Tbf, who else in German history has been called "Fuhrer" AKA "Absolute Leader"? I can't think of any German kings or princes called Fuhrer, or prime ministers, or even the military guys in charge during World War 1 like Ludendorff.
Some illegal drugs are far less dangerous than alcohol yet alcohol is legal, sometimes it doesn't make sense,idk. Also about naked men apparently it's(muscular man sexually assaulting other men) a Gag that's why its ok to be in the show but again it doesn't makes sense, that was my guess
I like the manga design more ... now he seems to have those contrasting lips and the pointy nose... it feels like a downgrade and makes his character design a bit too ridiculous
I gotta say that BS looks the most fitted for this art style. Everyone else is so-so, but BS’s body simplicity contrasted with the manga face works so well.
They're honestly all perfect. I had personally always pictured FU with slightly lighter skin but that's irrelevant. Glad they didn't dial down Black Sperm.
He looks like how he is seen in the manga. He spends most of his time underground in the monster association hq. It makes sense he would he pale due to lack of sunlight, and he is just as ugly in the manga as he is in this character design.
The other two official colorings have his skin color much less pale.
Additionally, it's not as if they spend all their time underground. Homeless Emporer isn't a vampire and doesn't even look like a monster, it would make no sense for him to spend all of his time underground. And he's lived most of his life as a normal (albeit homeless) man above the surface until recently being blessed with power by God.
Why am I just now realizing that the cadres are somewhat supposed to be the rivals of the S class… the cadres are like the monster associations S class, and all the lowly monsters are like the A class and below. It’s all making sense now
Nah it's not understandable, do Americans change the name and title of Augustus Caesar into President Augustus? Or Chinggis Khan into President Chinggis? No? Then it's a BS change.
I’m still not onboard with them changing Rover’s name to Pochi, or Elder Centipede’s name to Centichoro.
The team that translates OPM is notorious for doing horrific translations. I wish the translation team that did One Piece also did OPM because they genuinely enjoy translating One Piece, and they do a really good job with it. The translation team that does OPM looks like they use ChatGBT, and are only there for the paycheck.
To be fair, all the cadres are going to be present in S3. But the main fights with the stronger cadres are gonna be s4 content.
Rover, nyan, black sperm, just some of the characters that’ll have main fights against the heros. But they really show some strength further out than S3 is gonna go
After seeing the latest trailer. Expect the same kind of shite quality from season 2. This series (as an anime) is so finished and will not reach the heights it once did.
These mfs always got something to complain about… the backgrounds are grey because choosing any regular color would come off as to bright or to colorful for the literal monsters.
Also, making a solid colored background takes little to no effort, so not adding different colors is no different than sliding your finger across the color wheel to a different color, it’s not that big of a loss
You still make no sense. They are just design visuals. When the animators look at them, they are looking at the characters themselves, the background is completely irrelevant anyway
You don't understand what I'm saying then. If their character designers can't be bothered spending extra 2 seconds to select a solid color for a background of a promotional poster, then why do you expect the rest of the team to be putting in the effort?
This looks rushed, this looks like it has been made in a single day by 1 person with nobody reviewing or directing it, this looks like nobody cared. It's also what PV1 looked like. And it's what S3 will look like.
I don't know why I'm mad at this point. I've seen S2, I know what S3 will be. The moment J.C.Staff was announced as the studio, I knew. But it still hurts to see One Punch Man treated like a piece of dogshit on the side of the road. And it hurts to see fans defending this treatement like it's normal, and good actually, and there are no problems ,and it looks great, and I'm just stupid/jealous/whatever, and can't understand how amazing everything is, and it's not even that bad, and people are too harsh to this, and isn't it even better then S1?
I should stop caring just like the rest of you at this point, don't know why I still do.
People like you HEAVILY underestimate how OPM is treated. It’s treated like a slightly above average anime. Itll get into big events, and itll be wildly recognized. It’s treated relatively fair… but i do admit it deserves a lot more.
The thing is… is that opm hasn’t been the big thing of anime since 2019. Not to mention the tidal wave of an impact it had when it first came out it 2015. It’s been 10 years in the run of opm, and the wide gaps of seasons cause it to recline in audience and recognition over the years. Sadly that’s just what happens when seasons take this long, and the more time it taken, the less studios are interested in a large audience when it’s gotten as small as it has now
It's not because seasons take that long, it's because S2 was a catastrophic failure. Its Blue Rays sold like 8 times worse then S1's if not more. People mostly thought it was mediocre and didn't care about it. Many fans (including me) were pissed about it and made themselves known in the communities which didn't increase the sales either and didn't improve the standing of OPM for average people. Then they released a shitty game that everybody thought was either meh or garbage, then a gacha game that everyone thought was garbage. Everything new about OPM has been received poorly since 2015. The manga is still chugging along, but so many older readers are zoning out since MA arc, because it's now written for a completely different audience. It's kinda just replenishing its older seinen fans by new shounen fans, but I don't think its audience is growing.
There are plenty of shows that keep their popularity despite getting an anime season extremely infrequently. Do I need to talk about Berserk? HxH? OPM could've been one of them, but it isn't.
I don't understand why you want to ride Bandai's penis so much, but they're treating OPM extremely poorly. S1 had an average budget. Not an average for an action anime, just an average for an anime of that time. Like some high-budget romcoms got a bigger budget then OPM did. It only became so good because so many talented people were willing to work for no money. This wasn't the case with S2. Either because without Shingo Natsume J.C.Staff couldn't pull much talent, or because those talented people weren't going to repeat their martyrdom to make a good show for cigarette butts and an empty beer can as payment. S2 couldn't pay animators much, so they had to spend as little time working on it as possible. It was incredibly rushed and everyone still crunched like crazy to get at least something out. They hired freelancers to finish some episodes and those freelancers couldn't even finish their own animations before they were taken from them, because the episode had to air like the next day.
If Bandai would've learned anything from this and would've given S3 actual budget for an actual action anime, I doubt it would've been handled by J.C.Staff. You think other studios just didn't want to work on One Punch Man? C'mon, MAPPA wouldn't take One Punch Man? Yeah, right. There are plenty of studios that would take it if they were getting paid. Look at Bones and Mob Psycho. You can't seriously tell me that Mob Psycho is more popular than OPM or that it sells better. Yet its publishers gave the money to Bones to create a quality action anime and look how insanely good it looks. I would even say it looks better then S1 of OPM, because they probably had multiple times more money, even though Mob Psycho is way less popular than OPM and especially was before its 1st season. Its publishers trusted ONE and it seems like they got rewarded for it, considering all of Mob's seasons look incredible (they wouldn't keep paying for Bones if it didn't work). Bandai is a different beast though. They hate their anime IP's. They despise them. They don't want anything to do with them. Give as little budget as possible and throw it in the trash. If S1 didn't succeed as much as it did, OPM might've never even gotten a second season.
When I critique how S3 is treated, I'm not so much critiquing people working at J.C.Staff for poor work, I'm more so critiquing Bandai for making it so they don't have a choice but to do poor work. S2 was not just mid (well it was in the current use of that word), it was straight bad. It had an extremely popular IP worldwide and people just didn't care for it. At least half of the superfans hated it or thought it was bad, so there wasn't much fanart media created for it, even though social media was much bigger in 2019 than in 2015. And the same thing will happen with S3, because no matter how hard J.C.Staff tries, if they're not giving money to pay their animators, they can only do so much. One Punch Man deserves a good action budget, but its getting a romcom budget instead. There is no reason to defend this, Bandai are just a piece of shit for this.
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u/Ferdz0 Manifesting S1 director's return Jul 04 '25
Goddamn he’s fucking ugly… perfect