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Weird BIAS
Jul 5, 2007

so... guess that's it, huh? just... don't say i didn't warn you.
79 is up. I hope the quick update schedule keeps up for a while. It going to be torture when it inevitably slows down.


God dammit Punpun, what are you doing?

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Weird BIAS
Jul 5, 2007

so... guess that's it, huh? just... don't say i didn't warn you.
God dammit, there's another volume after this? I almost thought it was done until I saw that vol 11 is being released in the fall.


Having said that, ARGRHAGHRGHGRHGAHRGAHGRHAGRA PUNPUN WHY MUST EVERYTHING BE FULL OF DESPAIR.

Weird BIAS
Jul 5, 2007

so... guess that's it, huh? just... don't say i didn't warn you.
Most painful parts of this manga was Punpun doing to Sachi what he did to Aiko years ago. Also Punpun is drawn more and more as a human and not as a bird. Especially the sex scene and him kissing Aiko.

Weird BIAS
Jul 5, 2007

so... guess that's it, huh? just... don't say i didn't warn you.
Merry loving Christmas Punpun!

Weird BIAS
Jul 5, 2007

so... guess that's it, huh? just... don't say i didn't warn you.

GreenBuckanneer posted:

There tends to be a rush after someone murders another person. It's kinda like a coping mechanism to try and deal with it.

I just caught up and I have to say, I rather prefer punpun now. It was getting tiresome. His assertiveness is refreshing.

Did she stab him in the eye or the finger? I can't tell.


Neither. There was sauce on the fork before they talked about removing his eye and his finger is bandaged from Aiko biting it. Punpun is making it sound like she failed to do it.

Weird BIAS
Jul 5, 2007

so... guess that's it, huh? just... don't say i didn't warn you.

GreenBuckanneer posted:

It's rather cool how well the mangaka is able to convey depression and abuse so well that it just resonates. Punpun's "I can't do this because I suck, and it's because I suck that I can't do this" defeatist attitude (to summarize his feelings) is pretty much in line with major depression. Additionally, Akio was constantly abused (something that was shown way back on her shoulders, though why her shoulders?) and her behavior now is also showing the same kind of signs. She says she loves him, yet it's clear she's acting out of fear. She hated her mom, but she didn't want her to die. No one really does. Her mom was plenty abusive though. Look at the way she talks, it's pretty much textbook for a verbally abusive person. "I'm all you need, no one else cares about you like I do" (while making the other person littler than themselves.) You can see how much of a manipulator she was (verbally abusive people are) by the fact she could walk just fine, it was just how she was able to control Akio.

So now Akio says she loves him, but not truly. She hates him for murdering her mom (even though it began in self defense), but she has no one else and if he's not around she'll be truly alone. It's why she wanted to stab his eye out, but also why she failed to go through with it.

Punpun's current self is the result of his actions throughout the years, how he treats others and himself. "You reap what you sow". This was just the....push out the door he needed to finally change, though obviously not in the right way.


I'm not really sure that Aiko didn't want her dead. Once her mother was dead she kept stabbing her over and over while Punpun got the door. However I agree with the bulk of your post. I'm not sure she is actually in love with him so much as latching onto the only positive thing she has, which is still a pretty hosed up and abusive relationship. I kept feeling that Punpun was going to end up just like his father and Aiko like his mother, trapped in a horrible relationship born out of abusive situations. But with the murder it's in the air. The festival that Pegasus keeps talking about may be the moment that Punpun and Aiko finally are caught or they both die in a horrific way or something. Aiko might die due to the poor patch job Punpun did on her side wound and maybe he kills himself out of despair. Maybe Punpun is that Black Spot Pegasus keeps referring to. I CAN'T WAIT TO FIND OUT.

Anybody know how close they are to the July festival they keep talking about?

Weird BIAS
Jul 5, 2007

so... guess that's it, huh? just... don't say i didn't warn you.
Aiko poor Aiko, I wish it didn't have to end that way for you.

I think I'm more depressed this thing I've been following for 2-3 years is over than anything.

Weird BIAS
Jul 5, 2007

so... guess that's it, huh? just... don't say i didn't warn you.
but where do i click to buy

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Jul 5, 2007

so... guess that's it, huh? just... don't say i didn't warn you.

I have preordered everything possible and ordered all the books I didn't have. This is a nice feeling.

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