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A review by blkmymorris
Goodnight Punpun, Vol. 2 by Inio Asano
5.0
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).