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This one goes under the "isekai revenge porn" genre. You know the drill: our "hero" is betrayed/wronged in some way by ridiculously evil characters. He comes back to inflict unspeakable suffering upon them, in increasingly cruel and convoluted ways.

There's nothing original or subtle about this manga. But it is still far better than most of its ilk.

The story, as straight forward as it is, is still told somewhat engagingly. The MC is not a thoroughly pathetic typical isekai loser. Nor does he go through all those dreadfully boring leveling nonsense and pointless side quests. Nor does he magically acquire a harem on his ... way to revenge. All he does is bring pain, with a sadism and resolve that borders on madness. And he even manages to be somewhat unsettling going about it, as opposed to the comically silly "revenge" you see in your average revenge porn.

The villains are lazily written, but not lazily crafted. That is, though their only defining trait is the sheer depth of their depravity, at least they are not boring about it. They are, to put it simply, actually somewhat charming and even slightly memorable (compared to the walking cliches you see elsewhere).

The art, too, is surprisingly decent.

TLDR: Obviously no one's gonna judge this as some kind of serious work of literature. But as fast food revenge porn? This manga is probably one of the better ones you'll find. Certainly far better than Redo of healer or some other nonsense.

Oyasumi Punpun was quite possibly the biggest disappointment I have ever experienced.

I was promised nothing less than an existential masterpiece that explores with the utmost poignancy the psyche of the soul in anguish and despair; an unflinching, brutally honest portrayal of life in all its cruelty; and that it has the power to make readers sink into a bottomless pit of depression.

What I got instead was shallow, unbelievably pretentious depression porn. When a character opens his mouth in Oyasumi Punpun, he does not actually speak. He is simply a mouthpiece for whatever pseudo-intellectual nihilistic nonsense the author wishes to shove down the reader's ... throat. This manga has some of the most ridiculous dialogue among all the books I have ever read, and that's including stuff from some really, really bad isekai trash.

It is also unbearably bland. And it's not because Oyasumi Punpun tries to chronicle the mundane. There is much quiet beauty in the vicissitudes of a boring, unremarkable life. But Punpun fails miserably at portraying it. Forget about making me depressed. I couldn't even feel remotely moved toward any emotion at all.

Actually, allow me to correct myself. I kept reading, and eventually I did begin feeling a little depressed. But then I realized I was depressed because I had just wasted some hours of my life I will never get back.

With all that being said, I still cannot bring myself to give it a score lower than a 4, if only because the art is indeed gorgeous.