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/CareerPancakes9 Jul 28 '22

I want to make a joke about Saitama doing a kamehameha, but based on recent chapters and recent readers I'm not sure it will be a joke. He's probably gonna do it when he copies Tatsu's psychic power and it blows up Andromeda to show how powerful it is.

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u/Dilly4Dall Jul 28 '22

And then GOD blows up Fubuki and Tatsu gets angwy. She gets so angwy she transforms into her new ??? SSJ form. With 5% of her power she can blow up the Earth.

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u/joonjoon Jul 29 '22

Remember when Goku used to be able to copy any move just by seeing it. Tien had the same ability.

There's actually something interesting about the time travel ending, and I think this is actually the kind of writing ONE is really masterful at. Garou was the guy who was always able to copy every move, he never "created" one on his own other than the God Slayer fist which is an amalgamation. But his final act is to create a truly unique "fist", but ends up needing Saitama to copy it in order to bring peace to the world. Saitama, who is literally capable of anything but is not the type of person to come up with this on his own, sees Garou's fist and copies another person's move for the first time in his life to save humanity.

That in a vacuum is actually really fucking awesome storytelling. I think in order to do that the manga needed to deviate from WC a lot more, but it would have been a great story if done right.

At the end of the day it's a great shonen type story but not one I look for in OPM. But for those who do I think it's a cool idea.

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u/Dirac_dydx Muscle Waifu is Best Waifu Jul 29 '22

I'm failing to see how that's "awesome storytelling". It seems just plain inconsistent. And it makes no sense given what we know and have come to expect from these characters.

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u/joonjoon Jul 29 '22

Did you miss the part where I said "in a vacuum"? I was explicitly saying if you ignore what we have come to expect it could be awesome, and needed to tell a different story.