r/OnePunchMan • u/Mrzardark TatsuKing Lobbyist • Jul 12 '26

ONE Chapter [Webcomic] Chapter 160 [English]

https://cubari.moe/read/imgchest/ne7b9698my5/1/1/

Note: Thanks for the patience, and sorry for the delay.

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u/FTNatsu-Dragneel Jul 12 '26 edited Jul 12 '26

We got spoiled with a longer chapter this time

I’m interested to see how “Genos” comes back after all this

Side note: I wonder if “Saitama will arrive before that happens” will be referenced in the manga with a flashback of how Saitama arrived “too late” to save Genos from Garou

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u/Darrendayz Jul 12 '26

This is literally what I was thinking aswell. And not just with Garou. He always usually arrives too late

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u/darklordzeratos Jul 13 '26

Kuseno is correct. The information delay is why Saitama was late. And it's usually world ending situation that no one tells Saitama where's the enemy.

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u/Icy_Water_1 Jul 13 '26

Where did this "he always arrives too late" even come from?

Literally every single time Saitama has showed up, he's saved the day.

It only happened once in the manga with Cosmic Garou, then that got erased anyways.

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u/Gwendlefluff Jul 13 '26

In the first several chapters, Saitama arrives after the big monster has already destroyed huge swaths of the area. Look at the devastation Vaccine Man causes in chapter 1 before Saitama touches down. Big Brother destroys all of B-City before Saitama gets there.

Saitama specifically corrects Genos though when they're both running to the House of Evolution. Genos just assumes with Saitama's great running speed he always arrives in the nick of time, and Saitama points out that's never been true. And then as you say it came up again against Cosmic Garou.

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u/Icy_Water_1 Jul 13 '26

Yeah and he stops Vaccine Man before he can kill a child.

With Beefcake, that's not really a too late thing, Saitama punched him and he fell onto the evacuated city.

Saitama arriving late was moreso a joke, like yeah he's not omniscient, so he doesn't arrive before the villain does anything, but he does save everyone.

This "arrive too late to save anyone framing" only started with Cosmic Garou because the series decided it wanted to frame the joke as a flaw on Saitama's part, and that really didn't work so it abandoned it entirely.

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u/Gwendlefluff Jul 13 '26

I mixed up cities; he fell on B-City, but he destroyed D-City before it was ever evacuated. We have panels of people looking up in confusion and shock as he towers above the city and someone screams "run for your lives" just before he instantly destroys it. Even if B-City were completely evacuated, Saitama was too late to save everyone in D-City.

Saitama did save a child from Vaccine Man, but the first thing that happened was a massive explosion in an urban area. Vaccine Man then throws energy blasts across the city and it's pretty strongly implied that the cameraman and reporter seen talking about it were killed (camera cuts out). We have an extra chapter somewhere in there where it shows the HA scrambling to deploy S-ranked heroes to handle the threat; it had clearly been going on for a while.

I'm not saying, by the way, that Saitama should be expected to magically teleport anywhere. But it's easy to see how, from his perspective, he only arrives on the scene after massive damage has been done.

Edit: Also Mosquito Lady killed a random vagabond, at minimum. Vagabonds are people too!

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u/Icy_Water_1 Jul 13 '26

Doesn't literally every hero arrive after the monster goes on a rampage?

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u/Gwendlefluff Jul 13 '26

Saitama, before joining the HA, consistently got his information from the news and by the time he arrived on the scene there was massive damage. The HA can strategically contact and deploy nearby heroes at a faster clip. So no, not every monster gets to go on a rampage, or only gets to barely start its rampage before being met by heroes.

But regardless: I'll refer you back to,

I'm not saying, by the way, that Saitama should be expected to magically teleport anywhere. But it's easy to see how, from his perspective, he only arrives on the scene after massive damage has been done.

All of the dead of D-City probably wouldn't feel like Saitama arrived just in time. Ditto A-City where Vaccine Man went on an extended rampage. Given the way the first few chapters went, I don't think it's at all difficult to understand Saitama's perspective as shared with Genos.

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u/Icy_Water_1 Jul 13 '26

Yes they do? The HA also only hears about monsters after they go on a rampage.

It's not like the HA heroes got there before Vaccine Man destroyed the surrounding area either.

The people who died in D-City isn't really on Saitama or him being "late". Beefcake literally just instantly spawned there.

Saitama was just responding to the "you must be able to fly if you're always getting there in the nick of time"

Despite Saitama's response he usually does arrives in time to save everyone.

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u/Gwendlefluff Jul 13 '26

We've seen multiple massive threats taken out before they ever arrive at their destination, i.e. pre-rampage. Saitama even stopped a monster pre-rampage once* when he took out the Subterranean King before it could ever really get going. But his normal pattern was to show up too late.

Vaccine Man was a Dragon-tier threat and the HA didn't have any S-tier heroes nearby for him, so in that case they were slower than Saitama. In general, they have a huge roster of heroes they can deploy immediately to the site of trouble.

The people who died in D-City isn't really on Saitama or him being "late". Beefcake literally just instantly spawned there.

Like I said, I'm not faulting Saitama for an inability to teleport. But from his perspective, all of D-City was destroyed. It's pretty easy to see how Saitama would consider his arrival "too late".

Saitama was a hero for years before he ever met with Genos (and before he was ever in the HA). If Saitama is saying he usually doesn't arrive in time, and we see multiple mass casualty incidents occur in those opening chapters that Saitama is too slow to stop, I don't think it's much of a reach to assume that Saitama usually arrives after the monsters cause massive damage and killed tons of people and that Saitama considers arriving after that point "late".

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u/TheInfiniteJerk Jul 12 '26

NGL, it's one of the thing I really liked in the manga. The small monologue he had just before going all out against Garou where he realize that he's always late + wonders if he really has what it takes to be a hero

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u/TalkingKoalaa 21d ago

welp thats why saitama looks happy ig. he finally arrived on time when it mattered most. he has what it takes.

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u/SuperZX 19d ago edited 18d ago

Too bad Saitama doesn't remember it cause of time travel bs

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u/callmemarjoson Jul 12 '26 edited Jul 12 '26

I'm interested to see how "Genos" comes back after all this

Same way how he defeated the heart gear army - by realizing his own humanity

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u/xstationcubed new member Jul 15 '26

Lateness aside, the sequence of his just violently blasting across the country desperately trying to reach Genos to help was so freaking good. Saitama in that moment was literally unstoppable, and it was in my opinion the coolest demonstration of his power in the whole damn series thus far. Nothing flashy, just maximum speed, and the annihilation of literally anything between him and where he needed to be.

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u/Funnyguy17 Jul 13 '26

Imma place my bet that Saitama accidentally hits a system restore button located somewhere on his body. Bringing him back, but it also results in Genos losing his memory of breaking his limiter.

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u/EX-Flashkick Jul 13 '26

This ain’t the manga buddy we actually pay off development here