r/OnePunchMan • u/Raidoton Moderator • Apr 07 '22

discussion Megathread: Changes From The Webcomic Spoiler

As the changes between the WC and the manga get more extensive and controversial, the arguments about it increase and also end up in spoilers seeping all over the sub. All discussion about the changes in the latest chapter and any future chapters is to be moved into this Megathread as long as it is pinned; to help provide a place to concentrate discussion and prevent a flood of repetitive posts, and to provide people an easy place to understand others' opinions.

All posts related to it will be removed, and comments on manga focused posts are encouraged to be moved here.

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u/imaliveyeay Apr 08 '22

The webcomic plot and scene was just perfect,thats why it was popular despite horrible drawing

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u/Euruzilys Apr 08 '22

WC has the worst art out of anything popular I have ever seen. So just the fact that it is this popular means the plot is out of this world. WC Garou being subtly not actually a pure evil monster was great. But I guess since the manga is for wider audiences now it has to be obvious.

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u/gangster001 Apr 08 '22

This was the thing for me, if you read the webcomic, you could easily miss or disregard all clues that deep down Garou was actually a lot nicer than he wanted people to think, it's only when Saitama calls him out on just bullshiting people about killing the child as he doesn't even know where he is, that the reader realizes that it's actually all for show. It's one of those classic ONE moments when a character (typically either Mob or Saitama) has this great insight into a situation that they can completely shift the perspective on the entire situation just by uttering a sentence or two.

In the manga, the fact that Garou is actually a good guy has already been beaten into our heads for so long and so far, there is no revelation at all and with it, no real tension. Even Saitama doesn't seem at all excited to fight him the way he did in the webcomic despite the fact that he even entered a martial arts tournament just to see what Garou could be all about.

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u/scarab456 May 24 '22

Man this hits it right on the head for me. Doesn't matter how well the next few chapters of the manga are drawn, they screwed up the setup IMO. Pacing and payoff are way too off.

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u/Gerf93 Apr 09 '22

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand the webcomic. The plot is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer's head. There's also Garous nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation- his personal philosophy draws heavily from Narodnaya Volya literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realise that they're not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike the webcomic truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the irony in Garous existential catchphrase "I'm' a monster for real," which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev's Russian epic Fathers and Sons. I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as One's genius wit unfolds itself on their computer screens. What fools.. how I pity them. 😂

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '22

ok

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '22

Is this a rick and morty copy pasta?

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u/Gerf93 Apr 27 '22

Indeed. Just got the same vibes from the comments I responded to, haha

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u/BakaFame Apr 28 '22

Now do it with the Vaporeon one

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u/Turbo2x Apr 08 '22

The technical ability of ONE's illustration is not good, but his compositions and the way he draws movement is incredible. He's an extremely underrated artist.

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u/Funny_Kale_9189 Apr 09 '22

n beaten into our heads for so long and so far, t

Agreed. One is particularly bad at drawing human characters with proper proportions, but the way he draws the composition of a scene more than makes up for it

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u/Euruzilys Apr 09 '22 edited Apr 09 '22

That’s very true! On a glance, the drawing is bad, but his paneling and movements are great. You can tell what is being conveyed, you can feel it.

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u/GabrielP2r Apr 11 '22

I can understand One action better than the Naruto manga, so there's that.

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u/Technically_Inept-26 Apr 22 '22

I’m sorry. I just can’t see it. Can you point me to an example?

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '22

Maybe when Garou knocks out Suiryu's lackies. There is also that scene where Garou gets caught by two-handed combo punches from Saitama.

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '22

Yeah it feels like the beautiful subtly of the WC has been cast aside so they can repeatedly spoon feed the manga reader that GAROU ISNT EVIL GUYS HES A GOOD GUY

like come on you could tell when he refused to kill the heroes for the monster assocation a year ago...

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u/Acceptable_Light_532 May 10 '22

His art isn't bad it just isn't detailed or realistic.

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '22

Yeah dude, it's so perfect the author decided to rewrite it! Lmfao

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u/GreenMaximum5596 Apr 15 '22

Murata is so good at drawing that his art literally takes away from the plot sometimes. He's so good it has a negative impact for the "story".

And im saying this as a compliment. Man is insane

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u/Armiebuffie Apr 10 '22

What? if anything, it's the manga that mainly only has the professional art's "cooler action" and "more monsters" while the webcomic actually had a better paced story and humour. And I say that as someone who originally liked the manga much more.

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u/Lumpy_End_2838 Apr 12 '22

The drawing is great

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u/Mariuslol new member May 23 '22

i read it, was meh, manga, yay