Goodnight Punpun, Vol. 6

A dark coming-of-age tale where slice-of-life slices back.

This is Punpun Onodera’s 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 don’t.

Punpun has finally reunited with the love of his life, Aiko!

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But she isn’t as exciting and wonderful as he remembered.

And she doesn’t make him exciting and wonderful.

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In fact, he thinks they’re both terribly banal.

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And now they’ve done something terrible…

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Punpun, what do you do when there’s no way out?