Goodnight Punpun, Vol. 1
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Goodnight Punpun, Vol. 1
By (Author) Inio Asano
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Viz Media, Subs. of Shogakukan Inc
Viz Media, Subs. of Shogakukan Inc
10th April 2016
7th April 2016
United States
Classifications
General
Fiction
741.5
Physical Properties
Paperback
448
Width 146mm, Height 210mm, Spine 30mm
596g
Description
A dark coming-of-age tale where slice-of-life slices back.
This is Punpun Onoderas coming-of-age story. His parents marriage is falling apart. His dad goes to jail, and his mom goes to the hospital. He has to live with his loser uncle. He has a crush on a girl who lives in a weird cult. Punpun tries talking with God about his problems, but God is a jerk. Punpun keeps hoping things will get better, but they really, really dont.
Meet Punpun Punyama. Hes an average kid in an average town.
He wants to win a Nobel Prize and save the world.
He wants the girl he has a crush on to like him back.
He wants to find some porn.
Thats what he wants, but what does he get
Author Bio
Inio Asano, a bona fide earthling, was born in Ibaraki, Japan, in 1980. In 2001, his short story Uchu kara Konnichiwa (Hello from Outer Space) won the first Sunday GX Rookie Prize. Later, GX published his series Subarashii Sekai, available in English from VIZ Media as What a Wonderful World! His other works include Hikari no Machi (City of Light), Nijigahara Holograph and Umibe no Onna no Ko (A Girl on the Shore), as well as solanin and Goodnight Punpun, also available from VIZ Media.
