Jul 21, 2022
This manga is garbage. But it is also "gourmet garbage".
The premise was incredible. The parody was on point. The characters were charming and great. The art of Murata is one of the greatest I've ever seen, as well as his use of the composition and visual narrative of a manga to convey the story.
However, as time has gone by, the quality has suffered immensely.
The characters became boring, predictable and way repetitive long ago. The action, while spectacular and brilliantly drawn, gets too long for its own good, and barely has any impact on the reader besides the chaos. There ain't no strategy, there ain't no
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emotion and, worse of all, there ain't no story. It's just a random colision of characters that seem to be equal in power (with some exceptions) and at the end, one will defeat the other with some unknown attack they had never displayed before. That has happened so many times it's laughable, and paired with the terrible extension of the fights and the lack of story in them, they become, as I said, boring as f*ck. We're just waiting for most of them to end and go to an interesting point of the plot, which have also become a rarity these days. Also, I can't be the only one who just can't get behind the fact that NOBODY dies in this manga. And we better not talk about the treatment of the female characters...
I know, you can't actually take One Punch Man seriously. It's a parody... Well, yeah, but the thing is... This isn't a parody anymore. There's no commentary. There's just mindless action. And it's really fun when it gets to the apocalyptic and absolutely out of this world parts with cathartic universal destruction... But that just means this comic became what it used to laugh at. And that's sad.
But holy hell, it is still enjoyable. The art is still amazing. When Saitama is involved, the action is incredibly fun. And what's fair is fair: it has done a magnificent job creating a world full of powerful characters that are able to generate amazing hype and stakes that keep us the readers intrigued. And that is not easy.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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