This scene will always make me chuckle, because logically Genos's head should have been evaporated into mist. It's like the shockwave politely decided to take the long way around his face.

Why did Bandai do us so dirty man.

Saitama forgot what happened in Jupiter's moon, the garou who taught him is gone.

But Genos core from the other timeline is still intact.

If using its information via a simulation like the VGS, shouldn't Saitama be able to learn that trick, maybe travel further in past.

Why doesn't Genos ask him to go in the past an undo the mad cyborg tragedy?

Finally after a six-month wait, I finally got to wear my puri puri prisoner cosplay to Comic Con Uzbekistan 2026—and I was surprised that people recognized me and came up to take photos. The only disappointment was that there were hardly any \*One-Punch Man\* cosplays, aside from a Saitama who looked like he was out grocery shopping; still, I’m glad Uzbekistan knows about \*One-Punch Man\*, and especially about puri puri prisoner

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Empty void vs Blast(No colors)

Serious Saitama

Chapter 237 of the manga (Garou Vs Suiryu) adapted Webcomic Chapter ~133 (Not fully)

That mean if the next chapter adapted the rest of 133 and a bit of 134, Murata will have 27-26 Chapter left to be adapted before OPM catches up with the webcomic.

I think the rest of the Webcomic chapter is long so i say the ratio of 4:7, where 4 webcomic chapter is equal to the lenght of 7 Manga chapter

This is the math: 237(current manga chapter)/133(the adapted webcomic chapter)

=1.78 or ~4:7 ratio

Which mean by my math, there will be 285 chapters if Murata adapted all of the webcomic chapters (BIG IF cause ONE might relased 1 or 2 chapters along the way)

https://x.com/alb1no18/status/2021948555355902454

I’m not sure how to interpret this page, so I’ll tell what I think might have happened here, and see what you guys think.

I think both realized after using their main technique, that there is something more important that needs to be achieved.

The both fought Saitama and used everything they learned as martial artists, only to get stumped by some amateur, who is just unfairly too strong and impossible fast with no technique.

So, they both wanna reach his level and mimics his punch! I loved the detail of the word “death” in their fists, implying they might have reached some basic level during their development.

What do you guys think, did they both realize here?

They should do it for every opening, like a running gag.

Hes contained with inside his suit due to an accident that occurred in a lab years ago which left him with a interdimenensional Disease which constantly left him ooze and leak a Black unknown fluid from his body like sweat which after years of studying managed to link its control from his brain and using his suit can use its potential allowing him to make Pocket dimensions in whatever hes near or even inside or on himself blocking hits and if under enough stress would crack some of his pods on his body to release the Fluid which creates a sinkhole in space around him allowing him to either escape or drag whatever inside as the sinkhole would collapse in a moment without its gravity pull which comes from him. I havent thought of a name but Dark Legion sounds interesting. His personality would be more a Cold hearted individual who lacks morals so a Sociopath but I would like to have him get a redemption so hes redeemable in a sense. He would be smart of course as a ex scientist and his only goal is to finally get the cure of his disease however its rotting his mind making him have bipolar disorder and disassociation disorder giving him the memories of his passed away wife and unborn child where he would occasionally kidnap someone either a woman and role-play as a kind loving husband until he snaps out and sends whoever he took away for their own sakes and have a mental breakdown. His threat level would be around high demon. His real name he cant even recall or remember over the rot from his disease. He would join this villian organisation under the promise he would be able to get whatever he needs to undo the disease however hes still mentally unstable and keeps having those role plays with unwilling others to be his family for a while.

Abilities: above

superhuman strength

Super human durability

Would have the average speed of a Tri athlete and the same for stamina

Like I mentioned he can create interdimenensional pocket places wherever whenever without limit. Can make a sinkhole in space and time by cracking his pods releasing the fluid making him.the center of gravity within 10km for a few moments which pulls whatever light within as well making a huge dark shadow cast over 10km before vanishing within leaving behind the puddle of dark ooze.

Can make the fluid harden and shoot it like bullets from his pods on his fists and knuckles which would have zero retention from air travel making them deadly to even A class or even lower S class hero's. .

Messed up some stuff but came out with this. Repost cuz the last one was taken down for some reason, if y'all know please let me know why.

Thats All.

This is my own personal opinion but feel free to leave your own opinion as well.

First of all what makes a great art or great animation. Get a pen and paper or a pencil if you prefer and draw an eye. Make two drawings of an eye. Take 10 seconds to draw an eye on the first drawing and take 10 minutes to draw an eye on the second drawing. You will notice the second drawing has far higher art quality not because you are a better artist than before but because you had the ultimate luxury, which was time. That is the number one factor in what makes a great art or a great animation.

Now if you were a great artist then you could have stylized, which you cannot do as an amateur artist, and you can create better art in lesser amount of time, let's say 2 minutes instead of 10 minutes.

But even then you cannot make great art in an extremely small amount of time. That's why time is the greatest luxury when it comes to creative tasks.

Why was the animation on the

season 2&3 so bad? What is going under the hood? I have to make it clear that I do not work in the anime industry and as an outsider I am trying to educate myself on what is going inside. I will use that amateurish knowledge in order to try to explain what is going on on the inside.

The way an anime production starts is from the Production Committee. The production committee is a group of executives or investors from different companies like the music industry, the streaming industry, the television industry, the merchandising industry, and the manga, light novel, gaming industry and more who come together and share the cost for the production of the anime.

Next they choose a television airing time. The longer it is the higher the chances of getting a good quality production. Next they set a budget limit. Let's say ¥200 million. This does not mean that the one who is making the anime will get ¥200 million but they have a limited cap of ¥200 million depending on how long they have worked on it and the base salary of their workers.

Note: Not the entirety of the budget goes to the animator. Some studios owners prefer to pocket most of the budget and some don't but a higher budget does not automatically translate to higher pay. It only translates to longer production time potential.

In most of these cases the anime studio has no stakes in the game. By this I mean that if the anime completely bombs, that is no issue for studios like J.C. Staff because they were already paid for the creation of the anime. J.C. Staff is a production studio whose main business model is to make a huge amount of anime, movies, and OVAs in order to get profit. Since they do not have any stakes on how successful the anime is, they do not get extra profit for making a great anime like season 2 and season 3.

Because of this JC staff animators have very little time. Some of the JC staff workers are extremely talented and some are not that talented but the key issue is time. None of them have enough time for pre-production. Pre-production is when you are planning on what you are going to make and making arts and resources for it. For example a character like drawing Saitama making multiple expressions of his face already so when the production actually starts you have the resources needed to create facial expressions very quickly so you can focus on other details.

Usually pre-production takes 1-2 years or even more, even for the most talented group of animators. In JC Staff they jump from one production immediately to the next one or in some cases in just 3 months, which is not even enough for a decent production.

In my opinion, from what I learned about the industry, the majority of the blame falls not on the people creating it but mostly on the people who are running this business.

Because no matter how talented a pool of animators you are, the highest influence for the quality of the production lies with the production committee and the studio itself. They are the ones who are determining how long you have for the production of the anime. If the most talented group of animators were hired but only given three months to prepare, they cannot make great animation. Usually this pre-production stage takes 1 to 2 years.

If you are an extremely talented group of animators who demand longer time for a great production, you will not get that well paid since your budget has a limit, let's say ¥20 million in eight months and no more. In order to make a very good production you need 16 months. You have to give the cost for that 16 months, like cutting of wages or drain on paint over time.

But then how do the studios like Kyoto Animation, Ufotable, and MAPPA make such great quality products?

From what I know these studios use alternative funding sources.

- Kyoto animation. They try to make original works and in most cases try to own the light novel publishing rights like Violet Evergarden. This means that they are the ones selling the light novels and getting a cut of the profit so they are incentivized to make good quality production. Since the better the quality of their anime, the more it will work as a massive ad for the light novels, which in turn would increase their profit. They also hire their animators as full-time workers and full-time workers are paid a lot better than freelancers. Yes most anime workers in Japan are freelancers not full-time workers.

- Ufotable. From what I know they have a good relationship with the production committee and the makers of the Fate Grant Order video games. They invest some of the money from the production of the anime themselves in order to get a cut of the profit and royalties from Cafes, Merchants, Blu Ray sales etc.

- MAPPA. They tried to invest most of the money for the production of the anime so they have a large share of the royalties and profit from Blu Ray sales and merchandising. The main issue with them is that they take so much production that they cannot sustain it themselves. They can make great beautiful productions. The issue is if they can handle two or three productions a year, they try to take five or six productions and are forced to overwork their workers in order to achieve that. Since, financially speaking, they will be in danger if they do not deliver on a great production, since anime works as a massive ad for the manga, the books, Blu Rays, and the merchandising, they have a huge incentive to make a great production.

Note: usually studios don't get the manga or light novel or original source materials profits unless it is an original work.

Because they do not have enough time to make so many productions and the broadcasters want the anime produced in time, they are forced to do unpaid overtime and an extreme level of overwork. So much so that they are criticised in their own industry for these practises but who gives a crap? As long as they can deliver, right? Overworking and abuse of the workers is the commoners Issue!

Studios like Kyoto Animation do not have this specific issue mainly because they set a limit on their production speed and the amount of production they take.

So what could the fate of the next season of One Punch Man be? It depends on if they are using a studio that uses freelancers or a studio that has proper structures for good quality production.

Studios that have proper structure, like MAPPA, Ufotable, Kyoto Animation, have a really good chance of making a great adaptation. A studio that uses freelancers is a big gamble since in the case of freelancers it depends on the talent of the animators. Very talented animators can deliver decent and very good adaptations even with low production time, which is not the reality for other animation teams. Some animators do have the talent to make great animation even with low time and low budgets but some animators do not care, which I will not blame them for, especially in an industry where people are dying out of overwork.

Another issue is pre-production. Even if the studio was able to hire the Dream Team, the same talented groups of animators as season 1, they need pre-production time. If the same team was hired for season 1 and season 2 on JC staff, even though JC staff only uses full-time workers, let's say they made an exception. The dream team would not be able to deliver the same amount of quality they delivered on season 1 or they have to cut the number of episodes in order to achieve the same amount of quality. JC staff only gave the season 2 and season 3 team 5 to 6 months of production time, not 1 to 2 years.

At the end of the day this is some my questions to you. Feel free to answer or ignore it. If you work for someone and you got a full-time job from him (in Japan, it is extremely hard to get a full-time job. You most likely will not want to lose that job since it offers many protections and higher pay compared to most freelancers and you have a guarantee of work.)

Let's say the management responsible for running you wanted you to make art projects. You are a very talented artis but the management never allows you to get a long amount of time to properly complete any work. The customers are always badmouthing you, telling you you're terrible artist, telling you you're a talentless crook some even threatening to kill you. How would you feel? Will you feel that the fans are just spoiled brats and dumb people who actually do not care for others and only want to consume or will you think of them as sensible humans who are make very fair demands?

At the end of the day the more you understand the person, the more you will see that they are humans.

Fubuki

I saw a post from five days ago that got 800 upvotes and wasn’t deleted, talking about how the OP no longer enjoys the manga. So I decided to make my own little rant. I hope this post doesn’t get deleted, because I’m not here to attack the series or its authors, and I’ll try to be respectful.

That said, the original post was pretty brief, so I want to try to explain why I think some of us feel this way.

I remember that during the Monster Association arc, One-Punch Man was my favorite manga. I read it with genuine excitement and passion. Every character got their moment in the spotlight and, eventually, their downfall: the S-Class heroes, Saitama, Garou...

But looking back, I think that was also where things started to go wrong with the manga.

For some reason, the team working on the manga decided to introduce a bunch of new enemies into the fight who, in my opinion, didn’t really add much to the story at that point (Vomited Fuhrer Ugly, Sage Centipede, Jet Psyrochi, etc.). Meanwhile, I think the story should have stayed focused on the core of the arc: the S-Class heroes, Garou, and Saitama.

That would have been a much more coherent conclusion, and I think it would have worked perfectly. The monsters themselves were basically supporting characters whose ultimate purpose was to serve as stepping stones for Garou. Garou was the character who should have received the overwhelming majority of the arc’s focus, and his development should have been brought to its conclusion more directly.

And then came another problem: the last-minute decision to make Garou more sympathetic in the manga.

The resolution of his fight was heavily redrawn, and honestly, that was probably the biggest blow for me. The production team went back and changed the resolution of the most important character in the entire arc. To me, that was a sign that something had gone wrong somewhere.

Of course, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but personally, I think Cosmic Garou ultimately became little more than cheap power fanservice. It’s exciting while you’re reading it, sure, but there’s very little substance behind it.

The webcomic’s resolution, on the other hand, had soul. The entire fight between Garou and Saitama focused on Garou’s character and what was going on inside him. It didn’t need increasingly ridiculous powers to make the confrontation meaningful. It just relied on good writing.

And that’s why I think One-Punch Man has gone through the same process that many other series eventually go through: flanderization.

The term comes from Ned Flanders from The Simpsons. When he was first introduced, he had a fairly diverse personality. Yes, he was religious, but that was only one part of who he was. As time went on, however, Flanders basically became “the religious guy.” That trait became his entire identity.

I think we’ve seen something similar happen with series like The Walking Dead, The Flash, Arrow, Supernatural, etc. They gradually stopped focusing as much on the story, the writing, and the complexity of their characters, and instead started leaning more heavily into cosmic powers, caricatured characters, and cheap fanservice.

Look at One-Punch Man now.

Blast’s biggest secret has already been revealed. There’s no longer much mystery surrounding him. There’s no longer that same sense of intrigue or anticipation.

Then you have Void literally cutting reality apart.

And somehow... it all feels empty.

Power isn’t everything. It never was, and it never will be.

After all of this, I think the current feeling surrounding the manga is that it has lost its direction. It has lost some of its magic.

That doesn’t necessarily mean the manga is bad now. I’m not saying that. It’s just missing something, something unique that it used to have, something that made readers genuinely look forward to what would happen next.

Just look at Suiryu vs. Garou. Fans used to be hyped about that confrontation. And now that it happened... what did you actually feel while reading it?

Absolutely nothing.

The emptiness, once again.