‘Oyasumi Punpun’: A Window Into Darkness

Growing up, I have had an acquired taste in literature. It was the macabre staples: H.P Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley and Franz Kafka. These are the authors we are taught to know from a young age and they dive into the human mind, the nature of the unknown and the existence of darkness within our own lives. I did not realize that this acquired taste would lead me into the world of Oyasumi Punpun, a manga that encapsulates all of the themes of darker pieces in a unique format. I was never really a comics or manga fan, but something about this title caught my interest and kept it ever since.