One Punch-Man

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Synonyms: Onepunchman, Onepanman, OPM

Japanese: ワンパンマン

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Type: Manga

Volumes: Unknown

Chapters: Unknown

Status: Publishing

Published: Jun 14, 2012 to ?

Genres: Action, Comedy

Themes: Parody, Super Power

Demographic: Seinen

Serialization: Tonari no Young Jump

Authors: Murata, Yusuke (Art), ONE (Story)

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Ranked: #57²

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Popularity: #7

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MangaTonari no Young JumpMurata, Yusuke (Art), ONE (Story)

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After rigorously training for three years, the ordinary Saitama has gained immense strength which allows him to take out anyone and anything with just one punch. He decides to put his new skill to good use by becoming a hero. However, he quickly becomes bored with easily defeating monsters, and wants someone to give him a challenge to bring back the spark of being a hero.

Upon bearing witness to Saitama's amazing power, Genos, a cyborg, is determined to become Saitama's apprentice. During this time, Saitama realizes he is neither getting the recognition that he deserves nor known by the people due to him not being a part of the Hero Association. Wanting to boost his reputation, Saitama decides to have Genos register with him, in exchange for taking him in as a pupil. Together, the two begin working their way up toward becoming true heroes, hoping to find strong enemies and earn respect in the process.

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One Punch-Man is the manga remake of the original web comic by ONE. In 2014, the series was nominated for the 7th annual Manga Taishou Award and was ranked 7th place.

The manga is published in English by VIZ Media under the Shonen Jump imprint; digitally since February 18, 2014, and physically since September 1, 2015. The English version was nominated for the 2015 Eisner Award for Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia. It is also published in Polish by J.P. Fantastica since December 5, 2015, in Spanish by Ivrea España since December 31, 2015, in Portuguese (Brazil) by Panini Comics since March 19, 2016, and has been published in Italian by Panini Comics under the Planet Manga imprint since April 7, 2016.

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Feb 20, 2025

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Recommended

Preliminary (237/? eps)

One Punch-Man has the premise of what the work is about literally in its name, a guy who destroys everything with one punch.

One Punch Man is one of the best-drawn works of all the mangas I've ever seen, the quality of the art is incredible, it's worth waiting for the chapters because the work delivered is simply outstanding. The story is very in-depth and complex, not as much as a work like One Piece, but it's still a work that has its rules and knows how to work within the proposals it presents. It's worth remembering that these two points I mentioned are from the ...

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Preliminary (211/? eps)

I love One Punch Man; it is a defining piece of anime and manga. Saitama's character design is perfect, and the events surrounding him are always funny. So are his small gang of friends, specifically King and Genos.

That being said, the manga is great - until a point. The issue with some mangas is the forced continuation of the story and the endless character creation that ruined the original novelty. If the story is titled "One Punch Man," why should I care about some random side character? I can say that many readers and viewers specifically read/watch FOR Saitama. As I noted previously, as the ...

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Preliminary (203/? eps)

One punch man was an anime I got into in my high school days - my partner suggested we watch it because he had thought it’d be right up my alley. He was right, OPM had been an amazing motivator to keep watching anime despite the lull in good shows, and I fell back in love with the medium, the show really capturing my eye with its witty comedy, well timed jokes and good art direction. OPM season 2 sadly didn’t hit the same marks, but it certainly tried its best - but it definetly left a disinterested taste in my heart.

Throughout my time of ... partaking in general anime community, one sentiment was shared a lot. “Try the manga”. This was a phrase I heard perhaps too much, especially when I didn’t like a series. Didn’t like One Piece? Try the manga. Didn’t like Fruits Basket? Try the manga. It was something that made me put off reading any manga out of frustration and annoyance at those that just couldn't seem to grasp that I didn’t want to or that reading the source material would change my mind. I didn’t try any manga until 2022, when I had had enough of anime and found there were a lot more niche stories that japan really didn’t want to air on national TV. In 2024, I decided to pick up the OPM manga.

I had some nostalgia reading the first few season worth of story --- genuinely I had so much fun reliving the jokes that I thought were hilarious and the art powerful and well drawn, a testament to the skill of Murata and anything he crafts artistically. It was nice, getting to read back through everything. However, my nostalgia gave way to complaints.

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OPM suffers from several glaring writing issues when translating from a silly webcomic to a manga;

- The manga often yoyo’s between a serious plot and a joking one, and unlike many who see no issue, I found it really jarring. In the first few volumes, it was nice, very good jokes, non-reused jokes and when they swapped tones it was well thought out and never really took you out of the action. Even if a joke was said during the fights it never really ruined the scene, and if the action was too important it'd wait till the fight was over. After awhile though? The jokes become stale, the bipolar plot becomes a detriment and I think the manga would benefit from deciding if it wants to be a bit more serious or be a bit more lighter in general tone instead of trying to be both at the same time.
- To add to this complaint, I feel that the best fight in the manga ((the sea king fight)) is used too much as a general plot idea. It feels like after a while every fight is just everyone else struggles, stakes get really bad and then Saitama comes in and solves it within a chapter at most. It's stale, it's overdone and it's made the stakes pointless now. Like why should I get invested, why should I care, nothing can beat Saitama at this point.

- Another issue of mine is just the sheer amount of characters in the manga's cast. For how little time we actually spend with a lot of the characters, the manga spoon feeds us bits and pieces and then expects us to care for people we met maybe a few chapters ago. After awhile it's just too much? In later chapters there's supposed to be a team dynamic but the only team dynamic I'm seeing is a lack there of - so little interactions between characters beyond they're replayed joke that defines their archetypes, which in and of itself IS frustrating because those that are given proper development have REALLY good characters and to see it get wasted because there's too many characters to juggle sucks! Oh it's f-ckin painful!!

- A lot of the jokes, aside the mentioned story gags, are heavily reused. Not much else I can say bar it got a bit annoying after a while and it really made some characters loathsome rather than endearing. ((looking at you King - I won't spoil but you have one of the worst overused jokes to date.))

- My biggest turn off? The final straw that broke the camels back? The ladies. The female designs of OPM are hot garbage - sexualised and appealing to the male gaze bar one character. No, it is not Tornado, thats a loli. Loli's appeal to men.
- The designs are slightly better than one piece, but even the women in one piece at least had some sort of variance in their designs --- OPM women are all big boobs, tiny waste, "thick thighs" and costumes that would make Momo from MHA look decently dressed. Even the ones that look like they're well dressed? Skin tight clothes, or secret more revealing outfits underneath.

All this to say, I think I ruined the anime by reading the manga. It's filled to the brim with a lot of mistakes that litter season two and I genuinely believe if you stick to JUST season 1 of the anime and the manga you'll love the series.

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