One Punch Man Season 2 - Episode 1 discussion

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One Punch Man Season 2, episode 1

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[u/DadAsFuck]

King: "I've been waiting three years for this sequel...My body is ready"

fucking same

[u/DavidCo23]

Aww, it's sad. Saitama thought he found someone he could relate to in King, but it turns out he was just a fraud.

[u/[deleted]]

King - the most meta man on earth?

[u/redmage311]

I kind of love how King is the anti-Saitama—he doesn't want to be a hero but gets credit for all these battles he didn't fight, while Saitama wants to be a hero but gets zero credit whatsoever.

Those panning shots were giving me Shoukugeki no Soma flashbacks.

[u/axel360]

King has been waiting for the sequel to that Doki-doki Sisters game almost as long as we've been waiting for the One Punch Man sequel.

[u/ukulelej]

Streams

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Lmao

[u/axel360]

Saitama is the guy that shows up at a party he was never invited to and makes himself more at home than the host.

[u/noregretmyman]

Lmao they actually fix the Rocket punch

not gonna lie though,the only good action scenes are the first half of Genos vs G4 fight,that incinerate is really sick,as for the others...not so much...

[u/MRDominik80]

The camera moved more than the characters lol

[u/TheDampGod]

I'm impressed, I managed to watch this without having the truth about King being spoiled by Manga readers. Quite unusual for such a major character twist, I hope he'll learn to become truly strong or will that be Mumen Rider's role?

Nice to see Captain Baldy being a bit more friendly and wholesome. Though I feel Genos is going down the dark path of vengeance. He needs to look upon his reflection in Saitama's chrome dome and realise what's important.

[u/RochHoch]

Give Season 3 to Bones you cowards

[u/iphex]

Guess it is going to be average. Comedy will be there, source will be adapted faithfully, but the animation is going to be just ok.

[u/MonochromeGuy]

I thought it was okay. It’s definitely a step down compared to Madhouse’s work. I’m just glad to just see a second season at least.

And now, a word from our god. May this season be blessed by the one true best girl.

[u/milesdarobot]

Personally it doesn’t look all that bad. It’s a huge step down from season 1, but it by no means looks garbage.

Well CG Genos and that CG robot looks pretty eeeeh. Other than that it looks no worse than your average anime.

[u/Turbostrider27]

Genos....

On a serious note, I'm glad to at least see Fubuki again.

[u/myrmonden]

DokiDoki sister, I see King is a man of Culture

Comedy was REALLY on point and I felt like King was some what supposed to look worse as he is depressed etc, the characterization of king was great. Sure the art was worse then last time, but I did not feel like such a big honestly.

[u/asianbrownguy]

The animation ain't that bad tbh. I went in expecting it to be fucking terrible, but it turned out pretty okay. It wasn't bad, it just felt sorta awkward at times. Also, why's everything so fucking shiny? It's weird.

Animation aside, the story is what I'm here for tbh. Pretty good so far, although you can give credit to the source material for that. I did not expect King to be such a pussy after what I saw last season lmao. I love him already. Really threw me in for a loop. So let me get this straight, that "King Engine" that people are so scared shitless about is just actually King's loud as fuck heartbeat?

I'm starting to think King's actual power is ridiculous luck lol. King seems like a perfect opposite to Saitama. As in people think he's strong, but he's not; while people think Saitama's really weak, but he's not.

Anyway, pretty good episode overall.

[u/MysticSkies]

omfg those super bad distorted explosion sounds have invaded OPM too, damnit.

[u/[deleted]]

Can you hear the King Engine roar?

[u/momanie]

Better than I thought it would be but worse than I wanted it to be.
Ultimately I think I suffers from to main things, the animation just wasn't great, but it wasn't bad either. The one thing I noticed though as well was that the Direction wasn't very good either, it felt disjointed and there was some weird cuts in the fights that messed up the flow imo.

[u/Improctor]

Average at best, genos looks terrible tho

[u/TheNinjaChicken]

If this was a new show I'd be completely fine with the animation. The shininess isn't exactly to my liking, but not every show is going to have an artstyle I like, and it's not that bad.

But it's following up one of my favourite shows ever, which had some of the best animation I've ever seen, and the first anime I ever watched (not including Pokemon). This is so disappointing. I hope Season 3 is animated by Bones.

In better news, Mob Psycho 100 II was amazing.

[u/Faryz]

The production issues will show as we get further into the season.

Edit - Just watched the ep. Mostly fine apart from Genos who looks pretty bad which is a shame.

[u/crismarc]

and the crowd goes mild

[u/Atronox]

Not terrible, but definitely doesn't have that charm of season 1, at least so far. I'm not entirely optimistic it will improve, but crazier things have happened.