| Goodnight Punpun | |
 First tankōbon volume cover, featuring Punpun Onodera | |
| おやすみプンプン (Oyasumi Punpun) | |
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| Manga | |
| Written by | Inio Asano |
| Published by | Shogakukan |
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| Demographic | Seinen |
| Original run | March 15, 2007 – November 2, 2013 |
| Volumes | 13 |
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.
- ^ "VIZ Media Announces the Launch of Inio Asano's Goodnight Punpun Manga Series". Viz Media (Press release). March 1, 2016. Archived from the original on May 7, 2019. Retrieved June 18, 2018 – via Anime News Network.
- ^ a b Silverman, Rebecca (March 4, 2016). "Goodnight Punpun Omnibus 1". Anime News Network (Review). Archived from the original on May 9, 2019. Retrieved June 18, 2018.
It's almost too easy to call Goodnight Punpun a slice-of-life story or a coming of age manga. Although it is both of those things, it's also a bit of a fantasy, albeit a fairly mundane one.
- ^ "The Official Website for Goodnight Punpun". Viz Media. Archived from the original on July 16, 2019. Retrieved October 27, 2017.