Goodnight Punpun, Vol. 2

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