Lux will just highlight an aspect of it. Punpun has a better life than most incels and he is far from inceldom. Despite his sexual frustrations being represented a lot of times during the story and his clinging to it, he doesnt have an hard time getting laid and his problems are of fault of his own.
Aiko: Only got separated from her because in his teens he refused to date her after losing a bet with another teen that liked her and that was hanging out with her, leaving her ghosted. Then he is obsessed with her, longing for aiko, then he meets her again and though she "dated" other guys she was still virgin, punpun deflowers her (he had tons of sex by this point and his scene with aiko shows punpun intensely enjoying) and after saving her from her mother, he treats her so bad that she gradually is lead to suicide
Tachi: Gets laid with her and she becomes his partner even after the ending, though she cucked him by getting pregnant by her ex, he was already fucking another girl he JUST MET at a driving school before knowing that fact.
Midori: Punpun loses his virginity to the gf of his uncle. The story only implies he didnt liked, while some readers from internet say that he feels empty because he feels "used" just for sex and wasnt into her, which is not worthy of being taken seriously. The fact is that fucked her and he came, as a teen, by a woman attracted to him. Hard to buy it as some sort of traumatic event.
As one can see, punpun is not an example of incel nor does represent the average incelated experience at all. Most incels would treasure aiko instead of being assholes to her (punpun deflowered aiko, so he had sex with a girl that saw him as her childhood crush) while incels overall would not even have the sex punpun gets so easily during the manga.
It is a mistake to consider oyasumii punpun an incel manga. It is a nice manga but it is not incelated. The author had a couple of gfs before writing it and got married (quickly divorced) recently and inceldom is not his topic of interest at all.
Aiko: Only got separated from her because in his teens he refused to date her after losing a bet with another teen that liked her and that was hanging out with her, leaving her ghosted. Then he is obsessed with her, longing for aiko, then he meets her again and though she "dated" other guys she was still virgin, punpun deflowers her (he had tons of sex by this point and his scene with aiko shows punpun intensely enjoying) and after saving her from her mother, he treats her so bad that she gradually is lead to suicide
Tachi: Gets laid with her and she becomes his partner even after the ending, though she cucked him by getting pregnant by her ex, he was already fucking another girl he JUST MET at a driving school before knowing that fact.
Midori: Punpun loses his virginity to the gf of his uncle. The story only implies he didnt liked, while some readers from internet say that he feels empty because he feels "used" just for sex and wasnt into her, which is not worthy of being taken seriously. The fact is that fucked her and he came, as a teen, by a woman attracted to him. Hard to buy it as some sort of traumatic event.
As one can see, punpun is not an example of incel nor does represent the average incelated experience at all. Most incels would treasure aiko instead of being assholes to her (punpun deflowered aiko, so he had sex with a girl that saw him as her childhood crush) while incels overall would not even have the sex punpun gets so easily during the manga.
It is a mistake to consider oyasumii punpun an incel manga. It is a nice manga but it is not incelated. The author had a couple of gfs before writing it and got married (quickly divorced) recently and inceldom is not his topic of interest at all.
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he's CANONICALLY a very good looking protagonist
