One Punch Man

You can literally say that about anyone that's not Saitama though

I can criticize all of them, yes. I don't think I can call all of them cowards or bullies and back it up.

Been rewatching Rogue One, and I'd like the scene where Saitama does his Serious Table Flip and Zombieman sees "a wall of black" to be somewhat similarly animated to the scene in Rogue One where K-2SO sees the city being destroyed by the Death Star's laser and he says that "there's no horizon".

Truly, Purple Eyes WTF is a genius.

New chapter.

So, we all know these guys are gonna get stomped right?

Anyway, we're finally starting to get to the good stuff. It's taken long enough.

That fever...

I think he's starting to turn.

There are a few loose ends but it seems that the manga more or less caught up with the webcomic.
My predictions for the newest chapters : the monsters going to the monsters association HQ will end up being killed,
Orochi will end up being killed or we will learn he was just some kind of meat puppet or something
and something will happen to Drive Knight and force him up to skip the attack on the monster association HQ.
Oh and of course, Bang, Genos and Blizzard will join up together, probably kicking butts in the process.

So what's keeping Saitama busy while all this is going down?

Groceries.

I remember the reason he got involved in the Arc was that they were close enough to his house and making such noise that he went there to tell'em to STFU. Or something like that.

Yeah.

I suppose it won't be much different here.

He gets involved because the Monster's base is directly under his flat and said flat gets trashed when Tornado uproots the thing.

Really, if you look at the webcomic, you probably already know the answer. Right now he is with King and later on he his at home with King and everyone else so they meet in between. Thne he gets mad and look for Garou and ironically finds him later. He later go back at home with the others and...

Well, ok, the manga could fill some blank with what Saitama does in between but at most, he does stuff not knowing what is happening, maybe killing a bunch of monsters like he just did while taking care of his garbage?

All those loose ends from the manga don't really need Saitama to actually be there to be solved. In fact, Saitama involvement so far was more or less being somewhat there at the tournament while (mostly) everyone else were doing cool stuff. He might be involved somewhat in battle when everyone gets together or when he look for Garou but that's up in the air.

New Murata chap out for those who look hard enough.

Oh my god, ex-Blizzard glasses guy from that omake is back and kicking ass at B Rank 21! Whoooa. Cool fight too, what with the heroes coordinating their attacks and covering for each other.

Glasses is busy being a bro.

It's out on most major sites now, so I think we can stop spoilering.

Anyway, glasses dude fulfilling the oft-neglected role of Support. But wait, he's also the chaser and finisher! I can see how he's been climbing the ranks. He's an excellent all-rounder.

The anime is moving over to J.C. staff from Madhouse for the second season:

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2017-09-25/chikara-sakura-directs-one-punch-man-anime-2nd-season-at-j.c-staff/.121831

Considering how many freelancers were hired for the first season, and Madhouse losing even more people as a result of the formation of Nut Studio to create Saga Of Tanya The Evil, I'm not surprised.

I really hope the animation doesn't suffer for this. Season 1 was such an obvious labor of love and was amazing.

Also, really sad to hear that Madhouse is losing people. Their animation work is pretty much always top notch.

These guys are usually ok. They did Prison School. Say what you like about that the art was decent.

They also did the key animation for Episode 12 of Heroic Age and the animation in that show is pretty solid. They also did 2nd Key Animation in Pokemon XY&Z.

J.C. Staff has done Food Wars, Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon, and Prison School. While they've never done an action heavy seires with that level of animation, they can make good on animation quality if motivated enough.

edited 25th Sep '17 12:07:49 PM by VeryMelon

Thing is, in the anime industry connections and networking between animators and staff is very important. The director is often the glue holding everything together and attracting those freelancers. Like, without Shingo Natsume I am very, very doubtful that we'll see, for example, another surprise Yutaka Nakamura appearance in season two.

Finally caught the latest chapter.

You know these dudes are going to lose, but they don't feel like fodder, which I appreciate (even if they kinda are fodder).

Though their motivations aren't 100% good either. I'm guessing that kid is gonna play a role in getting Garou out of this situation.

Actually this might be the point where he gets his ass kicked and wakes up at monster HQ.

He's in pretty poor shape. I could see it happening.

I've asked this before, but how much stock do all of you take in Garou's thoughts on heroes (even if most of it is due to him just deciding he can't be a hero so he'll just be a monster instead).