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Are there any books that touches on the same subjects as Good Night Punpun, that is, modern times depression, insecurity, failure in achieving their dreams and dysfunctional families?

This manga is just so good and so real, it feels like reading a literary classic.

>> No.15028338

>>15028324
melodramatic and juvenile
maybe the Hunger Games?

>> No.15028346

>>15028338
Kek, if you've actually read it you'd know it's very far from being melodramatic and juvenile, it's actually one of the deepest readings out there (books included) about depression in the modern world.

>> No.15028385

>>15028324
Damaged normalfag who thinks their life is shit when they live like royalty-core? Sure there's plenty of that: Check out anything by Delicious Tacos, Houellebecq, and Osamu Dazai.

>> No.15028464

>>15028385
What the fuck do you know about my life to assume that I 'live like royalty', motherfucker, despite having several mental and healthy issues, I also have a huge dysfunctional family, that's why I loved Punpun, I saw myself in him, we're extremely alike, I just wanted to read more books like that since life will continue to be shit anyway.

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>>15028346
>NOOOOO YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND! THE MAIN CHARACTER IS A DEPRESSED LOSER JUST LIKE ME. NOT MY MORALLY-GRAY CHARACETERINOS!

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>>15028324
>This manga is just so good and so real

>> No.15028527

>>15028500
>>15028513
What have I done to you people? Couldn't you just ignore the thread instead of being jerks for no reason at all?

>> No.15028536

>>15028513
this might actually be the most lifeless anglo bugout-face i've ever witnessed....

>> No.15028547

>>15028527
>>15028527
Uhh no, you're a faggot. Stop reading Chinese misery porn cartoons and go play outside or something. Also take a shower. You stink.

>> No.15028576

>>15028464
What kind of mental and health issues

>> No.15028583

>>15028527
It’s just litfags trolling. They prob watch anime

>> No.15028613

Don't think too much about the jerks OP

>> No.15028648

>>15028576
Depressive disorder, anxiety, panic disorder, OCD and I suspect I might have asperger but I've never did the test, as for health issues: chronic bronchitis

>> No.15028651

My diary desu but unironically...

>> No.15028661

>>15028648
Probably just autism in general. Anyway, if you are that upset over a few low effort trolls then this vietnamese embroidery forum is not for you

>> No.15028700

>>15028661
I'm not really upset, I just wanted book recommendations

>> No.15028734

>>15028324
What was the most relatable part for you OP?
For me it was
>punpun's date with kanae (or whatever her name was)
>punpun giving himself a deadline to improve his life before he offed himself
>punpun putting on a new identity so he can talk to girls confidently and to much success (when he thought: "it's almost laughably easy when you aren't particular about being yourself." I couldn't have felt that harder)
It's impressive that punpun's actions remain understandable even as he goes way off the deep end toward the end, a testament to how attuned to his formation the author was.

>> No.15028788

>>15028734
I liked Punpun's relationship with his parents and uncle, it touched me deeply, the same with Aiko and Seki, the latter might be my favorite character. Punpun and Aiko's journey in the end was also amazing.
>punpun putting on a new identity so he can talk to girls confidently and to much success
I liked that as well, made me think that I could try that IRL.

>> No.15029540

>>15028346
Punpun is such a masterpiece. Up there with any novel I've ever read. It's one of the deepest explorations of psychology ever written. And the way it plays and subvert genre tropes is really clever. People think it's like this melodramatic edgy thing when in fact it can be really light hearted and absurd, but in an intelligent way, at times. God is a guy with an afro that appears if you pray to him. So good.

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>>15029540
>God is a guy with an afro that appears if you pray to him. So good.

>> No.15030059

>>15029540
>one of the deepest explorations of psychology ever written.
How so?
>And the way it plays and subvert genre tropes is really clever.
Hum, how so?

>> No.15030107

>>15028648
There really is nothing more pitiable and repulsive than for a man to announce his misery as an excuse for failure.

>> No.15030253

>>15028648
>Depressive disorder, anxiety, panic disorder, OCD and I suspect I might have asperger but I've never did the test, as for health issues: chronic bronchitis
Kek all the things i have except depression, lungs quite fucked recently
I would recommend you to go on radical spiritual journey.
https://realization.org/p/ashtavakra-gita/richards.ashtavakra-gita/richards.ashtavakra-gita.html
read several times

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>he's literally me!

>> No.15030281

>>15030107
good goy if you nimble my nuts i will give you more virtue and self validation

>> No.15030294

Only tumblrinas who just realized manga exists like punpun

>> No.15030301

It really is a masterpiece. I read the first one or two and thought the little boy dynamic was amazing. The drunken dad was fucking hilarious and incredibly close to home

>> No.15030386

>>15030281
Failure is entirely by your own definition. A NEET can be a success if he knows it to be true, but begging on the internet for sympathy is a disgusting way to emasculate yourself.

>> No.15030571

Hey anon, I loved goodnight punpun it hit in places where I didn't even know I could be emotionally touched.

If you want something with the same kind of melancholy and emotional themes try spring snow by Murakami. Although the main character isn't the same as punpun the ideas of youth and loss of hope are there.

If you want something western maybe notes from underground by Dostoyevsky? It's a short but poignant exploration of mental illness told in first person by a shut in narrator, but it ends on a positive note.

I hope this helped.

>> No.15030572

>>15028324
I've never read it, but what's not to like?
Depression, youth, sex, materialistic comfort. That's the paradise I failed to achieve.

>> No.15030629

>>15030572
It's misery porn cuckshit with these really cheap-looking backgrounds that are just digitally manipulated photographs. Awful.

>> No.15030663

>>15028324
Just to give you some actual advice:

He’s not really contemporary, and this place is turning him into a meme, but you might like Yukio Mishima. Try Confessions of a Mask, The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea, or Temple Of The Golden Pavilion.

>> No.15032235

>>15030253
Thank you, I've been thinking of that for some time.