Goodnight Punpun

Goodnight Punpun
First tankōbon volume cover, featuring Punpun Onodera
おやすみプンプン
(Oyasumi Punpun)
Genre
Manga
Written byInio Asano
Published byShogakukan
English publisher
Magazine
DemographicSeinen
Original runMarch 15, 2007November 2, 2013
Volumes13

Goodnight Punpun (Japanese: おやすみプンプン, Hepburn: Oyasumi Punpun) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Inio Asano. It was originally serialized in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Sunday between 2007 and 2008, and was transferred to Weekly Big Comic Spirits, where it ran from 2008 to 2013. Its chapters were collected in thirteen tankōbon volumes. In North America, it was licensed for English release by Viz Media.

A coming-of-age drama story, it follows the life of a child named Onodera Punpun, from his elementary school years to his early 20s, as he copes with his dysfunctional family, love life, friends, life goals and hyperactive mind, while occasionally focusing on the lives and struggles of his schoolmates and family. Punpun and the members of his family are normal humans, but are depicted to the reader in the form of crudely drawn birds. The manga explores themes such as depression, love, trauma, social isolation, death, and family.