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4.15 AVERAGE
4.15 AVERAGE
challenging
emotional
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts
The writing and style is still brilliant, but I am quite upset with Yuichi. I think the most disappointing thing is that it is all still entirely believable
challenging
dark
emotional
medium-paced
Saying goodbye to this series after vol. 2 - it's just not for me, and I'm tired of the Shingi character type. This might be a good time to actually finish Death Note????
dark
emotional
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Again another great volume. Now, it's a few years later and PunPun is in his early teens but still pines for Aiko Tanaka despite the fact that other kids gossip about her quietness, her family, and her boyfriend. Yep, she has a boyfriend who is on the badminton team with PunPun, but he's a hard working older student. At first, PunPun wants to kill him, but over a walk home he realizes that he's a good guy and that makes PunPun more distraught over the love triangle in his mind.
I love the art. Every one and every thing is real looking with details and texture but have faces that are almost cariatures. PunPun is full of energy and this stick figure hero is more active including his badminton practice and emotional freak outs. I like the focus on detailed eyes and hands to show his emotional reactions. This same happens with his uncle.
The story take a big swerve from PunPun's childhood love triangle to go into his Uncle Yuichi's past of why a single man would so quickly leave his own life to live with his siter and her kid. It's a very adult story of graphic noir drama involving his job as a pottery teacher with a boring life and girlfriend and the 16 year old daughter with a troubled past of one of his housewife students. It is very detailed and full of Yuichi pours his heart out to a young woman who is interested in him, but he initially rejects her because of guilt. The new girlfriend helps him reconcile with his past, but there's a twist at the end of the book.
I'm not sure where the story is going with PunPun's old childhood friends Seki and Shimizu. They almost bookend the story, but PunPun doesn't spend much time with them. They're both traumatized frm last volume's fiery explosion, but Seki is an apathetic deliquent but he's lucky to have Shimizu as a loyal friend. This chapter is pretty dark (with rote letters from his dad, God not being on PunPun's sdie or giving good advice, and confusing inner monologues).
I love the art. Every one and every thing is real looking with details and texture but have faces that are almost cariatures. PunPun is full of energy and this stick figure hero is more active including his badminton practice and emotional freak outs. I like the focus on detailed eyes and hands to show his emotional reactions. This same happens with his uncle.
The story take a big swerve from PunPun's childhood love triangle to go into his Uncle Yuichi's past of why a single man would so quickly leave his own life to live with his siter and her kid. It's a very adult story of graphic noir drama involving his job as a pottery teacher with a boring life and girlfriend and the 16 year old daughter with a troubled past of one of his housewife students. It is very detailed and full of Yuichi pours his heart out to a young woman who is interested in him, but he initially rejects her because of guilt. The new girlfriend helps him reconcile with his past, but there's a twist at the end of the book.
I'm not sure where the story is going with PunPun's old childhood friends Seki and Shimizu. They almost bookend the story, but PunPun doesn't spend much time with them. They're both traumatized frm last volume's fiery explosion, but Seki is an apathetic deliquent but he's lucky to have Shimizu as a loyal friend. This chapter is pretty dark (with rote letters from his dad, God not being on PunPun's sdie or giving good advice, and confusing inner monologues).
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes