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punpun vol 2 
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God, stop telling Punpun to kill people he just had his bisexual awakening
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this kid is either gonna go to prison for killing a guy or become a billionaire
this kid is either gonna go to prison for killing a guy or become a billionaire
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I'm having a hard time really relating to Punpun's uncle's tragic story
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of how a really hot high school girl wanted to hang out around him being really hot all the time, when he was in his twenties
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and then she kissed you and tried to have sex with you but you cramed her in a closet and had sex with your girlfriend while she was in there
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that seems like maybe this shouldn't be your backstory anymore
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man uncle's whole life is a series of women ten years younger than him throwing themselves at him
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maybe aiko is bad actually
maybe aiko is bad actually
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volume 2 done
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I still don't know if I like it or not
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I think my two simultaneous impressions are
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- This is a brutally raw and honest look at the darkness of the human experience
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and
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- The female characters in this manga sure do exist only as props in the lives of the male characters
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like the teenager in punpun uncle's backstory
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lives in an abusive household, literally tied to a post and kept prisoner in her own home
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a boy in her class gets her pregnant
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she has an abortion
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all her friends ostracize her about it
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falls for puncle
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tries to sleep with him
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gets shoved into a closet while the man she loves has sex with someone else really loudly in the same room
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bemoans that there is no good
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disappears from his life
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he never got her name
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and the whole story
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is about why puncle is afraid of relationships
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she and all of her entire life of torment and tragedy exist to add depth to him
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Aiko spends the story on a weird pedestal because Punpun is incapable of seeing her as anything other than his destined lover, Yuuichi's sister exists entirely as the butt of her own joke, Punpun's mom was mainly there to get abused by his dad
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there's still five volumes left so maybe this goes somewhere better but
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I can't stop thinking about that girl
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she doesn't even get the dignity of her suffering being her own story
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she doesn't even get to have a name
RobotApocalypse
it's been a long time since i read it but i think aiko gets to be more fleshed out as they age. but yeah it is kind of a problem that the female characters don't really get to exist as their own people
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also christ i completely forgot about that whole backstory for the uncle. he's such a fucking dirtbag.
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i don't think the story ever really intends for you to find him sympathetic though. like, obviously he's fishing for sympathy, but he's such a horrible human being that all you can feel is disgust