' I KNOW \ you WEREN'T sure if you WANTEP TO GO BACK TO THE POTTERy SCHOOL AUYWAY, ...WHAT IF yOU TEACH ANP MAKE yOUR OWN ANP THE OWNER SAIP HE'S OKAy WITH THE IPEA... , ...ANP HE'LL v CUT ME A PEAL ON THE RENT k
...Punpun When he was over- thought whelmed, about how each little dot was a life... ...were The like people, so little far below ants. the Ferris wheel...
And to those looking up at him... ...Punpun was just a piece of lint or something else too insignificant to notice. THAT WHAT YOU SAW TO YOUR BX.-6\RLFRIENP?
WELL THEN, WHAT WOULP YOU LIKE FOR PINNER TOMORROW? I'LL MAKE WHATEVER v you WANT. , ' WANNA TONIOHT PRINK ^ THE NIOHT "" 1 AWAY 1 j 1 PON'T KNOW, I ALREAPy ' 5PENP 60 | MUCH TIME 60 WHAT? I TOLP you, I PON'T
WANTED ME TO OIVE you THIS LETTER.. LEAVING IT By THE "I'M IN MY 1 SBCONO YEAR OF MlWLB SCHOOL, ANDI FINALLYHAVB A GIRLFRIBNO. I SUCCBBOBRIN HOLDING HBR HAND ON OUR , LASTPATB. j ...made The idea of his dad just 1 Punpun so happily writing about | angry he outer space and the j didn't even Yomiuri Giants without i want to giving what Punpun open the was going through a j envelope. second thought...
Punpun studying hard these days. No particular reason. It was calming. ...and then he'd join an under¬ ground organiza¬ tion devoted to studying nuclear Punpun was going to study hard and get into the Tokyo University science depart¬ ment... power
-Distressed Angel Pie What's the best way for me to go on? I have no dreams. I have no girlfriend. In the dead of night, I can hear my uncle and his girlfriend doing it. My parent are divorced because my dad was abusive, and my mom is an alcoholic. Hello, I'm a boy in the first year of middle school. Then hefd destroy the world. Wheel Boom! As if— that's a big lie...!
You’re the who calls me God. come up witl something
>*r- ...a bitter wind was blowing through the night-drenched neighborhood. Even though it was almost spring...
And if not tomorrow, then the next day or the next month or in a few years... ...there would be an unbelievably wonderful day... Punpun was sure that because today had been so terrible... ...some¬ thing unbeliev¬ ably wonderful must be about to happen tomorrow. That's what he wanted believe.
Goodnight, ...just For Punpun. go to now... sleep. But to whom? It was like a prayer.., 416
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GOODNIGHT PUNPUN inioasano Part Four BACKGROUND ASSISTANTS: Yuki Toribuchi Satsuki Sato CG ASSISTANT: Hisashi Saito COOPERATION: Kumatsuto Yasumasa Iwama Yu Uehara Takashi Kume
INIO ASANO a bona fide earthling, was born in Ibaraki, Japan, in 1980. In 2001, his short story "Uchu kara Konnichiwa” (Hello from Outer Space) won the first Sunday GX Rookie Prize. Later, GX published his series Subarashi Sekai. available in English from VIZ Media as What a Wonderful World! His other works include Hlkarl no Machl (City of Light), Nljlgahara Holograph, and Umibe no Onna no Ko (A Girl on the Shore), as well as solanln, also available from VIZ Media.
© 2007 Inio ASANO All rights reserved. Original Japanese edition published by SHOGAKUKAN. English translation rights in the United States of America, Canada, the United Kingdom and Ireland arranged with SHOGAKUKAN. Translation $JN PRODUCTIONS Touch-Up Art & Lettering $ ANNALIESE CHRISTMAN Design * FAWN LAU Editor tr* PANCHA DIAZ The stories, characters and incidents mentioned in this publication are entirely fictional. No portion of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without written permission from the copyright holders. Printed in the U.S.A. Published by VIZ Media. LLC PO. Box 77010 San Francisco, CA 94107 10 9 87654321 First printing, June 2016 VJIZ meDia VtZ. SIGNATURE V PARENTAL ADVISORY ,1 GOODNIGHT PUNPUN is rated M forMature A and is recommended forages 18 and up. I Contains violence and sexualsituations. *