r/OyasumiPunpun

as the title suggests lol aiko surrounded by forget-me-nots ♡

what the fuck is this manga

I wrote this in another post, but since Sachi seems to be hated I wanted to offer my perspective.

Before meeting Sachi, Punpun was emotionally collapsing into himself, depressed, passive, and disconnected from life, he was a triangle!. Sachi, does see Punpun more clearly, including his ugliness, passivity, and self-destructive tendencies. She gets frustrated with him, pushes him, sometimes crosses boundaries, sometimes manipulates situations because she’s terrified he’ll disappear into himself. But unlike Aiko, she is not trying to escape reality with him. She is trying to drag him back into it.

She does have a savior complex, however, she did not just want to fix Punpun, she genuinely cared about him, worried about him, searched for him, stayed emotionally invested in him even when he withdrew completely. In a manga full of abandonment and emotional cowardice, that persistence matters.

What makes Sachi important is that she represents survival and real life, while Aiko represented fantasy, idealization, and mutual destruction. Sachi came from pain too, but unlike Punpun, she fought through it with force and determination, and she tried to pull him in that direction as well. Their relationship was messy and imperfect, but the moments with Sachi felt warmer and more grounded. The ending was hopeful in its own way: Punpun did not become magically healed, but he survived, returned to ordinary life, and still had someone beside him after everything.

Also, it was important to note that Punpun spends so much of the manga believing he is isolated, monstrous, unknowable, or invisible. But when people actively look for him, worry about him, and remember him fondly, it reveals how distorted his self-perception had become. He thought nobody cared. Yet people did. His friends look and worry for him.

what the fuck

He’s literally a monster, I can already tell. The thing is though, he never had any kind of role model for what intimacy or love or normalcy looks like. He doesn’t know how to interact with other people. He’s kind of relatable in that way as someone who’s autistic. He probably is on the spectrum, the way he talked about his mom’s surgery right before he tried to kiss kanie made that very apparent

Went and made an upgrade to my previous cosplay by adding lights to the eyes and making the base much lighter by using plastic mesh compared to iron mesh!

I originally went to this festival solo but stumbled across an Aiko cosplayer and she did her cosplay beautifully. We then did a photoshoot at night with some poses and they turned out AMAZING!

Snother woman there is, indeed.