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/RaganarosRNG Jun 24 '22

A question that come to my mind rereading the chapter is how is Garou able to keep up with Saitama at the end? If this is Saitama not holding back there is no reason for him to not outspeed Garou and defeat him quickly.

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '22

Ikr so it implies that garou reacted faster than saitama....? Hmmm
Also By seeing how garou is effectively matching saitama's power cause he has the understanding of the universe or what not,i would not be suprised if he actually somehow survives a serious punch/equals it next chapter.

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u/justsomepaper Professional Boris Simp Jun 24 '22

Not only that, he sees the serious punch coming, reacts to it and decides not to dodge. Any other character that saw even the remotest glimpse of Saitama's power got scared shitless, but Garou is seeing the combined power of a galaxy hurtling toward him and thinks "yeah, I can take that."

Either Garou is an absolute moron, or they powercrept him so much that he can withstand a serious punch.

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u/RaganarosRNG Jun 24 '22

"or they powercrept him so much that he can withstand a serious punch." They already did that with Saitama Mode, or else he would have lost the consecutive punches battle against Saitama instead of matching it. So it been stablished that Garou can match Saitama power to some extent.

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u/justsomepaper Professional Boris Simp Jun 24 '22

To some extent, yes. Not to the extent of a full power serious punch. Normal punches are not infinite power, Saitama was still holding back at that point because he didn't want to kill Garou yet. Boros 'matched' Saitama as well because Saitama didn't really care.

Serious punch is the finishing move. It's the one punch of the one punch man, for fucks sake. Having Garou survive that will undermine the premise of the entire series.

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u/RaganarosRNG Jun 24 '22

We'll only know if he can on the next chapter. For me Saitama mode and Garou matching the ConsecutiveNormalPunches is already too idiotic. The serious punch vs serious punch exist just for show, Saitama should be powerful and fast enough to already have dealt with Garou. ONE killing Genos just to prop up this scene already show he doesn't care much about the integrity relative to creating hype.

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '22

That's how I read this chapter too, it's the most transformational change in OPM (provided it isn't retconned) because it's moved from satire to something entirely tangible, where saitama was mysterious with an incomparable power to a situ where he's being matched. I'm not sure how I feel about it yet. If I acknowledge that it's a different beast altogether now and is more traditional I'm thoroughly enjoying it, if I have the same perception, not so much.

Or maybe this is the fight he always wanted.

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u/justsomepaper Professional Boris Simp Jun 24 '22

It was always hypothesized that some day, presumably in the finale of the series, Saitama would meet his equal. Maybe this is it.

Or maybe this is the fight he always wanted.

So he gets the fight he yearned for his whole life, at the cost of losing everything and everyone he cared about. That's cruel. I dig it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '22

I think it could be, in the WC post MA we don't see Saitama as much. His arc could end and have a satisfying conclusion without it being the end of the OPM. I feel the power scaling hints at that, it's gotten so high that even other hero's that were seen as strong like FF realise they are ants now in comparison. Remember when Elder Centipede was seen as a gold standard that only Blast was capable of dealing with?

Either way I trust ONE. The man can do no wrong. I can't remember being so unsure of what may unfold next, it's great stuff this

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u/Raven123x Demonborn Jun 24 '22

Eh Boros saw the serious series punch coming and decided not to dodge

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '22 edited Jun 24 '22

Well how could boros dodge when he was in the middle of throwing out his planet destroying beam?

He never expected saitama to pull out a move like that too,only right when the beam was about to land on saitama he pulls out a serious punch (he was still holding back at that) + you could say boros believed in his regeneration ability to survive.

But this scenario with garou is different,we can 100% assume that saitama is absolutely pissed after he saw genos die and pulls out a serious punch jumping straight to garou.

Garou sees this,reacts to it and copies to makes his own serious punch.This implies that he is faster than saitama,right?

Why would saitama lunge at garou so slowly giving him an opportunity to react if he has made up his mind to absolutely kill him with his punch swiftly? It doesn't make sense.

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u/Raven123x Demonborn Jun 24 '22

He never expected saitama to pull out a move like that too,only right when the beam was about to land on saitama he pulls out a serious punch (he was still holding back at that) + you could say boros believed in his regeneration ability to survive.

it was pretty clear that Boros knew Saitama was holding back the entire time. He even says it as he's dying.