Goodnight Punpun, Vol. 5 [Paperback]

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,reallydon’t.

Punpun gave himself a strict deadline.

By the time his lease is up, he and Aiko will be together, his life will be better and he’ll be someone…

Or else.

Hey, Punpun, your lease just ran out.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 seriesSubarashii Sekai, available in English from VIZ Media asWhat a Wonderful World!His other works includeHikari no Machi(City of Light),Nijigahara HolographandUmibe no Onna no Ko(A Girl on the Shore), as well assolaninandGoodnight Punpun, also available from VIZ Media.