When I started reading, my friends told me good luck. I was expecting something sad, maybe bittersweet, or dramatic. With the beginning of the manga it felt that way, there was so dark things but overall Punpun was doing his best to be happy, and so I expected drama to come shake things up.
That's not what happened. It suddenly became depressing with no real change, Punpun just fucked up and stayed silent for 2 years, while we learn more about the other characters, namely his uncle Kuichi, which was... a horrible person to say the least.
I'm at the fourth volume, just before the final badminton match between Komatsu and Aiko's boyfriend. And, I'm a bit bittersweet on the read. I have all 12 volumes already, has I received those as a gift, so I want to read them all, but at the same time, I feel no sympathy towars the Onodara family as a whole, and I feel like it's wanted by the author. I understand how Asano is criticizing the human cowardness, but at the same time, I don't want to follow the story of a pedo raising an incel, you know what I mean ? Jokes aside, it's hard to feel compeled to read when the only characters I like basically never appear. Seki was there 10 chapters ago, Harumin changed high school, Aiko is just there to be sad and serve Punpun's desillusional thoughts, and Komatsu is now a weird meritocrat that only cares about winning and see peace and joy as a loser's mindset, what is wrong with all of them ??
Just a little rent because I want to have the strength to continue reading, but I could accept that it's maybe not made for me. The pacing is also really slow, I thought I was accustomed with slow pace because my favorite manga is Land of the lustrous, which is a slow manga, but man is Oyasumi Punpun so sloooow