{"id":112660,"date":"2024-04-08T15:24:58","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T14:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wrongeverytime.com\/?p=39901"},"modified":"2024-04-08T15:24:58","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T14:24:58","slug":"goodnight-punpun-volume-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamefootballmobileanimeiphone.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/08\/goodnight-punpun-volume-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodnight, Punpun \u2013 Volume 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Goodnight Punpun\u2019s third volume begins and ends in resignation. Its front cover largely defines the drama to come: Punpun lost in a bustling crowd, just one (admittedly bird-like) face among many. In elementary school, Punpun marveled at the infinite wonder of the universe, thinking there might be a destined place for him out among the stars. In middle school, he grappled with a hyper-awareness of his own feelings, lost in the sordid anxiety of first self-consciousness. He was lonely, but he was distinct. Now he doesn\u2019t feel like anyone at all.<\/span><\/p>\n

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As with volume two, this third era touches down some years beyond its predecessors\u2019 drama, with Punpun now marveling at his lack of emotion upon completing middle school. It\u2019s a fine structural tool for compartmentalizing Punpun\u2019s drama into distinctive acts, but it\u2019s also just the way of life. People speak of history moving fast or slow, of times when ten years pass in a blink, or a week takes a decade all by itself. Individual lives are much the same – our days seem precious and distinct when we are young, and they <\/span>are<\/span><\/i> precious, but not necessarily distinct. Sometimes, we wipe the dust from our eyes and realize years have passed us by, familiar routines ensuring our memories feel like merely a month spent idle, not an entire era lost in repetition.<\/span><\/p>\n

Watching the tearful faces of his graduating middle school class, Punpun can only experience the joys and sorrows of this transition secondhand. His friends have drifted away, as young friends often do, as <\/span>all<\/span><\/i> friends do if left neglected. Like with so much else in Punpun, the drama of friendship dissolution is conveyed through the inevitable entropy of aging – not so much a \u201cgrand falling out\u201d as simply not putting in the effort to hang out anymore, and at a certain point realizing you are strangers to each other. This is the cruel, common way of life; something <\/span>new<\/span> might always arrive, but if we want the old things we found precious to remain, we must not let them slip away like so many idle afternoons. Aiko watches from a distance. She doesn\u2019t know him anymore.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Things do not improve for Punpun across this volume, I am sorry to say. He begins in a state of dissociative depression: \u201cessentially and consistently, Punpun felt like he was hollow inside.\u201d He knows he is unhappy, and understands that other people are not similarly depressed, but has no idea how he might claim the certainty and purpose that others seem to so naturally exhibit. He flails and rants and seeks sex wherever he might find it, but all the while the clock of his adolescence keeps ticking away. And Punpun is aware of this, too; reflecting back on this volume\u2019s struggles, he thinks \u201cbeing able to say \u2018I was so young then, but those were good times\u2019 seemed almost impossible.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

This might well be the essence of unhappy teenagerdom: not just being a teen, but being profoundly self-conscious of <\/span>being<\/span><\/i> a teenager, of having certain expectations of how you\u2019re supposed to behave, what precious memories you\u2019re supposed to be forging, and not exactly knowing how you\u2019d do that, or even why you would want to. There is no satisfaction, no sense of thrilling deviance – just the lingering, growing certainty that you\u2019re wasting an irreplaceable era of your life, an era that everyone around you says you should be enjoying to the fullest.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Of course, Punpun is not alone in feeling alone, or in failing to understand who he is supposed to be. The only thing that sets him apart is his age; as he reflects early on \u201cif pretending to know everything was childish, and pretending <\/span>not<\/span><\/i> to know was mature, then I must still be a child.\u201d Having experienced so little, he can at least cling to the hope that he\u2019ll simply age through ignorance and insecurity, that if he keeps his head down and keeps doing what he\u2019s supposed to, the world will eventually make sense. His only solace is not yet comprehending the fallibility of adults; unfortunately for him, every potential guardian he could cling to through this transition fails early and often.<\/span><\/p>\n

Punpun\u2019s uncle Yuichi provides this volume\u2019s first example of alleged adulthood. Having found a girl who loves him in spite of his myriad failings, Yuichi proceeds to screw it up by sleeping with a married woman, incurring a debt that can only be paid through the sale of his sister\u2019s home. And even then, he mostly just feels sorry for himself, reflecting that \u201cI never thought getting sympathy from her would be so painful.\u201d Having Punpun\u2019s mother help only emphasizes his own wretched state, and how correct she apparently was in her allegedly simplistic, mundane approach to life and happiness. Life should be a majestic struggle for meaning, right? And yet, thoughts like that have only brought him here, empty and alone, still waiting for a train that will never arrive, staring bitterly at the passing faces of those who set themselves to pursuing emphatically ordinary happiness.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Yuichi\u2019s reckoning is presented through a series of gentle, devastating panels of everyone who cares for him, everyone who was hurt by him and yet still managed to forgive him. His sister, his girlfriend, even the friend who won\u2019t really talk to him. He wants to be destroyed for his transgressions, to be able to pay back his failures in suffering, but he is instead forgiven, and that\u2019s what he can\u2019t stand most of all. How is he supposed to bear the weight of his sins? How is he supposed to move forward, knowing he will continue to hurt the people he loves, and that worst of all they might continue to forgive him? \u201cI hate myself because people are too kind\u201d – if the world around him could offer some of the hatred he feels he deserves, he thinks he would at least feel a bit better. As is, he must conjure all the hatred he feels worthy of to aim at himself.<\/span><\/p>\n

For her part, Midori is no happier than her errant lover. Though she goes through the motions of handling chores and her professional life, she ultimately feels just as empty as Punpun, wretched in her desperation for Yuichi\u2019s return. Having achieved her dream of running her own cafe, she finds herself no happier than before. Confessing her anxieties to Punpun, she asks \u201cWhat\u2019s the one thing you believe in? The thing that, if you lose sight of it, you might lose yourself too. I finally get it now\u2026 for me, achieving my dream was just a checkpoint. I really loved\u2026 the four of us living together.\u201d Single, tentpole achievements rarely provide lasting satisfaction. Contentment must not be a mountain you climb, but a practice you maintain – like living with people whose presence makes you whole. It\u2019s a moment that would seem almost tender, perhaps even cathartic, if not for immediately segueing into Midori sexually assaulting her would-be nephew in search of that ephemeral closeness.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Catharsis is in short supply here. It is visible only in intangible fragments, a moment of Yuichi watching the sun rise over the bay, the fever dreams of Punpun\u2019s increasingly medicated mother. \u201cYou don\u2019t have to repay kindness immediately,\u201d Yuichi\u2019s taxi driver tells him. \u201cYou can pay it back slowly.\u201d Can we turn time\u2019s passage in our favor that way? Can our thoughtless accumulation of days actually enrich our lives and provide a sense of self-worth, rather than an assurance that we\u2019re wasting a precious gift, that life was squandered on us? How can we live such that the days behind us are a comfort, not a source of anguish? Particularly when, as Midori demonstrates, even our dreams are ephemeral reflections of the circumstances that provoked them.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBecause you don\u2019t know who you are, you create a god to cling to, and then heap all of your fears and responsibilities onto him\u2026 and somehow you survive. Is that being human?\u201d In our fallen world, where the comforting fantasy of gods can no longer console us, it is a difficult thing indeed to believe you are following the right path, achieving your genuine purpose. But of course, if you <\/span>don\u2019t<\/span><\/i> follow that path, you end up floundering in indecision and letting years float by, like so many of this story\u2019s characters. And even if you <\/span>do<\/span><\/i> pursue your dream unerringly, you might end up like Midori, the achievement of her childhood ambitions now feeling empty without Yuichi beside her. So where does happiness truly lie?<\/span><\/p>\n

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What wisdom this volume can offer feels insignificant in the shadow of its anxieties. \u201cSeek your own happiness.\u201d \u201cPay back kindness over time.\u201d \u201cIt is a beautiful day.\u201d Such words of advice are, like happiness itself, entirely contextual. They are only transformative if we let them be – if they find us in a moment of crisis, or voiced by someone we have come to rely on. Like Punpun hearing \u201cmy narrow-mindedness makes me sad\u201d from a classmate, the first time he\u2019s recognized himself in another in years, a moment swiftly illuminated by a jubilant rooftop band. A fragment of grace and understanding, tucked between all the injustices and anxieties of living. These are the gems we live for – the moments we remember, after all else has passed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Punpun, at least, still has time on his side. Having lost her home, her health, and any sort of relationship with her son, Mama Onodera can only offer a fatigued warning to the next generation, telling her hospital neighbor that \u201cif you let time push you along, there will be so many things you\u2019ll never be able to get back.\u201d Alongside \u201csinners need to know the pain of being forgiven,\u201d her words could well serve as a thesis for this unhappy volume. Trite words that can only be infused with meaning through experience, the certainty of loneliness, the inescapability of time\u2019s passage; in the end, these things are truly all we have. Only on the verge of death can Punpun\u2019s mother grasp what she was seeking, and what she abandoned in that pursuit. \u201cI wasn\u2019t trying to find myself. Maybe I was waiting for someone to find me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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It is hard to find much hope in Punpun\u2019s world; everyone here is selfish and unhappy, and the things they do to each other to redress those deficiencies are terrible indeed. Kindness exists only at the margins – but of course, as this volume persistently emphasizes, emotional salvation is really just a matter of the right words at the right time. \u201cThere it is,\u201d Mama Punpun thinks to herself, having foolishly attempted to connect with her bunkmate. \u201cShe repaid my idiotic words with kind ones. I won\u2019t want your sympathy! But\u2026 it\u2019s nice.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

But it\u2019s nice. We know our platitudes are meaningless and borderline insincere, but they are often all we have to share with each other. There are no meaningful, profound answers to life\u2019s most important questions. There are only simple sentiments like \u201cget well soon\u201d and \u201chave a nice day\u201d and \u201ctake care of yourself,\u201d things we say without meaning anything, things we say to fill the time between selfish pursuits and sober conclusions. And yet those words are everything – trite as they may seem, they encompass our quiet hopes of feeling slightly better tomorrow than we did today, of moving towards a place in life where our disappointments weigh a little less heavily upon us, of being the kind and considerate people we always scorn ourselves for failing to embody. Roll over and sleep, Punpun. Tomorrow is another day.<\/span><\/p>\n

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