]

End. 1401/4/26
زبونم بند اومده حتی دیگه نمیتونم چیزی بنویسم واسش.
حدودا ۲۰ ساعت شده(داخل دو روز) دارم اینو میخونم و هنوط نمیتونم ولش کنم و من باید واسه این یک ریویو بلندددد بنویسم. چون اصلا نمیشه ریویو کوتاه واسش نوشت.
(جلد آخر مینویسم)

[Damian · Rating 5 out of 5]

"I know I'm being unfairly self-entitled but... I want to make your life miserable."

[Toby · Rating 5 out of 5]

please send punpun to therapy in volume 11

[Niyura · Rating 4 out of 5]

wow

[Volo · Rating 4 out of 5]

si hubiera un sitio al que caer más bajo que este… estaríamos hablando ya, tal vez, del mismísimo infierno.

https://youtu.be/eMJ5wULC2Ms?si=GwE3y...

👩🏼‍🤝‍👨🏻🚬🌧️

[Eni Gajanova · Rating 4 out of 5]

Možda najbolji tankobon do sada.

[Mon · Rating 4 out of 5]

Me gustó mucho el arte aquí.

[Dragana]

Kakvih je bilo delova ovo je i super. Skroz zanimljivo. Jedva čekam da zaokružim priču, iako očekujem katastrofu već u sledećem delu 🥴

[Yuki Ura · Rating 5 out of 5]

The place where Mr. Sachi and Aiko-chan were dejasing was very sad.

[zaï · Rating 5 out of 5]

i try to understand this manga as much as i can. as another user said, maybe it’s because i’m not a man struggling to get bitches. yet, i love the weird ambiance but seriously what the heck.

[Alfit0 · Rating 2 out of 5]

Veo las reseñas y es muy mmm gente la relación está basada en el abuso, por qué están hablando de amor?

[Nicholas Gioletti · Rating 5 out of 5]

IT'S SO OVER

WE'RE SO BACK

OH SHIT FUCK

OH MY GOD

NOOO

OK NVMIND FUCK IT WE BALL

[Leila ✨ · Rating 2 out of 5]

No puedo creer que todavía queden TRES VOLUMENES MÁS.

2 de 5 estrellas.

[Jon Ureña · Rating 5 out of 5]

This series is called "Goodnight Punpun" in English. This is a review of just this volume.

I have been surprised before by the depths of psychological truth that this series was exploring, but this was the story and the protagonist at their most achingly bleak and real in some aspects. At times I was apprehensive to turn the pages because I feared the characters' mental state was going to push them to do stuff they were going to regret for the rest of their lives.

By the end of the last volume, our protagonist suffered a psychotic break and hid his real self, one he had exposed enough to the world to know that it would never be accepted nor succeed in any way, inside a fake persona modelled after his next door neighbor, an easy going, amateur soccer player who has no troubles bringing home a new girl every weekend. In the middle of the protagonist's blitzkrieg to fuck as many random women as possible, and during a psychotic break, he also apparently had enough mental presence to take driving lessons. In that building one of the girls he approaches likes this fake protagonist, and agrees to get together after her exam. But turns out that the person who just sat right next to the protagonist was Aiko Tanaka, the love/obsession of his life, the girl who had cursed him to regret to the end of his days his betrayal as a ten-or-so year old, when he had failed to meet with this girl as they had planned to escape together far, far away.

Aiko recognizes the protagonist. She wonders if he even remembers her. Bitch, the guy has done little else during these last ten years but remember you. The present Aiko seems at ease and comfortable with her life; she asks him to hang out that weekend, but for the rest of the day she has to go to work. She works as a model, you see. That weekend they get together for lunch. The protagonist hears from Aiko that she has a solid modelling job, she's taking acting lessons, and some connections might land her a job in fashion design. That was sort of her dream as a child, or so she said, and she made it. When she asks Punpun for what life has done to him in the last ten years, the protagonist immediately realizes that he should in no way expose his real self to the accomplished Aiko he's facing. He's in college majoring in education. And he has a girlfriend too (which is only half false, I guess, considering Sachi). Aiko has a boyfriend as well, an older man with resources and who occasionally leaves her in town alone to travel with his friends. As the protagonist is observing the woman in front of him, a rumble grows in his mind. Who the hell is this person I'm listening to? This isn't the sad, lost Aiko I knew. This is just some stupid, vapid girl, like millions of them out there.

Meanwhile, the protagonist's artist "friend" Sachi has been working on a new manga by herself. She meets with the previous editor and manages to sell it. However, it's a piece she's modelled after what was in fashion. She feels defeated, having decided to accept her mediocrity. The editor is pleased, and tells her that he doesn't know what was the deal between Sachi and the protagonist, but it was a good idea to ditch that guy. He clearly was just dragging her down.

The protagonist is disturbed to no end by the Aiko he has met. Aiko had remained in this world, but the real Aiko had been lost along the way. He can barely take it, and retreats further into his fake easy going, soccer player persona to meet the chick he introduced himself to at the driving school. They have sex. They talk for a bit like some normal, well-adjusted couple. The more the protagonist pretends, the more others he interacts with believe they get along with that mask he's wearing, the further he falls into despair and the worse opinion he has of those around him. How can it be this easy? Is this really what this world accepts? Once the girl tells him how they seem made for each other, the protagonist breaks out of his mask for a second by punching the wall. He decides to flee from this girl's apartment as she's shouting for him to give some explanation. We don't see her again.

The protagonist wanders the streets feeling his lowest. It isn't fair, he thinks. It isn't fair that I was cursed by Aiko as a child and I have remained tethered to the girl I abandoned as she waited for me to meet her and escape far away, all the while she has left her sadness behind and adjusted to this world.

The next time he meets with Aiko they go to a photobooth, a movie, a bar. At night they walk around somewhat drunk. She tells him that it was an unique occasion, but that she's way too busy with her modelling work and her boyfriend to meet like this. He can't deal with the notion of losing Aiko again, whoever this version is. He takes her hand and half forces her to move around, any excuse to keep her close. Does she want to go to a karaoke bar, a manga cafe? She tells the protagonist that he's scaring her. The protagonist decides for her that they'll go to a hotel. In the room, he lays Aiko on the bed and strips her to her underwear. If you've managed to become such a normal, well-adjusted girl, one of those sluts who will go on dates with men other than their boyfriends, well, I'll treat you like one. He wants to ruin her. He slides his fingers down her panties. She asks him to stop. He insists, but ultimately Aiko pulls away. As she's dressing, she says that this was a mistake, that it would have been better if they hadn't met each other again.

Some following day, as the protagonist is by himself, he snaps to his senses and realizes that this is it, he doesn't want to remain in this city that he chose to find the Aiko he had lost. If he is to live, he must move far, far away, and start a life beyond everyone he has ever known. Still, hoping for some sort of companionship, he enters Sachi's apartment with her spare key and lays on a pile of her underwear while wearing a pair of her panties on his head. Suddenly an unknown man comes in. We cut to a meeting betwen that man, Sachi and the protagonist. The guy was Sachi's exhusband. Turns out he's some established television host, a perfectly rounded man who knows it. He's disappointed with Sachi having failed to live to her potential, and he's even more annoyed by having to share his space with the protagonist, who this guy immediately recognizes as a dreg of society, a good for nothing piece of shit that the world will eventually push out. In fact, he suggests, if the world goes to shit it would be largely because of people like the protagonist. Sachi, disturbed, asks the guy to stop, but the protagonist says that it's alright. All he can say about that is that they will never get along.

As Sachi and the protagonist are walking the streets, she admits something rather horrid: she's pregnant, and it's her exhusband's. The protagonist, already broken after meeting with the new Aiko, can't even react properly. Sachi adds that although it might seem selfish of her, she still wants the protagonist to be in her life and help her through this, because she doesn't want to involve her exhusband even to let him know.

I lost almost all my respect for Sachi right there. There are few more despicable things you can do to a man you are sort of dating than getting pregnant by another guy and yet expecting the guy you cucked to take the economic, emotional and time-related burden of raising this other guy's child. "Hey, I don't want your genes for my offspring; I'd rather have this other guy's fitter sperm, but I certainly need you for support and money, because I can't do this alone". Fuck off, fuck off, fuck off.

Still, the protagonist is an idiot, so he half assedly agrees. Sachi adds that maybe she'll end up having an abortion, but if she does, she wants the protagonist to accompany her to the procedure. Some days later Sachi calls him to say that she's actually decided to abort it. The protagonist decides that this is his last deed in town, with these people. Once Sachi has aborted her child, he'll pack up and move far, far away.

After his next driving lesson, the protagonist comes across Aiko again. He asks if they can talk for a bit. She looks stripped of emotions, but as they walk around she can't help but reminisce; a song playing in the background reminded her of a day in school when the protagonist skipped choir practice. She wonders out loud what has changed in her life during these last ten years, and what use can it be to reminisce about past times long buried. In a foul mood, she says she's leaving. The protagonist, however, raises his voice after her. I lied about everything, he says. I'm not in college, I don't have a girlfriend. For the last ten years I have done nothing else but wait for you, but after meeting her, and realizing that it wasn't the Aiko he had waited for, he felt disappointed and betrayed. "The guilt from breaking the promise to go to Kagoshima with you on that day still remains with me and has stripped me of all my self-confidence, leaving just an empty, worthless husk that you see right now. No... It might be more accurate to say that I only conveniently blamed you for everything's that's gone wrong with my life so far... But my eyes have finally been opened now." He thanks her for allowing him to meet her again, even if it was for the last time. Aiko turns with tears in her eyes and reminds him of a promise they made as children, that if he were to lie again, she would kill him. She embraces him and tells him that she had been waiting for him as well.

Meanwhile, Sachi meets with her do-gooder friend, who tells Sachi she has hit a low point by taking advantage of the protagonist's pushover attitude to drag him into dealing with another man's child, even to abort it. Sachi doesn't feel good about it, and says that maybe she's doing it to wake him up and force him to prove his love for her. I wonder if she was actually pregnant to begin with.

The protagonist and Aiko are back in his apartment, laying on the ground. Unlike last time the protagonist doesn't touch her; this is Aiko after all, the one he had intended to care for and protect since he was a child. She admits most of what she told him was a lie. She did modelling once, but hated it and quit. She hasn't gone to college, she doesn't have a boyfriend, and the clothes she was wearing to meet with him were brand new, and chosen because he might like them. She tells him that he's the only one who can make her smile easily. Still, she's worried about her mom's reaction when Aiko comes back home late, so she needs to leave. They kiss as if they were children dating for the first time, and as the protagonist watches her leave, he feels a burning in his chest. How selfish was of her to renew this curse, to make him think and feel about nothing but her.

We see Aiko by herself the next day. She has a black eye, and she's working at her factory job her mother forced her to get. Her coworkers know her as the niece of the manager, and a mute with a completely uncaring personality. When she goes back home to her ill mother and other people who belong to the cult from the subplot, Aiko gets the courage to speak up thanks to having met with the protagonist recently. She doesn't want any more of this shitty life. As a response, her mother beats her more. That night she lies in bed around bloodied tissues, and wishes for nothing but a normal life, the most boring normal life imaginable.

Sachi phones the protagonist to tell him that he doesn't have to meet her for her abortion appointment today if he doesn't want to. The protagonist is dismissive and bitter about the whole situation, and as he's speaking on the phone, Aiko knocks on his door. Sachi says that whatever the protagonist decides, she'll wait for him at the planned time and place. As soon as the protagonist sees the bruises on Aiko he hangs up the phone. Aiko apologizes for interrupting him, and turns to leave. The protagonist, in a weird foul mood, grabs her wrist and tells her to say what she had intended. Instead of comforting her, he decides the best course of action is to strip her chest bare and bring her inside his apartment. He makes love to her. Afterwards she sits against the wall with her crotch bloodied. She asks the protagonist if he likes her. The protagonist, coming down from his impulsive rage, says he does. In that case, she says, she likes him too.

I didn't get the impression the first time I read through these last two chapters, but it is that Aiko. It's a ten year old Aiko who never got to grow up. I used to consider her too wild and needy when she was a child, but as a 20 year old who has tolerated that shit for her entire life and never moved at all from her childhood, I feel absolutely terrible for her.

Aiko says she wants to run away. She can't live with her mother any longer. The protagonist says that he had already been planning to move away, so let's do it. However, he thinks of his own mother and can't bear the notion of just moving far, far away without telling her family first, so he tells her that he'll accompany Aiko whenever she decides to finally move. Aiko wants to do it right now. They get in a taxi. As the protagonist is holding Aiko's hand, he realizes that he'll finally break the curse. He'll be able to move away from that image of Aiko from ten years ago, of her waiting on the corner where they had decided to meet to escape far away, her forlorn expression and crying eyes. The taxi passes in front of the corner where Sachi is waiting for the protagonist to meet with her, and as the protagonist feels his previous world fading away behind him, we see Sachi crying.

Bravo, Asano. Although there are three volumes to go, and anything might go terribly from now on, you pulled this off.

[Elessar · Rating 3 out of 5]

3,5/5

Punpun se reencuentra con su primer amor, y todo sucede de una forma inesperada. La sinceridad sigue a las mentiras y abre un nuevo camino en el que resulta complicado cantar victoria todavía, pero que se avecina más esperanzador. Punpun se vuelve cada vez más expresivo con los demás y no se refugia tanto en su incapacidad para decir que "no".
Este nuevo camino puede llevar a un estado de realización personal o bien, como en el mismo manga se dice, "caer tan bajo como el infierno".

[Tijana Marjanović · Rating 4 out of 5]

Jaka, konfuzna četvorka. 😂

[sol ☼ · Rating 4 out of 5]

El mejor tomo hasta ahora. Soy fan. Me volvió a generar la intriga por la historia que había perdido

[Pablo Castillo · Rating 4 out of 5]

"la derrota es total. en absolutamente todo."

[Lonso · Rating 4 out of 5]

4,5

punpun me caes FATAL

[Anya · Rating 5 out of 5]

aiko ma vie

[Vittorio Rainone · Rating 5 out of 5]

Aiko e Punpun finalmente si incontrano, dopo che lui l'ha cercata senza cercarla per anni, rovinandosi l'esistenza. In questo numero che riesce a soddisfare un'attesa durata 100 capitoli, assistiamo all'intensissimo doppio round che porta alla mutua dichiarazione d'amore ritrovato. E lo sentiamo fisicamente non solo per la neo coppia, ma anche, di striscio (e neppure troppo di striscio), per Sachi, che arriva a dichiarare l'importanza di Punpun per lei proprio quando Aiko ha fatto il suo nuovo ingresso trionfale nell'insulsa vita del nostro. Le due splash page con Sachi che piange hanno fatto male, tanto male. Punpun, con le sue stranezze e licenze poetico grafiche, continua ad essere un fumetto magnifico. E i disegni sono stupefacenti (al di là di come Punpun appaia). E le splash page sono davvero meravigliose.

[Sen Dum · Rating 5 out of 5]

PERO PUNPUN TREMENDO INICIO DE TOMO Y TODAVÍA MÁS TREMENDO FINAL!!! Cómo ha merecido la pena seguir tus desdichas durante 9 volúmenes y qué miedo me da lo que te pueda pasar a partir de ahora. UF. Brillante. Casi tanto como la portada metálica.

[Mrbill]

WTF is wrong with this manga

[Rab Araujo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Por el amor a todos los dioses no esperaba que esto pegara tan fuerte.

Estoy entre deprimido, con un poco de asco y enojado al mismo tiempo.

Este tomo Pega, pega, pega como un tren en la cara.

[Jelena]

Ovaj me nastavak zbunjuje svojim optimizmom. Zapravo, veliki deo i nije nimalo veseo. Punpun najzad sreće Aiko, i to u trenutku kada je toliko odustao od sebe da je preuzeo tuđi identet. Sećamo se da je Aiko njegova prva ljubav iz perioda osnovne škole. Ništa čistije, nevinije i jače od prve ljubavi ili prve simpatije. Od tada se nisu sreli i Punpun je nastavio da živi život kao da je Aiko centar njegovog univerzuma, žaleći što nije onda pošao sa njom u drugi grad kako mu je ona i predložila. Tačnije, ta njegova prva osećanja prema njoj bila su toliko jaka da se u svim teškim trenutcima u životu grčevito držao za njih, kao da je samo u njima video smisao. Sve životne udarce trpeo je u nadi da će se ona ponovo pojaviti u njegovom životu i da će sve biti isto kao pre. Držao se Aiko kao da ga ona može vratiti u prošlost, u detinjstvo sa manje briga, u onu čistotu kojoj svi težimo da se vratimo jednom kad je izgubimo.

Međutim, šta se dešava kada je konačno sreće? Posmatra je i ima utisak da to nije ona ista Aiko koju je ispunila svoje snove ne misleći o njemu, dok je on ceo svoj život stavio na pauzu zbog nje. Smatra je devojkom lakog morala jer je na prvi sastanak otišla sa njim u stan i pokušava da je iskoristi. Iz svega bih ja izvukla zaključak da je zapravo Punpun taj koji nije više isti kao pre. Sve što mu se desilo odrazilo se na njega kao osobu. I dok je ranije neke stvari samo maštao, sad se usuđuje da ih radi i protiv njene volje. Dok je ranije strepeo u njenom prisustvu, sad su mu njene priče dosadne. To je donekle i ishod koji sam očekivala iz tog susreta. Tražio je nešto što bi ga "opralo" i vratilo u detinjstvo i ispravilo sve stvari. Ali radi se o tome da to više nije ono što on zaslužuje, niti mu je tamo mesto zbog njegove moralne izopačenosti koja je s vremenom usledila.

Gde je onda optimizam, pitate se. Optimističan je kraj. U drugom delu mange, Aiko se otvara Punpunu, pripoveda mu svoju prošlost iz koje on može zaključiti da nije ni njoj bilo tako bajno kako je ona na početku tvrdila, Punpun takođe otvara svoju dušu i pokazuje mekšu stranu. Njih dvoje odlučuju da krenu iz početka u zajedničku budućnost. Ipak mene taj optimizam u ovoj krajnje pesimističnoj mangi može samo da uplaši. Slutim da je ovo samo zatišje pred buru i sumnjam u mogućnost Punpunovoj iskupljenja, ipak nadam se da grešim.

Saći je tek druga priča i o njoj bih mogla da napišem potpuno drugi prikaz. Ali reći ću samo da mi je interesantna kao ličnost i osoba. I smatram da je vrlo slična Punpunu, sa jednom razlikom što je veliki borac i ne valja se u blatu samosažaljenja i očajanja.

[Raquel Fernández · Rating 5 out of 5]

He pensado varias veces en este final y en esta serie. Hay vidas que empiezan como una tragedia, que ya sabes que no irán bien y que no eres capaz de ver cuando se torcieron porque ya nacieron destinadas a ello, como Aiko. Otras veces son así pero puedes hacer algo. Emociona ver cada pequeño paso que hace Punpun, como forma su tribu y como consigue un pequeño lugar. Quizás no es lo que esperaba, pero al final del día hay personas que le buscan.

Su amigo, que se separa del grupo y vuelve en momentos cruciales, que vive una vida alejada y normal y que vuelve a ese instituto para ver como una y otra vez se repite la misma historia.

[ste · Rating 3 out of 5]

se potessi descriverlo con un aggettivo sarebbe sicuramente esoterico. Gli ultimi volumi, nello specifico, diventano un intrecciarsi di storie e racconti bizzari e si fa fatica a inquadrare ogni personaggio perché sono uno più stano dell'altro. Non saprei neanche come recinsirlo, unico nel suo genere.