Goodnight Punpun, Vol. 6

A dark coming-of-age tale where slice-of-life slices back.
Punpun has finally reunited with the love of his life, Aiko!
But she isn’t as exciting and wonderful as he remembered.
And she doesn’t make him exciting and wonderful.
In fact, he thinks they’re both terribly banal.
And now they’ve done something terrible…
Punpun, what do you do when there’s no way out?
Punpun has finally reunited with the love of his life, Aiko!
But she isn’t as exciting and wonderful as he remembered.
And she doesn’t make him exciting and wonderful.
In fact, he thinks they’re both terribly banal.
And now

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.