From the TV in Mama's hospital room, a news report airs about a murderer who turned himself in; the bodies were discovered in an abandoned factory, and a possibly related fire is under investigation. Only, Mama is not in her room. Nurse Midori finds her and scolds her for smoking on the emergency stairwell. Mama confides that she hates kids and is not looking forward to being discharged tomorrow. Punpun's class cleans up for the end of semester while Punpun dreads breaking his promise to Aiko, who will kill him. Aiko tells Punpun in a note to meet her outside City Hall, while Harumi says goodbye to the class and a teary Sonoda. On their way home, Harumi gives his six-speed bike to Punpun and his playstation controller to Komatsu and promises to find more porn by next time they hang out. As Punpun considers riding his new bike to Kagoshima, Midori finds that Mama has gone missing again. For those drawn in by the hypnotic spirals of Uzumaki, this is your moment. Start coloring every single one of the spirals yourself! AND THEN IT HAPPENS WITH MIDORI WHO'S 8 YEARS YOUNGER THAN HIM. At least she isn't a minor, but I'm questioning her sanity with her falling in love with an old bald pedophile. You hung out with him twice, and that was enough to cancel out his past??? Alright sweetheart alright. She's wasting her life, hanging out with Yuichi. The only reason he doesn't commit suicide everyday is because he wants to touch young girls. That is literally his one and only will to live. And when he gets tired of them and kills himself, you'll have to start all over again and find a new boyfriend. Because Yuichi can't commit to anything, he can't commit to marriage but proposes anyways. They key thing about Punpun, in this volume and any others, is that I can feel the shitty realness of it. While Punpun's life in no way mirrors my younger years, I'm sure they mirror somebody's and I love that Punpun himself is basically an arsehole as it's so common for the protagonist to appear a demigod striding among mortals. Punpun is an arsehole and will probably always be an arsehole, I love him for that.

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Here, Punpun runs into Papa, who asks him why he's crying, but Punpun denies any such thing. Papa asks if he was dumped by the little girl walking ahead and notes that although it's only been two months, Punpun seems much older. Papa talks of space and stars, and Punpun promises to bring him to Punpunia someday. Papa says he's not allowed to come by the house anymore, but he's moving to America soon to be a NASA space pilot. Punpun asks when they can meet again but knows his father is lying when he says "anytime". He goes home to his telescope to find that Punpunia has disappeared. Inio Asano ( 浅野いにお Asano Inio, born September 22, 1980 in Ishioka, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese manga author. Asano created the acclaimed manga Solanin which was released as a feature film in Japan in April 2010, starring Aoi Miyazaki. He is known for his character driven, realist stories that range from slice of life stories to psychological horror. In 2001 he won the first prize in the GX competition for young manga artists. God had a strangely serious look on his face as he spoke to Punpun. "You know what I think, Punpun? There's a loneliness that's part of living as a human being that you can never get rid of."Meet Punpun Punyama. He's an average kid in an average town. He wants to win a Nobel Prize and save the world. He wants to go far away with his true love. He wants to find some porn. But Punpun's life is about to unravel... Punpun was an average kid in an average town...but things have changed. The love of his life wants to kill him. His parents got divorced. And God is being mean to him. What are you goign to do now, Punpun? Within the past two years, Punpun had not once talked to Aiko. Their eyes never met either. But even so, even still... Punpun was still in love with Aiko.

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Two years later. Yuuichi and lawyer Yugami are now good friends. They have a lunch at the newly opened cafe, and Yuuichi recognizes the waitress, Midori, from somewhere. Komatsu, who had persuaded Punpun to join the middle school badmitton club with him, is the only underclassman allowed to skip boring drills and do normal practices. He gets chosen for the upcoming prefectural tournament. Aiko comes by the club after school and walks home with captain Yaguchi. Punpun trails them and spirals into a panic when he sees them hold hands.Inio Asano, a bona fide earthling, was born in Ibaraki, Japan in 1980. In 2001 his short story 'Uchuu kara Konnichiwa' (Hello from Outer Space) won the 1st Sunday GX rookie prize. Later GX published his series What a Wonderful World! (Subarashii Sekai). His other works include Hikari no Machi (City of Light), solanin (also published by VIZ Media) and Oyasumi Punpun.