Did the ending make you cry or feel sad?

Sep 8, 2023 6:10 PM

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I’ll be honest here. I finished PunPun about 2 weeks ago. There were so many moments early on that had me relating too or feeling empathetic toward PunPun and the other characters as they aged. Everything with Aiko at the end hit me hard as well. But did any of you like the cult/good vibrations guy and that whole arc? It took away so much tension and emotion from the story for me. Maybe that was the point idk. I liked the snotty kid and his friend. That whole side plot with the cult just didn’t do anything for me and was distracting.

Sep 8, 2023 6:19 PM

Anime_OwO1

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The only feeling I had at the end was Wtf

Sep 8, 2023 6:23 PM

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It created a huge void In me

Sep 8, 2023 6:27 PM

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Anime_OwO1 said:
The only feeling I had at the end was Wtf

See I got that a lot early on and during the Aiko stuff. But the end end nothing

Sep 8, 2023 7:05 PM

dogecatioro

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i was mad cuz i wish punpun had died ,+ he forgot about aiko after making her do that

Sep 8, 2023 7:45 PM

yoshZZ

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It seems people are misinterpreting the post by just reading the title and not what you said. I enjoyed the good vibrations cult stuff. It was wacky and random as fuck but I feel that's why it worked so well for a story like this. I feel the more deeply one looks into this series, the more they realize about what stuff meant (or at least, what they want to interpret it as). I wrote a very-long discussion on the series before as a part of a school project, so here's an excerpt from it that I wrote on my feelings of Pegasus and Co.

"Their entire point in the series is to contrast against Punpun, and show them as the polar opposites of what Punpun is. Their members all still act childish, despite being adults, and die still believing in the happiness and innocence of childhood, without realizing all the badness within the world. They never knew what it was like to suffer, whereas Punpun struggled all his life to become an adult and get over the events of his past, thus causing his perpetual suffering. They get good endings with a good life, and Punpun gets nothing but a bad life- they serve as the Yin to Punpun’s Yang."

I think they add a lot to the series and add even more to my love of this masterpiece tbh

Sep 8, 2023 8:08 PM

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Blud, the ending made me want to kill myself.

Sep 8, 2023 11:27 PM

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I feel emptiness.(Character Limit)

Sep 8, 2023 11:57 PM

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@yoshZZ
Thanks for the other perspective. I didn’t think about them being opposite to PunPun. Cause I really wanted their chapters to be over with. I thought it was interesting at the start, but got bored fast

Sep 9, 2023 12:58 AM

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Anime_OwO1 said:
The only feeling I had at the end was Wtf

Exactly (charectar limit)

Sep 9, 2023 3:13 AM

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I've got to say, I loved the ending because of how twisted it got and also how it made me feel empty inside.
My favourite part was when he said

Can't say I was a fan of the whole cult thing tho.

Sep 9, 2023 4:45 AM

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Darzy_Mal

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Tbh it didn’t make me cry. It made me feel completely empty and change my view about life. Truly a masterpiece

Sep 9, 2023 5:14 AM

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The ending made me feel kind of hopeful about stuff but everything leading to that point was so depressing lol.

Sep 9, 2023 6:59 AM

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Kyriuu__San

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the ending is very comforting

Sep 9, 2023 10:08 AM

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innahnet

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Found the cult nonsense entirely too insufferable. I skipped every chapter and segment where they were the main focus.

Sep 9, 2023 12:24 PM

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I finished reading Punpun recently too and I have very similar feelings as you on this. This is my favorite manga of all time, but I would have loved it even more if the cult plot line wasn’t in the story. It wasn’t bad, I just didn’t care much for it, especially in comparison to everything else that was going on in this manga. I understand what the point of it was and how everything is very symbolic and represents something else entirely, but I still just didn’t care when reading. The mangaka is a genius though and his creative direction, although maybe questionable at times, is some of the best I’ve ever seen and I understand his reasoning for including this plot line in the story

Sep 9, 2023 2:56 PM

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Yes…………………..

Sep 9, 2023 6:20 PM

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eh. I really love the manga as a whole, but I found the cult stuff distracting and unnecessary...maybe I'm a simpleton but even in the end it felt kind of pointless/meaningless. and maybe that's the point, but the point hurt the finished product for me *shrug* Still loved the overall vibe/story tho, ngl

Sep 9, 2023 7:04 PM

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MewVenus said:
eh. I really love the manga as a whole, but I found the cult stuff distracting and unnecessary...maybe I'm a simpleton but even in the end it felt kind of pointless/meaningless. and maybe that's the point, but the point hurt the finished product for me *shrug* Still loved the overall vibe/story tho, ngl

I loved the manga as well. Its a very powerful piece of literature. It made me have to put it down and rethink my life before finishing it. My only gripe with it was during this intense and captivating final arc with Aiko and PunPun, I have to read about this cult guy still. I wanted to stay focused

Sep 9, 2023 9:28 PM

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i was numb to everything by the time i got to tge ending

Sep 10, 2023 8:21 AM

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the author fucked up in the end. after all that "i don't wanna die" from the girl in the beach, even she have to bought a knife just in case punpun want to kill her.
The author really makes her out of character to commit suicide in the end which is just only for emotional impact for the story. Im not sad at her death, im mad to the author, he thinks like edge teenager like "this is dark manga, i can't make the end happy, i will make it more dark".

Sep 11, 2023 3:14 AM

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It didn't make me cry or sad

But it was still a solid ending

Sep 11, 2023 1:44 PM

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Cringe.

I liked first half of the manga but second one was some edgy bullshit even for me, the kind of guy that loves watching edgy bullshit.

I have to completely agree with this.

Sep 13, 2023 2:54 AM

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I recently finished oyasumi punpun, I obviously felt sad while i was reading through the last chapter's but after i finished the manga and had some time to reflect on what I just read, I just felt empty and shallow inside rather than feeling sad or depressed.

Sep 13, 2023 7:43 AM

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Bill99

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the ending made me see the point/appeal of slice of life .

Sep 15, 2023 1:27 PM

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JUXU

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I hated the cult shit. It was so boring to read, so much text in one box and you just wanna skip and get back to punpun or someone else. That really took out from my enjoyment from the manga alot, I thought about dropping it even or just skip all the parts of the cult.

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