What's the Punpun of comics?

I really don't know if anything in Yea Forums can produce that level of depression and pain
Maybe this tho

punpun is a comic retard

This, so much. It has the same sort of tone and subject matter, seeing as it also follows the doomed journey of a disturbed loner as he gets into all sorts of fucked-up situations. Even the art style is similar, as it's cartoony characters juxtaposed against photo-realistic backgrounds.

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It's also worth noting that both comics are about people struggling and failing to live with mental illness and trauma, with each of them taking similar turns near the end.

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Can someone tl;dr Oyasumi Punpun. What's all the hype about, as I'll never bother reading it

It's a slice of life comic about a lonely kid growing up having to deal with a bad home life, alienation from the rest of humanity, and an undiagnosed mental illness of some kind. People like it's very real in how it depicts the problems he faces. It's garnered a cult following because it speaks truth to power while having a variety of complex, depthful characters.

I don't want to give away too much of the plot, so I'll just say it's an emotionally-draining reading experience. It starts off bittersweet but then gets very grim and realistic save for a few magic-realism elements. Just a word of advice, you can skip any section involving the Pegasus cult subplot that crops up in the latter half of the manga. It's functionally unrelated to Punpun's struggles and many people have rightly criticized it for being useless filler that's at odds with the rest of the story.

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I couldn't get into Punpun and ended up dropping it after the second omni. It kept circlejerking over varying degrees of lolawkwardxd and the Punyamas being shitty copypasted 8bit sprites when everything else looks gorgeous just made me hate it even more.

On the other hand, I fucking love Blast.

That's a drama, not SoL.

The cult was entirely relevant to punpun's own search for 'god' in addition to tying together several characters plot lines that would have otherwise had zero connection.
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Would you have rather punpun look like a generic anime protaganist? It was a strong artistic choice not to directly show your main character or their dialogue.

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>circklejerking
please elaborate
>lolawkwardxd
I'm not sure I understand..I don't remember the comic being heavy on wacky nonsequiter humor after the very beginning chapters when Punpun's in grade school. Even then, it was absurdist/magic-realist stuff, plus I don't recall any moments of cringy "*raises spork*"-type jokes. And Punpun's appearance changes over the course of the comic to reflect his growth as a character. There's a specific story purpose in first showing him as a stick figure bird, as that's when he's still innocent and wide-eyed. It makes sense that there's lots of more quriky, absurdist humor at that point because things haven't gone to hell for him yet. Things start out mostly okay in Punpun's life and then progressively worsen.

Blast is extremely good though, I can't dispute that.

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>protaganist
Something that looked like just shred of care had been put into it would've been tolerable. As it is, it just reeks of Asana having an "oh shit, deadline tomorrow and assistants are already done, i'll just copypaste this shitty sprite over and over and pretend it's a stylistic choice" moment. The contrast is simply just too jarring.

>circklejerking
>lolawkwardxd
Those are not two seperate arguments. Punpun kept going from one awkward situation to the next and it got stale after a while.

I share some of the same sentiments with you (not a fan of Goodnight Punpun), but it was most definitely a stylistic choice. You also have to understand that Asano is great at composition, but otherwise not extremely skilled at drawing.

I dropped Punpun, it felt like your run of the mill melodrama that seems realistic or particularly heavy only to people who never really experienced bullshit drama in their lives.

>but otherwise not extremely skilled at drawing.
I don't think this is true at all. His characters look fantastic.

I strongly resent that point because I have lived bullshit like that, especially in regards to Punpun being bipolar, not being able to connect with anyone, and having a difficult relationship with his mom.

Goodnight Punpun is a comic.

Finally someone who has good taste on this board

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Was Punpun bipolar? Maybe I didn't get that far cause I dropped it around time his uncle's gf hired a kid to kill some dude (that's when manga completely lost me, like what the actual fuck are you talking about), but it seems to me it's just your projection.

It's far from being as good as Punpun, still good but really not on the same level

It's never specified, but it seemed to me like that's what he suffered from. His mom and him have mood swings and usually seem depressed and uncertain about the state of their lives, so that was my assumption. If you have a better suggestion than let me hear it.

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He's pretty good at design too, even though his characters look limp. He works with what he has very well.

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