【One Punch Man】Action×Superhero 30 million copies in circulation!!

2021-11-22

What is “One Punch Man”?

One Punch Man is a Japanese superhero franchise created by the artist ONE and Yusuke Murata.

The manga is illustrated by Yusuke Murata, and its chapters are compiled and published into 23 separate volumes. As of January 2021, 23 volumes have been released. The manga series has over 30 million copies in circulation, worldwide.

An anime adaptation of the manga was also released, with the first season adapted by Madhouse, and the second season by JC staff.

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What's the story?

Life gets boring when you are so overpowered that you can defeat your enemies with a single punch.

As is the case with our protagonist, Saitama, who has become so powerful through training that he can destroy his enemies with a single blow.

The manga starts of by showing Saitama watching TV. He sees a live attack happening on Z-city and decides to do something about it.

He gets to the villain, Vaccine Man, just in time to save a young girl from being killed.

After reluctantly listening to his monologue and transformation, Saitama kills him with a single punch......

......Boring indeed.

But Saitama wasn’t always this powerful.

Three years ago, he was just an ordinary unemployed person who was tired of his life.

He comes across a villain, Crablante, in the street but is too tired to even run.

Crablante sees his lifeless eyes and decides not to kill him.

He walks away saying that he is going to kill a cleft chinned kid.

As Saitama walks on, he sees the cleft chinned kid but due to his nihilistic attitude, decides not to intervene.

Suddenly, Crablante appears behind the kid and tries to crush him with his claws, But Saitama jumps and grabs the kid at the last moment.

Saitama then makes fun of Crablante by saying that he resembles a villain in an anime Saitama used to watch as a kid.

This enrages Crablante, who pummells Saitama.

But Saitama gets back up and manages to kill the villain by tearing out Crablante’s eyes with the help of his tie.

We then see Saitama saying to himself, ”It’s been three years since then. After training so hard that I went bald, I achieved overwhelming power and became the hero I always wanted to be......

...... So why am I still not satisfied”.