Goodnight Punpun, Vol. 2: Volume 2
By (Author) Inio Asano
Viz Media, Subs. of Shogakukan Inc
Viz Media, Subs. of Shogakukan Inc
10th July 2016
14th July 2016
United States
General
Fiction
741.5
Paperback
432
Width 146mm, Height 210mm, Spine 36mm
572g
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.
Punpun was an average kid in an average town
But things have changed.
The love of his life wants to kill him.
His parents got divorced.
And God is being mean to him.
What are you going to do now, Punpun
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.